So colorful, varied and dynamic as one for over half a century everybody knows this BLUME Festival Gran Canaria, so colorful and internationally designed was also the opening show at Sunday night on the extensive grounds of the shopping center "Jumbo" in the tourist area of Maspalomas.
Proud hosts of the City Council, together with the chief organizer Jesus Telo Rodriguez lokked back on the great tradition of this unique festival structure over the past 5 decades and opened than the this year's 54th edition already on Sunday evening. And from now on will follow a week of wide variety of activities ...
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Before the festival starts really, a variety of logistical problems have to be solved. All 900 participants in the 45 delegations from 15 different countries will need to know WHAT - WHEN - WHERE .... and HOW! Upon arrival, the most important things to be clarified in a briefing:
OC President Jesus Telo Rodriguez himself taught at Hotel "Beverly Park" in Playa del Ingles at the southern of the island of Gran Canria, the most important parameters of the weekly events and operations ...!
In addition to accommodation transportation plans are at the front, so that everyone is at the right time in the right place, so as not to jeopardize his performance in one of the many programs on many different stages and sports halls.
Bus transport needs to be organized to coordinate transportation equipment and special requests. For this is the BLUME OC are available an experienced and year-knit event coordinators team, such as Juergen Klughammer from the Palatinate (GER), Ivonne Herr from Stuttgart, Richard Green from Bavaria and Anja Miesner from Bremen. New in the Office of the workshop department is Traude Kell, with the expierienced Prof. Dr. Detlef Schmidt from Leipzig on his side, whose "German thoroughness" and typically 'Spanish serenity "represent a wonderful mixture.
And when things get too turbulent activity - dissolves in the end everything in a cheerful serenity and warmth that Blume's guests appreciate and enjoy!
... and these were the red-white-red Rope Skippers from Austria in full action:
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At a reception in the town hall of the Association of Municipalities of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, to which belongs also the tourist center of Maspalomas, OC President Jesus Telo Rodriguez (middle) presented two gymnastics celebrities, who never did meet before ...::
The Spanish Olympian of 1972 (Munich), Pepita Soler Sanchez (left) and the world's oldest and with 89 years still active competition gymnast Johanna Quaas from Germany, both guests of honor at this year's festival.