02. December 2011  
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria  
Happy Gymnastics

The big 2011 BLUME-GALA in the main Sports Hall of Las Palmas

Canary kids like to built pyramids!

There is always one of the absolute highlights of the entire great festival of the "BLUME-Gran Canaria GALA 2011".
Thus ensured even in the 51st anniversary of more than 800 active participants from 23 delegations and groups integrated in this gala evening - both from the Canary Islands as well as the representatives of 12 international groups for wonderful mood.

It includes a fair amount of logistical effort and the experience of half a century to convey to each participant at the right time right place, and this from anywhere in the island.
With the comfortable busses of the company "Las Palmas bus" it is not a problem...  Even a mini-trampoline was forgotten by the Danish delegation and  about 60 km away from Puerto Rico in the south of the island in time "after" transported, and also this atmospheric show was saved ...

Lively, sporty driving in Las Palmas' biggest sports hall at the BLUME-Gala 2011
- much to the delight of the representative of the island's government Gran Canarias, Sen. Felix NODA

The  BLUME-GALA 2011  in Las Palmas_______________________________________________

First, it is the highlight of the year for hundreds of the best and most enthusiastic pupils and students who have practiced their programs during the course of a year in their lessons of physical education in order to then perform their best in front of the large flower-auditorium can.
This is done so together with international guests from 12 countries are all very proud and buries itself as a memorable moment in the soul of these children.

His school is responsible, among there the best and then invade even the same in an international framework under the flags of 12 nations that these Canarian girl is not only proud of - this is where a completely new type of a cosmopolitan, European man also, and this just happens by the spirit of the BLUME-festival ...!

Girls from Lanzarote (Centro de Gimnasia, Club Tenesa Sol), (​​Aldeyamahen Club) from the island of Fuerteventura (Club Leymas), La Palma and Gomera (CEO Santiago Apostol) are just some of the 14 participating clubs at the flower-Festival (* look at photo, re.)

That one play, sports and education with character-forming education and meaningful leisure activities such links sent, you can even apply for many countries in Western Europe as a model.

If you consider that this unifying spirit of the BLUME-Festival is already over 50 years of festival founder sen once Jesús Telo Núñez. was established, it becomes clear how long before the actual processes of European cooperation structures already growing transnational ideas in practice, there were and are.

Blume-Chief Jesus Telo (left) talking with Felix NODA from the Gouvernement of Gran Canary Island and with Dr. Cavodonga Mateos Padorno, teacher at the University of Las Palmas and former Spanish world-class high jumper (7th at 1986 Europeans)

Also Sen. Felix NODA, the managing director of the Sports Office of the Gran Canaria Island Council knows this.
He was not only among the guests, but to inspire especially true of the children had demonstrations.

Felix NODA, once even a famous footballer on the island emphasized himself, especially the "... long Festival tradition on the island, and I'm impressed with how this has been BLUME Gran Canaria idea developed especially internationally as a hallmark of almost joyous sports.

We from the island government see especially since the enormous positive development in recent years."

BLUME-Festival, which is also traditionally Integration: No gala screenings of the sport without the group 'CIVITAS' the mentally handicapped, who are not a show, but a permanent training program for the care of everyday life are.

 

In particular, the impact on schools and the education of children is a positive that Felix Noda underlined:
"We, from the Island Gouvernement, are not directly responsible for what happens in the Schools, but the schools, educational institutions, to the universities, are the basis of our lives in the future! Especially so given the BLUME festival will continue our full support."

Not only children, even the slightly 'more mature youth' was represented in the gala program, as here, the delegation of Czech Assoziation 'Sportsfor All '.

Also competing in the 14 cities in Spain over the status of European Capital of Culture 2016, in Las Palmas had advertised with, and even then was the BLUME-festival as a 50-year-old argument of sporting and cultural importance.

Even if ultimately the choice is now on the northern Spanish city of San Sebastián (like Polish city Wroclaw) fell
- BLUME-Festival which is more than pure sports or gymnastics.
Cultural moments are blended musical, creative and sporting education for both the youngest citizens of earth, up to a harmonious coexistence with people in the "golden age", with 50 +.

The mix between general sport for all such services and how the rhythmic gymnasts from the Spanish club LEYMAS make it a highly attractive Blume programs.

 

BLUME - mehr als nur Turnen und Gymnastik!___________________________________________

Because the organizing club Las Palmas Gimnasio not only a great gymnastics department, but just such traditions of the most-popular martial arts "Judo" may be missing in this broad spectrum are not of the "BLUME-offering::
A Video  showes a slice plane through the Judo activities of this year's BLUNE- Festival:


"BLUMW"  be seen and experience to estimate the value for people of all ages, all walks of life and beliefs in today's modern and future civilizations properly.

This BLUME Gala 2011 was in the gym in Las Palmas for an atmospheric re-proof..

(c) E. Herholz, GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL