Project and website link
County
Ballast Seed Garden
Bristol
See No Evil
Bristol
All the Bells
Bristol & Nationwide
A History of Sport in Cornwall
Cornwall
Alex Katz
Cornwall
Battle for the Winds: Kernocopia
Cornwall
Shezad Dawood – Piercing
Brightness
Tim Minchin/Eden Comedy
Cornwall
Cornwall
Tin
Cornwall
Torch Landing
Alive & Kicking
Cornwall
Devon
Description
Seeds of Change is an ongoing investigation of ballast flora in European port cities by
2007 Arnolfini exhibition Port City, with the artist undertaking a period of research to fin
Avon and Bristol's Harbourside.
Over twenty internationally renowned street artists will take up residence in the disused
the world's largest scale outdoor paintings. The event will be launched with a weeklong
including urban art, music and theatre. See No Evil will be the biggest urban arts festiv
live projection mapping project on the Parcel Force building used by See No Evil. A on
live score from Adrian Utley. Anti VJ have established a worldwide reputation for innov
A South West hub for Martin Creed’s project ‘All the Bells’, using the entirety of the new
participation event, following on from the success of the building’s Opening Celebration
guitars, choirs, aerialists and circus performers winding their way throughout the buildin
Cornwall's county archive service and Museum Dev. Officer Team will be working toge
to highlight the story of sport in Cornwall.
Brooklyn-born Alex Katz is one of the most important and respected living American ar
collages and cut-outs that span the full breadth of his career from the 1950s to today fo
A huge and fantastical ‘vessel’, a ‘Horn of Plenty’ which will roll/float/fly the length and b
who, with the help of the people of Cornwall, will celebrate our sailing, surfing, rowing,
winds.
Piercing Brightness is an exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Shezad Dawood
internationally. The exhibition includes an experimental film made in Morocco, New Dr
Trailer, alongside new textile and sculptural works.
Eden welcomes comedy back in 2012 with musical comic Tim Minchin, who will be hea
This exciting collaboration between Miracle Theatre, English Touring Opera, including
epic theatre, multimedia magic and top notch singing!
The Torch Landing is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the London 2012 Olym
have been selected as Torchbearers, many of whom will be from Cornwall.
Alive and Kicking is a fusion of sport and art, placing artists into sports clubs to creative
Battle for the Winds: The Devon
Wind Gatherers
Devon
Games People Play
Devon
Go Adventures 2012
Devon
Golden Exe
Devon
Torch Relay overnight stop
Wordquest
Devon
Devon
World At Your Feet
Devon
World Dance Day 2012
Devon
Travelling Pliosaur Cinema
#media2012
Dorset
Dorset
A Dance A Day
Animate the Streets
Artwey’s Giant Wall
Bandstand Marathon
Dorset
Dorset
Dorset
Dorset
Forkbeard Fantasy is a band of visual and performing artists, animators, designers and
the pioneering experimental, mixed media and performance art explosion of that era. T
Patison, chief machine engineer, Jane Jobling, Sculptor, and carnival costume maker,
being supported by Exeter City Council, in collaboration with South Devon College, Ply
For the cultural Olympiad, CCANW will explore - through a range of exhibitions and act
tell us about ‘human nature’
90 participants (x5 teams of 18 children and young people) from all across Torbay will t
course of 5 days. Each day, each team will be presented with a different challenge and
the 5th day they will be joined by their families and friends for one final adventure which
course, bring their flags together and set Parkfield alight with sound and music.
The Golden Exe project includes a range of Olympic and Paralympic inspired cultural a
volunteering, engaging students with the values of the Olympics and Paralympics and
from primary school children through to older people.
Torchbearers will carry the Olympic Flame through 1,024 communities – cities, towns a
end of almost every day of the Relay.
Wordquest Devon is an opportunity for people to immerse themselves in Devon's litera
World at Your Feet' is a celebration of the richness and variety of Plymouth's history an
The project looks set to be Plymouth's biggest ever participation event and young peop
- from the initial concepts, research, acting and dance workshops, creating scripts and
Share our celebration of dance across Devon and the World on UNESCO's World Dan
Dance.
Pliosaur will be a giant sea lizard featuring a walk-in belly. Eccentric scientists show au
moving parts, before entering the beast's stomach to see interactive Jurassic puppetry
Pattison, Peter Courtenay and Forkbeard Fantasy.
#media2012 is a citizen media project; young people blogging and tweeting their Olym
Count Me In: A Dance A Day is a community dance project aiming to increase health a
older people in the context of the London 2012 Games.
Animate the Streets sets out to animate key points along routes through the borough w
'Artwey Artists' will lead their community with this project, creating textile portraits of pe
Count Me In: Bandstand Marathon is a major UK-wide music event with bands & music
Battle for the Winds – The Final
Battle
Battle for the Winds – The
Gathering and Ceremony of the
Winds
Battle for the Winds – The
Search for Doldrums Lair
Dorset
Dorset
Dorset
Battle for the Winds: The
Strongbox of Winds
Dorset
Breathe
Dorset
b-side Multi-Media Festival
Dorset
Coastal Voices
Coastal Voices + Welcome
Dorset
Dorset
enliven underused bandstands & public spaces. Organised by Somerset based not-for
500 events involved for the finale of London 2012.
Three days of opening celebrations are brought to a spectacular conclusion as 2012 "s
gig rowers to be released at sea
An audacious telling of an epic tale that advances across the South-West with seven s
Weymouth and Portland to mark the opening celebrations of the London 2012 Olympic
ensemble of artists will create this stunning and unforgettable piece of world class outd
in their battle to unshackle the creative breezes and release the wind in time for the Oly
rescued from Doldrum who sweeps in and takes her and the winds to Portland?
A company of young heroes pursue the villain, Doldrum, to his lair on Portland, where h
Aeolus’ daughter.
The Strongbox of Winds is Dorset’s fantastic wind gathering machine. It will have the c
wind. He will look continually windswept, be very vocal, gathering winds using wonderf
spouting the poetry of the winds and skies in an eccentric manner. He can issue kazoo
punctuated by hooters and trumpeting sounds that he can trigger. Powered by cycle po
look as if towed) by mobility buggies, driven by members of our local communities.The
wriggling bag of wind with a net to contain it and lots of places to tie on other objects. It
that spin and whirr, which could be connected to the cranks so that as it is pedalled, the
games of trying to get the wind measurers to spin if people donate enough wind.
he Strongbox will visit areas in Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole before it reaches Portla
workshops in which students can make wind catching machines/artefacts to be collecte
‘Breathe’ will be a breathtaking outdoor performance of circus, dance and cabaret. This
workings of, and assumptions around unique bodies. Disabled and non-disabled, profe
participants will come together to create this spectacle before an audience of 10,000 o
have seen before, and transformative for those participating and watching.
Explore the flipside of the sea side; encounter and enjoy brand new work in visual art, f
inspire and provoke.
Coastal Voices brings together hundreds of singers and choirs from Exmouth to Bourn
geologically-inspired sound world of Marc Yeats, Songs for a Coastal Wind by John Su
Miles.
The Welcome Songs; Eliza Carthy and her band lead a choral composition celebrating
Songs
Creating The Spectacle
Dorset
Desert Crossings
Dorset
Dinosaurs Not Allowed
Dorset Schools – Arts for Torch
Relay
Dorset
Exploratory Laboratory
Dorset
ICCI360
Dorset
Inside Out Dorset: Harmonic
Fields
Jurassic Coast 2012 Earth
Festival
Dorset
Dorset
Dorset
Landance 2012
Dorset
Landance 2013
Dorset
Portland
‘Creating the Spectacle!’ is a project to present an ambitious and unprecedented series
wheelchair that leaves traces of its joy and freedom as it flies along mid water with its h
that is capable of facilitating transformations in preconceptions.
Inspired by the similarities between the UK South West Jurassic Coast and the Skeleto
acclaimed contemporary South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma to create a un
landscape influences us. With and original score by Steve Marshall Desert Crossings c
metaphysical, the corporeal and the spiritual, the celestial and terrestrial, merge.
Dinosaurs Not Allowed present: 'Dance Around Like Fleas’! A celebration of traditional
the ICCI360 Arena.
Arts for Torch relay is a programme of Artists working with secondary school pupils to c
use to animate the route of the Torch Relay.
Explatory Laboratory presents a series of new contemporary artworks created in respo
Visual artists will collaborate with earth scientists in an investigation of this unique coas
understand it. The resulting temporary site- responsive artworks will be presented at va
summer of 2012.
The ICCI360 Arena is set to wow audiences in Weymouth with a truly amazing 360 'im
performances, festivals, interactive events for all ages and an array of specially commi
form a central element in the LOCOG 2012 Cultural Olympiad's 'Maritime Mix' program
Sailing activities.
Inside Out Dorset, presented by Activate Performing Arts, returns in 2012 with extraord
Events planned so far are:Pierre Sauvageot’s Harmonic Fields on Portland Coast.Tuig’s Schraapzucht at Walford
Transe Express' Mobile Homme on Poole Quay.
Starting in Lyme with the appearance of the Pliosaur and the emergence of Doldrum fr
series of events across the Jurassic Coast. Earth Festival includes a John Hegley & Ro
Landance in 2012 is a large scale participatory project working with individuals and com
spectacular contemporary dance performances at Eggardon Hill, an iron age Hill Fort n
6pm
A spectacular, contemporary dance performance at Eggardon Hill on Saturday 14th and
Dickson will lead over a hundred singers with sixty dancers collaborating with choreogr
Legacy Trail
Live Site
Moving Tides Procession
Dorset
Dorset
Dorset
Music Nation: Chalk Legends
Dorset
Music Nation: Chalk Legends
Dorset
Nowhereisland
Dorset
Onboard
Dorset
Our Sporting Life - Sail for Gold
Plastics for Gold
Dorset
Dorset
Red Ball2012
Stone Island
Dorset
Dorset
The Big Grin
The Boat project by Lone Twin
The Compass Festival
Dorset
Dorset
Dorset
outstanding landscape alive with music, dance and visual art.
The Legacy Trail links together outstanding wildlife sites and landscape in Weymouth a
Based on the typical way marking of trails, their concept transforms the ring like marke
along the trail and coast.
Temporary live site showing largely sporting events from the stadium in London, but als
As part of the overnight celebrations for the Torch Relay, the moving Tides Carnival pro
There are secrets locked in the fertile landscape of Dorset. Some of these secrets are
secrets only whispered in the villages or remembered by the landscape. When one of t
for 2012, a promise made over a thousand years ago is kept… and a prophecy fulfilled
Project of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in partnership with Dance South West, D
There are secrets locked in the fertile landscape of Dorset. Some of these secrets are
secrets only whispered in the villages or remembered by the landscape. When one of t
for 2012, a promise made over a thousand years ago is kept… and a prophecy fulfilled
Project of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in partnership with Dance South West, D
From 25 July – 3 August Weymouth will welcome an extraordinary visitor, Nowhereisla
Bowleaze Cove. Made from material originating from the Arctic, Nowhereisland has be
citizen. The best view will be from The Embassy, a mobile museum about Nowhereisla
Onboard explores the Jurassic Coast, linking to other World Heritage Sites, and back m
Combining theatre with pioneering immersive technology, Onboard progresses from de
delivering a unique entertaining and educational experience. Onboard is a partnership
Immerse yourself in 112 years of triumph and glory at an extraordinary exhibition celeb
heritage.
Plastics for Gold is an exhibition at the Museum of Design in Plastics, the Arts Universi
RedBall UK is a large scale public art project that invites its audience to look twice, exp
Sydney, Taipei and Abu Dhabi, the inflatable RedBall is coming soon to outdoor space
Programme of events themed around Portland and the story of stone as informed by a
The Big Grin is a celebration of Mr. Punch’s 350th Birthday Beach Party featuring nonplus a children’s puppet parade, Mr. Punch’s birthday card signing, an illuminated even
A beautiful boat made from drift and scrap wood arrives from the South East to be disp
The Compass Festival aims to promote the highest quality local small and medium the
Torch Relay overnight stop
Dorset
Wild About Weymouth
Dorset
Battle for the Winds: Old Mother
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
How Like An Angel
Gloucestershire
The Welcome Songs
Gloucestershire
Battle for the Winds: Celebrating
Somerset
Somerset
Celebrating Somerset
Somerset
Orchestra In A Field
Somerset
Olympics and Paralympics, by taking the opportunity to engage local audiences to cele
Torchbearers will carry the Olympic Flame through 1,024 communities – cities, towns a
end of almost every day of the Relay.
Wild About Weymouth is a Natural England led partnership project to create a legacy tr
designed waymarkers to sites of interest.
Miles away from Weymouth in the North of the South West, Old Mother Gloucestershir
are starting to expand their lungs: inhaling and capturing wind words, songs and dance
Dean, building a store of delight to eventually travel together to be unleashed on the Do
persuaded some of the Royal Family to get involved and a whinnying horse wearing a
cottage, the wind twitching its mane and tail. The Gloucestershire episode is co-ordinat
Gloucestershire, Create Gloucestershire, and 7 county youth theatres, who are coming
Students at Stroud College will be designing and making Gloucestershire's Wind Vesse
over the county will be taking part in Old Mother Gloucestershire’s Artistic Olympics wh
plays, dances, songs, art-works, stories and musical compositions on the subject of ‘W
gold, silver and bronze medals to the winners at the launch of her Vast Vessel in April i
A newly commissioned piece for aerialists, sound score and lights/projection, using a m
company, led by Jonathan Holloway, Artistic Director of Perth International Festival (Au
cathedrals, premiering in Perth Australia and touring up to 6 UK cathedrals.
Eliza Carthy and her band lead choral compositions celebrating the Olympic tradition a
Celebrating Somerset is a range of special events bringing Somerset alive with cycle p
giant horns on hill tops, creating feasts and building floating beacons and singing trees
At the plans heart is the idea of gathering the voices of Somerset in a beautiful vehicle
Taunton, travel around the county and go to Weymouth for 'The Battle for the Winds' th
Weymouth and Portland Olympic sailing events. Other plans include making a process
and a great feast on Ham Hill. The year will start with a 'civic wassail', with community s
‘Celebrating Somerset’ is a range of special events planned for 2012. Themed around
Somerset sounds and voices Celebrating Somerset brings the county alive with cycle p
on hill tops, feasts and floating beacons and singing trees.
Orchestra in a Field will set Somerset ablaze next summer with a colourful and eclectic
sweeping parklands of Glastonbury Abbey, with its romantic ruins, and ancient orchard
Rift
Somerset
Streetjam
Somerset
Get Real
Marks Get Set Go
Our Games, Our Values: A
resource pack for Primary
Schools in South West England
Red Ball2012
South West Reading Passport
South West wide
South West wide
Sacrilege
#media2012
Touring
West of England
Battle for the Winds:: Innovation
and Invention
Bristol Encounters: 0117 Hour
Film Challenge 2012
Bristol Urban Sports
Celebrate A Summer of Sport
Let The Fame Begin
South West wide
South West wide
South West wide
West of England
West of England
West of England
West of England
West of England
conductor, Charles Hazlewood.
Once in a generation comes something so special that it lights up the future. To celebra
Brewhouse presents the international premiere of a powerful new drama by the most e
athlete trains and dreams of Olympic success in Kenya's Rift Valley, a woman on Exmo
The Sreetjam events offer skills sharing and workshops and performances, featuring U
Incendia, Boxabeat UK, OffSpin, Circus Antics , Films, workshops.
Schools networking programme looking at working across geographical boundaries on
Paralympic Games.
Marks Get Set Go is a dance film and event for presentation on the Live Sites and beyo
Five History undergraduate students from Bath Spa University have developed a free r
about the Olympic and Paralympic Games; with a unique focus on Bath and the South
and inspiring activities.
Kurt Perschke’s Red Ball will go on its first ever tour of cities in the SW.
330 libraries across SW will issue ‘reading passport’ to 12+ encouraging them to read u
Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller will present Sacrilege, a major new interactiv
spaces in Bristol, Exeter and Somerset
#media2012 is a citizen media project; young people blogging and tweeting their Olym
Bristol, Bath & NE Somerset and South Gloucestershire bring together invention and in
moving hotch-potch of inventions old and new, the eccentric inventor and his wife are b
Weymouth (his wife is taking this opportunity to get all the washing dry!). Along the way
a carnival all eager to deliver their fresh wind to the Olympics. This mobile installation,
Weymouth, stopping to entertain and inform. The West of England wind gathering epis
and Bath & North East Somerset, in collaboration with South Gloucestershire Council,
Bath Preservation Trust, and Yate Heritage Centre.
To celebrate the arrival of the Olympic torch, filmmakers are challenged to make a sho
Play in Bristol, for a chance to win a £1.000 prize.
Bristol Urban Sports will look at the range of sports that take place using the city’s infra
environment
Celebrate a Summer of Sport is a free, online photography competition, open to all.
Let The Fame Begin will build a network of young people active in music and sport and
Battle for the Winds The Search
for Swindon's Soul
Wiltshire
Beyond The Line
Wiltshire
Celebrate With Paws
Wiltshire
Creative Juice
Wiltshire
Fire Garden at Stonehenge
Wiltshire
Fire Garden at Stonehenge
Wiltshire
MusicMatters: Buskers
Wiltshire
P.O.P Youth Dance Project
Wiltshire
Parallel
Wiltshire
Wiltshire’s Flame
Wiltshire
aspiring musicians and athletes.
We will create a spectacular outdoor performance that seeks to capture the wind/soul o
captured in a magnificent machine. The machine will be revealed as the Finale for the
It will be launched on its journey to join the other south west winds in Weymouth for the
Beyond the line is an exciting project based at the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment
Paralympics, ArtCare will be running activities and events throughout 2012.
Celebrate with Paws is a unique season of participatory art workshops in Wiltshire offe
& the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
Creative Juice gives young people the opportunity to have a go at a variety of activities
making with MusicMatters, Circus skills and more during the afternoon. Then in the eve
groups, bands and musicians. This years event will take place from 12 -9pm on Saturd
As the sun goes down over one of Britain’s most iconic World Heritage sites, French ou
our imaginations with an elemental Fire Garden. A magical, sensory experience awaits
As the sun goes down over one of Britain’s most iconic World Heritage sites, French ou
our imaginations with an elemental Fire Garden. A magical, sensory experience awaits
MusicMatters is a project for 13-19 year olds that gives young people the chance to ex
recording music.
Participate Overcome Perform - A programme of weekly dance sessions held in Youth
young people aiming to develop their creativity and leadership skills in dance.
Parallel is a production for young people and an exciting new partnership between Sali
Touring Opera.
To celebrate the Olympic year Wiltshire Council and Arts Award South West are collab
of young people within Wiltshire. The aim of the project is to enable hundreds of young
County inspired by the Olympic Flame.