Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Project name and
website link
County
Description
When
All the Bells
Bristol &
Nationwide
A South West hub for Martin Creed’s project ‘All the Bells’, using the entirety of the
new Bristol Colston Hall foyer staircase for a mass participation event, following on
from the success of the building’s Opening Celebrations in 2009, which saw 100
saxophones, 100 electric guitars, choirs, aerialists and circus performers winding their
way throughout the building.
27 July 2012
A History of Sport in
Cornwall
Cornwall
Cornwall's county archive service and Museum Development Officer Team will be
working together with the County's museums and archives on a project to highlight the
story of sport in Cornwall.
Jan - Oct 2012
Tin
Cornwall
This exciting collaboration between Miracle Theatre, English Touring Opera, including
Ben Luxon and local community choirs is a heady mix of epic theatre, multimedia
magic and top notch singing!
March – April 2012
Alex Katz
Cornwall
Brooklyn-born Alex Katz is one of the most important and respected living American
artists. Katz brings together more than 30 canvases, collages and cut-outs that span
the full breadth of his career from the 1950s to today for his exhibition at Tate St Ives.
19 May – 23 Sept 2012
Cornwall
A huge and fantastical ‘vessel’, a ‘Horn of Plenty’ which will roll/float/fly the length and
breadth of Kernow accompanied by a troupe of performers who, with the help of the
people of Cornwall, will celebrate our sailing, surfing, rowing, wrestling and rugby
heritage and will catch the Cornish winds.
19 May 2012
Battle for the Winds:
Kernocopia
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Touring:
13-17 Aug Mevagissey
19-22 Aug South Coast
Cornwall,
23-27 Aug Newquay,
28-31 Aug North Coast
Cornwall
Nowhereisland
Cornwall
From 13 August Cornwall will welcome an extraordinary visitor, Nowhereisland, a
floating island sculpture by Alex Hartley. Made from material originating from the
Arctic, Nowhereisland has been declared a new nation and anyone can become a
citizen.
Torch Landing
Cornwall
The Torch Landing is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the London 2012
Olympic Flame carried by some of the inspirational people who have been selected
as Torchbearers, many of whom will be from Cornwall.
19 May 2012
Shezad Dawood –
Piercing Brightness
Cornwall
Piercing Brightness is an exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Shezad
Dawood, presented over two venues in Penzance before touring internationally. The
exhibition includes an experimental film made in Morocco, New Dream Machine
Project, and a new science fiction film, Trailer, alongside new textile and sculptural
works.
30 June – 29 Sept
2012
Tim Minchin/Eden
Comedy
Cornwall
Eden welcomes comedy back in 2012 with musical comic Tim Minchin, who will be
headlining a one-off day of humour at the Eden Sessions.
23 June 2012
Cornwall
A new commission from director Deborah Warner in collaboration with the actor Fiona
Shaw and creative producer Artichoke. Installations appear simultaneously from dusk
till dawn at locations that ring the coast of the UK and Ireland. From Northern Ireland
to the tip of Cornwall, from remote Scottish islands to an East Anglian beach, these
glowing, murmuring artworks are a poignant exploration of love poetry and a
celebration of the extraordinary variety and beauty of our coastline.
19 - 22 July 2012
Peace Camp
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Golden Exe
Devon
The Golden Exe project includes a range of Olympic and Paralympic inspired cultural
activities delivered through student participation and volunteering, engaging students
with the values of the Olympics and Paralympics and creating opportunities to engage
with the local community, from primary school children through to older people.
Wordquest
Devon
Wordquest Devon is an opportunity for people to immerse themselves in Devon's
literature while exploring the county's dramatic landscapes.
Ongoing
Nowhereisland
Devon
From August 4 - Devon will welcome an extraordinary visitor, Nowhereisland, a
floating island sculpture by Alex Hartley. Made from material originating from the
Arctic, Nowhereisland has been declared a new nation and anyone can become a
citizen.
Touring:
4-5 Aug Exmouth,
6-7 Aug Torquay,
9-12 Aug Plymouth,
1-4 Sept Ilfracombe
Games People Play
Devon
For the cultural Olympiad, CCANW will explore - through a range of exhibitions and
activities that will be participatory and fun- what games can tell us about ‘human
nature’
6 April - 30 Sept 2012
World Dance Day
2012
Devon
Share our celebration of dance across Devon and the World on UNESCO's World
Dance Day with choreography by Wayne McGregor / Random Dance.
29 April 2012
Alive & Kicking
Devon
Alive and Kicking is a fusion of sport and art, placing artists into sports clubs to
creative a collective visual piece.
May - Sept 2012
Torch Relay overnight
stop
Devon
Torchbearers will carry the Olympic Flame through 1,024 communities – cities, towns
and villages. An evening celebration will take place at the end of almost every day of
the Relay.
19 - 20 May 2012
Jan - Aug 2012
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Devon
Forkbeard Fantasy is a band of visual and performing artists, animators, designers
and film-makers who first came together back in 1974 out of the pioneering
experimental, mixed media and performance art explosion of that era. They are
leading a group of local artists that include Mike Patison, chief machine engineer,
Jane Jobling, Sculptor, and carnival costume maker, Sarah Butterworth. The Devon
wind gathering episode is being supported by Exeter City Council, in collaboration
with South Devon College, Plymouth College of Art, Petroc, and Exeter University.
20 May 2012
Devon
World at Your Feet' is a celebration of the richness and variety of Plymouth's history
and its role in relation to migration to other parts of the world. The project looks set to
be Plymouth's biggest ever participation event and young people will be able to get
involved in every aspect of the event - from the initial concepts, research, acting and
dance workshops, creating scripts and scores and finally the spectacle itself.
14 &15 July,
25 - 29 July 2012
Go Adventures 2012
Devon
90 participants (x5 teams of 18 children and young people) from all across Torbay will
take part in a pentathlon of adventurous activities over the course of 5 days. Each
day, each team will be presented with a different challenge and if successful be
rewarded with a flag. On the evening of the 5th day they will be joined by their
families and friends for one final adventure which will see the 5 teams scale the Great
Recycled Challenge course, bring their flags together and set Parkfield alight with
sound and music.
22–26 July 2012
Dorset Schools – Arts
for Torch Relay
Dorset
Arts for Torch relay is a programme of Artists working with secondary school pupils to
create a series of resources based on Olympic values to use to animate the route of
the Torch Relay.
20 Feb - 01 July 2012
Stone Island
Dorset
Programme of events themed around Portland and the story of stone as informed by
artists and scientists working together.
2 April - 9 Sept 2012
Battle for the Winds:
The Devon Wind
Gatherers
World At Your Feet
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Dorset
Starting in Lyme with the appearance of the Pliosaur and the emergence of Doldrum
from the Jurassic rocks, EARTH festival will promote a series of events across the
Jurassic Coast. Earth Festival includes a John Hegley & Robyn Hitchcock concert at
the Marine Theatre
4 May – 9 Sept 2012
Dorset
Pliosaur will be a giant sea lizard featuring a walk-in belly. Eccentric scientists show
audiences around the exterior where they can operate moving parts, before entering
the beast's stomach to see interactive Jurassic puppetry and film. Made by artists
Sarah Butterworth, Mike Pattison, Peter Courtenay and Forkbeard Fantasy.
4 May – 9 Sept 2012
Music Nation: Chalk
Legends
Dorset
There are secrets locked in the fertile landscape of Dorset. Some of these secrets are
about a dark time when Viking hordes pillaged the coast, secrets only whispered in
the villages or remembered by the landscape. When one of these secrets is suddenly
unearthed during preparations for 2012, a promise made over a thousand years ago
is kept… and a prophecy fulfilled. This is the story behind The Chalk Legends – the
2012 Project of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in partnership with Dance South
West, Dorset Music Service, Panoscope & Artsreach.
20 Apr - 18 May 2012
Plastics for Gold
Dorset
Plastics for Gold is an exhibition at the Museum of Design in Plastics, the Arts
University College at Bournemouth
24 May - 10 Nov 2012
Dorset
Coastal Voices brings together hundreds of singers and choirs from Exmouth to
Bournemouth to perform cult classics by Nick Cave, the geologically-inspired sound
world of Marc Yeats, Songs for a Coastal Wind by John Surman and Tales of Lyme
Regis, by Billy Bragg and John K Miles.
1 June, 8 July, 27 July
2012
Jurassic Coast 2012
Earth Festival
Travelling Pliosaur
Cinema
Coastal Voices
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Red Ball2012
Dorset
RedBall UK is a large scale public art project that invites its audience to look twice,
explore and to think 'what if?' Following appearances in Sydney, Taipei and Abu
Dhabi, the inflatable RedBall is coming soon to outdoor spaces in Weymouth and
Portland.
Torch Relay overnight
stop
Dorset
Torchbearers will carry the Olympic Flame through 1,024 communities – cities, towns
and villages. An evening celebration will take place at the end of almost every day of
the Relay.
12 July 2012
Moving Tides
Procession
Dorset
As part of the overnight celebrations for the Torch Relay, the moving Tides Carnival
procession for young people will lead the torch to the beach.
12 July 2012
Dorset
The Compass Festival aims to promote the highest quality local small and medium
theatre companies on an international platform between the Olympics and
Paralympics, by taking the opportunity to engage local audiences to celebrate culture
and sport.
13-18 Aug 2012
Dorset
Dinosaurs Not Allowed is a dance project inspired by the Olympic quest for more
exercise and the need to offer a new introduction to traditional English dance to the
youth of the South West.
The Compass
Festival
Dinosaurs Not
Allowed
Torch Relay overnight
stop
Landance 2012
21-24 June 2012
7-8 Sept 2012
Dorset
Torchbearers will carry the Olympic Flame through 1,024 communities – cities, towns
and villages. An evening celebration will take place at the end of almost every day of
the Relay.
13 July 2012
Dorset
A spectacular, contemporary dance performance at Eggardon Hill on Saturday 14th
and Sunday 15th July. Award winning composer Andrew Dickson will lead over a
hundred singers with sixty dancers collaborating with choreographer Anna Golding
and artist Ella Huhne to bring this outstanding landscape alive with music, dance and
visual art.
14-15 July 2012
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Dorset
The Strongbox of Winds is Dorset’s fantastic wind gathering machine. It will have the
character of the Wind Master high up the crowds in the wind. He will look continually
windswept, be very vocal, gathering winds using wonderful words, obsessed with
puffs and gusts, fans and blowing, spouting the poetry of the winds and skies in an
eccentric manner. He can issue kazoos to the onlookers and conduct tiny symphonies
punctuated by hooters and trumpeting sounds that he can trigger. Powered by cycle
power in the main processions, our vehicle will be towed (or look as if towed) by
mobility buggies, driven by members of our local communities. The Strongbox will
hold and carry a big, bulging, giggling, wriggling bag of wind with a net to contain it
and lots of places to tie on other objects. It is huge, inflatable and has wind-measuring
gadgets on it that spin and whirr, which could be connected to the cranks so that as it
is pedalled, they spin (even if there is no wind). The Windmaster plays games of
trying to get the wind measurers to spin if people donate enough wind.
14 July 2012
Nowhereisland
Dorset
From 25 July – 3 August Weymouth will welcome an extraordinary visitor,
Nowhereisland, a floating island sculpture by Alex Hartley, anchored at Bowleaze
Cove. Made from material originating from the Arctic, Nowhereisland has been
declared a new nation and anyone can become a citizen. The best view will be from
The Embassy, a mobile museum about Nowhereisland, parked on Furzy Cliff.
25 July - 2 Aug 2012
#media2012
Dorset
#media2012 is a citizen media project; young people blogging and tweeting their
Olympic experiences and stories.
25 July - 9 Sept 2012
Live Site
Dorset
Temporary live site showing largely sporting events from the stadium in London, but
also a programme of short film and rolling information.
26 July – 12 Aug 2012
Battle for the Winds:
The Strongbox of
Winds
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Dorset
The ICCI360 Arena is set to wow audiences in Weymouth with a truly amazing 360
'immersive' experience and an exciting programme of live performances, festivals,
interactive events for all ages and an array of specially commissioned 360 film
screenings. The ICCI360 Arena events form a central element in the LOCOG 2012
Cultural Olympiad's 'Maritime Mix' programme and will compliment the Olympic and
Paralympic Sailing activities.
26 July - 9 Sept 2012
Battle for the Winds –
The Gathering and
Ceremony of the
Winds
Dorset
An audacious telling of an epic tale that advances across the South-West with seven
spectacular wind – catching machines, to climax in Weymouth and Portland to mark
the opening celebrations of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Sailing and
windsurfing events. A diverse ensemble of artists will create this stunning and
unforgettable piece of world class outdoor performance. Will the heroic Wind
Gatherers succeed in their battle to unshackle the creative breezes and release the
wind in time for the Olympic sailors to harness? Can Aeolus’ daughter be rescued
from Doldrum who sweeps in and takes her and the winds to Portland?
26-28 July 2012
b-side Multi-Media
Festival
Dorset
Explore the flipside of the sea side; encounter and enjoy brand new work in visual art,
film, digital media, sound and live art to delight, intrigue, inspire and provoke.
27 July - 12 Aug &
29 Aug - 9 Sept
Exploratory
Laboratory
Dorset
Exploratory Laboratory presents a series of new contemporary artworks created in
response to the unique environment of the Jurassic Coast. Visual artists will
collaborate with earth scientists in an investigation of this unique coastal landscape,
expanding and informing how we see and understand it. The resulting temporary siteresponsive artworks will be presented at various coastal and inland locations across
Dorset in the summer of 2012.
27 July - 9 Sept 2012
Animate the Streets
Dorset
Animate the Streets sets out to animate key points along routes through the borough
with street entertainers.
27 July - 9 Sept 2012
ICCI360
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Legacy Trail
Dorset
The Legacy Trail links together outstanding wildlife sites and landscape in Weymouth
and Portland with exciting new and engaging waypoints. Based on the typical way
marking of trails, their concept transforms the ring like markers into a 3 dimensional
sculpture which frame unique views along the trail and coast.
Battle for the Winds –
The Search for
Doldrums Lair
Dorset
A company of young heroes pursue the villain, Doldrum, to his lair on Portland, where
he has captured youth and is turning it into stone, to save Aeolus’ daughter.
27 July 2012
Coastal Voices +
Welcome Songs
Dorset
The Welcome Songs; Eliza Carthy and her band lead a choral composition
celebrating the Olympic tradition and history of Weymouth and Portland
27 July 2012
Onboard
Dorset
Onboard explores the Jurassic Coast, linking to other World Heritage Sites, and back
millions of years to explore environmental issues of today. Combining theatre with
pioneering immersive technology, Onboard progresses from departure lounge to
multi-sensory aircraft cabin simulator delivering a unique entertaining and educational
experience. Onboard is a partnership between artist Richard Hartnell and ICCI.
26 July - 9 Sept 2012
Our Sporting Life Sail for Gold
Dorset
Immerse yourself in 112 years of triumph and glory at an extraordinary exhibition
celebrating Britain's unique Olympic and Paralympic sailing heritage.
27 July - 12 Aug 2012
Battle for the Winds –
The Final Battle
Dorset
Three days of opening celebrations are brought to a spectacular conclusion as 2012
"squibbers" walk into the sea to hand the South West winds over to gig rowers to be
released at sea
28 July 2012
Dorset
‘Breathe’ will be a breath taking outdoor performance of circus, dance and cabaret.
This unparalleled and inspirational event will explore the workings of, and
assumptions around unique bodies. Disabled and non-disabled, professional and
non-professional, national and international participants will come together to create
this spectacle before an audience of over 10,000 on Weymouth beach. ‘Breathe’ will
be like nothing you will have seen before, and transformative for those participating
and watching.
28 July 2012
Breathe
27July – 9 Sept 2012
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Artwey’s Giant Wall
Dorset
'Artwey Artists' will lead their community with this project, creating textile portraits of
personal local heroes or visiting Olympic athletes.
30 July - 10 Aug 2012
Wild About Weymouth
Dorset
Wild About Weymouth is a Natural England led partnership project to create a legacy
trail around Weymouth & Portland with a series of artist-designed waymarkers to sites
of interest.
1 Aug 2011 - 30 Sept
2013
The Boat project by
Lone Twin
Dorset
A beautiful boat made from drift and scrap wood arrives from the South East to be
displayed in conjunction with ‘Sailing for Gold’
1-11 Aug 2012
The Big Grin
Dorset
The Big Grin is a celebration of Mr Punch’s 350th Birthday Beach Party featuring nonstop puppet nonsense from top Punch & Judy ‘Professors’ plus a children’s puppet
parade, Mr Punch’s birthday card signing, an illuminated evening performance and
fun galore.
4-5 Aug 2012
A Dance A Day
Dorset
Count Me In: A Dance A Day is a community dance project aiming to increase health
and well-being and highlight the ambition and creativity of older people in the context
of the London 2012 Games.
10 & 11 Aug, 7-8 Sept
2012
Dorset
‘Creating the Spectacle!’ is a project to present an ambitious and unprecedented
series of performances of a self-propelled underwater wheelchair that leaves traces of
its joy and freedom as it flies along mid water with its human occupant. This
representation becomes a ‘vehicle’ that is capable of facilitating transformations in
preconceptions.
29 Aug – 1 Sept 2012
Creating The
Spectacle
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Inside Out Dorset, presented by Activate Performing Arts, returns in 2012 with
extraordinary events in extraordinary places throughout Dorset. Events planned so far
are: Pierre Sauvageot’s Harmonic Fields on Portland Coast
 Tuig’s Schraapzucht at Walford Mill Crafts in Wimborne
 Transe Express' Mobile Homme on Poole Quay.
Inside Out Dorset:
Harmonic Fields
Dorset
Torch Relay overnight
stop
Torchbearers will carry the Olympic Flame through 1,024 communities – cities, towns
Gloucestershire and villages. An evening celebration will take place at the end of almost every day of
the Relay.
23 May 2012
Battle for the Winds:
Old Mother
Gloucestershire
Miles away from Weymouth in the North of the South West, Old Mother
Gloucestershire has gathered her engineers and wind gatherers. They are starting to
expand their lungs: inhaling and capturing wind words, songs and dances from the
Cotswold Hills, River Severn and Forest of Dean, building a store of delight to
eventually travel together to be unleashed on the Dorset coast. Rumour has it that
she has persuaded some of the Royal Family to get involved and a whinnying horse
wearing a crown has been spotted tethered outside her Cotswold cottage, the wind
twitching its mane and tail. The Gloucestershire episode is co-ordinated by Jo
Gloucestershire Bousfield with Stroud College, SVAS, Theatre Gloucestershire, Create
Gloucestershire, and 7 county youth theatres, who are coming together to participate
in the Battle for the Winds. Students at Stroud College will be designing and making
Gloucestershire's Wind Vessel under the direction of Justin Gregory. People from all
over the county will be taking part in Old Mother Gloucestershire’s Artistic Olympics
when she puts a call out for (up to) 3 minute poems, jokes, plays, dances, songs, artworks, stories and musical compositions on the subject of ‘Wind’, to be judged by her
and her team who will present gold, silver and bronze medals to the winners at the
launch of her Vast Vessel in Gloucestershire.
23 May 2012
Welcome Songs
Gloucestershire
Eliza Carthy and her band lead choral compositions celebrating the Olympic tradition
and history of Chipping Campden.
1 June 2012
31 Aug - 9 Sept 2012
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
How Like An Angel
A newly commissioned piece for aerialists, sound score and lights/projection, using a
mix of UK based and Australian artists from the Circa company, led by Jonathan
Gloucestershire Holloway, Artistic Director of Perth International Festival (Australia). Created for
performance in a series of cathedrals, premiering in Perth Australia and touring up to
6 UK cathedrals.
16-17 July 2012
Celebrating Somerset
Somerset
‘Celebrating Somerset’ is a range of special events planned for 2012. Themed around
ideas of light inspired by the Olympic torch, along with Somerset sounds and voices
Celebrating Somerset brings the county alive with cycle parades, journeys along
waterways and back roads, music on hill tops, feasts and floating beacons and
singing trees.
Streetjam
Somerset
The Sreetjam events offer skills sharing and workshops and performances, featuring
Urban Dance workshops, Escape Parkour, Streetlinkz, Incendia, Boxabeat UK,
OffSpin, Circus Antics, Films, workshops.
7 April, 5 May 2012
Somerset
To celebrate the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Taunton, The Brewhouse presents the
international premiere of a powerful new drama by the most exciting playwright to
emerge from the South West. As an athlete trains and dreams of Olympic success in
Kenya's Rift Valley, a woman on Exmoor puts on a pair of trainers that do not belong
to her.
17-19 May 2012
Somerset
The Compass Festival aims to promote the highest quality local small and medium
theatre companies on an international platform between the Olympics and
Paralympics, by taking the opportunity to engage local audiences to celebrate culture
and sport.
21 May 2012
Rift
Torch Relay overnight
stop
21 May - 12 Aug 2012
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Somerset
Celebrating Somerset is a range of special events bringing Somerset alive with cycle
parades, journeys along waterways and back roads, playing giant horns on hill tops,
creating feasts and building floating beacons and singing trees.
22 May 2012
Somerset
Orchestra in a Field will set Somerset ablaze next summer with a colourful and
eclectic programme offering something for everyone. Held in the sweeping parklands
of Glastonbury Abbey, with its romantic ruins, and ancient orchards, this unique event
is the inspiration of award-winning conductor, Charles Hazlewood.
30 June & 1 July 2012
Bandstand Marathon
South West
wide
Bandstand Marathon is a major UK-wide music event with bands & music groups
performing free concerts simultaneously, to enliven underused bandstands & public
spaces. Organised by Somerset based not-for-profit arts organisation Superact, the
project aims to have 500 events involved for the finale of London 2012.
09 Sept 2012
Get Real
South West
wide
Schools networking programme looking at working across geographical boundaries
on a series of projects marking and celebrating Olympic & Paralympic Games.
Feb 2012 - Sept 2012
Our Games, Our
Values: A resource
pack for Primary
Schools in South
West England
South West
wide
Five History undergraduate students from Bath Spa University have developed a free
resource to help primary schools teach young children about the Olympic and
Paralympic Games; with a unique focus on Bath and the South West of England. The
resource comprises ten creative and inspiring activities.
Used from April - Sept
2012
South West Reading
Passport
South West
wide
330 libraries across South West will issue ‘reading passport’ to 12+ encouraging them
to read up on five of the world’s seven continents
2 May - 3 Sept 2012
Red Ball2012
South West
wide
Kurt Perschke’s Red Ball will go on its first ever tour of cities in the SW.
June - July 2012
Battle for the Winds:
Celebrating Somerset
Orchestra In A Field
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Marks Get Set Go
South West
wide
Marks Get Set Go is a dance film and event for presentation on the Live Sites and
beyond.
14 July Plymouth Hoe
15 July Bath ICIA Arts
Theatre
21 July Swindon Wharf
Green
22 July Bristol
Millennium Square
26 July Weymouth ICCI
360 Arena
Bristol Encounters:
0117 Hour Film
Challenge 2012
West of
England
To celebrate the arrival of the Olympic torch, filmmakers are challenged to make a
short film in 117 hours on the theme of sport, Games and or Play in Bristol, for a
chance to win a £1.000 prize.
19 - 25 May 2012
Celebrate A Summer
of Sport
West of
England
Celebrate a Summer of Sport is a free, online photography competition, open to all.
1 April – 30 Sept 2012
Let The Fame Begin
West of
England
Let The Fame Begin will build a network of young people active in music and sport
and encourage a peer mentoring programme between aspiring musicians and
athletes.
1 May - 31 Oct 2012
West of
England
Bristol, Bath & NE Somerset and South Gloucestershire bring together invention and
innovation in this energetic mobile performance. Set on a moving hotch-potch of
inventions old and new, the eccentric inventor and his wife are bringing the wind both
gathered and manmade to Weymouth (his wife is taking this opportunity to get all the
washing dry!). Along the way, they have picked up circus performers, free runners
and a carnival all eager to deliver their fresh wind to the Olympics. This mobile
installation, stage, circus will make its way through the streets of Weymouth, stopping
to entertain and inform. The West of England wind gathering episode is being created
with support from Bristol City Council and Bath & North East Somerset, in
collaboration with South Gloucestershire Council, St Paul's Carnival, The M Shed,
Museum of Bath at Work, Bath Preservation Trust, and Yate Heritage Centre.
22 May 2012
Battle for the Winds:
Innovation and
Invention
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Torch Relay overnight
stop
West of
England
Torchbearers will carry the Olympic Flame through 1,024 communities – cities, towns
and villages. An evening celebration will take place at the end of almost every day of
the Relay.
22 May 2012
Bristol Urban Sports
West of
England
Bristol Urban Sports will look at the range of sports that take place using the city’s
infrastructure- both the natural landscape and the urban environment
22 May - 9 Sept 2012
#media2012
West of
England
#media2012 is a citizen media project; young people blogging and tweeting their
Olympic experiences and stories
25 July - 9 Sept 2012
Wiltshire’s Flame
Wiltshire
To celebrate the Olympic year Wiltshire Council and Arts Award South West are
collaborating on a project to celebrate the creativity and energy of young people within
Wiltshire. The aim of the project is to enable hundreds of young people to take part in
dozens of projects all across the County inspired by the Olympic Flame.
Nov 2011 - Dec 2012
Beyond The Line
Wiltshire
Beyond the line is an exciting project based at the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment
Centre at Salisbury District Hospital. Inspired by the Paralympics, ArtCare will be
running activities and events throughout 2012.
2 Jan - 9 Sept 2012
MusicMatters:
Buskers
Wiltshire
MusicMatters is a project for 13-19 year olds that gives young people the chance to
experience everything to do with writing, playing and recording music.
Feb 2012 - Sept 2012
Celebrate With Paws
Wiltshire
Celebrate with Paws is a unique season of participatory art workshops in Wiltshire
offering projects inspired by the London 2012 Olympic Games & the Queen’s
Diamond Jubilee.
April - Sept 2012
Fire Garden at
Stonehenge
Wiltshire
As the sun goes down over one of Britain’s most iconic World Heritage sites, French
outdoor alchemists Compagnie Carabosse fan the flames of our imaginations with an
elemental Fire Garden. A magical, sensory experience awaits you at Stonehenge.
10, 11 & 12 July 2012
Cultural Olympiad projects in the south west
Battle for the Winds
The Search for
Swindon's Soul
Parallel
Wiltshire
We will create a spectacular outdoor performance that seeks to capture the wind/soul
of Swindon, through stories and memories which are captured in a magnificent
machine. The machine will be revealed as the Finale for the Big Arts Day 2012 in a
unique urban circus styled show. It will be launched on its journey to join the other
south west winds in Weymouth for the opening of the Olympic sailing events.
11 July 2012
Wiltshire
Parallel is a production for young people and an exciting new partnership between
Salisbury Playhouse's Stage 65 Youth Theatre and English Touring Opera.
11, 14 July 2012