Preview of the 5th Golden Age Gym Festival in Portoroz
What is the Golden Age Gym Festival?
This Gymnastics Festival of movement and joie de vivre informs the 50+ generation of the 50 affiliated member Federations of the European Union of Gymnastics (UEG) about the various forms of movement. The focus is on health, movement and enjoying yourself. The UEG first organised the official Golden Age Gym Festival in 2008 in Maspalomas on Spain’s Canary Islands, after a successful test event in 2005. Since then, Golden Age Gym Festival has become a steady fixture in our calendar, held every two years.
In 2016, more than 1800 gymnastics enthusiasts from 18 countries all over Europe, will enjoy the Slovenian hospitality in the Piran municipality, making this the most successful edition so far!
Previous editions:
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2005 |
Maspalomas |
ESP |
Test event |
1088 participants / 20 NF |
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2008 |
Maspalomas |
ESP |
1st GAGF |
1605 participants / 22 NF |
|
2010 |
Portimao |
POR |
2nd GAGF |
1398 participants / 21 NF |
|
2012 |
Montecatini |
ITA |
3rd GAGF |
1778 participants / 19 NF |
|
2014 |
Toulouse |
FRA |
4th GAGF |
1554 participants / 17 NF |
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2016 |
Portoroz |
SLO |
5th GAGF |
1806 participants / 18 NF |
The next edition will be in September 2018, in Pesaro, Italy!
Schedule
The Festival starts with a parade followed by the Opening Ceremony. Daily, the participants are invited to high-level workshops and get to perform in the city under the joyful watch of other participants, supporters and locals. Each night a theme-party is organised as well. Highlights of course are the Gala on Thursday and the closing ceremony on Friday.
Flash Mob
The LOC prepared a choreography for the GAGF 2016 Flash Mob. This will be danced by all participants together during the Golden Age Parade. The Flash Mob was choreographed by Azra Selimanović from Libero Dance Center to a song named “Only Love” from 2002 Slovenian Eurovision contestants Sestre. A song from Eurovision Song Contest was chosen because this year Eurovision celebrates 60 year anniversary. You can find a video with step by step choreography on the GAGF 2016 website.
http://www.goldenage2016.com/2016/09/07/gagf-2016-flash-mob/
How to follow the action?
As usual UEG will provide photos, videos and interviews on its website and social media.
Find all info concerning #GAGF2016 on our event page: http://www.ueg.org/en/event/goldenAgeGym.html. The local website is http://www.goldenage2016.com/.