Cultural Olympiad in the South East September 2010 - September 2012

Premier Partners of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad

Principal Funders of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Index

2 Background and Context 4-5 Introduction 6-7 London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Flame Celebrations 8 The Lone Twin Boat Project 9 Tree of Light 10 World Stories: Young Voices 11 Our Sporting Life 12 RELAY 13 Creative Campus Initiative Background and Context 14-15 Accentuate 16-17 Berkshire This publication is a record of the achievements, events and activities that have made up the Cultural Olympiad in the South East 18-19 Buckinghamshire of England between September 2010 and September 2012. A record of what was achieved between 2008 – 2010 can be found at http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/se_website_images/SouthEastCulturalOlympiadVolumeOne.pdf It includes coverage 20-21 East Sussex and Brighton of Olympic and Paralympic Torch Relay, London 2012 Festival and Major Programming events, and a review of the Inspire Programme. 22-24 Hampshire and Solent Together these components make up the Cultural Olympiad. It does not review every project and event that took place but rather aims 25 BBC Live Sites to illustrate the highlights of the last 2 years with a particular focus on Summer 2012. The content has been derived from in-depth case studies provided by project partners. A full evaluation of the Cultural Olympiad is not yet complete and will be available from Arts 26-27 Kent Council England from late October 2012. 28-29 Milton Keynes The Inspire Programme – An Olympic and Paralympic fi rst, the London 2012 Inspire Programme offi cially recognises outstanding 30-31 Oxfordshire non-commercial projects and events inspired by the London 2012 Games. 32-33 Surrey The London 2012 Festival – was the fi nale of the Cultural Olympiad; a 12 week UK-wide cultural celebration from June 21st - 34-36 West Sussex September 9th 2012. 37-41 National Programmes Open Weekend – was designed as a moment of mass participation; running from 2008 to 2011 they marked the countdown to the 42-43 Word from sponsors Games. During the 4 year programme there were over 550 Open Weekend events in the South East. 44-47 Acknowledgements Within the Cultural Olympiad there were also a range of Major Programming strands including: Artists taking the lead – ‘The Boat Project’ is the South East’s contribution to a series of 12 extraordinary public art commissions created by artists across the nation as part of Arts Council England’s fl agship event for the Cultural Olympiad. Stories of the World – Stories of the World showcased innovation and excellence in museums to a worldwide audience. A national programme, The Royal Pavilion & Museums was the lead organisation for the South East, heading up the World Stories programme. Community celebrations – 4 projects across the UK were awarded £750,000 from Legacy Trust UK to create a celebratory large-scale outdoor arts piece which truly engaged local communities. ‘Tree of Light’ was the successful South East candidate. About the South East region – the South East covers an area of 19,000 square kilometres. It encompasses 19 county and unitary authorities and 55 districts, stretching around London from Thanet in the East to the New Forest in the West and Aylesbury Vale and Milton Keynes in the North. It includes the counties of: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey Project: Whispering Woods and West Sussex. The South East has the largest population of any region of England. Photography: ??????????????? 2 3 Statistics for the South East region, Introduction from cultural sector, driving more ambitious The South East took a grassroots Our programme attracted attention September 2008 – September 2012 work and a more knowledgeable and approach to the Cultural Olympiad, from local, national and international Caterina Loriggio challenging market place. In particular working closely with emerging and media which has impacted significantly As at September 2012 evaluation remains on-going and the complete we chose 4 areas of work where we had developing artists and organisations on the profile of the region. Our public Cultural Olympiad statistics will be available from late October 2012. real commitment as well as potential and with Local Authorities and realm and visual arts strands were Creative Programmer to develop national profile, expertise Universities new to this scale of work. particularly successful in this area; the for London 2012, and leadership; these were: Outdoor We made a solid commitment to local launch of ‘The Boat Project’ made the 117 Inspire projects Arts, Disability Arts and Culture, communities in order to encourage BBC national news at breakfast, at 6 and South East Sports Heritage and Higher Education people from all walks of life to take at 10 o’clock reaching at least 12million generating 1,055 events attended by 3.18million people. Institutions. part, thus we developed new audiences. people and print coverage went as far Throughout this publication you will as Australia. The Torch Relay provided To achieve these aims we pushed for read many success stories around another excellent showcase for us and 69,185 attendances work of the highest quality, demanding innovative community based practice with Eddie Izzard carrying the flame at at 5,610 Inspire project workshop events. a ‘Personal Best’ from practitioners at all and large-scale attendance as well De La Warr Pavilion and Tracey Emin at levels. We were able to use the Inspire as the inclusion of new audiences, Turner Contemporary we are in no doubt Mark programme and the ethos of what participants and volunteers. One of our that this provided a huge boost to the it means to be Olympian as a tool for real achievements was the inclusion of 270,000 attendances at their London 29% pushing organisational development Deaf and disabled artists and audiences, 2012 Festival events. of our Inspire Programme delivered by or genuinely including Deaf and year on year to ensure that we always including training over 90 South East disabled people as well as over a dozen Cultural Olympiad commissions offered a ‘Like Never Before’ experience practitioners in how to deliver more In short we created an ambitious, such ‘Starting Line’ and ‘Look About’ led by disabled artists. for project producers, participants and accessible events. Inspired by our imaginative, inclusive programme which audiences. Such a framework enabled Paralympic heritage at Stoke Mandeville built skills, partnerships, audiences The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and its finale, Local Authorities to win political and supported by our Legacy Trust UK and tourism opportunities. I would the London 2012 Festival, formed the largest arguments around investment into programme, Accentuate, the South East like to thank every single artist and celebration of arts and culture that the UK has 29 culture otherwise lost to them. Many worked with and commissioned more organisation, and there are 100s of ever seen. Spread over 4 years, it gave everyone, London 2012 Festival projects reaching people new partnerships and networks were Deaf and disabled artists than anywhere them, who made all this possible. The 662,289 especially young people, a chance to join in the formed. Talent was nurtured. Through else in the UK. We made sure that South East stepped up to the London celebrations as London made good on its bid this approach, coupled with a great deal access and integration were foremost 2012 challenge with such enthusiasm, promise to deliver a UK wide event and ‘Everyone’s of support to achieve it, this summer in all our stakeholders’ minds and pride, passion and commitment that Games’. But the Cultural Olympiad was not just 57 we saw stakeholders at every level consequently saw developed inclusive I have felt nothing but honoured, about taking part. It was a bold and ambitious new outdoor arts projects and performances. ‘punching above their weight’, changing practice in all programming strands humbled and privileged to have worked programme of work across the outdoor arts, visual their own and others expectations of that led to exciting and ground breaking on this once in a lifetime programme. arts, digital, performance, museum, library, archive what was possible. This experience work in all sectors. There is no doubt I am sorry that this document cannot and heritage sectors that both inspired creativity new toolkits of delivering exciting, excellent and within the region that there has been detail every single project but through 4 and left a very tangible legacy. to improve access and outdoor arts, 31 disabled artists and 10 disabled–led often large-scale work has left many a genuine shift in attitudes towards those that are included you the reader organisations better placed to deliver disabled people and a climate has been will be able to share in what truly was organisations and 90 outdoor arts practitioners underwent training or In the South East we wanted to use the Cultural more ambitious work in the future. created where disabled artists as well as one amazing summer of culture. leadership courses. Olympiad to celebrate the region, enhancing disabled young people can really begin sense of place for those who live and work here to flourish. as well as attracting more visitors and increased business investment. But our mission had one 50 underlining and very clear objective, namely to use “We couldn’t have developed the capacity and skill that we have always wanted without the Cultural Olympiad” of the region’s 74 Local Authorities supported one or more Cultural the London 2012 framework to capacity build the Lorna Brown, 2012 and Cultural Lead Professional, Community and Economic Development, West Sussex County Council Olympiad project.

(Source: Arts Council England, 2012) 4 5 London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Flame Celebrations

The Olympic Torch toured the region from Monday 9th to Friday 20th July with evening celebrations Paralympic Flame Celebration in: Oxford, Reading, Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton, Hastings, Dover, Maidstone and Guildford. www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/london-2012 Over 2 million people saw the Relay in the South East with Portsmouth hosting the UK’s largest www.theworldfamous.co.uk evening celebration attended by 70,000 people. The region started the Paralympic Torch Relay after www.sharedspaceandlight.com a once-in-a-lifetime Paralympic Flame Lighting Ceremony at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Birthplace of the Paralympic Games. 16,000 people in the region saw the overnight Paralympic Torch Relay www.welcomesongs.co.uk and more attended Flame Celebration events including a Paralympic Flame parade and event in A spectacular large-scale event in Aylesbury Town Centre occasion. WheelPower had worked with ‘Manderville Legacy’ Horsham led by 2016-hopeful Tyler Paul and ‘Light a Lantern’ celebrations across Hampshire. celebrated the arrival of the Paralympic Torch and Stoke and London 2012 to produce a superb evening there including Many of the region’s heritage sites benefi tted from the Relay with stop-off s including: Brighton Mandeville’s role as the Birthplace of the Paralympic a new fi lm charting the history of Stoke Mandeville, the fi rst Pavilion, Blenheim Palace, Osborne House, Dover, Arundel and Windsor Castles, Bletchley Park and Movement. ever exhibition covering the Paralympic Movement and a ‘Light a Lantern’ procession with over 300 young disabled and non- Iffl ey Road Running Track with Torch Bearer Roger Bannister. In the evening there were 3 new commissions. The Dartington disabled participants as part of the evening celebration. To celebrate the Olympic Torch, Local Authorities worked with cultural organisations to deliver Hall Trust presented the London 2012 Festival project, large-scale events including: ‘Welcome Songs’. This was led by folk artist Eliza Carthy and A showcase of Cultural Olympiad projects was staged Robert Hollingsworth from I Fagolini, and performed by an throughout the afternoon of the event. Highlights included inclusive community choir with over 40 participants including performances from StopGAP and Festive Road and original fi lm 3 disabled singers from Birchwood SCOPE who sang using and animation from across the region exploring the themes assistive music technology; rehearsals were led by Drake and values of the Paralympic Games. Music. Accentuate led a new combined-arts commission, This is the fi rst time that an original arts event of this scale and ‘Starting Line’, to mark the countdown to the Torch arrival. The ambition has been staged in Aylesbury. The day long event evening ended with a site-specifi c outdoor arts performance, attracted approximately 9,000 people and approximately 7,000 Guildford Evening ‘Flame’, created by The World Famous and Shared Space & watched the fi nal evening programme. 2,500 people attended Light working with 17 Paralympians past and present. It was at Stoke Mandeville. Celebration a multi-layered show, integrating fi reworks, fl ame, music, Photography: Courtesy of the World Famous, photograph Rikard Osterlund www.supernature.org.uk documentary, projection mapping and performance. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery As part of Guildford Borough Council’s all inclusive through Arts Council England and Aylesbury Vale District A live link up to the Stoke Mandeville Stadium Flame Lighting Council with additional support from Accentuate, and inter-generational community Torch festival, Ceremony enabled many more people to be part of this historic Song for Dover they worked with local artists to regenerate Jubilee Buckinghamshire County Council and WheelPower. Wood and transform it into a magical and mysterious www.dover.gov.uk/olympic_torch.aspx wonderland, ultimately creating a legacy for Guildford residents and visitors alike. A spectacular new fi re show was created by innovative pyrotechnicians The World Famous with composers Helen Chadwick and Howard Moody and 5 Visitors were surrounded by stretched sculptural local choirs. This extraordinary fi nale to the evening celebration in Dover chandeliers, representing sunlight streaming through saw singers adorn the balconies of the regency buildings facing Dover the trees, a mysterious soundscape accompanied Harbour, where 5 boats loaded with exquisite fi reworks were dancing the sculptures and as night fell, Supernature led by across the water. The creative collaboration resulted in a dynamic interplay Metal Monkey artists Jono and Debi Retallick with between fi reworks and music all led by co-Artistic Directors, Mike Roberts Mary Branson and Mat Clark, took on a whole new and Pippa Bailey. dimension, the wood was illuminated with a dance of colour. As part of this space Guildford also provided Other creative contributions to the celebrations included an Olympic a stage where community and professional artists inspired archway and Bunting Forever - over a mile of knitted pennants, performed, including groups from DAiSY – Disability both made with contributions from local people led by Dover Arts Arts in Surrey. 28,000 people attended the event at Development. Plus 50 school children from 32 schools worked with Stoke Park that evening. acclaimed Dover based musician Richard Bundy to rearrange Pass the Passion – an Olympic anthem created by Dover schools in 2008. “We were very proud to be part of it and proud of Guildford!” Local Residents 6 Photograph: Shared Space and Light 7 The Lone Twin Boat Project www.theboatproject.com

‘The Boat Project’ deployed traditional boat building skills and the latest boat building technology to turn wooden objects donated by the public into a seaworthy archive of stories and memories to mark London 2012. It was part of Arts Council Photograph: Toby Adamson England’s Flagship project for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Artists taking the lead, and the London 2012 Following her launch, Collective Spirit was sailed by a crew of Festival. nominated and specially trained members of the public on an Across spring and summer 2011, a series of donation days led epic maiden voyage along the south coast. Capturing day-to- by artists Gary Winters and Gregg Whelan - Directors of Lone day life on board the boat was the job of Thirty Pounds of Bone Twin, resulted in over 1,200 people donating wooden items – the much celebrated alt-folk project of singer-songwriter with a story to tell to the project, each of which was used in the Johny Lamb. construction of a state of the art sailing boat. The construction At each port of call a programme of events celebrated the process was led by Olympic Medalist Mark Covell with a team boat’s arrival, presence and departure, enjoyed by over 100,000 of 3 boat builders and 30 regular volunteers. The project people. Lone Twin worked in close partnership with Local Photograph: Alex Melville_Oxford Giclee developed the skills of these individuals and served as a spring Authorities, arts organisations, businesses and voluntary board for new careers and business ventures. organisations throughout the donation and voyage stages; The Tree of Light The boat named Collective Spirit by public vote, was launched they built a dynamic network of over a 100 partners. www.thetreeoflight.org/page/about/ on May 7th 2012; an event experienced live by over 1,000 The project was a seamless marriage of sport and art that people, each of whom had been involved in the project in celebrated and encompassed the values of London 2012. ‘The Tree of Light’ was one of 4 nationwide ‘Community A new score was created by award-winning composer some way, and seen by millions more on the national news The boat remains as a public resource for the long term and Celebrations’ projects funded by Legacy Trust UK and Arts Orlando Gough for a community choir of 500, an eclectic band and in other media as far afield as Australia. continues to tour festivals and events. Council England and led by a newly formed partnership including steel pan and an Alp Horn and 10 disabled young made up of: CIAO!, Henley Festival, Oxford Inspires and people working with especially designed ‘sound beams’. The Windsor Festival. soundtrack ranged from choral melodies to monkey chants! 2 years in the making, it was an extraordinary large-scale At the centre of the performance was an awesome 15m-high explosion of music, light, dance, and theatre. Artistic dystopian recreation of an organic tree designed by Block 9. Director, Charlie Morrissey, merged ancient skills of Japanese It encased 50 cycling clones who through pedalling, provided sword dancing and contemporary flocking techniques all the power for the performance. The 50 cyclists were joined to choreograph 1,200 young dance participants from 40 by another 190 volunteers to make the performances a success. community and school groups from across the Thames Valley. The young dancers were put through their paces by 50 dance apprentices in 480 creative workshops. Additional school workshops were carried out by Oxford University who worked on the biodiversity, sustainability and science element of the project.

8 Photograph: Toby Adamson 9 - Our Sporting Life World Stories: Young Voices www.oursportinglife.co.uk www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/Pages/home.aspx www.gosurrey.info

‘World Stories: Young Voices’ is a new, permanent gallery Renaissance Major Grant for the continuation of both advisory ‘Our Sporting Life’ is a 4 year, nationwide community exhibition has resulted in engagement with traditionally hard to reach featuring Brighton’s world art collection, redisplayed with groups. Funding is also in place for a full-time dedicated Youth programme developed by the Sports Heritage Network. It audiences. Every exhibition has also worked with sports the involvement of young people and members of source Engagement Offi cer post. This role will be vital in helping the is designed to give every community the opportunity to clubs, schools and other local organisations to collect content communities. Young people worked with curators, fi lm makers, organisation sustain many of the new partnerships created celebrate its remarkable sporting heritage. It was initiated and for the exhibitions and run workshops, lectures and events. artists and writers to explore and reinterpret the collection. during the project. led by the River & Rowing Museum in Henley. Surrey Heritage Team, for example, held nearly 20 exhibitions The new gallery includes objects not previously on public in museums and libraries throughout the county as part of In partnership with The Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton ‘Our Sporting Life’ has raised awareness of Britain’s remarkable display, together with major new purchases and exciting new ‘Surrey’s Sporting Life’. They combined these with large-scale & Hove, 4 other regional museum services ran their own sporting history, and taken a snapshot of grass roots sporting commissions including fi lms and contemporary artworks. historical sporting re-enactments of cycling, cricket and ‘World Stories’ South East project. These were: Bexhill activity and heritage that will continue to grow into a baseball and have-a-go sports sessions at every exhibition. The project was also guided by a youth advisory group, and Museum, Southampton City Art Gallery, Ure Museum of Greek sustainable legacy. by a specially-formed access advisory group who helped Archaeology and Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. They organised an historical cycling display to accompany the establish a new benchmark for access provision. The work with The programme currently numbers 100 exhibitions, with Box Hill element of the London 2012 Road Race. In total over 1,800 young people participated in the project. young people saw The Royal Pavilion & Museums granted nearly 30 of these in the South East. Over a million people Since the gallery opened, visits to Brighton Museum have a silver award through the Hear by Right scheme – the fi rst have visited an ‘Our Sporting Life’ exhibition so far. increased by 6.5% (in comparison to the same period in the “Our Sporting Life is an example of exactly how museum service in the UK to achieve this. Legacy funding previous year); reaching over 100,000 and a further 20,000 All participating venues have established strong, new, local the Games can, and should, be used to engage has been allocated within the local Arts Council England have experienced ‘World Stories’ across the region. partnerships through the project. A number of lead regional and inspire our nation. To me it is wonderful.” organisations have made imaginative use of public spaces that are seen as ‘non-traditional’ cultural venues and this Lord Moynihan, Chairman, British Olympic Association

Credit: World Stories - Young leaders from a Coaching for Hope programme in Bamako, Mali, with Hazel Welch, Youth Support Worker. Photograph: River & Rowing Museum 10 The leaders helped organise a football tournament and collect football-related objects for the new gallery 11 Creative Campus Initiative www.creativecampusinitiative.org.uk

Creative Campus Initiative is a consortium of 11 Universities in the South East who work together to open up the cultural resources of their campuses and create wider access to research. Its ambition was to provoke a range of imaginative responses to the Games that supported the development of a shared Higher Education Institution (HEI) cultural prospectus for the region. In Phase One, the project delivered 102 projects to 500,000 people. In this Phase Two they supported 5 exceptional regional art projects including commissions (3 detailed below) and supporting ‘RELAY’. They also delivered ‘The Big Picture’ for London 2012 and its HEI arm, Podium, which placed commissioned visual art works from HEIs into the Olympic Village. The network will continue post-Games with refreshed aims. Creative Campus Initiative won Gold in the Culture Category of the prestigious Podium Awards.

Photograph: Courtesy of Periplum

Photograph: Darius Wilson 1908 Iron Gym RELAY www.lightningensemble.co.uk www.irongymproject.co.uk www.relaysoutheast.org.uk Lightning Ensemble travelled through time in collaboration Iron Gym sought to explore interdisciplinary, community-located with the University of Brighton, Jackson’s Lane Theatre and creative practice through focusing on the development of a series ‘RELAY’ was a programme of free contemporary arts events, Over 8,000 visitors saw Turner nominees The Otolith Group’s Emergency Exit Arts, creating a powerful evocation of London’s of design and sculptural installations in the form of an exercise exhibitions and performances that took place around the ‘RELAY’ commission at Fabrica. Also in Brighton, Invisible fi rst Olympic Games through the use of circus and scripted trail across an area of the Medway towns. It was led by by Dr. South East from April – September 2012 presented by the Flock developed a ‘Sea of Voices’ app exploring the imagery, theatre. Ian Bride of the University of Kent in partnership with artist and designer Wendy Daws with 28 students participating. Contemporary Visual Arts Network, SE. It was conceived as mythology and history of Brighton’s public space, public Collaborating with Dr Sarah Atkinson and Marley Cole they a showcase for the partnerships and collaborative working involvement included the opportunity for text messages to be produced an experimental live soundtrack evoking sounds practices supported and developed by the network, and converted to morse code and fl ashed out to sea. of the Edwardian stadium. “It has really inspired me. Knowing what we do now, developed to create a region-wide event that primarily, Inspired by Dickens’ ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ and the ‘Hundred and being where we are now, I feel confi dent that through the commissioning of new work, provided a platform The piece off ered 12 collaborative residencies for students Flowers Movement’ in 1950s China, Suki Chan asked 100 to showcase the strength and breadth of visual arts provision across the CCI Universities, these included primary research, we can go on to achieve something very special with contributors of all ages and diverse backgrounds: ‘What is your across the region to coincide with the 2012 moment. as well as portfolio, and multi media work. Iron Gym.” revolution?’. Their responses formed the sound installation ‘RELAY’ took sport, art and location as starting points for a at Aspex. With almost 6,000 visitors and over 850 people Participating student. series of high quality artist commissions. The ‘RELAY’ baton downloading clips of the work. was passed from major contemporary art organisations from Over 33,000 Turner Contemporary visitors experienced John Fabrica, Brighton, to Aspex Gallery Portsmouth; on to MK Smith’s fi lm drawing on Margate’s incredible seascape. Turner Gallery, Milton Keynes, Modern Art Oxford fi nally on to Turner. The Art of Demonstration Contemporary also partnered with Stour Valley Arts to create ‘RELAY’ also supported events at De La Warr Pavilion, John www.periplum.co.uk ‘Marks, Measures, Maps and Mind’. The work was an outdoor Hansard Gallery and the ‘Look About’ project and was a partner performance celebrating the physical body through a range With support from CCI and University of Winchester, Periplum with previous and currently active campaigners, and further on the Creative Campus Initiative. of sports driven tasks. It is planned that the new dance/ began work on a collaborative, education-orientated Research collaborative work with VisuoSonic and Southampton Solent contemporary arts collaborations brought together for this & Development of ‘The Art of Demonstration’ with a 4-week University. 64 fi rst and second year students took part in the project will continue residency at the University of Winchester campus. This was project. A promenade performance around the Winchester followed by community workshops, a series of interviews Campus played to capacity audiences. 12 13 Accentuate

Accentuate Starting Line www.accentuate-se.org www.accentuate-se.org/starting-line

Accentuate is the London 2012 Legacy Programme for the ‘Starting Line’ was an Accentuate outdoor arts commission delivered South East inspired by the Paralympic Movement. Accentuate in partnership with the Creative Programmer for London 2012 and has delivered a portfolio of 15 transformational projects which Creative Junction. It was an original piece of work that told the story have off ered opportunities for Deaf and disabled people to of the Paralympic Games, from Dr Guttmann’s fi rst idea through to take part and lead, along with changing perceptions and their present incarnation and beyond, it was presented as part of the creating a cultural shift in attitudes towards disabled people. Paralympic Flame Celebration in Aylesbury on August 28th. Accentuate has been funded by Legacy Trust UK and is housed The disabled-led integrated piece brought together an exciting creative by Screen South. team to challenge people’s perception of disability. In bringing Accentuate’s work crossed all disciplines including sport, together the energy of Rachel Gadsden and the enthusiasm of Candoco tourism and business and a range of cultural activities not Photograph: Mooze Azim Dance Company’s young company, Freddie Opuko-Addie and Artistic limited to the Cultural Olympiad. For example Accentuate Director, Ryan Dawson Laight a dynamic dance and visual arts work was supported ‘Up-Stream’ delivered by Ardent Hare in partnership Accentuate also supported a range of outdoor work in a variety created that explored the journey of a Paralympic athlete. An original with Arts Council England. This showcase of work as part of forms. ‘Creative Landscapes’ provided intensive engagement soundtrack was scored by Jonny Pilcher and a new fi lm by Abigail Norris of Brighton Festival 2011, presented disabled artists with with local communities to open up Heritage Open Days. presented a backdrop for the piece which included animation, creative Image: Rachel Gadsden experience of getting work into a high-profi le mainstream Throughout the project Deaf and disabled artists have led a narrative and Stoke Mandeville archive material. It proved to be a strong arena. ‘Sync South East’, led by Ada Inc and Cusp Inc invested in variety of residencies resulting in activities and exhibitions collaborative company with a clear vision and the potential to create Deaf and disabled artists and arts organisations to encourage which have explored what Heritage means to local people further exciting work. and develop leadership. The programme was successful in uScreen in Hastings and Gosport. ‘Go Public’, delivered by Ardent The piece had an 18 month long international outreach programme raising the confi dence, knowledge base and fi nancial position www.uscreen.co.uk Hare and Artpoint in partnership with Arts Council England, accompanying it. More than 300 disabled and non-disabled children of the 10 organisations and 31 artists it supported. For commissioned 3 public realm projects led by Deaf and disabled and young people were engaged with artist-led workshops taking place Screen South’s innovative on-line project, particularly example, organisations increased their income by an average artists, ran bursaries for professional development and ran a in Buckinghamshire, USA and South Africa and a viral network through tailored to disabled young people’s needs, is for of 30% during the lifetime of the programme. debate on disability arts practice within the Public Realm. Creative Junctions’ ecommunity reaching out as far as Cambodia, 14-24 year olds to make, show and share fi lms Brazil, Ecuador and Australia. Artist-led work also took place in Stoke whatever their level of ability and wherever they are Mandeville Spinal Injury Unit with both adults and young people who based. Its unique tools allow maximum access and “The commission has greatly encouraged me to develop my artistic context and my conceptual and had recently become disabled. ‘Starting Line’ has been a fantastic collaboration, to create and edit fi lms and to learn contemporary understanding of art and culture... The Go Public blog feels, to me, like the perfect place to opportunity for 4 young disabled people from Harding House School, new skills. Members receive expert mentoring, meet off er some incredible insights; insights often ignored by those with little concept of how the exclusion of Aylesbury, who formed a young person’s panel: they have been the new friends and make contacts with fi lm-makers and disabled people can inhibit the development of an exciting contemporary society.” voice of their peers on this project including visiting the artistic team in specialists across the region. rehearsals in London. Zoe Partington-Sollinger, Artist, Go Public 10,837 participants have been involved with uScreen The project was supported by WheelPower, Aylesbury Vale District creating 483 international and national collaborative Council and Paralympian John Harris, with Screen South acting as commissions. Executive Producers. uScreen is part of Accentuate and the North Sea Screen Partnership.

Image: Jon Adams

14 15 Berkshire

The Berkshire Giant “This project has built up the expertise, aspiration, Create Compete capability and capacity of local volunteers, creatives www.theberkshiregiant.co.uk and performers and I for one welcome the partnership Collaborate For a week in June 2012, West Berkshire went giant crazy with 100s between local people and outside companies - it can www.createcompetecollaborate.org.uk of local people involved in creative making, music, dance and other only improve and grow West Berkshire’s reputation as a related activity and thousands more watching the story of ‘The centre of outdoor spectacle and creative excellence”. Create Compete Collaborate is an ambition to see Berkshire Giant’ unfold. every young person in the South East have an Chris Jones, Arts and Leisure Manager, West Berkshire Council opportunity to connect with young people from ‘The Berkshire Giant’ was a dramatic large-scale outdoor another country. This ambition has reached close performance project featuring giant puppetry, carnival parade, to half a million young people to date, with 5,000 music, installations, performance and widespread participation. young people directly engaged with the Creative Over 7 days and 7 nights, in locations across West Berkshire the Junction projects. local community was involved in re-telling the legend of John Ever Afraid; a gentle giant who made an unfortunate mistake. Using the inspiration of the London 2012 Games Photography: Peter Bunker to develop, connect and champion partnerships Presented by Newbury Corn Exchange, the ambition was to create the project broadens the international outlook of a major outdoor performance, rooted in its local community and to young people and encourages them to develop push the boundaries of outdoor arts and puppetry practice. their qualities of openness, understanding, enquiry, They hoped to develop the interest and skills of local people and The Games Walk & cooperation and equality. to advance the working practices of the UK artists involved in the project. Performance Festival Creative Junction delivered and supported a www.thegameswalk.com number of projects with a variety of partners, and There was wide-scale involvement and buy-in from local supported by BT, created the ecommunity - an primary schools, in total 1,100 primary school ‘The Games Walk & Performance Festival’ was devised by the especially developed website enabling any groups children were involved with a further 180 young people Firestation Centre for Arts and Culture to create interactive artworks working with and for young people to create taking part in fi lm and poetry workshops and craft events. An for the public walking on the north bank of the River Thames from an online community and set up projects for estimated 4,600 attended the performance events across the week. the London 2012 Eton Dorney Rowing Venue to Windsor. The connecting, sharing, learning and celebrating across 96 local volunteers worked on the project as puppeteers, project launched in April, with the ‘Talking Bridge’ and ‘Poetry partnerships through virtual collaboration. www. technicians, makers, stewards and performers and the Corn Bridge’ and Cosmo Sarson’s impressive ‘Younger Bridge’ mural was ecommunity.creativejunction.org.uk Exchange are continuing to work with all of them. What’s completed in July. With further works taking place, the trail will be Through Create Compete Collaborate, Creative more, they have already seen a 50% increase in the number of a legacy project that will be enjoyed by Thames walkers for many Junction delivered 4 Accentuate projects including: applications to volunteer to support their work since the project. years to come ‘Gaming’, ‘Collaborations’, ‘Campaign’ and ‘Realise’ The Firestation also set up ‘The Games Walk Performance Festival’, a and were a partner on ‘Starting Line’ to which they 15 day event with over 100 performers entertaining visitors across were able to add value through incorporating an 3 sites at Eton Dorney and at The Firestation itself. The festival was international youth dimension. designed to showcase regional emerging talent and provide a further incentive for Eton Dorney spectators to visit the town.

Other Cultural Olympiad projects in Berkshire: Culture Together; Whatever Floats Your Boat; Showtime; Meet the Species. Other London 2012 Festival projects : Red Baraat. Photography: Farrows Creative 16 17 Buckinghamshire

Driving Inspiration Mandeville Edmund de Waal at www.mandevillelegacy.org.uk Legacy Waddesdon ‘Driving Inspiration’ was a 4 year project celebrating Stoke Mandeville as the Birthplace What struck me as a Paralympian www.mandevillelegacy.org.uk www.waddesdon.org.uk of the Paralympic Movement and getting young people across the globe thinking about - involved was how enlightened our the Paralympic values and their importance to the world today. As part of Accentuate Potter and author Edmund de Waal has created a series of 12 site-specific and ‘Mandeville Legacy’, the project aimed to break down barriers around disability and leaders of tomorrow are, and how installations threaded through the Manor, a response to the historic interiors diversity. they share ideas and thoughts which reflect his own thoughts on family, collecting and belonging. It is despite vast variations in culture, the first time that Waddesdon has worked with a contemporary artist in In this final 2012 stage, the project worked internationally to create a virtual Paralympic this way, by the end of the London 2012 Festival the exhibition had been Torch Relay – ‘Light Up the World’ - which was premiered as part of the Paralympic economic, and political security. enjoyed by 78,000 people, and it will run till the end of October. Flame Celebration on August 28th in Aylesbury. Created by 497 young disabled and I am comforted that our world in a non-disabled people from 12 different countries and 10 UK schools, an animated Torch 50 years time will be a better place leaves Stoke Mandeville Stadium, waved off by young people from the UK and travels around the globe to be carried by Paralympians and young people from Bosnia, Brazil, because of them. Photography: Mandervile Legacy France, Israel, Italy, Nepal, Singapore, Turkey, Uganda, and the USA. Each country Paralympian, John Harris sharing elements of their culture, land and townscapes, and featuring their thoughts ‘Mandeville Legacy’ aims to ensure that the and reflections on the Paralympic values as well as their own ambitions. The torch then South East’s heritage as the birthplace of returns to the UK in time for London 2012 to be greeted by young people from the UK, the Paralympic movement is recognised by before its journey to Brazil for 2016. The young people worked with 10 disabled and the world – to uncover and tell the story of Deaf animators and artists, 8 Paralympians and 2 disabled musicians, celebrating the Dr Ludwig Guttmann who revolutionised history of how the Games began and exploring the Paralympic values of determination, treatment and life chances for those with inspiration, courage and equality. spinal injuries and organised the first ‘Stoke Mandeville Games’; the forerunner of today’s The film can be viewed on http://youtu.be/aLrXH-W_6pk Paralympic Games. The project, as part of all and more, 2012 Displayed in the Dining Room at Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection Accentuate, encouraged participants to (The National Trust) consider their own place within the story and © Edmund de Waal. Photo: Paul Barker © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor their perceptions of disability. The project has been made up of many strands, each addressing a number of different Windows, Walls and Wishes audiences: through focus groups, interviews, www.thefluxgallery.co.uk a dedicated website, educational resources, revisiting collections projects, a national oral Delivering arts workshops history project and the ‘Path the Paralympic and projects inspired by Games’ exhibition at Stoke Mandeville the Games, ‘Windows, Stadium. The website has had over 20,000 Walls and Wishes’ engaged professional artists to work visits in the last 2 years, over 1,000 people Photography: Gina Martin visited the exhibition during the Paralympic with the Burnham Cluster of Games and the project has engaged 1,300 Schools to create a number Rowing Venue. Led by MONA LISA workshop participants and 72 volunteers. of artworks, installations and Arts & Media the project engaged 830 sculptures to form an arts young people and 14,000 visitors. trail celebrating Eton Dorney Photography: Matt Fowler Photography: Jon Adams 18 19 East Sussex and Brighton

Gold Run Pi Leau www.goldrun.org.uk www.mslprojects.co.uk

th th ‘Gold Run’ was created and presented by learning disabled performers and artists with “This performance was so accessible Pi Leau in Hastings was built around a residency (June 20 -24 ) by support from Carousel, Glyndebourne and the Pallant House Outside In initiative. It was a - surtitles and interpreter, visual Dutch company, Close Act, comprising a large-scale performance on the new Stade Open Space and a town centre procession combining celebration of learning disabled athletes returning to the Paralympic Games, told through and audio imagery, films and live original choral music, specially made films, and stage sculpture. It developed the first the professional performers with local dancers and drummers. learning disabled choir in the country, The Carousel Singers, with 26 members including action - and the message was There were workshops for community performers and professional soloist, David Rushbrook. incredibly uplifting and powerful. artist/makers, producers and performers from across the region. We were treated to so many Event organisers and a new events team, Hastings Marshals, were Full performances took place at Glyndebourne and Brighton Dome’s Corn Exchange recruited and trained over 3 months providing front of house, stage as part of Brighton Festival. There were additional choir performances at The Olympic different kinds of music and song, crew, marketing support. Audiences totalled nearly 8,000 and Torch Evening Celebration in Hove and Dilston Grove Gallery in London. Andy Hoods’ created by the performers, whose participants close to 200. photographs were exhibited at Pallant House Gallery as part of the project and Pallant also creativity and imagination resulted supported an installation piece focusing on the sculpture of James Lake. Film workshops The project was led by MSL Projects with GDF for Hastings Borough were held with film-makers to create 4 Oska Bright films as part of the stage show, as in a performance that left me Council. Hastings Marshals is intended as a long-term legacy well as a film outreach programme in Brighton schools and a teachers pack about 1 with fantastic memories. Can this programme. Some 46 people have since worked on more than 30 of the films, Paralympic Memories, which deals with inclusive practice for teachers in be shown further afield please, events and festivals including the Queen’s Jubilee Regatta and other London 2012 events. mainstream schools. everyone should see it?” Photography: © Zeroh In total, 8,000 people engaged in the work either as participants or audience. These were Sarah Playforth, Our View Core Group, Accentuate mainly new audiences for Carousel, Oska Bright and Glyndebourne and the show offered up a very new experience for existing Glyndebourne audiences. Hang On A Minute Lads, I’ve Got A Great Idea…. www.dlwp.com

Richard Wilson’s ‘Hang On A Minute Lads, I’ve Got A Great Idea….’ is a full-sized replica of a coach, balancing precariously on the edge of the De La Warr Pavilion roof. It pays homage to the final scene of the classic British heist movie, ‘The Italian Job’. Sponsored by Eddie Izzard, this sculpture has allowed De La Warr to present an accessible and imaginative programme of events as part of the London 2012 Festival. It attracted major national and international press coverage. 100,000 people saw the bus over the summer, 62% gave the bus as the primary reason for visiting and 22% visited for the first time. Online presence included an increase of 1,200 followers on Twitter, 503 new unique likes on Facebook and 223,000 page views on the Pavilion’s website. It runs until October 15th. Photography: James Cousens

Other Cultural Olympiad projects in East Sussex and Brighton: Oh We Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside; Wild Things. Photography: David Illman Other London 2012 projects: Crystal Ball and pop-up events at De La Warr Pavilion; Summer Schubertiade; The Bee Detective. s 20 21 Hampshire and Solent Create the Future Hampshire Welcomes Bloom www.hants.gov.uk/hms the World www.forestforge.co.uk ‘Create the Future’ ran in 14 secondary schools across www.hants.gov.uk/hms ‘Bloom’ is the fi rst interactive promenade theatre performance from Hampshire over the academic year, with 6 composers visiting Forest Forge. It off ered a new experience for local theatre audiences. schools for either 4 or 8 days. The focus for each school was Taking the 5 Olympic rings as its starting point, ‘Hampshire Welcomes individually determined and included creativity, jazz, music the World’ brought the diverse cultures of the 5 continents to ‘Bloom’ was inspired by Hampshire’s history and gardens. It was theatre, and song writing. Hampshire, through music, performance, dance and celebration. presented by 4 professional actors with help from over 42 community groups. The aim was to improve teachers’ understanding of the A programme was created by Hampshire Music and Arts Services composing process, in particular how it can be better working in partnership to enable 3,000 young people to explore From April 2012, Forest Forge worked with community groups across incorporated into the curriculum, and to help students compose world music through diff erent learning experiences and opportunities the county, including choirs, judo clubs, knitting circles, art groups more eff ectively. Everyone explored the creative process and and to celebrate world culture through live performances at 5 local and youth theatres. Each group worked on a dance, song, theatre how creative musical thinking can inspire new music that heritage sites. The performances were delivered with the support of performance or artwork that was presented in the fi nal performance refl ects a range of musical and non-musical processes. 25 community groups and 34 volunteers. of ‘Bloom’ at their local arts centre. This was an exciting chance for Photography: Lucy Sewill members of the local community to infl uence the production in their area and appear on stage alongside professional actors. No Man is an Island www.nomanisanisland.org

‘No Man is an Island’ was founded by a group of Southampton’s Musical Alphabet artists living on the Isle of Wight who are parents of Photography: Gerry Walden children with autism and experience other ‘hidden’ www.turnersims.co.uk disabilities in their families. ‘Southampton’s Musical Alphabet’ was a 2 day citywide choir composed by a student from Solent University in response They delivered free creative workshops and celebration which brought together international artists, to a specially devised competition; and a work for massed exhibition opportunities to other families living with local professionals, community groups and young people’s saxophones and percussion composed by saxophonist Rob autism, mentored young people with disabilities ensembles for 26 hours of musical performances and Buckland from the Equivox Trio performed in the last live music and engaged with the wider community, including workshops. Launching a new letter every hour (A for African event at Turner Sims on the Sunday evening. international island communities, through 4 drumming, B for bell ringing etc) Turner Sims presented music Approximately 2,500 people experienced the events live and exhibitions and annual Open Weekend events. Their in regular performance venues and unusual spaces across the directly at both ticketed and monitored free to attend events. fi nal exhibition was hosted by Quay Arts during the city, indoors and out, with opportunities to simply sit back and Many more encountered performances as they passed through Paralympic Games. enjoy the events or get up and take part. There were 50 events centres with signifi cant footfall such as Guildhall Square and in 23 venues across the city with more than 500 performers The work changed perceptions of people living WestQuay shopping centre. The radio and online audience involved. with autism, and the wider community joined in brought additional coverage and profi le for the weekend in celebrating the group’s achievements. Since 2008, Planned as part of the Music Nation weekend, a London general and specifi c events in particular. This climaxed in BBC 5,958 people engaged with the project including 2012 Festival preview event, the aim was to celebrate the Radio 3 making the 80-minute concert relay from Turner Sims 4,966 as exhibition visitors and 245 as workshop international dimension of the Games in a hugely diverse city, featuring jazz pianist Julian Joseph its national grand fi nale to participants whose young people speak some 70 languages. the weekend of broadcasts. Photography: Melanie Swan The weekend included 3 world premieres: a fanfare for Turner Sims also delivered the Inspire project ‘The Jazz Ticket’, Other Cultural Olympiad projects Hampshire and Solent: Treloars 100+; New Creatives. marching band to open the weekend; a song for children’s both projects were supported by Southampton Music Services. Other London 2012 Festival projects: Hansel of a Film; 20 X12; Devoted and Disgruntled.

22 23 Hampshire and Solent BBC Live Sites

Look About BBC Live Sites http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/ The South East Live Sites were located in Portsmouth and faculties/cci/air/projects/lookabout Dover, where since 2008 outdoor cinema sized interactive screens have showcased local, national and international ‘Look About’ was a creatively driven, multilayered project digital art, music, documentary, drama content and weaving together geological metaphor with art led by artist/ interactive applications, daily. This culminated in live geologist Jon Adams. coverage of all the Olympic and Paralympic action. The 2 year project involved collecting, capturing and The Big Screens have been a central focus for a number interpreting material gathered from Deaf and disabled artists, of other events, which include: annual screening of Last audiences, and cultural organisations involved in the Cultural Night of The Proms; screenings of live opera; sites for Olympiad and the Accentuate programmes. The main aim marking events to raise money for Comic Relief, Sport was to map any ‘shifts’ in attitudes to the work of disabled Relief and Children in Need. artists. Portsmouth has used their Live Site to develop Jon mapped 800,000 minutes of personal and Cultural partnership working throughout the city, to enhance Olympiad experiences. As a trained field geologist, his existing events and develop new ones; it has provided a ‘Mapping’ days included Accentuate and Inspire Mark real opportunity for the people of Portsmouth to become projects, Torch Relays and Open Weekends. All the drawings, involved. The screen has also enabled them to promote observations and field notes will be presented together as a the breadth of activity in the city. Both sites have worked digital Geological Map of the Cultural Olympiad in the South closely with artists and delivered London 2012 ‘Join In East, with keys and explanation booklets. Moments’ such as Open Weekend. Between June 2011 and September 2012, tens of thousands of people at 19 exhibitions engaged with fragments of ‘Look Photography: Mark John Smith About’ including graphics, films and ‘found fossils’ as well as following online and through social media. The project LIVELIVE Dream “It is important to communicate autism research to a encouraged people to record their lives in different ways; it wider public, but equally it is important that people with has proved especially popular with young people and drawn www.liveliveproject.com Over the last 4 years Portsmouth Artist Jon Adams has used Live Sites to engage the public with his public autism have the opportunity to take what we do and considerable interest from the wider scientific community. ‘LIVELIVE’ Project is a new digital arts periodical and community art projects. One of these, ‘Dream’, a digital slideshow, portray it in their own words, or in this case, their own engagement programme designed and produced by young and The project has led to further high profile projects, and was featured over the lifetime of the Cultural imagery. Just as the results of science are unpredictable, emerging artist Mark John Smith for broadcast both online, and Jon becoming the subject of a chapter in an academic Olympiad, the word ‘dream’ appeared in different via the BBC’s network of Olympic Live Sites. so the results of this artistic and creative dialogue will geographical paper to be published in 2013. It also led to colours randomly, drawing interest and questions. also be unpredictable, but we can be sure they will be partnerships with the University of Portsmouth, where Jon This was accompanied by ‘Dream Birds’ which made ‘LIVELIVE’ aims to enrich the everyday experiences of the public highly novel and will provoke a lot of discussion. Jon’s is Artist in Residence, the British Geological Survey and Jon people think about their own Olympic hopes and by bringing art from the ‘gallery/institution’ into the public becoming Artist in Residence at the Autism Research Centre gathered their responses, through local media and background as a geologist gives him a firm grasp of how domain. 7 digital periodicals were produced each exploring a (ARC) at Cambridge University where he is working with workshop events, as written submissions which first to map time and history and events, and his own autism unique mix of emerging creative talent, art history information Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, funded by the Wellcome Trust. appeared on origami birds launched above Guildhall gives him a terrific eye for detail, spotting details that and user generated feedback. LIVELIVEProject.com had 6,546 The work of the ARC is of great interest to Jon as an artist with Square but then evolved into a digital slideshow for unique website visits and over 90,000 members of the public are others miss. The result is an artist who uses the science of Asperger Syndrome (which is just one of his disabilities). broadcast. geology to portray a new way of looking at the world.” estimated to have engaged via the Live Sites. The project also established a new creative and engaged social online community Professor Baron-Cohen, University of Cambridge of 1,327 people via twitter.

24 25 Kent

The Kent Cultural Baton 400 Angles She Lay Down Deep Beneath www.kentculturalbaton.com http://vimeo.com/user13690701 The Sea: ‘The Kent Cultural Baton’ is a unique and innovative artwork devised and created by artist Nicole Mollett and commissioned by Kent County Council to explore a Artists Lisa Nash and Tania Holland Williams Tracey Emin at Turner Contemporary sense of place in Kent through creative practice and dialogue. It is a rare 1950s worked with young fi lm-makers to produce www.turnercontemporary.org American airstream, which has been adapted into a mobile creative space. a series of 4 fi lms in response to the theme of spectatorship. The project aimed to Tracey Emin’s fi rst major solo exhibition at Turner The exhibition attracted 170,000 visits and generated over The Baton has toured the county in the period leading up to the London 2012 support new skills of fi lm-making in young Games, to promote the Kent region’s cultural off er, reveal the ‘hidden’, and Contemporary was conceived specially for Margate, the town £1.1m worth of press coverage, boosting tourism income into people, awareness of sporting activity across in which she grew up. Featuring all new work, the exhibition Margate and further aiding the regeneration of this historic celebrate both British and international culture. The Baton has delivered 121 Tunbridge Wells and the county and to days of creative activity across the county (70 days of workshops, 51 days of explored the themes of love, sensuality and romanticism in seaside town. facilitate collaborative practice among its 86 Emin’s oeuvre, continued in a display of paintings, sketches events) with the lead artist working with 83 artists to create 116 artworks. participants. The fi nal fi lms were viewed by It was part of the London 2012 Festival. Guest artists included: Ian Aitch, Adam Chodzko, Sally O’Reilly, Brian Dillon and and watercolours of erotic subjects by JMW Turner and over 8,000 people and can be seen on the Auguste Rodin. Jeremy Millar. 10,204 participants directly engaged with the project with tens of web address above. thousands more as audience members. The most exciting discoveries from the journey have been brought together in a fi nal interactive artwork – the Atlas of Kent – an online resource and printed publication. Applause “This has been a truly unique and fascinating Outdoors 212 way to reveal Kent’s rich cultural history. www.applauseoutdoors.org.uk Creating a lasting record means everyone can discover more about where they live. In Applause Outdoors 212 placed contemporary outdoor performances in 90 this Olympic year, the Kent Cultural Baton events in Kent and East Sussex – including project has made sure these stories aren’t village fetes, community festivals and lost and has provided a real legacy for future Olympic Torch Relay celebrations. There generations.” were 7 shows in the programme, including Puppit & Digit (2 life-size interactive Kent County Council Cabinet Member for Customer and Communities - Mike Hill puppets) which played with the assistance of 148 volunteers, to audiences of at least 24,500.

Photography: She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea Tracey Emin at Turner Contemporary installation view. Image courtesy of Stephen White

Other Cultural Olympiad projects in Kent: Going for Gold; Paradiso. Other London 2012 Festival projects: Devoted and Disgruntled; The English Flower Garden; Paul Cummins; Hansel of a Film.

Photography: Benedict Johnson Credit: Tom Walsh 26 27 Milton Keynes

Take These Hands Brewing Up Godiva Awakes www.festiveroad.org.uk by Stian Ådlandsvik www.imagineerproductions.co.uk www.relaysoutheast.org.uk/ ‘Brewing Up’ is an outdoor show that depicts, with humour, A 10-metre tall puppet of Godiva powered by some of the truths and bizarre traditions that surround our As part of the CVAN ‘RELAY’ project, Stian Ådlandsvik’s exhibition responded to the 100 cyclists arrived into Milton Keynes on August nation’s great tea drinking obsession. The performance, National Spinal Injuries Centre archives at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. It was seen 1st. ‘Godiva Awakes’ was the West Midland’s created by Festive Road, fuses carnival arts with street theatre by over 4,000 people at MK Gallery and then moved to Stoke Mandeville Hospital Artist taking the lead project delivered by and has developed year on year since 2010. In 2012 ‘Brewing reception area during the Paralympic Games. It will tour to Bucks New University Imagineer. In tune with the Olympic spirit of Up’ shows entertained crowds at a celebration picnic for the during October. courage and determination, Godiva’s journey Queen’s Jubilee, an Olympic Torch Relay event, a Paralympic from Coventry to London was an epic challenge Flame event and as part of the ‘Godiva Awakes’ Milton Keynes’ Following this new collaboration, MK Gallery will continue to work with Stoke for the cyclists who powered her en route celebrations. An estimated 2,000 people have benefi tted Mandeville Hospital and with WheelPower based at Stoke Mandeville Stadium. through Rugby, Northampton, Milton Keynes, from this project; this includes artists, performers, volunteers, Luton and Hatfi eld. crew, makers, students, teachers and audiences. Rouge Milton Keynes welcomed her at the medieval site, Bradwell Abbey, with a gift prepared by a www.ifmiltonkeynes.org Milton Keynes local blacksmith. Crowds then travelled on to A thought provoking and powerful production from Cambodia blending dance, live “Here we are on the fi nal day feeling Festival Fringe Campbell Park for a family fun festival, and in the music and circus arts as part of IF: Milton Keynes International Festival 2012. Rouge as we do when we’ve had a fantastic www.mkfestivalfringe.com evening a free Proms in the Park with a fi rework featured stunning physical choreography by Sarosi Nay of Compagnie Ubi, performed fi nale. 12,500 people met Godiva on her journey by a cast of young male performers backed by a gamelan band. It was a mesmerising holiday and we don’t want it to end. This was the fi rst Festival Fringe for Milton Keynes, produced in through the City. and uplifting performance echoing the hope that the current, younger generation has Quality, diversity, stimulation, fun. association with Fringemk:westbury, as a ‘Fringe’ to the International for Cambodia’s future. Thank you all’ Festival. 19 days of activity across all art forms showcased some of Rouge audience member the best local and regional talent including specially commissioned Staging this UK premiere helped extend the media profi le of the International Festival artworks in response to the MK Summer of Culture themes and to the and cemented their reputation with audiences for delivering interesting work. The Olympic year including responses to ‘The Boat Project’ and ‘Big Dance’. project was part of the London 2012 Festival and IF:2012 also presented ‘The Boat 30 artists or arts organisations were engaged. Project’ and Jeremy Deller’s ‘Sacrilege’ within their programme. The Festival Fringe also provided workshops and participatory events leading to a total of 220 diff erent opportunities for audiences which totalled 6,000 people. The project also generated over 1,200 hours of volunteer time with the support of over 40 volunteers. “..there was a real buzz around the city that I’ve not previously experienced. It certainly boosted our visitor numbers and I think everything is beginning to have an impact on the perception of the city both internally and externally. So, thank you and many congratulations!” Credit: Andra Alexandra Anthony Spira, Director MK Gallery Photography:

Other London 2012 Festival projects in Milton Keynes: The Sacred Truce Project: The Ripple Eff ect. Credit: @Documentally

28 29 Oxfordshire

The Caucus Race and Rochester’s Extraordinary Story Loom www.storymuseum.org.uk

Oxford’s Story Museum created 2 exciting projects as part of ‘Story Lab’ associated with the ‘Summer Reading Challenge’, part of the London 2012 Festival. ‘The Caucus Race’ was an eccentric, joyous free music and dance event on Christ Church Meadow celebrating the no rules and everyone wins spirit of the Caucus Race in ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. Professional and community participants joined to represent the main characters in a series of dances and madcap coves. 2,500 people attended on the day and 100 + school children participated in a prior dance workshop. ‘Rochester’s Extraordinary Story Loom’ exhibition, visited by 2,400 people, told the story of a machine, a dark relic of a Credit: Courtesy of Modern Art Oxford Photography: David Fisher. Victorian ambition to replace storytellers with machines and exploit children’s imaginations. Reportedly built by Barnabas The Legacy Fellowship Rochester, this remarkable device was waiting to be discovered www.modernartoxford.org.uk for 147 years in a forgotten cellar in The Story Museum. Now it sits as a provocation for 21st century creative imaginings. The Legacy Fellowship was awarded to John Gerrard in Sport and Modern Art Oxford as part of ‘RELAY’; the Ted Dewan, the Story Museum’s artist in residence, created a summer 2011 following an open call for submissions piece was included in the London 2012 Festival. narrative around the loom combining the Industrial Revolution, earlier that year. Over the next 9 months the artist child labour, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and a tragic love Throughout the year, Modern Art Oxford developed identifi ed and collaborated with elite athletes who story – this was acted out in the museum and was also live a series of associated projects and events throughout were all in training for London 2012 as the point of streamed every Saturday. the city involving artists, young people, local schools, departure for an ambitious cinema-scale animation youth organisations and the wider public and 6,000 called Exercise (Djibouti) 2012. Commissioned by the people benefi tted either as audiences or more directly Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University as participants.

Other Cultural Olympiad projects in Oxford: Meet the Species. Other London 2012 Festival projects: Druid Murphy; The English Flower Garden, Paul Cummins.

Photography: Pandora Dewan tries out the Story loom for size Photography: Ed Nix Credit: Ed Nix 2012 The Story Museum Photography: Adrian Cassidy 30 31 Surrey

SPUN Productions Giant’s Picnic Woking’s Willow Sculpture www.stopgap.uk.com www.surreycountycouncil. www.celebratewoking.info gov.uk/arts ‘SPUN Productions’ was an outdoor dance piece that toured nationally and internationally between July 2011 and September 2012 to venues such as The 1,230 pupils from 8 Surrey schools National Theatre and Spraoi Festival. ‘SPUN Productions’ was created by StopGAP participated in this project to create Dance Company led by the choreographer Lucy Bennett. It was commissioned giant puppets based on their local area’s specifi cally for the Cultural Olympiad by the Creative Programmer as part of history or sporting characters. The pupils Accentuate. from primary, secondary and special ‘SPUN Productions’ was an energetic show with a universally recognisable schools came together with their giants to theme – popular interactive TV programmes. Audiences followed a topsy-turvy participate in a picnic and sports day event rd Working in partnership with local artist, Sara Holmes, the Celebrate Woking’s fantasy world of a misguided hero Dave, who dreams of being an instant celebrity. on Box Hill on May 23 . The puppets then went on to appear at The Royal Albert Hall Willow Sculpture Project sought to engage with children in the run up to Although using contemporary dance as a medium, the colourful and accessible the Games. Using the Olympic Cycle Road Races as inspiration, nearly 5,000 subject matter appealed greatly audiences who would not normally attend dance as part of ‘Go Surrey!’ and at the Olympic Road Race. schoolchildren from 15 schools in Woking Borough created 65 life-size willow performance. There were 10 preview performances in 2011 and the company then cyclists. Thousands of people lined the streets in Byfl eet to view the Olympic further developed the show for 25 performances in 2012, reaching over 15,000 Credit: Simon Hart Road Race and saw the sculptures together with millions of people who audience members and over 300 people through related dance workshops. watched the race on the television. Some of the sculptures made a second StopGAP is an integrated company and SPUN enabled the employment of 5 The Dog & appearance at the Paralympic Road Race at Brands Hatch. disabled performers. The company was able to bring in 6 additional As a lasting legacy to the Games and the project, each carefully crafted freelance artists, 4 of them emerging, who were introduced The Palace sculpture will be returned to the participating schools and displayed for future to integrated dance and choreography, enabling them to generations to enjoy. develop new skills in this area. www.garythomas.co.uk/palace Additional support came from: Farnham Maltings, Created by disabled artist Gary Thomas, ‘The Surrey Arts, University of Surrey, University of Winchester Dog & The Palace’ is a short installation fi lm SongTrees’ Inspirational and Woking Dance Festival. about a young boy so inspired by London 2012 that he sends a statue of his dog to Stories Project: “I really was delighted with the progression of the The Queen to say ‘Thank You’. Supported by Red Bird Media, Gary worked with a Legends in Action show. So often one hears that the show will primary school to get 40 young people www.musicmindspirit.org ‘develop’ and it barely does, but SPUN really had involved in the project, running art and grown and changed and become so much richer. It still writing workshops and casting the lead Featuring special commissions, inspirational stories and music that top actor, 9 year old Reece Donn. feels brave and edgy, as well as being so much slicker athletes found to be life-affi rming and benefi cial in their own training, The fi lm was shown on big screens during ‘SongTrees’ created a new choir of diverse young people and young adults to and really trusting the dance language to tell the story. the Olympic Cycling race in Surrey where perform at the Guildford Torch Celebration. Nearly 500 primary school children Much more mature and much darker. Loved it. it was seen by approximately 8,500. 2,000 shared motivational stories and music from top athletes through fi lmed learning resources and there were live workshop sessions with professional Angus McKechnie, National Theatre people saw the fi lm online the month it was released, and it has also appeared in musicians at The Music Mind Spirit Trust. The choir benefi ted from new works galleries and at events across the region. by the UK’s eminent composers: Ben Parry, David Knotts and Calista Robertson.

Other Cultural Olympiad projects in Surrey: International Flag Exchange; Made in Mole Valley; Trust; Steep Rain; Runnymede Literature Festival; Only a Game; Go Surrey!. Other London 2012 Festival projects: White Water Line. Credit: Chris Parkes Photography: Anna Dumitriu 32 33 West Sussex These projects were all part of the West Sussex Ahead of the Game programme, www.westsussex-aheadofthegame.com Blue Touch Paper Carnival www.btpcarnival.co.uk

Blue Touch Paper Carnival is a new disabled led carnival project based in Horsham designed to be the most accessible, inclusive, integrated and friendly carnival experience the world has ever seen; it has been building slowly since 2009. A collaboration with Embaixadores da Alegria, Rio’s leading disabled carnival group, this summer involved a number of workshops and exchanges between disabled and non disabled artists and makers to develop a Bateria - a Rio style samba fl oat with costumes based on the theme of St George - the patron Saint of England and Samba! This led the parade at One Hackney, and at Ryde Arts Parade delivered by project partners The New Carnival Company. Blue Touch Paper was part of the London 2012 Festival. Photography: Paul Ackerley The Seed www.goatandmonkey.co.uk The Child and The Magic ‘The Seed’ was an original narrative adventure for participants information gathered through the performances. The ‘weekly Dromos and audiences told through an online game, live outdoor total reach’ peaked at 88,614 people (the unique number of www.dromosfestival.co.uk performances and a real-world treasure hunt. The captivating people who saw something about ‘The Seed’ in their news combination was created by theatre company Goat and feeds). ‘The Seed’ incorporated a participation project for Dromos Festival has off ered 10 young producers the opportunity to develop 5 multi-artform pop Monkey and was inspired by tales of intrepid Victorian plant local young people including a summer school and a chance up festival events over the last 2 years, supported hunters. to take part in the fi nal project; through this 30 young by experienced industry mentors. Young producers participants were introduced to a new form of cultural and have been supported to devise, programme and ‘The Seed’ brought audiences to see a series of exciting plays social interaction. produce each event, developing valuable skills to at 4 of the Great Gardens of Sussex; Nymans, High Beeches, support future career ambitions in the arts. Wakehurst Place and Borde Hill. Each performance explored “The Seed triumphed through a combination of Over 130 artists and 100 participants were the history of the gardens and introduced characters who technology and great artistry. As we walked away Credit: Paul Ackerley involved, and the project attracted 2,500+ imparted clues to the whereabouts of the Seed itself, a from the end of the fi nal play, my partner and I The commissioning partners set out to create Ravel’s extraordinary audience in addition to those engaged with custom-made piece of jewellery which featured in the plays agreed how much we would miss our fortnightly 45-minute children’s opera in a big-top. They harnessed a company of 80 that through satellite events. Young producers have and was buried near one of the gardens. Visitors to the plays combined an international professional cast of singers with recent graduate used the skills gained throughout the project to could also follow the online game, which brought the story expeditions with the plant hunters. It’s a cultural musicians, a youth orchestra under the baton of a high-profi le conductor and secure further work in the arts, for organisations of ‘The Seed’ into the digital age through the thoughts of a experience we’ll remember for a very long time and an ensemble engaging 15 local young performers. including Brighton Dome, Farnham Maltings, fi ctional researcher at the Millenium Seed Bank. With each has changed the way we think of and experience and West Sussex County Council, and as freelance performance new clues were unearthed which helped to point The initial stages of the production generated sophisticated designs by practitioners in the performing arts and music award-winning Atlanta Duff y and Mark Charlton that fused experimental to the location of the treasure. the gardens involved. The Seed has set the bar very industries. digital projection and circus fl ying. The animation sequences pioneered a 3-D high for both site-specifi c theatre and the use of the visual eff ect without the need for glasses. Going forward, Dromos will form a key strand of By the end of the hunt, the online game had amassed a internet as part of a cultural experience.” the future Making Tracks rural touring scheme global following of 5,015 Facebook Friends, who took part The research and development phase complete, a fi nal period of fundraising programme. Audience member. will be required to realise the ambitious plans to premiere in May 2013. in an online dialogue that examined every hint and shared Photography: Paul Ackerley

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All the Bells www.allthebells.com At 08:12am on July 27th over 2.9 million participants took part in Martin Creed’s London 2012 Festival commission ‘Work No.1197: All the bells in a country rung as quickly and loudly as possible for three minutes’ to herald the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Among the millions of people and organisations taking part in Creed’s mass participation artwork were HMS Alliance and the people of Gosport, the bells of Guildford Cathedral rung in Jubilee Woods and an Olympic themed Guide Camp in the New Forest, as well as 68,000 people who activated the artist’s free and exclusive ringtone. The event was broadcast live by the BBC on television, radio and online to an estimated audience of over 12 million people.

Summer Reading Challenge www.readingagency.org.uk Photography: Colin Barker With 780,000 children aged 4-11 taking part, the ‘Summer Reading Challenge’ is the biggest national reading initiative. It runs in libraries throughout the summer holidays, with incentives, Whispering Woods activities and events designed to create a real buzz around children’s reading. Early indications are that the 2012 ‘Story Lab Summer ‘Whispering Woods’ encouraged people who would not encountered chandeliers hanging from trees, magical and Reading Challenge’ might have been the biggest yet, with libraries normally engage in performance to take part in something surreal lighting installations and ‘surprising’ performers along throughout Great Britain reporting high take up fuelled by the mass Credit: Courtesy of new. The project engaged 2,100 people in 2 years and the way. enthusiasm for the Games. The rising medal tally and the superb Summer Reading culminated in 5 haunting twilight choral performances Challenge The project led to the creation of 5 new community choirs in media overage encouraged children to complete their Bronze, Silver in various woodland landscapes, each performed by 200 West Sussex and 3 new businesses established to teach and and Gold stages to get a medal like a real Olympian or Paralympian. people from 10 West Sussex choirs. The musical programme “A lasting legacy from this summer’s Reading Challenge off er singing throughout the year. included more than 50 acappella songs, including 3 Library services across the region took a strategic approach to will be the new partnerships that we will continue to new commissions by Kiril Todorov. Audiences of 1,800 There are plans to make ‘Whispering Woods’ an annual event. using the London 2012 Festival status of the reading challenge to maximise partnership opportunities with other arts and sports cultivate - it opened doors to start conversations with organisations. For example, a partnership with South East Dance saw other organisations under the Festival umbrella. Since teenage dancers create and perform a contemporary dance piece we were all part of the same thing I asked what we Other Cultural Olympiad projects in West Sussex: Oh We Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside. in Jubilee Library, Brighton using books and reading as a theme, could do together.” Other London 2012 Festival projects: Alan Ayckbourn Double Bill; Cass Sculpture Foundation, Tony Cragg. and the library went out to some public ‘Big Dance’ events including running a ‘Baby Boogie Rhyme Time’ session for pre-schoolers at an Lucy Castle, Library Community Engagement Manager, event on Hove Lawns. Brighton and Hove Libraries 36 37 National Programmes National Programmes Shake the Dust Big Dance www.shakethedust.co.uk www.southeastdance.org.uk Shake the Dust was the largest national youth poetry slam ever to take place in England, with over 12,000 young people taking ‘Big Dance’ was the largest dance celebration of dance and dancing part plus 100s of teachers and spoken word artists. In the South with over 2,500 events throughout the UK. The South East saw a East, 5 schools participated in the workshop programme and programme of large-scale events in public spaces, organised by regional fi nal event at the Nuffi eld Theatre, with the slam team hub partners Hampshire Dance, Parrabolla, Cascade, Pagrav Dance from Samuel Cody Specialist Sports College - a school for young Company, Jasmin Vardimon Company, local authorities in Hastings, Photography: Stephen White people with learning diffi culties - going on to perform at the West Berkshire, Brighton & Hove, Surrey County, Oxford, Milton Photography: Adrenochrome Images national fi nals at the Southbank Centre. Keynes, Medway and led by South East Dance. “Life changing, inspiring, amazing” Bandstand Shake the Dust was a London 2012 Festival event led by Apple Highlights included ‘Big Dance Brighton Saturday’ on Hove Lawns, Project participant and Snakes. with public workshops and professional performances by Hofesh Marathon Shechter Co., Three Score Dance Co., T21 Dance, Ragroof Theatre www.bandstandmarathon.org.uk Co. and Avant Garde Dance. Woking Dance Festival programmed an exciting jam packed celebration with over 50 performances ‘Bandstand Marathon’ saw more than 220 Sacrilege www.sacrilege2012.co.uk featuring work by professional dance companies, local dance artists, bandstand events throughout the UK. In the community groups and schools showing the quality and diversity of South East, 29 events took place, featuring Just over 1,750 people in Whitstable and 950 people in Milton “I’ve always known there’s a big appetite for art in the dance on off er locally. the likes of The Hangleton Youth Band, whose Keynes bounced on ‘Sacrilege’, the life-sized infl atable replica of town. We are continually delighted by the number 362 artists were employed for the South East events; they engaged members range from 6 to 9 years old, as well Stonehenge that came to the South East as part of the London 2012 of people who come to the Biennale - it is very well 7,502 participants and together with the support of 95 volunteers as the ever-popular Sussex Jazz Orchestra. Festival. The art work by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller played to live audiences of 64,347 people. The broadcast audience came to Whitstable Biennale 2012 and IF:MK during its tour to over attended. We had to introduce a queuing system for The recently restored Brighton Promenade this exhibit but everyone waited patiently and the reached a further 38,918 people. bandstand joined in the collective moment 30 locations across the country. Whitstable was in the top 4 towns and cities outside London in terms of visitor numbers. South East schools signed up and came out in force to perform that was replicated the length and breadth atmosphere was amazing.” the ‘Big Dance Schools Pledge’, with over 2,000 participants and of the country at hundreds of ‘Bandstand Sue Jones, Director, Whitstable Biennale 2012 large-scale performances at the Portsmouth and Dover Live Sites to Marathon’ events where musicians performed welcome the Olympic Flame on May 18th. their own unique rendition of Coldplay’s anthem ‘Viva La Vida’ at 2pm. ‘Bandstand Marathon’ was the fi nal participatory event in the London 2012 Festival. It was presented by Superact and Making Music with support from the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Photography: Matt Wilson

Other London 2012 Festival projects in the National programme: fi lm commissions by Mike Leigh, Asif Kapadia, Lynne Ramsay and Max & Dania which were shown in Picturehouse Cinemas in Brighton, Oxford, Henley and Southampton as well as on BBC and C4; Artangel’s ‘A Room For London’ designed for UK-wide audiences to access digitally; ‘StoryCloud’, Discover Centre’s 12 commissioned on-line books; ‘Ping Pong, Never Too Old for Gold’ fi lm shown in cinemas around the UK. 38 39 Photography: Courtesy of Big Dance National Programmes

The Rest is Silence Peace Camp www.dreamthinkspeak.com www.peacecamp2012.com “We felt very fortunate that Cuckmere was chosen for The World Shakespeare Festival came to Shoreham-by- The project employed 22 artists for a total of 1,615 days and Part of London 2012 Festival, ‘Peace Camp’ celebrated the rich Peace Camp. The project shone a welcome spotlight on Sea with ‘The Rest is Silence’, an ambitious, experimental engaged 103 participants for a total of 595 sessions. The heritage of love poetry in the UK and the breath-taking physical East Sussex, brought together a wide variety of different exploration of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which received its world production received wonderful reactions from audiences and geography of our coastlines. Cuckmere Haven, East Sussex hosted people both to deliver the project and as audience and premiere at Brighton Festival 2012. critics alike who were wowed by the unique experience of one of 8 glowing encampments that emitted a soundscape of ‘theatre meets art-installation’. It garnered 4 star reviews in 7 whispered love poetry: led by director Deborah Warner and actor the sense of adventure and delight had a truly positive Created by dreamthinkspeak and directed by Tristan national newspapers and the Guardian named it the “hottest Fiona Shaw and produced by Artichoke. Through an interactive impact. The installation will stay will me for a very long Sharps, ‘The Rest is Silence’ was performed within a ticket at the Brighton Festival”. website the project collected the poetic contributions of thousands, specially designed and multilayered structure, which time - pure magic.” forming a snapshot of the lives and loves of those living in the UK allowed the action to unfold on different levels and on all ‘The Rest is Silence’ was commissioned by Brighton Festival Becky Shaw, CEO, East Sussex County Council in 2012. sides. Meditative and dreamlike in quality, the hallmark with LIFT and the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of of dreamthinkspeak’s productions, the piece married the World Shakespeare Festival. The World Shakespeare performance, film and installation to create a vigorous new Festival is a celebration of Shakespeare as the world’s interpretation of the play. playwright. Produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in an unprecedented collaboration with leading UK and Over the course of 85 performances it was seen by 9,760 international arts organisations, it’s the biggest celebration people, playing at 92.5% capacity in 3 venues across the of Shakespeare ever staged and a cornerstone of the London UK: Malthouse Estate, Shoreham-by-Sea; Riverside Studios, 2012 Festival. London and Northern Stage, Newcastle.

Photography: Emma Critchley Credit: Peace Camp at Cuckmere Haven, East Sussex, July 2012. Peace Camp is created by Deborah Warner in collaboration with Fiona Shaw. 40 Soundscape by Mel Mercier. Sound design by John Del’ Nero. Produced by Artichoke. Photography by Benedict Johnson. 41 Words from sponsors

Arts Council England London 2012 DCMS Legacy Trust UK Arts Council England is proud to have been a principal funder involved in the Cultural Olympiad to share what has been The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Since 2008, the Cultural Olympiad Since 2008 Legacy Trust UK has funded of the Cultural Olympiad. We would like to congratulate achieved, so we can sustain the momentum created by the was the largest cultural celebration in has delivered on its promise of being a wide range of projects across the everyone who made the Cultural Olympiad a huge success in investment and participation in cultural activities across the the history of the modern Olympic and the largest cultural celebration in the UK to create a lasting cultural legacy the South East over the last 4 years. The London 2012 Olympic South East. Paralympic Movements. The culmination history of the modern Olympic and from the London 2012 Olympic and and Paralympic Games created an incredible platform for of the Cultural Olympiad, the London Paralympic Movements. Across the Paralympic Games. The Trust has funded sporting and cultural excellence in the South East. Some of The impact of these accomplishments will be felt for years 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week country, millions of people have taken 2 key programmes in the South East; these projects where high profile and captured international to come. Arts Council England will work with our partners to nationwide celebration, saw more part in extraordinary events which have Accentuate, made up of 15 projects interest, while others made a huge impact at a local level, build on the South East’s achievements, to continue delivering than 12,000 events and performances provided a showcase for the UK cultural across the region which aim to create a but they all shared common features: ambition and vision, against our mission of ‘Great art for everyone’. We want to see produced by over 25,000 artists sector, attracting international visitors cultural shift in perceptions of disability; supportive partners and the dedication of many individuals to culture continue to be at the heart of communities, valued for from all 204 participating Olympic and highlighting Britain as a world-class and Tree of Light, one of 4 large scale ‘make things happen’. the difference it makes to people’s lives and local economies. and Paralympic nations. During the cultural destination. Community Celebrations projects, which We will continue to support the ambitions of those who live 4 year programme, the South East involved thousands of local people in The South East region has been no Regional organisations and artists embraced the Cultural and create in the region. As we have seen with the Cultural developed an impressive programme 3 performances across the Thames exception and has made a huge Olympiad. In doing so, they reached new audiences, worked Olympiad, investing in ambition and talent produces fantastic of new partnerships that empowered Valley. contribution to the success of the with new partners and challenged their own ways of working results. community members, emerging artists Cultural Olympiad. And with its distinct The South East, as the birthplace of the to achieve their ambitions. We all have valuable stories and and new audiences all around the links to the Paralympic Movement Paralympic Games, has played a huge experiences to relate. At Arts Council England, we urge anyone Thank you to all who created events that inspired, provoked region. The Creative Programmer built the South East has provided a unique role in not only the Games themselves and surprised us. Let’s work together to build on this success. an exceptional programme with Stoke platform for disability arts and culture, but also in the Cultural Olympiad and Mandeville and Deaf and disabled raising the profile for many talented London 2012 Festival. Activities that Marina Norris artists for the Paralympics, which has artists. have taken place across the region Senior Manager, Corporate Planning contributed to transforming perceptions have been inclusive and innovative, Arts Council England of disabled people. The region also DCMS congratulates the hard work celebrating all the South East has to played an important part in the and determination of the region’s local offer, and leaving a lasting legacy for all London 2012 Festival with some terrific authorities, cultural and voluntary involved. commissions and events, which helped organisations, communities and the to achieve the UK wide record audiences South East Creative Programmer and Moira Swinbank OBE, Chief of 19.5m to the end of August. her team in providing an unforgettable Executive, Legacy Trust UK festival of culture. Ruth Mackenzie Legacy Trust UK, creating a lasting impact Director, Cultural Olympiad Clare Pillman, DCMS Director from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by funding ideas and local talent to inspire creativity across the UK. Photography by: James Pike www.jimpix.com

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Page 6 Song for Dover, Guildford Evening Celebrations Page 15 Starting Line, uScreen

Page 7 Paralympic Flame Festival

Page 16 The Berkshire Giant

Page 8 The Lone Twin Boat Project Page 17 The Games Walk & Performance Festival, Create Compete Collaborate

Page 9 The Tree of Light

Page 18 Driving Inspiration

Page 10 World Stories: Young Voices Page 19 Mandeville Legacy, Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon, Windows, Walls and Wishes

Page 20 Gold Run

The Monument Trust Page 11 Our Sporting Life Page 21Pi Leau, Hang On A Minute Lads, I’ve Got A Great Idea

Page 12 RELAY RELAY was presented by

South East Page 22 Create the Future, Hampshire Welcomes the World, Southampton’s Musical Alphabet

Page 13 Creative Campus Initiative, 1908, Iron Gym, The Art of Demonstration

Page 23 Bloom, No Man is an Island

Page 14 Accentuate Page 24 Look About

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Page 25 BBC Live Sites, LIVELIVE, Dream Page 36 Whispering Woods

Page 26 The Kent Cultural Baton, 400 Angles, Applause Outdoor 212 Page 37 All the Bells, Summer Reading Challenge

Page 27 She Lay Down Deep Beneath The Sea: Tracey Emin at Turner Contemporary CreditsPage 38 Big Dance, Bandstand Marathon

Page 28 Take These Hands, Rouge Page 39-41 National Programmes

Page 29 Brewing Up, Milton Keynes Festival Fringe, Godiva Awakes

Page 30 The Caucus Race and Rochester’s Extraordinary Story Loom

Page 31 The Legacy Fellowship

Credits Page 32 SPUN Productions, Giant’s Picnic Photography

Stephen White, Matt Wilson, Anthony Hunt, Adrenochrome Images, Jordan Allen, James Cousens, Nicole Mollett, Benedict Johnson, Emma Critchley, Joanna Gurney, Ian Bride, Legge, Tom Foxall, Simon Hart, Page 33 Woking’s Willow Sculpture, The Dog & The Palace, SongTrees’ Inspirational Stories Colin Barker, Jon Adams, Paul Ackerley, Gary Thomas, Chris Parkes, @Documentally, mubsta.com, Tom Walsh, Mark John Smith, Mandeville Legacy, Nigel Bird, Jane Glennie, Melanie Swan, Creative Junction, Ed Nix 2012 The Story Museum, Adrian Cassidy, Jon Adams, Gina Martin, Matthew Andrews, Rhonda Fenwick, Mooze Asim, SJC Photography, River and Rowing Museum, Rikard Osterlund, Darius Wilson, John Smith, Alex Melville, Matt Fowler, Farrows Creative, Kay Young, Toby Adamson, Lucy Sewill, Peter Bunker, Page 34 The Seed Doug Southall, @Zeroh, Gerry Walden, Shared Space and Light, Rachel Gadsden, Paul Barker,David Illman, David Fisher

Publication Content and Design: Page 35 Blue Touch Paper Carnival, The Child and The Magic, Dromos Caterina Loriggio & Lucy Williams, London 2012 www.london2012.com Steve Kerner, Curious Road www.curiousroad.com

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