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The UK Parliament is making its own contribution to the Cultural Olympiad by developing a unique cultural programme to take place over the summer of 2012. Over the next few months it will be revealing the line up of work and performances which will be on show in Westminster Hall during 2012, so it will be posting info about how to participate and see the programme.

The Project
The ‘Arts in Parliament’ programme is now in full development and will include showcases from artists and arts organisations from around the UK.
The curated programme …

Salon de Refuse Olympique
Friday 30th September – Sunday 2nd October 2011

An Olympian marathon of salon debates for forthcoming book documenting and highlighting critical creative responses to the official London 2012 Olympic Games site and Cultural Olympiad.

The book will be published by Myrdle Court Press in 2012 and will collect the range of critical creative responses that have occurred since the governing bodies choose to bid for the 2012 Games. The book will also present an overview, history and critique of the Cultural Olympiad and in doing so will argue against …

A conference taking place at University of Northampton on July 13th will feature debates about the Cultural Olympiad as a core part of its agenda. The event is free and open to all. More information here
 
Photo of Mondo Spider by Andy Miah, featured in Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition, 2010

This week the London 2012 Olympic Torch was revealed to the public. The Olympic Torch Relay has become a major part of the Olympic cultural programme leading up to the Games and is perhaps the primary mechanism through which to engage the host population, many of whom will not make it to the city. Its journey will create a series of mini-cultural events in each location, around which many cultural and arts partners will be mobilized to showcase their region and create a distinct cultural celebration.

In January, participants at Birkbeck’s conference on the links between Barcelona 1992 and London 2012 were invited to an Olympic site perimeter walk during which we saw Jim Woodall’s ‘Olympic State’ artist project. This is not an intevention that you are likely to find with an ‘inspired by 2012′ logo attached to it. Read the press release below, link to the website and, above all, try to see it for an unrivalled perspective on the contribution of art to the Olympic Games and a great view of the Olympic park.
 

Press …

On 24th January, 2011, at 630pm @UWScreative will be hosting an ‘inspired by London 2012′ event at the CCA in Glasgow, host city for ICSEMIS 2012.
The event is FREE to attend and open to all. It will bring together a scientist, an artist and a philosopher (me) in conversation about the way in which athletes bodies and minds are being transformed by technology.
Today, elite sports find themselves in increasingly unchartered waters. More than ever before, athletes are using technology to optimize their biology for performance and many of their methods …

A community of citizen journalists are beginning to take ownership  over their participation at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. They are constituted by a number of our writers here and we’re working closely to develop the work around the #media2012 project. We plan a special edition on #media2012 and the role of social media in the non-sporting dimensions of the Games in 2011. For more information see the website. The project launched formally at Cornerhouse Manchester as part of the Abandon Normal Devices festival, and ‘Inspired by 2012′ …

Days ahead of the LOCOG World Press Briefing, C@tO Editor Andy Miah is outlining a vision for the 2012 Games that draws together the nations and regions to collectively tell their story via citizen media. Find below the outline for #media2012. The proposal launch will take place on 4 Oct, 2010 in Manchester @ANDfestival (http://www.andfestival.org.uk).

With the 2012 Games now fast approaching, this year’s conference will explore opportunities presented by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to re-vitalise curricula to enhance student learning opportunities and experiences, and to encourage student engagement with learning.

The 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games provide an exciting focus for sociological analyses of the personal and public, local and global. The special issue, to be published in 2011, provides an opportunity to contribute timely reflections on the sociological interest and significance of this global event in UK and comparative context. This special issue aims to bring together strong theoretical, empirical and methodological contributions from across the field of sociology, demonstrating the ways in which the discipline can use the backdrop of the games to examine sporting, political, cultural, economic and global events.