Let the Imagining Begin!
July 16 is the deadline for arts and culture groups to propose ideas for the opening Feb. 1-March 21, 2008 phase of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
Officials announced plans for an annual, seven-week festival of festivals on June 12 at the Vancouver Playhouse. It will climax in 2010 with five-week Olympic and two-week Paralympic extravaganzas.
The Cultural Olympiad will include international and regional arts. (ATR)
Content could include "performing and studio arts, contemporary, classical and aboriginal music, theatre, dance, literary, visual, interdisciplinary, culinary, street art and probably a few things we haven’t thought about already," says program director Robert Kerr.
He said it would showcase international, national and regional talent and works, but British Columbia artists and organizations would be at the core.
The VANOC Cultural Olympiad budget is $19 million, most of which will be spent in 2010. It’s one-third the budget for ceremonies.
Marti Kulich, VANOC program director of ceremonies, said 14,000 performers will be needed for opening, closing and nightly victory ceremonies at B.C. Place Stadium. VANOC is expected to hire an executive producer in September.
VANOC also unveiled the beta version of its vancouver2010.com/edu website. When it’s operating fully this fall, it will connect Canadian schools, teachers and students nationwide with Olympic, sport, culture and sustainability knowledge.
Sea-to-Sky Games Go Boating
When B.C. Ferries new double-ended ferry is launched from a German shipyard in September, it will stop in London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle before arriving in British Columbia. The Coastal Renaissance will double as the world’s biggest floating billboard with images of winter sports, B.C. scenery and Vancouver 2010 logos.
B.C. Ferries public affairs executive director Mark Stefanson conceived the idea to promote B.C. tourism to the lucrative German, British and American markets. The 33-foot high, 500-foot-long vinyl ship wraps will be made by 3M, which finalized a sponsorship deal with VANOC on June 11 in the $3-15 million category.
The wraps will remain on the Coastal Renaissance and its two sister ships until 2011.
Possibly 2010 Slogan?
Smith-Valade calls "Celebrate the Possible" a theme. (ATR)
Salt Lake City had "Light the Fire Within." Turin "Passion Lives Here." Is the Vancouver slogan "Celebrate the Possible?"
Possibly.
The three words are common whenever VANOC executives appear at speaking engagements and were trademarked on Nov. 22, 2006. Whether they are employed at Games-time is not certain.
"It’s more of a theme that we’re weaving through our different programs, our arts program, the brand video," said VANOC vice-president of communications Renee Smith-Valade.
"Likely the tag line will be an iteration of something on those lines, but not those words. Although it could be."
With reporting from Vancouver by Bob Mackin
bob@aroundtherings.com
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