the great appointment at the Porto Antico in Genoa from 20 to 22 May – Lavocedigenova.it
The formula will be the winning and complete one: sports and events for children and young people of all ages and abilities will return to animate the entire Porto Antico in Genoa for three whole days.
There are just under three months to the Sport festival: the most awaited event by sportsmen of all ages begins to take shape, thanks to the consolidated synergy with the Stars in Sport project and the historical partners Uisp and the Agorà Social Consortium.
Now in its 18th edition, with the patronage of the Liguria Region, the Municipality of Genoa and Coni Liguria, the Festival returns on Friday 20, Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 May with the usual energy and enthusiasm, the desire to return to greet everyone together the end of the school year and with one more reason to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the “rebirth” of the Arctic Port of Genoa.
Great is the excitement and enthusiasm of the increasingly numerous sports associations and federations that collaborate with tenacity and passion, giving voice to the desire to be together and to start again.
For three days, on an area of over 130,000 square meters that will include all the open spaces and exhibition modules of the Magazzini del Cotone, participants will have the opportunity to try their hand at over 100 sports, as always, completely free and with the constant assistance of qualified sports instructors.
Always attentive to sustainability and issues, the Festival also embraces some of the objectives for Sustainable development dictated by the 2030 Agenda: promoting the well-being of all, celebrating the values of equality and solidarity, aiming for inclusiveness … the Festival reconfirms itself as plastic free, supporting a trend that has been going on for years in Porto Antico: no more plastic bottles but reusable water bottles that will help spread a green culture.
A non-stop of sport and entertainment that for three days will leave the thousands of participants breathless, including students, families, fitness enthusiasts and sportsmen of all ages and abilities.
There are also numerous Paralympic and special disciplines involved, and it is precisely on this aspect that SportAbility focuses, a project created by the Stars in Sport Association that all the skills of sport for an inclusive, relational and healthy promotion.
We start celebrating with the day Friday 20 May with the day dedicated to schools organized thanks to the collaboration of the S. volleyball, martial arts, mountain biking, minimoto, fencing, athletics, bowls, badminton, dance, gymnastics and much more. A multi-sports village, with sailing in great evidence one year after the arrival of “The Ocean Race-The Grand Finale”.
The appointments with major events have been renewed. The Gala of the Stars in Sport, set in the Sala Grecale of the Magazzini del Cotone, will celebrate its 23rd edition with an extraordinary catwalk of Champions. Among the major events, the Blue Mile around the Cotton Warehouses, the award ceremony for the school competition “Il Bello dello Sport” and the “Nicali – Iren Photographic Award”. And again the traditional Auxilium Day, the Gymnastics Festival, the sports dance and skating essays in Piazza delle Feste, the Uisp Oriental Arts Gala. In the heart of the festival two stages: one in Mandraccio dedicated to spectacular performances of numerous sports and the other in Calata Falcone and Borsellino reserved for the world of fitness.
On the occasion of the Gala of the Stars and the entire Festa dello Sport, funds will be raised in favor of the Gigi Ghirotti Association. From Piazza Loading to the end of the Cotton Warehouses, the Festival will offer an extraordinary range of activities and initiatives for the whole family, with many contests and games. And beautiful.