Realising the potential of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games
Calendar
Now On Landguard Point’s Encyclopedia for the East of England
Over the past year the On Landguard Point project team have gathered lots of stories and local knowledge with help from East of England residents. Local stories have helped to create 205 symbols which represent a shared experience of life in the East of England. If you want to submit a story you can select a symbol and add a factual entry at www.onlandguardpoint.com/encyclopedia
January 2012
Ongoing China in the East Workshops, Eastern Exchanges
Between January 2011 and April 2012, creative workshops will enable families, children and adults to get up close fantastic objects and create their own Chinese-inspired work. Both the original museum collection and the new work created will be showcased within the touring exhibition, demonstrating just some of the innovative material produced as part of the China in the East Stories of the World exhibition. www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/chinaintheeast
February 2012
3rd Feb – 31 March Journey to the Podium
Exhibition of the Inspire marked Journey to the Podium project a collaboration of artists and Essex County’s most promising athletes funded by our Team Essex Ambassadors' Award scheme at the Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend
March 2012
Sat 3 – Sun 4 March Music Nation*
The BBC has unveiled plans for a weekend festival celebrating orchestral music across the UK as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Music Nation will take place on 3 and 4 March next year, with related performances during the preceding week. (Orchestras Live is one of the BBC’s partners on this project)
· Saturday 3 March, Saffron Walden - The Britten Sinfonia in partnership with the Saffron Walden Choral Society, The Granta Chorale and SignuptoSing perform a specially commissioned cantata involving all the partners in MazeMusic. Members of Britten Sinfonia will also be running composing workshops with Saffron Walden County High School students and selected compositions will be performed in the concert. http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961812
· Grays, A Making Music project, Harmonie Concert Band working with Aaron Parker under Making Music's Adopt a Composer scheme.
· Saturday 3 March Making Music Overture Project – UK Wide , various locations Performance premières around the UK of the Making Music Overture around the UK http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961865
· Sunday 4 March, Apex Bury St Edmunds Orchestras Live presents a concert by the Academy of Ancient Music with violinist Alina Abragimova.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13782121
31 March Tomb Treasures of Han China opens
Exhibition opens at the Fitzwilliam Museum (part of Stories of the World)
Featuring nearly 400 priceless treasures from the Imperial tombs of the Han Dynasty, this will be the most important exhibition of ancient Chinese royal treasures ever seen outside China. www.tombtreasuresofhanchina.org
March - April 2012 tbc On Landguard Point Dig and Sow
On Landguard Point team have hosted mass archaeological excavations across the East of England. So far digs have taken place in Ashwell, Hertfordshire and Ipswich, Suffolk. Members of the public have been able to discover treasures and traces of home in their own back gardens! Dig sites in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex and Norfolk will be confirmed soon. If you’re interested in taking part and live in these counties please email info@onlandguardpoint.com or call 0207 488 0800 to register your interest.
April 2012
Tbc April Luton World Exhibition
Opening of exhibition connecting people of Luton to Olympic nations at Stockwood Museum, part of Stories of the World.
23 April 2012 World Shakespeare Festival*
World Shakespeare Festival Opens, RSC Open Stages professional/amateur collaboration is being delivered with regional partners, including the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. Activity began in summer 2011. http://festival.london2012.com/events/world-shakespeare-festival.php
Spring 2012 tbc On Landguard Point Film Premiere
All of the events in On Landguard Point are being made as part of a new feature film that will premiere in 2012. Inspired by the histories and culture of the East, the On Landguard Point film will exist at an intersection between live performance, community and cinema. Both professional and non-professional groups have worked with the project team to make all of the live outdoor events that form the content of the film, including performance, music events and parades. East of England residents have given their time to get involved with On Landguard Point across the Summer in 2011, as participants and as audiences.
http://festival.london2012.com/undefined/cultural-olympiad-events/on-landguard-point.php
Spring 2012 tbc On Landguard Point Live Trade exhibition opens
Opening at the Museum of East Anglian Life Abbot’s Hall, Live Trade is a collection of objects, artefacts, and other material crafted and collected during On Landguard Point. The collection will include the People’s Encyclopedia for the East of England, all 205 of the symbols generated by Encyclopedia entries and a full set of the 205 symbol silver charms. The exhibition extends the opportunity to engage with On Landguard Point, offering a reflective experience to the many thousands of people involved in the programme and beyond.
http://festival.london2012.com/undefined/cultural-olympiad-events/on-landguard-point.php
Spring Aldeburgh Music Exchanging Worlds Project
Legacy Trust UK funding will extend the reach of the Aldeburgh World Orchestra project into local communities.
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961162
May 2012
Friday 18 May Torch arrives in UK - Big Dance Schools challenge*
A world record attempt at 1pm on 18 May 2012 to coincide with the start of the Olympic Torch Relay in the UK. Renowned choreographer, Wayne McGregor, will be creating the choreography for it.
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000962041
May Carnival Crossroads East Bound Mas Camps
Carnival Crossroads East Bound project is bringing together the East of England’s local carnival artists, community groups and schools to create a carnival showcase of our history and celebrating local pride for Festival 2012. The UK Centre for Carnival Arts will be connecting 100 people from each of Cambridge, Ipswich, Norwich, Southend on Sea and Luton, with renowned national carnival artists to exchange techniques and design. Local artists will lead community workshops, where everyone’s invited, to share and explore our story through carnival. Pop-up Mas Camps will arrive in May to start to create carnival designs, costumes, music and dance. The creations will be exhibited and open days will enable everyone to get together and participate in carnival.
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961884
Date tbc On Landguard Point Film Premiere
Details of presentation of this artist’s film in each county in the region, and also further archaeological digs as part of the Dig and Sow strand will be announced.
http://festival.london2012.com/undefined/cultural-olympiad-events/on-landguard-point.php
18 May – 6 July Sparks Will Fly, events in every borough in Essex
A county wide spectacle will run in Essex from May to July in 2012. Engaging over 100,000 people, it will culminate in a large scale pyrotechnic performance in Hylands Park in early July 2012. Walk the Plank, a highly experienced outdoor performance and pyrotechnic company, will be designing and orchestrating Sparks Will Fly. Sparks will Fly will be delivered by Essex County Council’s Arts Development and 2012 Legacy Teams, Chelmsford Borough Council Cultural Events Team, local authorities and communities across Essex.
18-May at Harwich Children’s Carnival welcoming first giant visitor
19 May around Saffron Walden museum
20-May .. at Tour de Tendring in Dovercourt
24-May .. in Basildon's Sporting Village
27-May .. in Harlow Market Square
30 May .. in Stansted Airport as second giant visitor arrives
02-June.. at Wild Woods Day in Rochford
09-June.. in Braintree Town Centre
16-June .. in Maldon’s Promenade Park
17-June.. at Castle Point Show on Canvey Island
23 June.. in Southend-on-Sea
24 June.. at Waltham Abbey Town Show
30-June.. in Colchester at the Celebrate! Diversity Festival
1-July at Brentwood Goes Global at Brentwood Centre
6 July Finale at Hylands Park Chelmsford with Torch Relay*
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961969
June 2012
June – Sep 2012 Cambridgeshire Competes
Cambridgeshire Competes is a partnership between local museums, sports centres and community groups to tell stories related to the Olympic and Paralympic Games across Cambridgeshire. As well as exploring and exhibiting local connections to the Games, the exhibition will also highlight rising stars from the local area to look out for in the Olympic Games events.
http://www.cambridgeshirecompetes.org.uk/
7th June – 28th June Journey to the Podium
Exhibition of the Inspire marked Journey to the Podium project a collaboration of artists and Essex County’s most promising at the Houses of Parliament, London
21 June – 9 Sept LONDON 2012 FESTIVAL
The London 2012 Festival programme will include national join in moments
http://festival.london2012.com/
26, 27 and 28 June How Like an Angel, Norwich Cathedral
Circa and I Fagiolini, produced by Norfolk and Norwich Festival, How Like an Angel is Circa’s site-specific creation for cathedrals. The project aims to celebrate and humanise the grand edifices of belief, to restore their sense of wonder and to deepen our sense of awe. By combining contemporary circus with live music, theatrical lighting and staging elements, the project aims to create a physical manifestation of the soaring wonder of great sacred music.
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961364
30 June Hopscotch to Victory!, LACE
A project from Live Art Collective East (LACE), a new artist-led organisation based in the East of England. The hybrid artistic practice within the group draws from visual arts, theatre and site-specific work and comes under the umbrella ‘live art’. LACE artists are currently working on a series of projects for Summer 2012, produced by Artsadmin, which will involve several artists’ commissions. One of these projects will see LACE attempt to break the World record for the most people hopscotching at the same time in, the same place for their Inspire marked project Hopscotch to Victory! The event will be held in Colchester Park in summer 2012. The group will also be encouraging satellite events around the region. If you are interested in participating in the world record attempt, arranging a Hopscotch event or finding out more there will be a Hopscotch schools’ pack, video trailer, and limited edition artists’ multiple available from 12th September 2011.
lace@artsadmin.co.uk liveartcollectiveeast.com
July 2012
2- 5 July Ring Round the World
The biggest children’s opera ever made: an adventure in world music promising great performance, theatrical spectacle and sing-along fun. Ring Round the World is an opera in 220 scenes – one for every major world nation. Working with hundreds of schools, which have been twinned with a different world nation, and a cast of more than 6,000 children, this tale of adventure will journey around the world, collecting a ‘story' from each place visited.
2 & 5 July 7.00pm Comberton Village College Cambridge
3 & 4 July 7.00pm West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961503
Tues 3 – Sun 8 July Olympic Torch Relay East of England Dates
Tuesday 3 July Peterborough Peterborough Festival
Wednesday 4 July Norwich Lord Mayor’s Parade/Carnival
Thursday 5 July Ipswich Ip Art
Friday 6 July Chelmsford Sparks will Fly
Saturday 7 July Cambridge The Big Weekend (& Big Dance)
Sunday 8 July Luton Cultural Weekend (& with Big Dance)
Monday 9 July Torch leaves the region from Luton in the morning
http://www.london2012.com/olympic-torch-relay
4,6,7,8 July Pulse
Performances of ‘Pulse’ led by The Garage Trust in partnership with Norwich and Norfolk Community Arts (NORCA). A spectacular performance celebrating movement, physicality and the pulse of the Olympics, split into two 10-minute segments, to open and close the show on the Olympic Torch Relay Stage at Chapelfield Gardens.
6 July Concert at Kings College Cambridge
Choral project including a competition for a new processional commission will be performed in Kings College Chapel as part of a concert on the eve of the Olympic torch arriving in Cambridge
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/events/choir-concerts.html
Fri 6 – Mon 9 July Love Luton 2012 Festival
Four day celebration including Luton International Carnival, Luton Mela and other cultural activities
http://www.luton.gov.uk/2012festival
Sat 7 – Sun 15 July Big Dance*
Big Dance 2012 is the ultimate dance experience. The festival will feature nine days of dance in unusual spaces throughout the UK in 2012 – shops, parks, galleries, shopping centres and theatres - showcasing the diversity of dance styles. The programme is funded by the Legacy Trust UK and Arts Council England.
http://bigdance2012.com/event_map.php
School holiday Summer Reading Challenge*
The annual summer reading challenge will be part of the London 2012 Festival, connecting young people to world stories.
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961835
Fri 6–Sun 29 July Aldeburgh World Orchestra Residency
The Aldeburgh World Orchestra is a new project under development in which renowned conductor, Sir Mark Elder will bring together 100 of the most talented young musicians (age 18-28 years) from across the globe to create a true ‘world orchestra’
20 and 22 July Aldeburgh World Orchestra at Snape*
29 July Aldeburgh World Orchestra Prom at the Albert Hall*
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961162
Sun 8 July Carnival Crossroads East Bound finale*
The UK Centre for Carnival Arts Carnival Crossroads East Bound project is bringing together the East of England’s carnival artists, community groups and schools to create a carnival showcase of our history and celebrating local pride for Festival 2012. The project will culminate in an extravaganza parade, bringing together 500 people from across the East of England to perform in Luton’s International Carnival
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961884
w/c 9 July World Shakespeare Festival at New Wolsey Ipswich*
The main house and potentially other venues will host the Open Stage elements of the RSC World Shakespeare Festival.
Saturday 14 July Big Street Dance*
(21 – 22 July in London River of Music in London but regional participants )
30th June 2012 – Jan 7th 2013 Treasures of China exhibition
Part of Stories of the World the Treasures of China exhibition at Colchester Castle Museums, will showcase amazing objects from Nanjing Museum. Spanning 10,000 years of extraordinary history, from the Neolithic to the Last Emperor, the exhibition will chart the rise of Imperial China.
http://www.peopleandplace.org.uk/museums/colchester-and-ipswich-museums/changing-lives/
From July 2012 China Touring Exhibition
Launching at Epping Forest District Museum and touring museums around the region China in the East is a touring exhibition with a difference: as well as showcasing the rich Chinese collections of museums in the region, it will present new media created by young people and inspired by objects in the exhibition. It will bring new thinking to tradition display. The objects have been selected from Bedford, Colchester & Ipswich, Hertford, Saffron Walden, St. Albans as well as the project lead, Epping Forest District Museum
www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/chinaintheeast
21 June – 9 Sep 2012 Rachel Gadsden Unlimited, Cambridge
Unlimited Global Alchemy is led by visual artist Rachel Gadsden in collaboration with South African artist and activist Nondumiso Hlwele and the Bambanani Group based in Khayelitsha Township near Cape Town. Together they will explore issues of identity, survival in the face of chronic medical conditions, and the politics of HIV. The project will culminate in an exhibition of visual artworks, a performance and a documentary film shown at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge in July-August 2012, touring to London during the Paralympics and then internationally.
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961761
Fri 27 July Martin Creed Work No 1197*
All the bells in the country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes from 8am to 8.03am
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961496
Friday 27 July OPENING CEREMONY FOR OLYMPIC GAMES
August 2012
Saturday 4 August Super Saturday
Sunday 12 August CLOSING CEREMONY OLYMPIC GAMES
August Journey to the Podium
Exhibition of the Inspire marked Journey to the Podium project a collaboration of artists and Essex County’s most promising athletes at the Hadleigh Old Fire Station, Hadleigh
1 August – 30 September Robert Wilson’s Walking
Visionary director Robert Wilson combines sculpture, installations and a three-mile stretch of the stunning north Norfolk coast to create a unique artistic experience that explores and redefines our relationship with the landscape. Produced by Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000962160
3 – 5 August Godiva Awakes, Artists Taking the Lead WM
The ten metre high cycle powered Lady Godiva crosses the region on its way from Coventry to London. There will be the procession and also evening celebrations.
Thursday 3 August Luton
Friday 4 August Hatfield
Saturday 5 August Waltham Abbey
http://festival.london2012.com/undefined/cultural-olympiad-events/godiva-awakes.php
4 August Celebrating Our Community
A free one day festival that celebrates the diverse communities that make up the Borough of Broxbourne at Cedars Park, Waltham Cross
24 – 28 August Paralympic Torch around UK
There will be opportunities to join in around the UK.
Wed 29 August OPENING CEREMONY OF PARALYMPIC GAMES
September 2012
8 and 9 September Closing weekend of Cultural Olympiad
8 September Out There International festival of Street Arts and Circus 2012 presents Waterlitz by Générik Vapeur
Waterlitz is the brand new creation from world renowned French Street Theatre Company, Générik Vapeur. Using their hallmark of combining the highest quality street theatre with explosive pyrotechnics and breath-taking aerial stunts, Waterlitz is a mobile performance designed to astound the audience with spectacle whilst also challenging them to consider some of the biggest issues affecting the world today. Presented at the Out There festival in GT Yarmouth
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000961890
9 September Bandstand Marathon
As part of the Cultural Olympiad the Bandstand Marathon aims to humanise public spaces by having as many bands performing on as many bandstands and outdoor performances spaces all at the same time on the same day throughout the UK.
The event, will be in its 5th year, celebrating local amateur musical talent; reflecting the amateur athletes who will be participating in the 2012 Games.
http://www.bandstandmarathon.org.uk/
Sunday 9 September CLOSING CEREMONY OF PARALYMPIC GAMES
October Journey to the Podium
Exhibition of the Inspire marked Journey to the Podium project a collaboration of artists and Essex County’s most promising athletes at
· The Dive Centre, Southend.
· County Hall, Chelmsford
· Essex Record Office, Chelmsford