On the 26th of February, the International Olympic Academy Participants Association (IOAPA) are holding a reunion in Vancouver for all past participants who are in the city for the Games.  The event will be held between 5pm-7pm within the Reception of 1090 Boulevard, followed by a further chance to connect at Subeez Restaurant, on the corner of Homer and Smithe, from 7pm until late.
Please RSVP to Katherine Ringrose if you wish to attend.

According to a press release from the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport, BC Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Secretariat, of the British Columbia Government, the Robson Square of Vancouver will be the scene for B.C.-focused, free entertainment every day and night during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Just one day before the beginning of the Winter Olympics, more than 500 young leaders have met today (Thursday, February 11, 2010) with their Excellencies the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, and Mr. Jean-Daniel Lafond, as well as other foreign dignitaries, government officials, special guests and Olympic athletes at the Vancouver Public Library’s Central Branch (350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia) to mark the Olympic Truce in an open dialogue.

On the 6th of February, 2010, to coincide with the opening of CODE Live at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, the Cultural Olympiad 2010 and Emily Carr presented a one-day forum that brought together national and international artists, (many of which were exhibiting work within CODE) curators and thinkers for a series of dialogues on the relationships between digital technologies and creative practices today.

Over the evenings of the 3rd and 4th Febuary, Culture @ the Olympics staff (Jennifer Jones, Kris Krug and Danielle Sipple) have been present at the pre-launch and launch of the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad events, CODE Live.

Message from our colleague, Professor Holger Preuss & Rob Vanwynsberghe
“We are happy to send you the finalized program of our symposium on February 19th in Vancouver at UBC including the address of the place where we will meet. We soon will launch a webpage for further information, directions, side events and most important the registration for you and your colleagues/students.
Due to the papers we accepted (we had a 30% rejection rate) and the great chance to present three top level key note speakers (Richard Pound – former WADA president and …

During Vancouver 2010, C@tO will be working with W2 in Vancouver to run a series of debates and the Fresh Media conference on 22nd February. The focus for this conference will be to discuss how the media is changing and bringing about change via new, social and traditional forms of journalism.
Speakers are now being confirmed and will likely include a range of people from the Vancouver new media community, professional journalists covering the Games, international experts on Olympic media and students from the BC area. For more information, see below …

Just over a year after the Beijing Olympics, artist Tim Vyner’s latest exhibition entitled World of Games: An Exhibition of Paintings from Beijing 2008-London 2012 opened on Tuesday 25th of November, 2009 at the Bankside Gallery in London.

Rundown of IOC Congress 2009 – 2nd of October, 2009

Olympic Legacies
29-30 March 2008
St Antony’s College, Oxford
South Asian Studies Programme
Asian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford
St Antony’s College, Oxford, OX2 6JF, UK · Tel: (01865) 274559 ·
Fax: (01865) 274559, Email: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Hosts: St Antony’s College, Oxford, La Trobe University, Melbourne and Taylor & Francis Group.
DAY 1
8.30-9.15 am: Breakfast at St John’s College
9.45-10.30 am: Registration at St Antony’s College
10.30-10.40 am: Inaugural comments – David Washbrook (St. Antony’s College, Oxford)
10.40-10.50 am: J.A. Mangan (Founding and Executive Academic Editor, ‘International Journal of the History of Sport’)
IJHS-25 plus
10.50-11.00 am: Jonathan Manley (Publisher, Taylor and Francis …