London 2012 Cultural Olympiad ?Best The World Has Seen
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Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell predicted Tuesday that the UK?s Cultural Olympiad, which begins next year, should be the best there?s ever been, reconnecting culture and sport as the Ancient Greeks saw it. She said, ?our model is not Sydney, Barcelona or Athens ? it is Olympia?.
An independent Legacy Trust, jointly funded by the Big Lottery Fund, DCMS and Arts Council England, will reportedly draw from 40 million pounds to support cultural and sporting engagement across the UK, linking communities with London 2012 ahead of the Games Opening Ceremony.
Jowell says she believes that this figure will rise dramatically with commercial sponsorship and will ensure that around 70 per cent of this total goes to cultural provision, with the rest being invested in grass roots sport.
Jowell said, ?the Olympic flame will light the fuse for an explosion of arts and culture in the UK. Winning the bid for 2012 was about far more than putting on a few weeks of glorious sporting spectacle in London. The torch that passes to us after Beijing next year will mark the start of a cultural festival to surpass all others, involving people from all backgrounds and from every part of the country. The best the world has ever seen?.
Meanwhile local people are getting a greater voice on plans to develop land around London 2012 Olympic Park. London 2012 reports that an Olympic Park Regeneration Steering Group is being set up to ensure local people are involved in the planning and development of new neighbourhoods, commercial development and services in and around the Olympic Park when the Games are over.
The Olympic Park Regeneration Steering Group will prepare and consult on the Legacy Masterplan Framework which will be the basis of further planning applications submitted by the LDA for the development of new communities, commercial development and public facilities around the Olympic Park and its world-class sporting venues, said London 2012.
(Source: Gamesbids.com)
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