imove is bringing together the best creative talent from the region to produce a programme of events designed to inspire the public in the run up to the London 2012 Games. The programme is funded by the Legacy Trust UK - an independent charity set up to create a cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games across the UK, Yorkshire Forward and Arts Council England. Over the next 18 months, more than 100 events will be taking place across Yorkshire encompassing every artistic medium including dance, drama, music and photography and all sports from cricket to synchronised swimming.
The events will be region-wide, ensuring that everyone has the chance to experience the creative collaborations, many of which will be set against the backdrop of Yorkshire’s diverse and dramatic landscape or in unusual spaces.
These include:
‘The Mill – City of Dreams’, a project by Freedom Studios, uses the derelict Drummonds Mill in Bradford as a grand setting for a theatre production which explores the lives of the mill workers, using a cast and crew made up of the local community and ex-mill workers and their families, with performances taking place in March and April 2011.
The crowds at the Hull Super League Rugby Derby will be treated to a half time performance by Northern Ballet at the Hull Super League Rugby derby in April 2011 as part of ‘Don’t Just Sit There’ – a series of events involving some of the region’s top dance companies which aims to get people off their seats and moving.
A ‘Flying Day’ at Sewerby Hall in July 2011 on the coast of Bridlington will take place as part of ‘Wingbeats’, a music-theatre project which explores the relationship between flying and the striking landscape of East Riding.
‘Stanza Stones’ sees poet Simon Armitage working with the Ilkley Literature Festival and groups of young writers aged 13-18 taking them out onto the Pennines and creating a series of poems in response to the landscape. Alongside this work, a new series of poems by Simon will be carved on a trail of standing stones and rocks along the Pennines from Ilkley to Marsden – creating a lasting legacy from the project.
‘Sea Swim’ is a mass participation project involving sea-bathing at Scarborough. The project has a strong connection with poetry and creative writing and poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has agreed to be its patron. Led by writer John Wedgwood Clarke and artist-curator Lara Goodband, this project will explore the relationship between swimming and creativity in literature and the visual arts, alongside the history of sea-bathing as documented in Yorkshire's unique museum collections.
New projects are still being commissioned as part of imove. Over the coming months, imove will be announcing more new commissions which will extend the programme into further towns and cities across Yorkshire and will ensure a lasting cultural legacy is left in the region in the slipstream of the 2012 Games.
Tessa Gordziejko, Creative Director of imove, comments: “We are extremely excited about imove and the creative programme that is emerging from the two worlds of sport and art that rarely co-exist. The inspiration and energy from the UK’s hosting the Olympics in 2012, combined with the Legacy Trust resource, has opened up a once in a lifetime opportunity to showcase the huge pool of creative talent here in Yorkshire to a global stage. We hope that by combining these two disciplines in a fun and original way – we’ve produced a programme which will appeal to people of all ages and backgrounds from across the region.”
To find out more information about the imove projects and events happening in each area go to the imove website at http://www.imoveand.com/. The site will be regularly updated with new events and commissions. Source
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