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Gala BLUME GRAN CANARIA: "Jesús Telo Núñez"
Once again this year, the festival filled the sports halls and stages of the island with an audience and with actors who devoted themselves in their free time to the manifold possibilities of different kinds of gymnastics. But the history of this event has also been into the focus of attention:
The BLUME Gala at the Commercial Center YUMBO in the heart of Maspalomas this week also focused on the memory of the festival's founder, "Jesús TELO Núñez", the Canary Islands' father of gymnastics, who created his last festival in 2007 and passed away on 05. November 2008, November 08. His son Jesus TELO Rodriguez is now continuing this tradition with his proven organizational staff and is already preparing the next big jubilee, the 60th BLUME FESTIVAL Gran Canaria in the Olympic year 2020, in memoriam of Joaquin BLUME, the four-times European artistic gymnastics champion of the Fifties in the last century...
The new international organization team has long since taken up this legacy and has since been successful in further developing such a valuable tradition of more than half a century for the international gym calendar as well.
This 59th edition of BLUME GRAN CANARIA 2019 once again proved that its indelible mark will mark the pace of future issues.
The international and friendly atmosphere - that's the special "BLUME Festival" trademark!
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By means of the media partnership with the European Gymnastics Service GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL, which has been in existence for more than 24 years, the popularity of this festival idea has also increased, so that over 800 foreign guests from 15 different nations were also present this year, the variety of sporting opportunities, the program exchange and the friendly encounters took advantage of their charming sum of the philosophy and the harmonious character of the grandiose BLUME Festival de Gran Canaria.
Not to forget the exemplary character for the whole of Europe, as the festival idea not only has an international appeal, it also covers all the Canary Islands, but has become especially the content of the physical education of schools and educational institutions maintained throughout the year.
The performances in this BLUME Festival week included important centers of the island of Gran Canaria, especially those in the capital of the island of Las Palmas as well as in the main cities, towns and villages of the island ...,
... for example in Arucas, the fourth largest city and one of the most beautiful tourist centers, with a remarkable cathedral, beautiful gardens - and the Arucas rum is not to be despised. Here the youth of the gymnastics is especially committed ...:
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The BLUME festival was also popular in Santa Brigida, known to golfers, but also popular with hikers, located on the north side of the erosion crater and of extraordinary, scenic beauty. Especially many small and flexible gymnastics talents convinced ...:
... everywhere on the island you could feel that the gymnastics and gymnastics disciplines have a great, social appreciation, that grassroots sport is becoming more and more common in everyday life of the inhabitants, and that above all - as a basis, so to speak - the school system communicates with the festival idea:
The best groups in the area of school / education / associations then appear at the annual festival on the most varied stages of the entire island, thereby reaching public and raising emotions - an example of so many Western European societies facing the increasingly unproductive problems of physical inactivity.
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* Even the inclusion of the field of disability education and care is an integral part of the Flower Festival: Also foreign groups, such as the aerobic center from Halle (GER) are included and make before and with mentally disabled children, adolescents and adults a happy day , which was well received and created joy:
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♦♦ So remains as a proud conclusion:
<< In memory of the great Spanish hero of artistic gymnastics, Joaquin BLUME, who died after an aircraft accident
- the Festival idea of it's founder and father of Canarian gymnastics, from 60 years ago ...
<< ... the"old Jesús TELO Núñez" -- therefore, has not only a historical dimension, but corresponds to a far-sighted philosophy, has remained surprisingly up to date and fits especially in these modern times!
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