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Tickets for the Sonic Uni-verse concert starring Rick Wakeman and Brian May are now on sale.The Canaries has never seen a top star line-up like this one! Attendees at the Star-mus Festival already have their entrance tickets for the mega-concert starring the two rock legends, but the organisers have con-firmed that tickets for only the concert are now on sale from €35. The concert will take place in the Magma Arts and Congress centre in Adeje, Tenerife, on September 26 at 8.30pm and is the spectacular musi-cal climax of this amazing juxtaposition of astronomy and music that makes up the Starmus Festival. For full information on the pro-gramme for the whole Fes-tival, which includes world renowned keynote speak-ers such as Stephen Hawk-ing and other top scientists,

astronauts, cosmonauts, vis-its, parties, get-togethers with the greats, meals and the aforementioned concert, all in a format which can be understood by all ages and by laymen and specialists, see www.starmus.com.

For more information on the concert, turn to page 2.

It’s 10 years since the first Walk for Life and the founder Brigitte Gypen decided to go out on a limb and organise 10 events to celebrate.After several months of plan-ning, plotting and garnering support, Brigitte joined Adeje mayor José Miguel Rodríguez and the Arona Deputy mayor Antonio Sosa in Adeje’s CDTCA at the end of August to announce the details.The annual walk, which takes place this year on December 14, is a rallying call for can-cer sufferers and survivors, and is a unifying event in many ways. It brings together Spanish cancer charities and support organisations, people living with cancer, their friends and families, those who have sadly lost someone to cancer, and on a wider scale the gen-eral public of Adeje and Arona, both resident and tourists - a

multi-cultural mix in itself, as the walk always crosses from one borough to another, alter-natively starting in Adeje and ending in Arona, or vice-versa. This year the walk will start in the CC City Centre and finish at Fañabé beach.Walk for life, which sees thou-sands take part annually in what is a celebration of life and a reminder of the life-saving possibilities of early detection

in breast cancer, also raises awareness, funds and support for breast cancer.Adeje’s mayor congratulated Brigitte and the organisers on the multi-cultural nature of the event, as well as all the good work achieved in early detec-tion and help for those families who are suffering as a result of a breast cancer diagnosis. “This is about overcoming obstacles, about making the

invisible visible, about creat-ing awareness among friends, family and society in general,” he said as well as praising the solidarity network among those who have suffered cancer which helped improve the qual-ity of life of those still strug-gling. “It is also about reducing fear, about helping people live with cancer.” Antonio Sosa, deputy mayor of Arona, con-gratulated Brigitte on her ongo-ing work as well as all the vol-unteers who work throughout the year. “This has become a ‘Clásico’,” he said, and helped let people know that, “They are not alone, that there are many many people with them in their struggle. We all need help now and then,” he said, adding “Walking for life really is worthwhile”.For full information on all the events organised so far, see page 6.

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Star concert 10 for Life

Brigitte with authorities and some of the annual volunteers

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