NEWS
Ethnosport Summit in Khiva, Uzbekistan – 7 to 9 September 2023
by Biel Pubill Soler in Festivales
This Summit was organized by the Ministry of Youth Policy and Sport of the Republic of Uzbekistan with the help of the World Ethnosport Confederation (WEC) and the Uzbekistan Ethnosport Association.
The program of the Summit had planned several round tables and debates around the promotion and organization of TSG, and in parallel there was an International Festival of Traditional Sports, as well as competitions of traditional wrestling Kurash. All representatives of the 24 members of the Confederation, as well as several ministries, state officials, representatives of federations, academics and researchers from dozens countries were presents.
Xalera! First festival of popular and traditional games, music and dance
by Biel Pubill Soler in Festivales
Three fundamental elements of popular and traditional culture that we consider part of the festive recreational heritage of our villages come together in XALERA!
XALERA is an initiative of the Secretaria General de l’Esport des Terres de l’Ebre which aims to share, know and enjoy this common heritage of the municipalities of Terres de l’Ebre, Matarraña and Baix Maestrat.
It is therefore presented as a day which will be organized year after year in a different place, traveling the territory with a shared playful festive imagination. To succeed in this challenge, the complicity of institutions is sought, but, more importantly, of cultural, recreational, sporting and festive associationism which is the real dynamiser and safeguard of this culture, of this heritage.
7th PLJOČKE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
by Biel Pubill Soler in Meetings, Festivales
The 7th PLJOČKE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL was held in Croatia, in Svetvinčenat, in the Istrian region, on September 8 and 9, 2023. The meeting, which was held as part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention, was opened by the mayor of the Municipality of Svetvinčenat, Dean Perković, after which the attendees were greeted by Jesica Acquavita, vice-president of the Istrian Region, Davor Trupković, Chief Conservator of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and Rut Carek, Secretary General of the Croatian Commission for UNESCO.
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49th Ancient Sports Olympiad
by Biel Pubill Soler in Festivales
We are pleased to present the 49th Ancient Sports Olympiad, which will be held on August 26 and 27, 2023 in Brođanci, Slavonija, Croatia. The event was first organized on August 26, 1972, and on that occasion brought together participants from 7 disciplines of ancient sports. Today, competitions are held in more than 20 disciplines of traditional sports. About 50,000 competitors and other participants in side events from all parts of the Republic of Croatia and about 20 other countries have taken part in the 48th Olympic Games held so far. During his visite at the event, Juan Antonio Samaranch, as president of the IOC, granted the certificate for use of the name Olympics at the event.
Ancient Sports Olympiad as sport association, is founding member of CTGaSA, Croatian Traditional Games and Sports Association, and member of AEJeST.
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XVII TRADIJOC: MEETING OF POPULAR AND TRADITIONAL GAMES FROM RIBERA D’EBRE AND LA TERRA ALTA
by Biel Pubill Soler in Festivales
On Wednesday, May 10, the town of Flix (Tarragona) hosted the seventeenth edition of Tradijoc: a gathering of popular and traditional games from the Ribera d’Ebre and Terra Alta, with the participation of all the students who are in the 1st year ESO of both counties.
In this year’s edition, more than 280 boys and girls from the educational centers of the area have participated, with the dynamism of fifty monitors, all of them 4th grade ESO students from the Flix Institute under the coordination by Biel Pubill, representative of Lo Llaüt. The population of Flix has lived, therefore, a different morning, full of color, movement and more than twenty games.
TRAWECU Project – Final Meeting in SERRES, Macedonia, Greece
by Biel Pubill Soler in Meetings, Festivales
During almost two years of collective work, meetings and contacts, partners of the TRAWECU project (Greece, Serbia, Romania, Spain, France) met in SERRES, 80.000 inhabitants, near the Bulgarian border, Greece. The program was linked to a major multi-day trade fair, SEREXPO. On Saturday an international conference was organized in the morning, then in the afternoon a traditional wrestling competition of PALI in the SEREXPO space. Then on Sunday was scheduled a meeting to review the project + visits.
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20th anniversary of the TOCATI festival, September 15-18, 2022
by Biel Pubill Soler in Festivales
During the general meeting of AEJeST, on 18.09
The TOCATI festival celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2022. This great international festival is organized by the AGA Verona, Associazione Giochi Antichi (Association of Ancient Games), with the help and support of many other public and private structures: Verona City Council, Ministry of Culture, Province of Verona, Veneto Region (Venice), private companies and of course associations and federations of traditional games and sports without which there would be no TOCATI festival. Let’s not forget the hundreds of volunteers who work in the shadows during the festival so that everything goes for the best.
XVI TRADIJOC
by Biel Pubill Soler in Festivales, Books, Publicaciones
On May 19, the sixteenth edition of Tradijoc (meeting of 1st year ESO students from the Ribera d’Ebre and Terra Alta counties) took place in Móra d’Ebre (Catalonia). The objective of this meeting is to live and get to know each other, for a day, practicing traditional games of the area.
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1st edition of the competitive Brittany Games (C’hoarioù Breizh)
by Biel Pubill Soler in Festivales
The Sports and Games section of the Cultural Institute of Brittany, in coordination with the Federation of Gouren and the International Federation of Celtic Wrestling, created an international festival in 1990, called C’hoarioù Breizh. Guy Jaouen and his team, delegated by the 3 organizations, was the coordinator.
https://jugaje.com/content/uploads/2020/06/anniversary-rencontre-1990-en-bretagne-fr.pdf
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European Shooting Championship
by José Ángel Hoyos Perote in Festivales, Books
With a magnificent organisation, from 27th to 29th May, the XVI European Ball Shooting Championship was held in the region of Hamburg (Germany), in four modalities: on road, bow, ramp and on grass, male and female. The event was attended by teams from several countries: Holland, Germany, Italy and Ireland, and a delegation representing the AEJeST as a guest. There was a warm welcome and a great rapport between all delegations. As the Italian ABIS team belongs to FIGeST since 2018, and therefore the AEJeST, our association was also represented in sports.
Despite the bad weather, with intervals of rain and cold, on Saturday there was a large and enthusiastic public who could enjoy the marks achieved. On Sunday, with the weather improving, the fans who came to watch the competition crowded the 2 km race. Most of the time you could sense where the ball was going because people were moving out of the way. As on the previous day, the marks obtained were spectacular, with some throws exceeding 200 metres. It is worth mentioning the excellent participation of ABIS, which despite not being expressly its modality, had a remarkable participation.
On the part of AEJeST, the possibility of sharing agreements and projects is open, according to a conversation held with Aloys Timmerhuis, President of IBA, being summoned for the month of November with a proposal of collaboration. Representing the AEJeST was the vice-president Fernando Maestro, accompanied by Felipe Gonzalo, from the Aragonese Federation of Traditional Games.
