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.

Beginning February 12, daily entertainment at Robson Square includes:

• BC Live - Nightly at 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.; Showcases B.C. musicians and artists representing all regions and cultures with family entertainment to world-beat fusion to B.C.’s best indie bands. Performers include Jim Byrnes, Mother Mother, Hey Ocean, Alex*Cuba, The Left, Jaydee Bixby, Said The Whale, and the Paperboys.
• BC Spirit Showcase: Music! Culture! Community! – Various showtimes daily -  Features local community and multicultural performers, as well as established, amateur and up-and-coming musicians from B.C. Performers include M’Girl, Shari Ulrich, Pastiche, Gypsalero, Tiller’s Folly, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Showstoppers, Ache Brasil, Strathcona Chinese Dance Company, and Il Voce.
• BC Street Jam - Various showtimes daily and nightly – Engaging performances on Robson Street showcasing the unique talents of the best of B.C.’s street artists, including the Stunt Superstar Aaron Gregg, the Checkerboard Guy, Junkyard Symphony, and the Bigger Balloon Guy.
• BC Kids – Weekends at noon and 1 p.m.; CircusWest daily at 1:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:00 p.m., and 6:30 p.m. – Features children’s entertainers Bobs and Lolo, Rick Scott, and The Kerplunks and the renowned CircusWest
• Aboriginal Showcase – Daily at 12:30 p.m. - Presentations highlighting Aboriginal life in B.C. showcasing the talents, traditions and contemporary expressions of B.C.’s Aboriginal people with performers including three-time (guests: World Champion Hoop Dancer Alex Wells, the Yinka Dene Drum Group, Métis +Cultural Dancers, Le-La-La Dancers, and the Nisga’a Ts’amiks Dancers)
• First Nations Carving Exhibit – Daily from noon to 8 p.m. – Located in a temporary gallery on the northeast side of the Georgia Street Plaza, will feature Musqueam artist Susan Point and Coast Salish artists demonstrating their creative skill.
• Meet the Mascots on Ice - Daily at 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. -  Featuring the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Mascots and their friends as they skate, dance and sing.
• Ignite the Dream - Nightly at 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m – A spectacular and innovative evening show that will light up the sky featuring specialized lighting, pyrotechnics, lasers, projected images, and performers high above the ground.

Other interesting things to see in Robson Square are the ice rink at GE Plaza, the BC International Media Centre, and the BC Canada Pavilion at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada

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. Presented as part of the Vancouver 2010 Indigenous Youth Gathering, the 2010 Olympic Truce Dialogue’s theme was Promoting Mutual Understanding.

The event, also broadcasted live online, featured artistic moments such as Indigenous dancing and hip hop performances as well as an intercultural dialogue that invited the audience to present and discuss the challenges that they believe their communities face and that impede peace together with the solutions they would suggests for the problems identified. Among the challenges mentioned were the lack of equality of opportunities, the limited political involvement and support, and the high incidence of social and health issues such as alcohol abuse or HIV/AIDS.  The young leaders in agreement with the other participants at the meeting agreed that dialogue can foster and support change, and investment in education and promotion of culture can positively impact communities.

“Empowering young people is empowering a nation” said her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, in her concluding remarks suggesting that the two key points of today’s meeting was the recognition of the contribution young people can have to promoting change, dialogue, peace and solidarity and the need of translating words into action.

CODE Dialogues asked how new technologies shape our individual and collective capacities to think, understand, collaborate, and create. There were discussions on crossing cultural boundaries with the use of new technologies and exploring the notion of organic technology, across transdisciplinary fields of art, science, technology, design, humanities and social science.

Participants included: Bruce Ferguson, Dan Roosegaarde, M. Simon Levin, Don Ritter, Luc Courchesne, Alexandra Samuel, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Maria Lantin Sara Diamond, Ralph Borland, Faisal Anwar, Dustin Rivers, Galen Scorer, Anais met det Ancxt, Johanna Berzowska, Brendan Wypich, Jer Thorp and Randy Lee Cutler.

For more information about events scheduled for CODE at Emily Carr, and across the wider Vancouver area, please check out the CODE Live website.

The events spanned across CODE 1 (Great Northern Way), CODE 2 (Emily Carr) and across the skies with the Vancouver vectoral illuminations. CODE Live runs from the 4th to the 21st of February. More details are available here.

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“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 IOC member, Klaus Schormann – UIPM president and Sam Ramsamy – IOC Executive Board Member) to you we only have 20 minutes for each presentation. Due to introduction and two questions at the end we kindly ask you to prepare your presentation for 15 min. maximum. Please tell us if you need any other equipment than a projector for your presentation.

Welcome and see you soon
Warm regards

Yours Holger Preuss and Rob Vanwynsberghe

Programme

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Feb 19, 2010
Program / Schedule

Hall 1

Opening
9:00 – 9:30 am Holger Preuss (GER; JGU)& Robert Sparks (CAN; UBC)
Philippe Blanchard (SUI; Olympic Studies Centre)
Klaus Schormann (GER; President, UIPM)
Keynote I 9:30 – 10:15 Richard Pound (CAN; IOC): Marketing the Olympics
10:15 – 10:35 Coffee Break

Session I

(Chair
Preuss)
10:35 – 10:55 Sterken, E (NED): Economic Impact of Organizing Large-Scale Sporting
Events
10:55 – 11:15 Neirotti, L (USA): Understanding the Olympic Spectator: A Key Stakeholder
in the Olympic Games
Discussion
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break

Session II

Winter Games
(Chair
Vanwynsberghe)
11:45 – 12:05 Parent, M. & Seguin, B. (CAN): Intergovernmental Coordination for the
2010 Winter Games: A Municipal Perspective
12:05 – 12:25 Markin, E. (RUS): The Model of State Administration and Financing in 2014
Sochi Olympics Organizing: World’s Best Practice or Russian Know-how?
12:25 – 12:45 Dickson, T. (AUS): Olympic and Paralympic Legacies: the 2010 Volunteers’
Story…
Discussion
1:00 – 2:20 pm Lunch

Keynote II 2:20 – 3:05

Klaus Schormann (GER; President ,UIPM): Governing an Olympic World
Federation
3:05 – 3:10 Short Break

Session III

Communications
(Chair Parent)
3:10 – 3:30 Panagiotopoulou, R. (GRE) & Papa, F. (FRA): The Olympic Games and the
new media platforms: Business Opportunities and Constraints in a
networked Society
3:30 – 3:50 Miah, A., Jones, J. & Adi, A. (GBR): The Olympic Games and Web 3.0:
Monetizing the Olympic Movement’s Digital Assets
Discussion
4:05 – 4:25 Coffee Break

Session IV

Local Sport
Development
(Chair Hiller)
4:25 – 4:45 Lee, C. (KOR): The Impact of Hosting Big Sport Event for the Local Value
Creation; Case of Gangwon Province, Korea.
4:45 – 5:05 Klaus, S. (GER): Olympic Games and Sports Development – Impulse and
Instrument for enhancing physical activity and urban development in
Olympic Cities
5:05 – 5:25 Kidd, B. (CAN): The Limitations of hosting Major Games as a Strategy of
domestic Sports Development
Discussion

Keynote III 5:45 – 6:30

Sam Ramsamy (RSA; IOC Executive Board Member): Olympic Games:
Major Challenges after being awarded the Games
7 Dinner

Hall 2

Keynote I in Hall 1

10:15 – 10:35 Coffee Break

Session I

Bidding
(Chair
Seguin)
10:35 – 10:55 Kaspar, R. (AUT): The Event Life Cyle 2.0. – Lessons Learnt from Olympic
Infrastructure Errors for Olympic Bid and Host Cities
10:55 – 11:15 Maennig, W. & Fedderson, A. (GER): Who Wins the Olympic Bids? An
Empirical Analysis of Key Determinants of Olympic Winter Bids
Discussion
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break

Session II

Legacy
Chair Ströbel)
11:45 – 12:05 Bondonio, P. & Guala, A. (ITA): Four Years Later: Olympic Effect on Turin’s
Regeneration
12:05 – 12:25 Preuss, H. (GER) & Troelsen, T. (DEN): Place Branding through Mega Sport
Events and the Impact on Stakeholder Communities
12:25 – 12:45 Adi, A. & Miah, A. (GBR): The Olympic Games and the legacy of Olympic
protests
Discussion
1:00 – 2:20 pm Lunch

Keynote II in Hall 1

3:05 – 3:10 Short Break

Session III

Medal
Prognosis
(Chair
Troelsen)
3:10 – 3:30 Kuper, G. & Sterken, E. (NED): Who is going to Win in Vancouver?
3:30 – 3:50 Kempf, H. & Belz, C. (SUI): What is an Olympic Medal worth – the
Quantification of the Intensity of Competition in Olympic Winter Sports
Discussion
4:05 – 4:25 Coffee Break

Session IV

Youth Olympics
(Chair Bielons)
4:25 – 4:45 Schnitzer, M. (AUT): Will Youth Olympic Games create Sporting Legacies?
4:45 – 5:05 Redl, M. (AUT): Exercising Adaptive Leadership in Olympic Sport
Organizations: The Case of the Youth Olympic Games
5:05 – 5:25 Walzel, S. (GER): First Youth Olympic Games from the Sponsorship
Perspective
Discussion

Keynote III in Hall 1

General Information

Location:

Liu Institute for Global Issues -The University of British Columbia
6476 NW Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Scientific Committee:

Prof. Dr. Harry Hiller, UCalgary, Canada
Prof. Dr. Benoit Seguin, UOttawa, Canada
Prof. Dr. Harry Arne Solberg, Trondheim Business School, Norway
Prof. Dr. Holger Preuß, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Prof. Dr. Robert Lentell, University of East London, Great Britain
Dr. Norbert Schütte, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Dr. Robert Vanwynsberghe, UBC, Canada
Assistant to the committee: Christian Alfs, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Organizations

Acknowledged by: Olympic Studies Centre, Lausanne
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz – Institute
for Sport Science
University of British Columbia – School of
Human Kinetics
Union International de Pentathlon Moderne, Monaco
University of Calgary, Department of Sociology
University of Ottawa, School of Human Kinetic
University of East London, Royal Docks Business School
GB Consulting, Madrid

Image by +kk (http://www.staticphotography.com)

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 and link here.

Fresh Media Olympics Conference

February 22, 2010, 10am-7pm

W2 Culture + Media House

112 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC

The Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games are expected to draw 3 billion worldwide television and 70 million website viewers and will generate more wireless content than any previous Olympics. With an explosion of social media tools in the hands of Olympic fans, and pervasive reporting by citizen journalists and bloggers will social media have its journalistic coming out party this February?

Join with experts from traditional and social media, bloggers and academia to explore the dominant narratives half-way thru this 17-day global event!

With thousands of media makers and storytellers unaccredited by VANOC and the BC government’s media centre, how can the IOC control the message and hand exclusivity to its investor brands? Sport and culture fans will undoubtedly flood online platforms with their own Olympic messages, and cultural festivities and Vancouver’s homelessness issues could gain prominence with traditional winter sports stories. Beijing 2008 failed to uphold pledges for an open media environment, so what will London 2012 learn from Vancouver’s experience with NBC expecting to lose $200 million, and Canwest under creditor protection?

The conference features a keynote from Andy Miah, author of ‘Genetically Modified Athletes’ (2004) and the forthcoming book ‘A Digital Olympics: Digital Games, Ethics & Cultures’ (for The MIT Press), and panels with senior journalists and industry watchers from the USA, UK, Canada, and elsewhere. An afternoon unconference program provides open space for participant led-workshops with an added emphasis on practice and a summary of the first Olympic week.

The conference also brings people face-to-face for networking and sharing tips on theory, practice, legal and operations. W2 will webstream to reach viewers outside Vancouver. The day wraps with a Cinq à sept reception and evening party with Vancouver artists and DJs.

Sure to sell-out, registration opens January 28, and is free for Full Media Access passholders for the W2 Culture + Media House.

Exhibition: World Games: An Exhibition of Painting from Beijing 2008 — London 2012

When: 25-29 November, 2009

Address:

Bankside Gallery

48 Hopton Street London SE1 9JH

Phone 020 7928 7521

Email info@banksidegallery.com

www.banksidegallery.com

More details below:

here’s the schedule for the day…

Time Meetings/Events Place
09:00 – 09:15
President’s opening remarks and opening of the
121st IOC Session – followed by the presentations
of the 2016 Candidate Cities
Hall A, Bella Center
09:15 – 10:25 Presentation by Chicago, USA Hall A, Bella Center
10:25 – 10:40 Break
10:35 Press conference by Chicago, USA
Media Briefing Room
Bella Center
10:40 – 11:50 Presentation by Tokyo, Japan Hall A, Bella Center
11:50 – 12:05 Break
12:00 Press conference by Tokyo, Japan
Media Briefing Room
Bella Center
12:05 – 13:15 Presentation by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Hall A, Bella Center
13:15 – 14:45 Lunch
13:25 Press conference by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Media Briefing Room
Bella Center
14:45 – 15:55 Presentation by Madrid, Spain Hall A, Bella Center
15:55 – 16:10 Break (Observers leave the Session Hall)
16:05 Press conference by Madrid, Spain
Media Briefing Room
Bella Center
16:10 – 17:40
Election of the host city for the Games of the
XXXI Olympiad in 2016
Hall A, Bella Center
18:30 – 19:00
Announcement ceremony of the host city of the
Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016
Auditorium, Bella
Center
19:00 – 21:00
Reception hosted by the IOC President on the
occasion of the election of the host city of the
Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016
Bella Center
19:30 – 20:45
Signature of the Host City Contract. IOC press
conference with the host city of the Games of the
XXXI Olympiad in 2016
Media Briefing Room
Bella Center

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 Sports Journals) – The Evolution of Information and Communication in Sport Studies

11.00 am-12.00 pm: First Keynote Address – John J. MacAloon (University of Chicago) – ‘Legacy’ and the Dilemma of the Olympic Movement

Discussant: Brian Stoddart (La Trobe University, Melbourne)

12.00-12.15 pm: Coffee Break

12.15-1.30 pm: Panel 1 – Olympic Legacies: Overview

Bruce Kidd (University of Toronto) – The Ideological Legacies of the Olympic Games

Hans M. Westerbeek (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) – Amsterdam 1928 – Amsterdam 2028: On past and future legacies

Jean-Loup Chappelet, (Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), Lausanne) – Olympic Environmental  Concerns as a Legacy of the Winter Games
Discussant: David Washbrook (St. Antony’s College, Oxford)

1.30-2.30 pm: Lunch

2.30-3.45 pm: Panel 2 – Olympic Legacies Overview

John Hughson (University of Central Lancashire) – The Legacy of Olympic Game’s Films: The Case of Melbourne 1956

Joseph Maguire (Loughborough University) – Branding and Consumption in the IOCs ‘Celebrate Humanity’ Advertisements: Hidden Messages

Mark Dyreson, and Matthew Llewellyn (Penn State University) – The Olympic Legacy of Los Angeles

Discussant: Bruce Kidd (University of Toronto)

3.45-4.00 pm: Tea break

4.00-5.15 pm: Panel 3 – Far Eastern Olympic Issues

Dong Jinxia (Peking University) and J.A. Mangan (Founding and Executive Academic Editor, ‘International Journal of the History of Sport’) – Beijing Olympics Legacies:  Certain Intentions and Certain  and Uncertain Outcomes

Dolores Martinez (School of Oriental and African Studies) – The Legacy of the 1964 Tokyo Olympiad

Brian Bridges (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) – The Seoul Olympics: Economic Miracle Meets the World

Discussant: John MacAloon (University of Chicago)

6.30-7.00 pm: T&F Reception and Release of Ceremonial First Day Cover specially designed for the conference by Terry Mitchell of Chapman and Mitchell Covers.

7.00 pm: Conference Dinner
DAY 2

8.30-9.15 am: Breakfast at St John’s College

10.00-10.15 am: Tea and Coffee

10.15 am-12.00 pm: Panel 4 – South Asian Olympic and (Imperial) Issues

Ronojoy Sen (Associate Editor, Times of India) – Playing Under Empire: Indian Sportspersons and Questions of Identity in Colonial India
Boria Majumdar (La Trobe University, Melbourne) – Games of Self-Respect: A Colony at the Olympics
Nalin Mehta (Deputy News Editor, Times Now Television, India) – The Golden Legacy: Hockey and India’s Olympic Encounter

Kausik Bandyopadhyay (Maulana Azad Institute of Advanced Studies, Kolkata) – Uncovering the Sleeping Giant Syndrome: India in Olympic Football

Discussant: J. A. Mangan (Founding and Executive Academic Editor, ‘International Journal of the History of Sport’)

12.00-12.15 pm: Tea Break

12.15-1.15 pm: Panel 5 – Western Olympic Issues

Gavin Poynter (University of East London) – London 2012: The Regeneration Game(s)

Charles Davis – Searching for the Greatest Olympic Performances, Using a Complete Summer Olympics Database

Discussant: Mark Dyreson (Penn State University)

1.15-2.30 pm: Lunch

2.30-3.30 pm: 2nd Keynote Address – Malcolm Speed (Chief Executive, International Cricket Council) – Cricket and the Olympics: A potential legacy

3.30-3.45 pm: Tea Break

3.45-4.45 pm: Final Keynote Address – Brian Stoddart (Former Vice Chancellor, La Trobe University, Melbourne) – The Olympic Movement and Geopolitical Legacies.
4.45-5.15 pm: Concluding Session
4.45-5.00 pm: David Washbrook (St Antony’s College, Oxford) – Summing up
5.00-5.15 pm: Hans Westerbeek (La Trobe University, Melbourne) – Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks