The Coubertin Olympic Awards Competition, run by the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (CIPC) and the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE) with the patronage of HRH The Princess Royal and have been recognised by the Inspire Mark, is launching this year’s calls for submissions. The competition is challenging students to write a research essay on how the Olympic ideals of fairness, integrity and openness can help businesses balance commercial success with their social responsibilities.

AND + W2 is a programme of debates and artworks, constituting the only Games time cultural collaboration between the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. It is co-produced with W2 in Vancouver and is thematically structured around the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival of new cinema and digital culture. AND is a Legacy Trust funded programme in England’s Northwest. Produced in association with FACT, Tenantspin and Dada for Vancouver 2010 and the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme in England’s Northwest.

It was immediately apparent on my first day in Vancouver that experiencing an Olympic city during the games time period is a rich and unique opportunity. My first stop was to register at the British Columbia Media Centre, a slick and professional operation with all the amenities that money can buy and a perfect office from home for the world’s journalists.

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.

An interesting story, but not because Prince Charles is boycotting. Rather, I doubt very much that he was likely to go to the Games at all, so the boycott is entirely a publicity  stunt. All perfectly valid, but it begs the question as to what social significance the term boycott has. Surely, one has to have something at stake for the boycott to be some kind of principled sacrifice.
Free Tibet Campaign urging public figures to stay away
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London 2012 has a new Higher Education agency that describes itself in the following way:
  ‘Podium’ is the Further and Higher Education Unit for the 2012 Games. The Unit has a nationwide remit and has two major aims;
To communicate both within the sector and with outside agencies about the potential for Universities and Colleges to support the successful staging and delivery of the 2012 Games.
To coordinate the development of activity within the sector that maximises the benefits of hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in …

LONDON 2012 NEVER TOOK PLACE: Re-imagining the Olympic zone is a two-day event to mark the launch of WE SELL BOXES, WE BUY GOLD.
This ongoing project explores the 2012 Olympic site and the Lower Lea Valley as a context for interdisciplinary research and artistic intervention. The event takes place at various venues near the Olympic site in Stratford and includes performances by Mark Wayman, a symposium moderated by Iain Sinclair and Nick Couldry and a sound installation by Richard Crow.
The title London 2012 never took …

The Cultural Impact of the Games: The cultural and creative impact of the 2012 Games
8:30am to 7:00pm, DCMS, Cockspur Street
Chaired by Simon Evans, Creative Clusters
A pre-conference seminar held at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport office in London followed by lunch and a coach tour of creative businesses in East London hosted by the 2020 Legacy team at East London Business Association and SPACE Studios. From the outset, culture and education have been seen as a central component of the UK’s Olympic project. This all-day event looks at how …

A new article from Culture at the Olympics
9.3 No Go Logo? London 2012’s Branding Hurdle, pp.14-17.
by Andy Miah

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and the British Olympic Foundation
Speakers: Christophe Dubi, Jude Kelly OBE
Lecture | 26 July 2007 00:00 | National
Location: RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ
Booking Status: Not yet open
The Olympic Games – a catalyst for change
http://www.rsa.org.uk/events/detail.asp?eventID=2317