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Cultural Olympiad in the North West September 2008 – August 2010
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Content Pages London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
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North West Story So Far
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Creative Programme
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Partners and Artists
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Programme Timeline
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Get Involved
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LONDON 2012 CULTURAL OLYMPIAD The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad is the
These shared ambitions for culture are: greater
largest cultural celebration in the history of the
levels of engagement, inspiration and
modern Olympic and Paralympic Games,
participation across the UK, leading to social and
designed to give everyone a chance to be part of
community development.
London 2012. WE PLAY is the North West’s unique The four year Cultural Olympiad started in
contribution to the build up and legacy of the
September 2008 at the end of the Beijing 2008
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Paralympic Games and will culminate in a UK
This four year partnership project is funded by
wide festival in 2012, bringing together leading
Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up
artists from all over the world.
to build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Games. WE PLAY has already
The Cultural Olympiad is a series of programmes
made a significant impact across the North West
and events to showcase the UK’s arts and
and its programmes are part of the London
culture in every nation and region of the UK.
2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Inspiring creativity across all forms of culture and especially among young people, the aim is
The Cultural Olympiad programme in the North
to make a real impact. Its legacy will last well
West features major new festivals and
beyond 2012.
commissions, a region-wide events programme, world class international and local artists and
Over 3. 9 million people have already taken part
innovative community projects.
in the Cultural Olympiad through the London 2012 Inspire Programme and Open Weekend
The whole region forms the arena for the North
and Major Projects which featured in London’s
West’s contribution to the London 2012 Cultural
bid for the Games are underway.
Olympiad. Our programme celebrates the creativity, excellence and innovation in the North
Culture is one of five legacy areas that is being
West that supports key regional strengths. There
progressed by the North West Steering Group
is Cultural Olympiad activity within our region’s
for the 2012 Games, the group responsible for
cities and throughout our rural and coastal
delivery of the Games in the North West. Its
destinations.
legacy aspirations mirror those of the Government and the London Organising
New and inspiring activities across the region -
Committee for the Olympic Games and
from the spectacular to the experimental - are
Paralympic Games (LOCOG).
ensuring that, for many people in the North West, their experience of London 2012 is through cultural participation.
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Over 1 million audiences engaged in the Cultural Olympiad in the North West
24 culture projects awarded the Inspire mark, making them part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
ÂŁ3.2 million generated for cultural Inspire projects in the region
374 events delivered and involving over 8500 participants and 272 partnerships
50 new commissions created for the Cultural Olympiad in the North West
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NORTHWEST STORY SO FAR ‘Our 2012 cultural programme has been truly inspirational and is clearly going to be awe inspiring as we move towards the Games themselves. The range, the scale and the quality of projects reaching all parts of the region is quite breathtaking. It is a tribute to all those working in partnership throughout the North West to realise a creative vision which links art with sport and is generating wide scale participation but above all great fun and enjoyment.’ Andy Worthington Chair of the North West Steering Group for the 2012 Games
‘Legacy Trust UK has allocated funding to programmes across the UK which will create a cultural legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games. WE PLAY is a key programme in our varied portfolio and has already made a significant impact across the North West of England through groundbreaking projects Abandon Normal Devices, Blaze and Lakes Alive. We are proud to see that these activities are making a major contribution to the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and are creating a lasting legacy at a regional level’.
• Cultural projects awarded the Inspire mark span the North West and include festivals, carnivals, exhibitions, performances, live events, screenings, installations, online projects, debates and workshops. • Large scale Major Projects are underway for the UK wide Cultural Olympiad initiatives Artists Taking the Lead, Discovering Places, somewhereto, Stories of the World and Unlimited. • Cultural collaborations have been established with Vancouver 2010 and with the London 2012 Pre Games Training Camp programme in the North West. • Commissioned regional projects for the London 2012 Live Sites have set a new benchmark in interactivity development for public broadcasting screens. • WE PLAY has established major programmes of national and international significance and reach, generating profile for London 2012 and the North West. • The UK’s first Outdoor Circus Festival, the region’s first street training gym, the UK’s first annual Summer School for Street Arts and a Palm d’Or Award at Cannes are some of our programme achievements to date.
Moira Swinbank Chief Executive, Legacy Trust UK 3
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CREATIVE PROGRAMME Our mission in the North West is to make a distinctive cultural contribution to the Cultural Olympiad which achieves greater levels of creativity, participation and innovation in the North West. Our programme has a focus on three content areas which support key regional strengths. In the North West our ambitious and inspiring programme seeks to engage people in topical debate around the Body and Economy, provide new outdoor adventures in Play and Space and promote mobility and exchange through Routes and Trails. Our programme is unique to the region and to London 2012 and is driven by the De Coubertin vision of the modern Games as a marriage between art and sport. It attempts to arrive over the duration of the Cultural Olympiad to a greater understanding of the role and value of play as a creative, physical, social and intellectual activity of as yet unrealized social and economic potential. Play is an activity which connects art and sport and drives innovation and learning across many fields. It implies community, participation and involvement and is an inclusive activity, accessible to all. Through play we can all progress. ‘The truly great advances of this generation will be made by those who can make outrageous connections. And only a mind which knows how to play can do that’ Nagle Jackson, Theatre Director and Playwright Over the last two years, an extraordinary range of cultural projects have been taking place outdoors, in venues and online. Many of these events have been free, creating new audiences and bringing cultural experiences to people from all walks of life. Our programme of over 370 events has engaged 8500
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participants (artists, volunteers and workshop participants) and reached an audience of over 1 million people. Its development has involved more than 50 new commissions and 272 partnerships. Featured in the programme are projects from big to small, from major public events to community participation projects, spanning the arts, media and film, heritage, sport, environment, health, archives, museums and libraries. At its centre and hub are the annual programmes of Abandon Normal Devices, Blaze and Lakes Alive which form part of the regional programme WE PLAY. These commissioned programmes bring a regional distinctiveness to our Cultural Olympiad activity, centred on digital culture, culture & sport participation and street arts. The scope of the Cultural Olympiad in the North West is local, regional, national and international. Local and international artists from the North West, UK and across the world are featured and the programme reaches beyond the boundaries of the North West. As a platform for art and creativity, the programme has engaged young people as commissioners and cultural producers, the public as active participants and performers, and non cultural venues as hosts of arts and cultural activity. The region is becoming a major public playground with activity in high streets, neighbourhoods, city centres and towns, on lakes, rivers and harbours, in forests, woodlands and national parks, sport centres, train stations, shopping centres and cinemas, tourism visitor centres, world heritage sites, big public screens and online.
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Diversity is a defining characteristic of the UK Cultural Olympiad and the four year programme is being formed through the process of self organization and random behaviour within networks. In the North West, our local interplay and interaction with the Olympic and Paralympic Games is both cross sector and global, fusing diverse groups from mainstream, independent, popular, experimental and institutional forms of cultural production and organization into one community connected to London 2012. This publication documents the first two years of the four-year Cultural Olympiad programme in the North West, covering the period between the Cultural Olympiad Launch (28th September 2008) and the 30th August 2010. It features the 24 regional projects awarded the London 2012 Inspire mark for culture, making them part of the Cultural Olympiad; five of the Major Projects commissioned and underway for Cultural Olympiad national initiatives in the North West and regional activities developed for the London 2012 Live Sites programme and Countdown celebrations. What unites them all is the inspiration of London 2012.
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The first two years of our programme has laid the foundations for making the most out of 2012. It aspires to the very highest standards and involves a diverse range of excellent partners, cultural organisations and artists. By documenting the scope of our programme to date, I hope to encourage others in the North West to be part of the Cultural Olympiad. There is an open invitation to join in across the region in the lead up to London 2012. Special thanks are due to our major Cultural Olympiad partners, Arts Council England, Department Culture Media and Sport, English Heritage, Legacy Trust UK, London 2012, North West Development Agency, North West Vision and Media, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK Film Council and to all the partners and artists involved in our programme. Debbi Lander Creative Programmer for London 2012, North West
London 2012 is a call to action and a catalyst for social change. For the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to be realised as a mechanism for social change, it needs communities to come forward and generate cultural projects.
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Programme Framework Cultural Olympiad Values All projects in the Cultural Olympiad reflect the vision and values of London 2012 which are.... Welcoming the World, Inspiring and Involving Young People and Creating a Lasting Legacy.
Body and Economy
Cultural Olympiad Themes The Cultural Olympiad has a series of themes which shape projects and events to the needs of London 2012. The seven themes are: culture and sport together, animating public spaces, active participation, health, wellbeing and environmental sustainability, Olympic and Paralympic values, collaborations and innovation and Get Set Education. Projects in the Cultural Olympiad address a minimum of three of these themes. Cultural Olympiad Programmes Projects become part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad through the Inspire programme and Major Projects. Culture also plays a major part in the London 2012 Open Weekend and Live Sites programme. London 2012 Inspire Programme – An Olympic and Paralympic first, the Inspire programme enables non commercial organisations across the UK to officially link their events and projects to the London 2012 Games. Projects awarded the Inspire mark for culture are part of the Cultural Olympiad. Cultural Olympiad Major Projects – Large scale, UK wide projects encompassing everything from art to music to theatre. They include Artists Taking the Lead, Discovering Places, Film, Music, Outdoor Arts, Road to 2012, somewhereto, Stories of the World, Unlimited and World Shakespeare Festival. London 2012 Open Weekend – An annual UK wide celebration counting down to the Games. It promotes events staged across the UK ranging from sport to art and from dance to exhibitions. London 2012 Live Sites – Live Sites are big screens and event spaces in urban centres offering live information, video, news and community events. The North West has Live Sites in Liverpool and Manchester. North West Content Areas Regional programming has a focus on new contexts for presentation, participation and engagement in areas of key regional strength. Three content areas were developed to shape our programme and identified through research forums and consultation with decision makers and cultural organisations in 2007/2008. These content areas are Body and Economy, Play and Space and Routes and Trails.
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Starting point programming ideas from Body and Economy Forum, 1st September 2008
The De Coubertin vision of the modern Games as a marriage between art and sport inspired the North West to focus on the human body in the 21st century and how it is contextualised within physical, social and technological contexts and within the philosophy of Olympism which promotes respect for human dignity and fundamental ethical principles. What do we mean by Fairplay? Cultural projects developed for Body and Economy explore the image and identity of the human body now and in the future from concepts of normality and equality and diversity to representations of the body and human enhancement, highlighting new forms of understanding and interaction between the virtual, physical, biological, digital, social and political. This content area supports North West regional strengths in new media, disability arts, bio technology and higher education. It drives our 2012 cultural priority of encouraging innovation and collaboration between leading edge research and development cultures. The WE PLAY programme of Abandon Normal Devices festival is the key commission for Body and Economy.
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Play and Space
Routes and Trails
Starting point programming ideas from Play and Space Forum, 10th December 2008
Starting point programming ideas from Routes and Trails Forum, 29th September 2008
The Cultural Olympiad focus on active participation and public spectacle inspired the North West to focus on arts and culture as a social and playful encounter with environment and landscape. What do we mean by taking part?
The global Games and UK-wide remit of London 2012 inspired the North West to focus on mobility and exchange between different cultures, communities, locations and practices. Where is our place on the map?
Cultural projects developed for Play and Space explore art, culture and creativity in public and social spaces and focus on outdoor performance and street arts in rural and urban locations, extending cultural access and promoting the role and value of culture in every day life. This content area supports North West strengths in outdoor visual culture. It drives our 2012 cultural priority of consolidating the region’s growing reputation as a centre for excellence in outdoor performance and street arts. The WE PLAY programme of Lakes Alive is the key commission for Play and Space.
Cultural projects developed for Routes and Trails make new cultural and physical connections between art and sport, culture and environment, contemporary and historical practices, the local and global and between culturally diverse communities in ways which reconstitute our experiences, relationships and places. This content area supports North West strengths in industrial history as pioneers of international exchange. It drives the 2012 cultural priority of connecting the region’s heritage, landscape and cultural assets with local and international communities and young people. The WE PLAY programme of BLAZE is the key commission for Routes and Trails.
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year one: September 2008 – August 2009
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September 2008
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CULTURAL OLYMPIAD LAUNCH - North West 26 – 28 SEPTEMBER 2008
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The North West celebrated the launch of the Cultural Olympiad with over 30 events held during the London 2012 Open Weekend on 26 – 28 September 2008. These included a programme of four signature events to promote our regional reputation for excellence in visual culture outdoors and included:
Station Stationary in Crewe – over 150 performers including professional dancers, first time performers and local groups performed at Crewe train station and engaged in the imaginative work of International, USA based dance artists, The BodyCartography Project as part of Cheshire Year of Gardens.
The two Neon Attractors light installations Rabbit_Liverpool Biennial in Toxeth and ThickSpace_FRED near Coniston in Cumbria connecting the North and South of the region, and the North West’s first Inspire mark project.
Portable Pixel Playground – a new play experience for all age groups at the Solaris Shopping Centre in Blackpool. This included a playground artwork by Squid Soup – a sandpit where you create a landscape inhabited by virtual creatures.
Lumino City in Blackpool – a weekend of illuminations with a firework and laser display and celebrations with Paralympian Shelly Woods, Olympic hopefuls and gymnasts.
This signature programme was curated to express the idea of culture as a ‘playful’ encounter with landscape and highlight creative practices operating in social space.
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September 2008
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NEON ATTRACTORS - Coniston and Liverpool 26 SEPTEMBER – 12 OCTOBER 2008 Neon Attractors was our first officially recognized Inspire mark project and set the tone for the region’s programme leading to 2012 and beyond. Rabbit_Liverpool Biennial was created from a line drawing by Calvin – a pupil from St Vincent de Paul Primary School in Liverpool. The drawing was transformed into a coloured neon light artwork and was located on the north face of St James Church in Toxeth. Rabbit_Liverpool Biennial featured as part of a series of neon light installations named ‘Winter Lights’ as part of the 2008 Liverpool Biennial.
ThickSpace_FRED by international artists Laura Belevica, Aaron J Robin and Feng Gouchan was a large fibre optic cube that the public could enter. Suspended from trees in National Trust woodland near Coniston, Cumbria, the installation was accessible by footpaths. ThickSpace_FRED was a central feature of the Coniston Walking Festival – a new style walking festival combining physical and cultural activity and commissioned as part of FRED - the annual art invasion of Cumbria. Legacy: Greater levels of regional profile for outdoor visual culture.
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October 2008
REMARKABLE - Liverpool 15 OCTOBER 2008 - 2012 Remarkable is a hyper real, poetic documentary on the existential lifestyle of Liverpool based B-Boy Mark Jacob, whose alter ego (Remarkable) is the title of the film. Created by young Liverpool based film maker Adam Tallon and involving Liverpool based artist Sam Meech as co-director, it showcased one example of how young people can engage in 2012. The Remarkable film was commissioned and presented at the Be Inspired conference in the North West in 2008, further presented on the BBC Big Screen in Liverpool and on Liverpool’s Waterfront as part of the Abandon Normal Devices festival programme in September 2009 and continues to be screened at regional, UK and international film festivals.
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This project developed by an emerging young film maker forms part of our regional programme for the London 2012 Live Sites. It was an invited commission from the Creative Programmer. Legacy: Profile and career development for a young film maker.
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November 2008
STORIES OF THE WORLD : GLOBAL THREADS North West NOVEMBER 2008 - 2012 Stories of the World presents exciting new museum exhibitions across the UK, created by young people. The project for the Cultural Olympiad is led by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in partnership with London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), and involves over 60 museums across the UK working with more than 1500 young people. The North West exhibition for Stories of the World programme is Global Threads and led by The Hub. Lancashire’s past, present and future is interwoven with links to Asia, the Caribbean and the American South through its cotton industry. This project takes a radical look at the international context of this region’s rich heritage of textiles and cotton mills. The project involves six major museums working with over 200 young people as journalists, curators, artists and designers. Key activities include: training young people as digital journalists to blog and report on cultural events, creative master classes and showcase
events in Open Weekend, and development of plans for international exchanges and artists’ residencies. The regional partners include Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester), Manchester City Galleries, Bolton Museum and Archive Service, Harris Museum and Art Gallery (Preston), Lancashire County Museums Service and Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. Also taking place across the region in the first year of the Cultural Olympiad were a number of Inspire mark projects developed for The People’s Record, Young Cultural Creators and Festival of Family Storytelling . These new programmes are managed by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council for the London 2012 Inspire programme, making them part of the Cultural Olympiad. They support and fund small scale projects for rt i the Inspire programme up to 2012. www.storiesoftheworldnw.tumblr.com
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January 2009
somewhereto PILOT - Crewe JANUARY 2009 - 2012 somewhereto gives 16 – 25 year olds the support to access spaces that are not available to them, to do the things they love doing. The programme aims to empower young people to use space on their own terms, to do what they love, whether it is to dance, set up a band, play sport, show films or create works of art and so on. somewhereto is a UK-wide Legacy Trust UK programme and is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Crewe was selected as one of three pilot areas to develop the somewhereto project on behalf of Legacy Trust UK. In 2009, the programme worked closely with
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young people in the area to find out the type of spaces they needed and the problems they faced in trying to access such spaces. The full roll out of somewhereto across the UK is currently in the planning stages, and lessons learnt from the development stage will be applied to the national programme, so that by 2012, somewhereto is something that every 16 – 25 year old in the UK can be part of. The delivery organisation for the somewhereto pilot in Crewe was Cheshire East Council. Legacy: Young cultural creators, support infrastructure and activities in the region.
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March 2009
Photography by Karen Wright
WE PLAY LAUNCH – Manchester 24 MARCH 2009 March 2009 saw the launch of WE PLAY – a Legacy Trust UK funded project integrating year round public events, community programmes and the development of new work up to 2012. The programme spans new cinema and digital culture, street arts and youth engagement in culture and sport. The programmes which make up WE PLAY are: Abandon Normal Devices, Blaze and Lakes Alive. Abandon Normal Devices festival (AND) is a transregional festival of new cinema and digital culture which runs over four years from 2008 – 2012 with a distinctive emphasis on critique and ideas around the concept of ‘Normality’. The festival takes place in autumn each year alternating between Liverpool and Manchester. There is also an extended programme across the region. AND is a partnership between Cornerhouse - Manchester, FACT - Liverpool and folly Lancaster and funded by Legacy Trust UK as part of WE PLAY. www.andfestival.org.uk Blaze (formerly New Cultural Journeys) is a major youth-led culture and sport programme for Lancashire and the Fylde Coast which empowers young people to create, commission, broadcast and promote cultural activity. In the lead up to 2012, young people are producing a dynamic programme of new work each summer. Blaze is delivered in partnership with Lancashire County Council, Blackpool Council and Creative Lancashire and funded by Legacy Trust UK as part of WE PLAY. www.blazeonline.org.uk
Lakes Alive is a Cumbria-wide outdoor animation programme and aims to assert Cumbria as the national centre of excellence for street arts. Featuring the best international artists, the programme animates public spaces in Cumbria across spring and summer each year, culminating with Mintfest, its flagship street arts festival. Lakes Alive is delivered in partnership with Kendal Arts International and Manchester International Arts and funded by Legacy Trust UK as part of WE PLAY. www.lakesalive.org The WE PLAY programme was launched on 24 March 2009 at the Manchester Velodrome with a programme of playful interactions and events mixing new media, strolling street acts and a mock cycling race with the British Cycling team. The artists involved in the launch included Fairly Fabulous Family, Hard Knox Crew, Plunge Boom and Hive. The WE PLAY launch was produced and programmed by the Creative Programmer and managed by Mary Tabbron for Arts Council England. WE PLAY is the North West’s unique contribution to the build up and legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, funded by Legacy Trust UK and led by new regional partnerships. WE PLAY is managed by Arts Council England.
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April 2009
Strange Attractors - The Anatomy of Dr Tulp, Photography by Brian Slater
ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES LAUNCH Manchester and Liverpool 16 APRIL – 24 JUNE 2009 The Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival of new cinema and digital culture launched with the eight week film shoot of Centre of Attention, followed by Renegade Cinema in Liverpool in April and Get Played in Manchester in collaboration with moves08. The launch of AND also featured a regional launch at FACT, Liverpool involving a collaboration with the Btween conference on a public intervention MESS=MED and a call for submissions for moving image artworks. Centre of Attention artists/filmmakers were in residence at the new Art and Design Academy at Liverpool John Moores University and involved over 150 filmmakers, curators and members in the film which had its world premiere during AND 2009. Renegade Cinema brought together artists, filmmakers and activists from across the region in response to FACT’s Climate for Change exhibition and speakers from the CUBE Bristol, Star and Shadow Newcastle, Manchester Film Co-operative, Cinenova Brussels and The Small Cinema, Liverpool.
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Get Played took place at the Green Room in Manchester in partnership with moves09 and was a night of remixed and remastered moving image with a live soundtrack from Max Hattler. MESS=MED introduced the festival to the film and media industry and featured speakers Adam Gee from Channel 4, Thomas Benski from Pulse Films, Peter Buckingham from the UK Film Council, Ewan McIntosh from 4iP and many more. MESS=MED was a public intervention in the spaces at FACT led by artist John O’Shea and recorded and documented memorable text messages, which were later commodified and framed in a keyring for delegates to collect. AND is a partnership between Cornerhouse Manchester, FACT - Liverpool and folly - Lancaster. Legacy: New annual festival in the North West and development of creative and cultural industries.
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May 2009
Castles in the air, Castellers de Vilafranca, Photography by Keith Pattison
LAKES ALIVE - Cumbria 23 MAY - 30 AUGUST 2009 The Lakes Alive programme of outdoor performance and street arts running across Cumbria launched in May 2009 with Reach for the Sky – a series of six international aerial spectacles in Bowness-onWindermere, Carlisle, Penrith, Barrow, Maryport and Whitehaven and including Castellers de Vilafranca, Voala and Sky Productions.
wide events including the first edition of the UK’s first international outdoor circus festival, Zircus Plus, Dance Daze for the 2009 Open Weekend and Mintfest – Kendal’s international festival of street arts.
Reach for the Sky was attended by over 41,000 people. A quarter of these were visitors to the area and importantly a significant percentage of those attending these events either never or rarely participated in arts events (40%).
Legacy: Greater levels of engagement, participation and profile for Cumbria as the national centre of excellence for street arts.
Lakes Alive is a partnership between Kendal Arts International and Manchester International Arts.
The programme, which was awarded the Inspire mark, continued into the summer with a season of Cumbria www.lakesalive.org
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June 2009
Illustration by Adam Tallon
WE PLAY Expo: R&D - North West JUNE 2009 - AUGUST 2010 In June 2009, the research and development of a fourth WE PLAY programme in 2012 which will mark and celebrate Games Time in the North West got underway.
worldwide to connect WE PLAY and local communities in the North West to a publically owned new media legacy for the London 2012 Games.
The vision for this programme is ‘a global celebration of play’. Provisionally titled WE PLAY Expo, it supports partnership working across WE PLAY, education, youth, Sport, media and health to build a wider regional legacy through cross sector collaboration and programming.
• Research around interactivity development for large scale public events and the development of creative and media partnerships to drive the delivery of an interactive event in 2012 that connects local communities involved in WE PLAY and across the UK/internationally in real time and through interactive technologies.
Research and development activity led by the Creative Programmer across 2008 – 2010 included: • Creative workshops and planning activities with the WE PLAY Legacy Producers Group and Preston Guild 2012 to explore opportunities for collaboration and the delivery of a finale festival event for WE PLAY as part of Preston Guild 2012. • A commissioned research project managed by Youth Music and Greater Manchester Music Action Zone engaging young people from across the region in developing a vision for their own celebration at Games Time, leading to the formation of a regional young producers network. • Research around citizen media and the Olympics in Vancouver and the development of partnerships with social media networks and citizen journalists www.nwbeinspired.com/weplay
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• A commissioned WE PLAY Feasibility Study managed by Leslie Giddons and Fido PR and in partnership with Preston Guild 2012, North West Development Agency and NHS North West to engage regional partners in the development of a vision for a WE PLAY 2012 Challenge campaign, promoting the concept of ‘permission to play’. • Partnership development across the UK network of London 2012 Creative Programmers to support the UK touring of a launch event in early 2012 that connects WE PLAY to other regions and nations WE PLAY Expo is a partnership between WE PLAY and Preston Guild 2012. Legacy: Greater levels of engagement, participation and profile for the North West
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June 2009
Picnic on Screen, Photography by Bren O’Callaghan
VILLAGE SCREEN/PICNIC ON THE SCREEN Glastonbury/South West 24 – 28 JUNE 2009 Village Screen, an Inspire mark project in the South West at Glastonbury Festival, is a UK wide programme led by the South West 2012 Creative Programmer with the UK’s network of Creative Programmers, Screen Agencies and BBC.
Their prototype project Picnic on the Screen consists of participants sitting upon two blue picnic blankets which are brought together through chroma-keying and placed within a computer illustrated background containing animated characters triggered by movement.
Village Screen 2009 hosted a mixture of curated short film programming, interactive installations and live footage from each of the UK’s nations and regions and a summer camp for developers, producers, artists and curators drawn from across the UK.
This project forms part of the research and development activity for the WE PLAY Expo and London 2012 Live Sites programme.
Manchester based artists and academics Paul Sermon and Charlotte Gould who are both full members of the Creative Technology Research Group at the University of Salford took part in Village Screen at Glastonbury Festival which allowed a rare opportunity to experiment, play and learn to develop content for outdoor screens.
Legacy: UK wide profile for each participating nation and region and learning and content development for large scale public screens and audiences.
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July 2009
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LONDON 2012 OPEN WEEKEND - North West 24 – 26 JULY 2009 The North West celebrated the three-year countdown to the Games with a programme of special cultural events for the London 2012 Open Weekend in 2009. These events included Dance Daze – a Lakes Alive street arts programme with performances from the Ballet Boyz and Punchdrunk in Penrith and Inspire projects, City as Gymnasium and Places of Public Resort developed and curated specifically for the 2009 Open Weekend.
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July 2009
Photography by Sian Gouldstone
THE CITY AS GYMNASIUM - Manchester 9 JULY – 5 OCTOBER 2009 The City as Gymnasium project developed and presented by CUBE - Centre for the Urban Built Environment - investigates how the city itself is often used as a sporting arena. Featuring a Street Training Gym, gallery exhibition and an education project all in one, at CUBE in Manchester, it commissioned new work that examines the concept of sport in urban design.
The Gym and accompanying Street Training Manual was developed by London based artist Lottie Child as a new commission. The CUBE Exhibition featured Tsui Kuang-Yu’s ‘Liverpool Top 9!’ Neville Gabie’s ‘Playing Away’ and The Dualists MediaShed featuring Methods of Movement Parkour. Legacy: Street Training Gym is a first for the North West, supporting innovation in urban design.
Building on CUBE’s reputation for fusing together architecture, contemporary art and design, the project showcased ‘alternative’ ways the city can be used as a gymnasium.
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PLACES OF PUBLIC RESORT - Liverpool 24 JULY 2009 An innovative cultural event commissioned for the BBC Big Screen in Liverpool, Places of Public Resort set a new benchmark in interactive development for public broadcasting screens and secured the first Inspire mark awarded to the BBC. The project invited the public to experience the past and our heritage through the creation of a giant video carousel on the BBC Big Screen in Liverpool which observers could scroll through using hand movements, The carousel contained a dozen news reports from BBC North West dating between 1966 – 1986, many never seen since original broadcast including footage of the opening of the Liverpool Garden Festival and closure of Belle Vue Zoological Gardens. www.bbc.co.uk/bigscreens
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Places of Public Resort is a collaboration between Big Screen Liverpool, ICDC: International Centre for Digital Content, North West Film Archive, Liverpool City Council and the BBC, with North West Vision and Media and was produced by Manchester based curator Bren O’Callaghan. Part of a Live Sites programme developed by Bren O’Callaghan, BBC Screen Manager for Liverpool and the Creative Programmer with Cultural Olympiad funding from North West Vision and Media. Legacy: Interactivity innovation in the UK for the London 2012 Live Sites network.
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WELCOMING THE WORLD - Kendal and Brockhole 15 AUGUST – NOVEMBER 2009 The Lakes Alive project, Welcoming the World was developed for year one of the Cultural Olympiad and awarded the Inspire mark. The Welcoming the World new community participation programme involved over 250 local people in creating their own visual spectacle. 100 giant flags all made directly from their designs received their world premiere at Mintfest International street arts festival in Kendal and a further showing at the Lake District National Park Authority’s Visitor Centre near Windermere in Brockhole on 28 - 30 August 2009. The project was led by Wendy Meadley, an internationally-recognised flagmaker based in the North West, and developed and delivered in partnership with Made in England (Arts Council England and BBC),
Lake District World Heritage Site Project, Lake District National Park Authority, Lanternhouse International and South Lakeland District Council. Lakes Alive is a partnership between Kendal Arts International and Manchester International Arts. Legacy: Greater levels of engagement, participation and profile for Cumbria as the national centre of excellence for street arts.
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The sound before you make it, AND festival Photography by Brian Slater
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War Veteran Vehicle, Photography by Brian Slater
ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES FESTIVAL Liverpool 23 – 27 SEPTEMBER 2009 The WE PLAY programme kicked off year two of the Cultural Olympiad with the first edition of the Abandon Normal Devices festival in Liverpool. The Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival presented an extensive programme of screenings, installations, online projects, public realm interventions, workshops and live events.
The Anatomy of Dr Tulp by KMA, Hand From Above installation by artist Chris O'Shea for the BBC's Big Screens, Krzysztof Wodiczko’s War Veteran Vehicle and the AND Salons which debated themes resonant to new media, sport, the body and the Games. This first festival edition of AND was delivered by FACT.
The programme included screenings of Jamie King’s Dark Fibre, Centre of Attention’s Action Diana and Yes Men Fix the World, The Primitive multi-screen video installation from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the playful interactive environment, Strange Attractors –
AND is a partnership between Cornerhouse Manchester, FACT - Liverpool and folly - Lancaster.
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Legacy: New annual festival in the North West, building on FACT’s roots as Moviola and the Video Positive festival in Liverpool.
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Projected Column
ARTISTS TAKING THE LEAD : PROJECTED COLUMN - Birkenhead OCTOBER 2009 - 2013 Artists Taking the Lead is an Arts Council England initiative for London 2012 and the most ambitious and wide ranging art commission in the UK. Twelve projects won commissions totaling £5.4 million to create new works of art across the UK: one in each of the nine English regions, and in the nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Autumn 2009, international artist Anthony McCall was awarded one of the 12 commissions for Artists Taking the Lead to create Projected Column, a slender, sinuous, spinning column of cloud rising into the sky from the surface of the water in Birkenhead’s disused
Morpeth dock in Merseyside, directly opposite the city of Liverpool. Extending upwards as far as the eye can see, and visible on a clear day from up to 100 km away, the column will disappear and re-appear in slow structured sequences, punctuating the skyline whilst connecting it with the city and its docks. The commission will be developed during 2010, and come to fruition between 2011 and 2012. Legacy: New piece of major public art in the region as a visitor attraction.
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UNSILENT NIGHT - Liverpool 29 OCTOBER 2009 A one off screening of classic British shorts from the silent era, celebrating early primitive film and pioneers in collaboration with contemporary musicians from across the North West. Fonik (Warrington), a.P.a.T.t. (Liverpool) and Frakture (Manchester) performed newly commissioned soundtracks to each short film. This project experiments with different types of presentation context. The music performance took place at BBC Merseyside and the films accompanied by the live score were screened on the Big Screen Liverpool inviting the audience to view different elements of the work in two locations.
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Pixie Dust by Gina Czarnecki
DADAVISIONS - Liverpool and UK 17 NOVEMBER 2009 – FEBRUARY 2010 Inspire mark project, DaDaVisions was commissioned and curated to mark the 1000 days to the Paralympic Games celebrations in the North West. This artist film and video programme created specifically for outdoor screening consists of four commissions created by deaf and disabled artists or looking specifically at disability issues: Alison Jones: Portrait of the Artist by Proxy, Caroline Parker: The Rose, So Many Excuses: I Know My Place and Gina Czarnecki: Pixie Dust. DaDaVisions was premiered in Liverpool on 17th November for the 1000 days to the Paralympic Game celebrations and presented across London 2012’s nationwide network of Live Sites from 5th December 2009 for a three month period and continues to be screened at regular intervals.
The programme looks at representations of the body and how physical and mental agility is used to define worth and value and judged against likelihood to succeed. DaDaVisions is a collaboration between DaDa and the BBC, with support from North West Vision and Media and was presented as part of DaDaFest 09. DaDa – Disability and Deaf Arts is one of the North West’s leading organisations for disability and deaf arts. Part of a regional Live Sites programme developed by Bren O’Callaghan, BBC Screen Manager for Liverpool and the Creative Programmer with Cultural Olympiad funding from North West Vision and Media. Legacy: New partnership and artistic development mainstreaming disability practice. www.dadahello.com
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The Ugly Spirit
UNLIMITED:THE UGLY SPIRIT North West and UK JANUARY 2010 - 2012 Unlimited is a partnership between London 2012, the UK Arts Councils and the British Council and celebrates disability, arts, culture and sport on an unprecedented scale. Unlimited supports the commissioning of highquality collaborations between disability arts organisations, disabled artists and producers, and mainstream arts organisations. The work created will be showcased in London and across the UK up to and including Games Time. Liverpool based Fittings Multimedia Arts was awarded one of the 10 commissions for the first round of Unlimited to create The Ugly Spirit. Using the fascinating lives of conjoined Siamese twins Chang and
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Eng Bunker as inspiration and metaphor, The Ugly Spirit explores the conflicting notions that lie within us in a challenging and critically engaging performance piece. Developed in partnership with David Hoyle, Tanya Raabe and Gary Robson, The Ugly Spirit will tour a variety of mainstream venues and unusual settings around the country in 2011 and 2012. Legacy: Mainstreaming of disability cultural practice.
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CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS - Liverpool and Merseyside FEBRUARY 2010 - OCTOBER 2012 Cultural Conversations is Brouhaha’s three year thematic carnival arts programme running from 2010 to 2012. It hosts a number of large and small scale carnivals and parades locally, nationally and internationally. Each year sees carnival costumes, music, dance and digital radio and film delivered to around 2000 children, young people and adults from a range of backgrounds and communities and the presentation of up to 200 international performers.
Be Inspired conference at Lancashire County Cricket Club in Old Trafford and the carnival took place in Liverpool City Centre and in Princes Park on the 24th July. Cultural Conversations is developed and presented by Brouhaha International and funded by Arts Council England and the European Cultural Programme. Legacy: Four year youth engagement programme culminating in 2013 in the City of Volos in Greece for the Mediterranean Games.
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VANCOUVER 2010 - AND+W2 - Vancouver and Online 10 – 22 FEBRUARY 2010 The North West established the first Games Time cultural collaboration between a winter and summer Games by developing a project for the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad which involved North West Inspire projects, Abandon Normal Devices and DaDaVisions. A partnership with W2 community media centre in Vancouver was established to deliver AND+W2 – a four day programme of live and webcast debates structured around the Abandon Normal Devices festival themes and chaired by Dr Andy Miah. The collaboration also involved a residency exchange project between community media projects Tenants Spin in Liverpool and Fearless Media in Vancouver and
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a cultural exchange and web cast debate between disability organisations, DaDa (Liverpool) and Kickstart (Vancouver). AND + W2 took place at the W2 building in the downtown east side of Vancouver as part of the official Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and was co-funded by VANOC, AND, DaDa and FACT. This project forms part of the research and development activity for the WE PLAY Expo. It was initiated by the Creative Programmer, Executive Director of W2, Irwin Oostindie and Dr Andy Miah. Legacy: Project development for WE PLAY Expo and new media legacy for the London 2012 Games.
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WOVEN CULTURES - North West MARCH – NOVEMBER 2010 A regional arts programme exploring issues of age, race, sexuality, disability and asylum through a focus on equality, diversity and what it means to be human. The programme supported six new arts projects and involved each of the five sub regions of the North West. It presented screenings, performances, online projects, exhibitions, workshops and residencies and featured Community Arts North West (NXT X Pression); Barracudas (Carnival without Frontiers); Queer Up North International Festival (Blaze 2010); Brouhaha (ReincarNation: Mixing the Race of a Nation); Action Factory Community Arts; (Something Beautiful) and Chester Performs (Narrative).
Woven Cultures is a partnership between Government Office North West and the North West Development Agency and presented as part of Celebr8. The programme concept was developed in partnership with the Creative Programmer. Legacy: Higher quality arts profile and programme for the annual equality and diversity campaign, Celebr8.
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WELCOMING THE LIGHT – Carlisle 13 MARCH 2010 A new event developed as part of the Illuminating Hadrian’s Wall event, which saw a line of light from coast to coast along the entire length of Hadrian’s Wall. Audiences at the Carlisle event (Welcoming the Light) participated in a torchlight parade led by the stirring brass sounds of street band Tongues of Fire and impressive fiery engines from Pandaemonium. The finale event with performances and fireworks celebrated the line of light arriving in Carlisle, culminating its journey along Hadrian’s Wall.
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MP3 Experiment, Improv Everywhere
ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES FESTIVAL Cumbria and Lancashire 15 MARCH – 10 APRIL 2010 In Spring 2010, the Abandon Normal Devices festival (AND) headed to the hills and rural landscapes of Cumbria and Lancashire to present a programme of screenings, installations, online projects, workshops and public realm interventions in locations including Grizedale Forest, Accrington and Burnley. The programme included the UGI – Universal Health online project, The Company of Wolves Scratch n Sniff cinema and interactive artwork, Get Lost by Rob Ray.
This regional programme for AND was delivered by folly. AND is a partnership between Cornerhouse Manchester, FACT - Liverpool and folly - Lancaster. Legacy: Digital culture provision in rural locations, building on folly’s successful distributed festival of digital culture, Velocity in Lancashire.
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PORTRAIT OF AN ATHLETE - North West and UK APRIL 2010 - 2012 The North West cultural programme established a creative collaboration with the Pre Games Training Camp programme in the North West and in 2010 commissioned Salford Based audio-visual artists Soup to create a series of short films that explore the relationship of the athlete with their host training camps in the North West and across the UK. These portraits of London 2012 athletes are currently in development. The films will use the short form documentary format as explored by Channel 4’s Three Minute Wonder Strand and be screened at London 2012 venues and Live Sites over 2010 – 2012. The first film on the Vanuatu Women’s Beach Volleyball team is a collaboration with Vanuatu, the North West www.soupcollective.co.uk
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and MMU Cheshire East and supported by Vanuatu Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (VASANOC). MMU Cheshire East and the local authority (Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council and the new Cheshire East Council) have formed a partnership to provide preGames training camp and support services for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This project was commissioned by the Creative Programmer in partnership with the Coordinator for the 2012 Games in the North West. Legacy: Cultural documentation of athletes participating in the 2012 Games.
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SUFI:ZEN – Barrow in Furness 29 APRIL - 2 MAY 2010 A site-specific performance of Sufi:Meets Zen, a dance developed from the principles of Sufi and Zen, was performed by acclaimed South Asian dance company Akademi in the magical and spiritual setting of the ruins of Furness Abbey - an English Heritage site in Barrow in Furness.
Lakes Alive is a partnership between Kendal Arts International and Manchester International Arts. Legacy: New, ongoing and long term partnership with English Heritage.
Sufi:Meets Zen is a Lakes Alive new commission, created at Lanternhouse International and Furness Abbey.
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BLAZE - Lancashire and Flyde Coast 27 MAY - SEPTEMBER 2010 WE PLAY’s third annual programme Blaze launched in Preston in May 2010 of this year and showcased its dynamic programme of six art/sport commissions featuring in its Summer 2010 programme and for presentation as a series of routes and trails across various locations in Blackpool and Lancashire.
(Manchester and Huddersfield), Spearfish (Manchester), Tom Russotti (New York), We Love Technology (Huddersfield).
The six commissions involved young producers from Blackpool Arts Service, Clayton Youth & Community Centre (Clayton-le-Moors), Civic Arts Centre (Oswaldtwistle), The Dukes (Lancaster), Fuse 1318 Youth Theatre (Pendle), Soundskills (Preston), and artists Dan Fox (Ulverston), Mobile Pie (Bristol), Overlap/Microchunk Collective (London), Proper Job
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WE BUILT THIS CITY - Carlisle 3 - 5 JUNE 2010 A participatory family event which involved children and families working with Polyglot Theatre (Australia) to build “a city of dreams� in a day from thousands of cardboard boxes. This event was part of its first tour of the UK and involved local musicians and DJs, creating a unique soundtrack for the event in Carlisle.
Lakes Alive is a partnership between Kendal Arts International and Manchester International Arts. Legacy: Ongoing arts based programming and community engagement.
This project is a collaboration between Kendal Arts International and Manchester International Arts and Polyglot Theatre (Australia) with local partners including Carlisle City Council, Carlisle Renaissance and Carlisle Tourism Partnership.
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ZIRCUS PLUS – Barrow in Furness 4 – 6 JUNE 2010 A three day, contemporary circus festival in Barrow-inFurness which brings quality international circus artists to Barrow. The 2010 edition involved a series of workshops for local people to learn circus skills and a unique circus procession element developed by young people for the long-established Barrow Carnival, supporting one of the Town’s extant community gatherings. The dazzling line-up included Les Studio Cirque de Marseilles with their daredevil Wheel of Death trilogy and the outdoor premiere of Lady Silk, a beautiful blend of aerial dance, circus, music and video art. It also included acrobats from Tanzania, circus tennis from France and rising talent in the Little Top.
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Battery Rocks, Penzance, Cornwall at 6.30pm, 21 June 2010, Photography by Mike Newman
WATER’S EDGE - North West and UK 21 JUNE AND 23 - 25 JULY 2010 Developed and curated for the launch of the London 2012 Discovering Places campaign over the 2010 Open Weekend, Water’s Edge is a UK wide public participation project connecting art and culture to the local environment. It involved the whole of the UK in the creation of a visual story of activity and actions at the Water’s Edge on the longest day of the year – June 21st Summer Solstice Day in 2010. Over 500 images were collected by the public. Water’s Edge was screened as a slide show on the London 2012 Live Sites over the 2010 Open Weekend. The project will be further developed into an artwork/exhibition by High Tide in 2011/2012.
Water’s Edge is a High Tide project developed for the London 2012 Discovering Places campaign in collaboration with the BBC. It is funded by the Environment Agency with support from hi impact. High Tide is an artist led environment initiative based in Liverpool and endorsed by the UK’s Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). This project was delivered in partnership with the UK network of Creative Programmers and BBC Screen Managers. Legacy: Greater levels of public participation in art and environment practice. www.hightideuk.org
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MECHANICAL GAMES - Manchester 23 JUNE – OCTOBER 2010 Mechanical Games is an interactive version of an international sporting competition for the masses, where anyone can perform internationally recognised sports and everyone can vote on gold medal winners. Participants create one-minute films of themselves or others performing an internationally recognised sport. Developed by media artist and educator, Xtine Burrough, the project involves film making workshops, online public voting and a showcase event on 2nd October for the winners at the Abandon Normal Devices festival in Manchester. Mechanical Games drop in workshops were held at Cornerhouse in Manchester over the 2010 Open Weekend and dance groups, residents of care homes and community centre regulars have created inspiring one minute films. Over 100 people have taken part and more than 50 films uploaded to the Mechanical Games web site as of August 2010.
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Content for Mechanical Games was also developed at the 2010 Glastonbury Festival as part of Village Screen 2010, a South West Inspire project. This year’s programme of interactive applications drew a crowd of around two thousand. Mechanical Games is an Abandon Normal Devices festival commission presented by Cornerhouse and funded by Awards for All. AND is a partnership between Cornerhouse Manchester, FACT - Liverpool and folly - Lancaster. Legacy: Skills development and public engagement for people who do not normally get involved in cultural activity.
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LONDON 2012 OPEN WEEKEND - North West 23 – 25 JULY 2010 The North West celebrated the two year countdown to the Games with a series of five exciting regional Inspire mark projects recognised for their excellence and demonstration of the Pierre de Coubertin’s vision of the modern Games as a marriage between art and sport. These projects were Bicycle Ballet, Mechanical Games, ReincarNation, Road to the Big Game and Water’s Edge. Activities were delivered over Open Weekend 2010 around its Challenge theme.
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THE GAMES - North West and UK 25 JULY – 6 NOVEMBER 2010 The Games is a sports based comedy theatre show which presents the stories of the ancient games to a new audience, invited as part of the show to take part in sporting activities. The production celebrates the history and stories of the ancient Olympics highlighting the parallels with the modern Games. It involves a new creative partnership with artistic collaborator Toby Park (Artistic Director of Spymonkey, an international clown company based in the UK) and running alongside the project is an education and audience development programme in which participants engage in skills based workshops.
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The Games will tour in Merseyside and across the North West and UK in October 2010 and be further developed for 2012 year touring. The Games is a Spike Theatre Production in association with The Met and Unity Theatre, funded by Arts Council England and The Granada Foundation. Legacy: Regional and UK touring in 2012 and internationally post 2012.
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BICYCLE BALLET - Manchester 23 - 25 JULY 2010 Bicycle Ballet is a 30 minute dance performance, celebrating the dance that is cycling. Reminiscent of Busby Berkley’s stunning synchronised film choreography, the Bicycle Ballet explores the highs and lows of city cycling: the sheer joy of swerving downhill on a bike, the wind behind you and the sun on your face, tempered by the gritty reality of urban cycling.
Bicycle Ballet is presented as part of the Urban Moves International Dance Festival and funded by Manchester City Council. Legacy: First time and ongoing development of community sports programming in annual dance festival.
The Bicycle Ballet was commissioned by Urban Moves International Dance Festival for the 2010 Open Weekend and involved 80 community participants of all ages in its creation and performance. The project was directed and choreographed by Virginia Farman.
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THE ROAD TO THE BIG GAME - Nelson 24 JULY, 28 JULY - SEPTEMBER 2010 Blaze young producers from ‘Fuse1318’ theatre workshop, part of Pendle based Fusion Community arts, commissioned New York artist Tom Russotti to work with them to develop The Road to the Big Game, a series of new game and sporting events held at Nelson Cricket Club in Lancashire and in Nelson town centre. This Inspire project invited the public to follow and participate in the story of the lead up to The Big Game through social media. Blaze young producers staged The Big Game with all the trappings of a regular sporting event: commentators, referees and half time shows.
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The Big Game Trials were staged in the lead up to The Big Game as a series of events created specifically for the 2010 Open Weekend and presented in the centre of Nelson. The Road to the Big Game is a Blaze commission. Blaze is a partnership between Blackpool Council, Creative Lancashire and Lancashire County Council. Legacy: Skills development of young people as creative producers.
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AFROREGGAE 2010 - Liverpool 25 JULY 2010 – 21 AUGUST 2010 A four-week residency and series of public showings led by 9 artists from AfroReggae – a cultural movement based in Rio de Janeiro – with 3 breakdancers from Bad Taste Cru, who took daily workshops to centres and outdoor areas in Liverpool where drug taking and gang violence are most prevalent to offer young people a positive alternative. The project involves training events for youth workers, police and healthcare staff. Exchange of experiences between Rio and Liverpool is just as an important method of engagement as the street dance, drumming, circus and acrobatics.
Performances included Williamson Square, Walton Hall Park Festival, Liverpool Football Club and the Out of the Blue Music Festival at Everton Park in memory of Joseph Lappin. AfroReggae is a flagship programme for 2010 Liverpool’s Year of Health and Wellbeing, funded by Liverpool Primary Care Trust and hosted by Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse in partnership with Liverpool Youth Service, LFC in the community, People’s Palace Projects and a range of community partners. Legacy: At risk young people engaged and regional development of the programme up to 2012.
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INTO THE WOODS TOUR - Cumbria 28 – 30 JULY 2010 A surprising mix of street arts companies placed in woodland settings in three locations across Cumbria, with performance, interactive shows and installations aimed at a family audience. The Into the Woods Tour invited audiences to participate in a playful art form within an unusual setting, where they might usually go to walk or cycle, transforming these spaces into community owned ‘fun’ spaces. The three locations were Talkin Tarn Country Park, Brampton, Whinlatter Forest and Grizedale Forest. This project is a collaboration between Kendal Arts International and Manchester International Arts and a range of new partners including the local authorities,
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MINTFEST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL – Kendal 30 AUGUST - 5 SEPTEMBER 2010 The UK’s first ever street arts summer school helping up to 30 young and emerging street artists from across the UK to develop their skills and expertise. Led by international street artists, the participants develop shows for Mintfest, Kendal’s International Festival of Street Arts.
This project is a collaboration between Kendal Arts International and Manchester International Arts. Lakes Alive is a partnership between Kendal Arts International and Manchester International Arts. Legacy: New annual summer school established for street arts in the North West.
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ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES FESTIVAL 2010 - Manchester 1-7 OCTOBER
Launching year three of our Cultural Olympiad programme in the North West is the 2010 edition of the Abandon Normal Devices festival. This edition of the Abandon Normal Devices festival in Manchester will be a hybrid experiment of cinema, performance and media art – a new capital for the chemically disordered generation – human shrink wraps, radio active carnivals, body scanners, Marxist pop artists, filmic odysseys, techno socials and urine harvesters. AND invites artists, young people and audiences to challenge and question the body and economy in the lead up to 2012. This edition of AND is presented by Cornerhouse. AND is a partnership between Cornerhouse Manchester, FACT - Liverpool and folly Lancaster.
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Building Legacy 2008 - 2010 Legacy Trust UK is an independent charity whose mission is to support a wide range of innovative cultural and sporting activities which celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and will leave a lasting legacy in communities throughout the United Kingdom. Legacy Trust UK allocated approximately £24 million to twelve programmes across the UK’s Nations and regions. The North West was awarded £3.02 million to develop a four year programme and this funding was invested in WE PLAY. The WE PLAY programme aspires to deliver a sustainable stepchange in the region’s creative and cultural sectors that will resonate beyond 2012, leaving a lasting legacy of quality, participation and creativity, new creators and volunteers and of annual programmes going forward in the region post 2012. WE PLAY has already made significant progress towards these legacy aspirations: • WE PLAY generated £2.7 million additional investment to match the £1.4 million received from Legacy Trust UK for the first two years of its programme, securing 66% of its 2008 – 2010 budgets from other sources. • WE PLAY annual programmes of Abandon Normal Devices, Blaze and Lakes Alive delivered more than 185 events across the region, engaging over 200,000 people as audiences. In its first two years WE PLAY created 9 full time jobs, serial employment for over 1000 practitioners and 185 volunteer placements. • Abandon Normal Devices formed 33 new regional partnerships for two editions of its festival, events and screenings took place in 40 venues and public spaces across the region. The festival attracted the world’s best film makers and artists to the region to present and create new work. AND have already commissioned 20 new works for regional, UK and international distribution in the lead up to London 2012. • Blaze ran over 400 hours of training and mentoring for 40 young producers from Lancashire and the Fylde Coast and involved a further 100 young people in its programme
development. This process put young people at the heart of the commissioning process and resulted in six unique collaborations between artists and 13-19 year olds which combined sports and art. Its methodologies for engaging young people as curators and producers are already being adopted and used by other organisations in the North West. • Lakes Alive events in 2009 contributed an additional £3 million to the local economy and attracted 16,790 new visitors to Cumbria. 5000 of these were from outside of the North West and 27% of the Lakes Alive 2009 audience comprised of children. Lakes Alive set up the UK’s first international annual summer school for street arts in Kendal and the UK’s first international outdoor circus festival in Barrow in Furness. New works commissioned for its ‘Made in the Lakes’ brand have already toured to over 30 locations/festivals. • WE PLAY Expo research and development activities resulted in a range of new partnerships supporting the development of a number of Olympic legacies including a regional young producers network, a blueprint for a publicly owned new media legacy for the London 2012 Games, a world first event utlising cutting edge interactive technologies and a unique touring project connecting nations and regions across the UK. In the North West, WE PLAY is driving forward a 2012 legacy for the region which includes: • • • • • • • • • • • •
Memorable cultural experiences Cultural products for UK and international markets Audiences, creators and cultural participants New benchmarks and sector standards Networks, partnerships, business and tourism Enterprise and innovation Up skilled practitioners and jobs Increased capacity and productivity Enhanced cultural offer in the region Changed perceptions, profile and raised ambitions Major annual programmes ongoing post 2012 Economic and social growth
Legacy Trust UK is an independent charity funded by a £40 million endowment from the Big Lottery Fund, Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England. WE PLAY is the North West’s unique contribution to the build up and the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, funded by Legacy Trust UK and led by new regional partnerships. WE PLAY is managed by Arts Council England.
www.nwbeinspired.com/weplay
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PARTNERS AND ARTISTS Key partners and artists involved in year one and year two of the Cultural Olympiad programme in the North West.
44 Promotions A Bichlbaum A Foundation A.P.a.T.t Aaron J Robin Aaron Williamson Abandon Normal Devices festival Acrojou Action Factory Adam Elliot Adam Tallon AfroReggae Age Concern Day Centre AGMA Aileen McEvoy AJ James Akademi Alex Hindle Alicia Scherson Alison Jones Allerdale Borough Council Andrew Miles Andy Best and Merja Puustinen Andy Lochran Andy Miah Anfield Breckfield Community Centre Ann Whitehurst / Outside Centre Anthony McCall Antipodes Apichatpong Weerasethkaul Aqueous Humour Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University Artizani Arts Council England Astral Circus Astra Taylor Astrophysics Institute, Liverpool John Moores University Atau Tanaka / Culture Lab Avanti Awards for All Axial Dance Baked A La Ska Balkanatics 52
Ballet Boyz Barnaby Gibbons Barracudas Barrow Borough Council Barrow Regeneration Bash Street BBC North West BBC Big Screens BBC Radio Merseyside Bee & Foley Ben Hopkins Bernard Rose Betty Brawn Big Rory Big Screen Liverpool Bill Gee / Inside Out Festival Bill Morris Black Eagles Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council Blackpool Arts Service Blackpool Council Blaze Body Cartography Project Bolton Museum & Archive Service Bompass & Parr Bongo Bolero BoomDang Bootworks Boredbrands Digital Funfair Bread & Butter Bren O'Callaghan Brewery Arts Centre Bridget Fiske Bright FX Brighton & Hove Arts Commission Brighton & Hove Cycling Town British Council British Film Institute British Waterways Brouhaha International Bruce McDonald Burnley Borough Council CABE Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Calvin Carabosse Carlisle City Council Carlisle Regeneration Carlisle Tourism Partnership Carolee Schneemann Caroline Parker Castellers de Villafranca Cautley Carollers Celebr8 Centre of Attention Channel4 Charanga del Norte Charlie Beckett Charlotte Gould Cheshire Dance Cheshire East Council Cheshire Year of Gardens Chestor Performs Cinenova, Brussels Chol Chris O'Shea Circus Ronaldo Circus Space London City Screen Civic Arts Centre Clapperboard UK Clayton Youth and Community Centre Club De Femmes CN Media Comic Characters Creations Community Arts North West Conflux Consiston Walking Festival Copeland Borough Council Cornerhouse Craig Baldwin Crazy Tramps Creative Futures Creativity Works Creative Lancashire Creature Feature CRESC Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council CUBE (Centre for the Urban Environment)
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CUBE, Bristol Culture 10 Culture Liverpool Culture North West Cumbria Constabulary Cumbria County Council Cumbria Film Makers Network Cumbria Fire & Rescue Service Cumbria Tourism Cumbria Youth Dance Project Curious Cargo Curious Eyebrows Curtins Consultants DaDa Fest Dan Fox/Sound Intervention Dan The Hat Dance in Tension Daniel Blackburn Dare Dance David Hoyle David James David Penn David Valentine DCMS De Ramos Acrobats Deli Babies Dennis Teeth Digital Eye Films DJ Spooky Dot Comedy Dream Engine Duane Hopkins Dugald Mackie Eden Arts Eden District Council Elevate, East Lancashire Ellie Harrison Encore English Heritage Environment Agency Euphonic Circus European Cultural Programme European Regional Development Fund Experimentality FACT Fairy Fabulous Family Fearless Media Feng Gouchaun
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Fidget Feet Fido PR Fittings Multimedia Arts folly fonik Forestry Commission Forkbeard Fantasy Forum 28 4iP Frakture Fraser Hooper FRED Freehand, FACT Frenetic Engineering Frolicked Full Moon Furness Abbey Fuse 1318 Youth Theatre Gandini Gary Robson Geoffrey Alan Rhodes George Orange Greater Sport Green Room, Manchester Groundwork Pennine Lancashire Giles Askhram & Luke Hastilow Gina Czarnecki Gordon McKenna Government Office North West Gracie Spoon Grand Theatre of Lemmings Gravity & Levity Greater Manchester Music Action Zone Grizedale Forest / Forestry Commission Gwen Osmond Hadrian's Wall Heritage Limited Hank Wangford & Lost Cowboys Hard Knox Crew Harris Museum & Art Gallery Haworth Art Gallery Helen Kane Heritage Link High Tide Hive Holly Hathern Holy Trinity Platt Church Hope Street Hudson Powell
Impacts 08 Improv Everywhere Independent Street Artists Network Inko Nito International Centre for Digital Content Irrwisch ISIS Arts Jaki Middleton & David Lawrey James Coupe Jamie King Jennie Savage Joel Lavery John O Shea Jonathan Caouette Juliette Garcias Julie Tait Justin Molotniktov Karen Poley Kausary Kawa Circus Kazimier Ken Russell Kendal Arts International Kendal College Kerenza McClarnan KickStart KMA Krzysztof Wodiczko La Sonambula Lady Silk Lake District National Park Authority Lake District Summer Music Lake District World Heritage Site Project Lakes Alive Lancashire County Council Lancashire County Museum Service Lancashire Library Services Lancashire Museum Service Lancashire Sport Lancashire Young People’s Service Lancaster University Lanternhouse International Larkin About Laura Belevica Laura Drane Associates Leeds University Leslie Giddons Le Tennis 53
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Legacy Trust UK Les Studio Cirque De Marseilles Libby Raper / Culture North West Light Factory Lisa Roberts Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse Theatres Liverpool 08 Liverpool Biennial Liverpool City Council Liverpool Lantern Company Liverpool’s Year of Health and Wellbeing 2010 LFC in the Community Liverpool Primary Care Trust Liz Lea London 2012 Lottery Fund Lottie Child Loz Kaos Luc Bourdon Lucy Raven Luden AV Lynn Shelton M.A.R.I.N Made in England (Arts Council/BBC) Magic Hat Manchester Beacon for Public Engagement Manchester City Council Manchester City Galleries Manchester Film Co-operation Manchester International Arts Manchester Metropolitan University Manor care home Marc Brew Company Mark Jacob Mark Mark Productions Mark Thomas Mary Tabbron Marianah House care home Marketing Manchester Matt Hulse Matt Wilcock Maynard Flip Flap Max Hattler Max Steinberg / Elevate Meat Licence Proposal 54
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Mersey Forest Mersey Travel Metal Metro Boulot Dodo Mid Pennine Arts Mike Bonanno Mike Stubbs Mike Hancock & Friends Mimbre MMU Cheshire East (Cheshire East Council and Manchester Metropolitan University) Mobile Pie Moira Swinbank Molly Orange Moore Arts: Millom Mornflake Oats Motionhouse Movema Moves Festival Muncaster Castle Murphy's Marbles Museum of Science and Industry Museums, Libraries & Archives Council Music Leader North West Natasha Vita-More National Association of Street Artists National Lottery National Trust Neville Gabie NHS Regional Public Health Group Nic Roeg Nina Wakeford Noise Festival North West Culture Observatory Northwest Regional Development Agency North West Evening Mail North West Film Archive North West Steering Group for the 2012 Games North West Vision & Media Northern Belly Co NWDA Tourism Ollie Aylmer Open Eye Gallery Orchestre D.C.Dansete Overlap/Microchunk Collective
Paddy Steer Pandaemonium Paul Sermon Peader Kirk Pendle Lesiure Trust People’s Palace Projects Percy Dean Creativity Works Pete Moser Peter Appleton Peter Liversidge Peter Scott Gallery Peter Strikland Peter White Phil Collins Pickled Image Pierotters Pif Paf Plunge Boom Polyglot Theatre Portable Pixel Playground Preston City Council Preston Guild 2012 Prism Arts Prodigal Proper Job Punch Drunk Pulse Films Queer Up North International Festival Quidams Rachel Ashton Group Rahmin Baharani Ragroof Ramshacklicious Reckless Invention Red Herring Redock Rex Boyd Richard Crowe Ric Taylor Rimski's Piano Rob Ray Rod Maclaclan Rossendale Alive Rossendale Borough Council Rossendale Leisure Trust Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
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Salamandre Sally Medlyn Sam Meech Sandpit Sarruga Sat Day Science in a Suitcase Seymour Home care home Sheffield Hallam University Shifting Sands Shrewsbury House Youth Club Signal Films Simon Faithful Sky Productions Skylight Solaris Shopping Centre So Many Excuses Sound Network Sound Skills Soundwave Soup Collective South Lakeland District Council Spearfish Spike Theatre Sport Cheshire Sport England Sputniks Squidsoup Srishti Stanelli's Super Circus Stanza Star and Shadow, Newcastle Steve Messam, FOLD Stickleback Plasticus StopGap Storytree Strange Bird Circus Strickly Come Prancing Stuff & Things St. James Church St. Vincent de Paul Primary School Substance Superact Surreal McCoy Swank Taffy Thomas Tango Siempre
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Tanya Raabe Tate Liverpool Tenants Spin The Black Eagles The Bluecoat The Centre of Attention The Dualists Mediashed The Dukes The Dukes Theatre The Granada Foundation The Hub The Mersey Partnership The Met The Powerhouse The Small Cinema, Liverpool. Theatre Tol Theatre-by-the-Lake Thingamabob & thingamajigs Toby Park / Spymonkey Tom Russotti Tone Float Tongues of Fire Towneley Hall and Gardens Transe Express Tres Tru Thoughts Trudy Barbar Trukitrek Tsui Kuang Yu Tubas on the Lake Tuig Ubermorgen UK Film Council United Utilities Unity Theatre Unity Youth Theatre University of Cumbria University of Manchester University of Salford University of West Scotland Upfront Arts Upfront Puppet Gallery Urban Angels Circus Urban Moves International Dance Festival Utopium Valley Theatre, Liverpool
Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad Vanuatu Women's Beach Vollyball Team VASANOC Village Screens Virgin Trains Virginia Farman Visit Cheshire and Chester Voala W2 Walk the Plank Wash Design We Love Technology WE PLAY WE PLAY Expo Youth Producers Group WE PLAY Legacy Producers Group Weaver Valley Wendy Meadley West Everton Community Council Whalley Range All Stars Wheel of Death Trilogy Whitworth Art Gallery Wired Ariel Theatre Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council Wirral Metropolitan College Wisemove Dance Without Walls Woodhouse Park Lifestyle Centre Xtine Burrough Xtrax Yang Ik-Joon Yes Men Youth Music Zapik Puppet Theatre Zoe Papadopoulou & Catherine Kramer
This list of partners and artists also includes the organisations and speakers who participated in the three research forums hosted in 2008 in the North West. This list is not exhaustive and sincerest thanks go to all who have contributed to the programme.
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PROGRAMME TIMELINE Date
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Project
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Open Weekend
2008
Inspire Mark
Major Projects
Live Sites
26 – 28 Sept
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North West
Cultural Olympiad Launch
10
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26 Sept – 12 Oct
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Coniston and Liverpool
Neon Attractors
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15 Oct – 2012
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Liverpool
Remarkable
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Nov – 2012
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North West
Stories of World: Global Threads
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Jan – 2012
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Crewe
somewhereto: Pilot
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24 Mar
ALL
Manchester
WE PLAY Launch
15
16 Apr – 24 Jun
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Manchester and Liverpool
Abandon Normal Devices Launch
16
23 May – 30 Aug
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Cumbria
Lakes Alive
17
Jun - Aug 2010
ALL
North West
WE PLAY Expo: R&D
18
24 – 28 Jun
ps
Glastonbury/ South West
Village Screen: Picnic on the Screen
19
24 – 26 Jul
ps
North West
London 2012 Open Weekend
20
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9 Jul – 5 Oct
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Manchester
City as Gymnasium
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24 Jul
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Liverpool
Places of Public Resort
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15 Aug - Nov
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Kendal and Brockhole
Welcoming the World
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23 – 27 Sept
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Liverpool
Abandon Normal Devices festival
26
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Oct - 2013
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Birkenhead
Artist Taking the Lead: Projected Column
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29 Oct
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Liverpool
Unsilent Night
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17 Nov – Feb 2010
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Liverpool/UK
DaDaVisions
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Pg
2010
Open Weekend
Inspire Mark
Major Projects
Live Sites
WE PLAY
m
Jan - 2012
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North West/UK
Unlimited: The Ugly Spirit
30
Feb – Oct 2012
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Liverpool/ Merseyside
Cultural Conversations
31
10 – 22 Feb
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Vancouver/ Online
Vancouver 2010: AND+W2
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Mar – Nov
be
North West
Woven Cultures
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i
13 Mar
ps
Carlisle
Welcoming the Light
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15 Mar – 10 Apr
be
Cumbria and Lancashire
Abandon Normal Devices festival
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i
Apr – 2012
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North West/UK
Portrait of an Athlete
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29 Apr – 2 May
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Barrow in Furness
Sufi:Zen
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27 May – Sept
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Lancashire Flyde Coast
Blaze
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3 – 5 Jun
ps
Carlisle
We Built This City
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4 – 6 Jun
ps
Barrow in Furness
Zircus Plus
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21 Jun, 23– 25 Jul
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North West/UK
Water’s Edge
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23 Jun - Oct
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Manchester
Mechanical Games
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23 – 25 Jul
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North West
London 2012 Open Weekend
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25 Jul – 6 Nov
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North West/UK
The Games
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23 – 25 Jul
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Manchester
Bicycle Ballet
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Nelson
The Road to the Big Game
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Liverpool
AfroReggae Liverpool
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Cumbria
Into The Woods Tour
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Kendal
Mintfest International Summer School
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GET INVOLVED The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad offers communities a chance to join in through the Inspire programme. No matter whether they are large or small, the very best local and regional projects inspired by 2012 will be awarded the prestigious Inspire mark which can be used on brochures, posters and websites to promote the project or event. Cultural projects that gain the Inspire mark become part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. If you are awarded the Inspire mark, you will benefit from communications support, networking opportunities, and the chance to showcase your success.
We are looking for inspirational ideas from all sorts of people – surprising, exciting and innovative projects, events or activities inspired by the London 2012 values of: Welcoming the World, Involving and Inspiring Young People and Creating a Lasting Legacy. If you have an idea that responds to the values and vision of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, please contact Debbi Lander - the Creative Programmer for the North West: Debbi.Lander@london2012.com The role of the Creative Programmer involves partnership working with funding agencies, cultural organisations and artists. In the North West the role has a focus on the Inspire Programme and creative development and direction of WE PLAY.
FURTHER INFORMATION London 2012 Inspire programme: www.london2012.com/beinspired How the North West is engaging with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Cultural Olympiad: www.nwbeinspired.com London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Cultural Olympiad: www.london2012.com Legacy Trust UK: www.legacytrustuk.org Arts Council England: www.artscouncil.org.uk WE PLAY programme: www.nwbeinspired.com/weplay Creative Programmer North West blog: http://debbilander2012.wordpress.com
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CREDITS AND THANKS Debbi Lander, Creative Programmer for London 2012, North West The Creative Programmer role is to develop, shape and programme regional projects for the Cultural Olympiad. North West 2012 Cultural Programme Group This group supports regional engagement in the Cultural Olympiad and the work of the Creative Programmer. Jeremy Buxton Karl Creaser Chris Dodd Sean Durney Rodney Hill Nathan Lee Deborah Parker Anthony Preston Gemma Weedon Rob Young
BBC Screen Manager, North West English Heritage Sport England Liverpool City Council Association of Greater Manchester Authorities Museums, Libraries and Archive Council North West Vision and Media Arts Council England Warrington Borough Council 2012 Coordinator for the Games
WE PLAY Legacy Producers Group This group overviews the delivery and legacy of WE PLAY as a regional programme Sara Domville Abigail Gilmore Polly Hamilton Ulrika Hogberg Gabrielle Jenks Debbi Lander Hannah McAdam Andrew Miles Dave Moutrey Taylor Nuttall Anthony Preston Ruth Raban Elaine Roberts Jeremy Shine Jan Shorrock Mike Stubbs Moira Swinbank Julie Tait Catherine Waddington
Programme Manager, Blaze Programme Evaluation, University of Manchester Assistant Director of Cultural Services, Blackpool City Council Grants and Development Support Manager, Legacy Trust UK Festival Manager, Abandon Normal Devices festival Programme Director, WE PLAY Programme Assistant, WE PLAY Programme Evaluation, CRESC Director, Abandon Normal Devices festival, Cornerhouse Director, Abandon Normal Devices festival, folly Programme Lead, Arts Council of England Director, Blaze, Creative Lancashire Head of Arts Development, Blaze, Lancashire County Council Artistic Director, Lakes Alive, Manchester International Arts Marketing Manager, Lakes Alive, Kendal Arts International Director, Abandon Normal Devices festival, FACT Chief Executive, Legacy Trust UK Director, Lakes Alive, Kendal Arts International Programme Manager, WE PLAY
Appreciation is due to Libby Raper (Chief Executive Culture North West), Peter Mearns (Marketing Director of the NWDA), Alice Morrison (Chief Executive of North West Vision and Media), Rob Young (2012 Co-ordinator for the Games in the North West), Moira Swinbank (Chief Executive of Legacy Trust UK), Janet Matthewman (Regional Manager, Government Office North West), Sheldon Philips (NWDA, Major Events), Andy Worthington (Chair of the North West 2012 Steering Group for the Games), Andrew Backhouse, Jane Dawson, Abigail Gilmore, Sarah McLoughlin (Culture North West) and Dr Andy Miah (University of West Scotland and Olympic specialist), Michael Eakin & Aileen McEvoy (Arts Council England) and to the North West 2012 Cultural Programme Group and Be Inspired North West 2012 Steering Group for their influential shaping, vision and support. Thanks to the partners and artists involved to date for engaging in the Cultural Olympiad and to the UK network of Creative Programmers for their strong commitment to collaborative working. Thanks to Catherine Waddington, Arts Council England and Steve Kerner, Curious Road for their excellent work on this publication.
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