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CULTURE / SEP2011 - This innovative project will set up digital hubs in all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs to offer accessibility and participation in the Cultural Olympiad to a wider constituency
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An Ode to Charles Fourier
The project will combine research into utopia, playscapes and creative industry workspaces, creating a hybrid prototype for a fu
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UNLIMITED: The Ugly Spirit
North West and UK
JANUARY 2010 - 2012
Unlimited is a partnership between London 2012, the UK Arts Councils and the British Council and celebrates disability, arts, culture and sport on an unprecedented scale.
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Visible Dance
CULTURE/ DEC 2010 Visible Dance will enable adults with learning disabilities to participate in weekly creative dance led by a professional artist.
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Cultural Olympiad Launch - North West - 26-28 September 2008
The North West celebrated the launch of the Cultural Olympiad with over 30 events held during the London 2012 Open Weekend on 26 - 28 September 2008.
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Neon Attractors - Coniston and Liverpool - 26 September - 12 October 2008
Neon Attractors was our first officially recognized Inspire mark project and set the tone for the region's programme leading to 2012 and beyond.
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Remarkable - Liverpool - 15 October 2008-2012
Remarkable is a hyper real, poetic documentary on the existential lifestyle of Liverpool based B-Boy Mark Jacob, whose alter ego (Remarkable) is the title of the film.
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Stories of the World : Global Threads - North West - November 2008-2012
Stories of the World presents exciting new museum exhibitions across the UK, created by young people.
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somewhereto Pilot - Crewe - January 2009-2012
somewhereto gives 16-25 year olds the support to access spaces that are not available to them, to do the things they love doing.
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We Play Launch - Manchester - 24 March 2009
March 2009 saw the launch of WE PLAY - a Legacy Trust UK funded project integrating year round public events, community programmes and the development of new work up to 2012.
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Abandon Normal Devices Launch - 16 April-24 June 2009 - Manchester and Liverpool
The Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival of new cinema and digital culture launched with the eight week film shoot of Centre of Attention, followed by Renegade Cinema in Liverpool in April and Get Played in Manchester in collaboration with moves08.
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Lakes Alive - Cumbria - 23 May to 30 August 2009
The Lakes Alive programme of outdoor peformance and street arts running across Cumbria launched in May 2009 with Reach for the Sky - a series of six international aerial spectacles in Bowness-on-Windermere, Carlisle, Penrith, Barrow, Maryport and Whitehav
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Village Screen/Picnic on the Screen - 24th - 28th June 2009 - Glastonbury/South West
Village Screen, an Inspire mark project in the South West at Glastonbury Festival, is a UK wide programme led by the South West 2012 Creative Programmer with the UK's network of Creative Programmers, Screen Agencies and BBC.
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The City as Gymnasium - Manchester - 9 July - 5 October 2009
The City as Gymnasium project developed and presented by CUBE - Centre for the Urban Built Environment - investigates how the city itself is often used as a sporting arena.
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Places of Public Resort - Liverpool - 24 July 2009
CULTURE/ MAY 2009 An innovative cultural event commissioned for the BBC Big Screen in Liverpool, Places of Public Resort set a new benchmark in interactive development for public broadcasting screens and secured the first Inspire mark awarded to the BBC.
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Welcoming The World - Kendal and Brockhole - 15 August - November 2009
The Lakes Alive project, Welcoming the World was developed for year one of the Cultural Olympiad and awarded the Inspire mark.
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Unsilent Night -29 October 2009 - Liverpool
A one off screening of classic British shorts from the silent era, celebrating early primitive film and pioneers in collaboration with contemporary musicians from across the North West
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DaDaVisions - Liverpool and UK - 17 November 2009-February 2010
Inspire mark project, DaDaVisions was commissioned and curated to mark the 1000 days to the Paralympic Games celebrations in the North West.
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Cultural Conversations - Liverpool and Merseyside - February 2010-October 2012
Cultural Conversations is Brouhaha's three year thematic carnival arts programme running fom 2010 to 2012. It hosts a number of large and small scale carnivals and parades locally, nationally and internationally.
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Vancouver 2010 - AND+W2 - Vancouver and Online - 10-22 February 2010
The North West established the First Games Time cultural collaboration between a winter and summer Games by developing a project or the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad which involved North West Inspire projects, Abandon Normal Devices and DaDaVisions.
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Woven Cultures - March - November 2010 - North West
A regional arts programme exploring issues of age, race, sexuality, disability and asylum through a focus on equality, diversity and what it means to be human.
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Welcoming the Light - March 2010 - Cumbria
A new event developed as part of the Illuminating Hadrian’s Wall event, which saw a line of light from coast to coast along the entire length of Hadrian’s Wall
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Abandon Normal Devices Festival - 15 March to 10 April 2010 - Cumbria and Lancashire
In Spring 2010, the Abandon Normal Devices Festival (AND) headed to the hills and rural landscapes of Cumbria and Lancashire
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Portrait of an Athlete - North West and UK - April 2010 - 2012
The North West cultural programme established a creative collaboration with the Pre Games Training Camp programme in the North West and in 2010, commissioned Salford Based audio-visual artists Soup to create a series of short films that explore the relati
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Sufi:Zen - 29 April - 2 May 2010 - Barrow in Furness
A site-specific performance of Sufi:Meets Zen, a dance developed from the principles of Sufi and zen, was performed by acclaimed South Asian dance company Akademi in the magical and spiritual setting of the ruins of Furness Abbey - and English Heritage si
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Blaze - Lancashire and Fylde Coast - 27 May - September 2010
WE PLAY's third annual programme Blaze launched in Preston in May 2010 of this year and showcased its dynamic programme of six art/sport commissions featuring in its Summer 2010 programme and for presentation as a series of routes and trails across variou
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We Built This City - June 2010 - Cumbria
A participatory family event which involved children and families working with Polyglot Theatre (Australia) to build “a city of dreams” in a day from thousands of cardboard boxes
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Zircus Plus - Barrow in Furness - 4-6 June 2010
A three day, contemporary circus festival in Barrow-in-Furness which brings quality international circus artists to Barrow.
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Water's Edge - North West and UK - 21 June and 23-25 July 2010
Developed and curated for the launch of the London 2012 Discovering Places campaign over the 2010 Open Weekend, Water's Edge is a UK wide public participation project connecting art and culture to the local environment.
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Mechanical Games - June to October 2010
Mechanical Games is an interactive version of an international sporting competition for the masses, where anyone can perform internationally recognised sports and everyone can vote on gold medal winners.
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The Games - North West and UK - 25 July - 6 November 2010
The Games is sports based comedy theatre show which presents the stories of the ancient games to a new audience, invited as part of the show to take part in sporting activities.
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Bicycle Ballet - Manchester - 23-25 July 2010
Bicycle Ballet is a 30 minute dance performance, celebrating the dance that is cycling.
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The Road to the Big Game - Nelson - 24 July, 28 July-September 2010
Blaze young producers from 'Fuse1318' theatre workshop, part of Pendle based Fusion Community arts, commissioned New York artist Tom Russotti to work with them to develop The Road to the Big Game, a series of new game and sporting events held at Nelson Cr
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AfroReggae 2010 Liverpool - 25 July 2010-21 August 2010
A four week residency and series of public showings led by nine artists from AfroReggae - a cultural movement based in Rio de Janeiro - with three breakdancers from Bad Taste Cru, who took daily workshops to centres and outdoor areas in Liverpool where dr
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Into the Woods - Cumbria - 28-30 July 2010
A surprising mix of street arts companies placed in woodland settings in the three locations across Cumbria, with performance, interactive shows and installations aimed at a family audience.
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Mintfest International Summer School - 30 August-5 September 2010 - Kendal
The UK’s first ever street arts summer school helping up to 30 young and emerging street artists from across the UK to develop their skills and expertise.
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