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The 2009 event on the legacy of the 2012 Olympics will be held at the University of Greenwich on June 5th, 6th and 7th. Keynote speakers and a provisional programme will be posted on here over the coming months.
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Music at the reception will be provided by DJ Readybreak. Readybreak is a member of ‘Sonny J’, whose debut album will be released on EMI records in June. Sonny J rehearsed for their recent UK tour with Groove Armada and worked on their album material at Creekside Studios in Deptford, one mile away from Greenwich [...]
You can view the press release for the conference by clicking here.
“The long term benefits of the London 2012 Olympics will be debated at the first in a new series of conferences at the University of Greenwich.
‘The Olympic Legacy – People, Place, Enterprise’ will be held on Thursday, May 8 and Friday, May 9 at [...]
You can view or download a copy of the full conference programme by clicking here.
The Games
Produced by Hilary Powell, Optimistic Productions
The Games is a 15 minute film made in February 2007 involved staging a surreal alternative Olympic Games amid the sites (from junkyards and allotments to Clays Lane estate) now demolished and enclosed by the blue hoardings. Originally commissioned by URBIS it has screened widely and is now in [...]
On the evening of the 8th May all delegates are invited to intend an outdoor reception, to be held at the Queen Anne Court, which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and backs onto the River Thames. The evening will include food, drink and music that will be performed by young people from East London, [...]
Thursday – ‘Learning from experience’; ‘Olympic tourism’; ‘Education and Skills’
Friday – ‘The Cultural Olympiad’; ‘Regeneration’; ‘Community impacts’
The detailed programme will be announced next week and available for download here and on the conference main page.
Tour East London, the destination marketing organisation for East London, will be hosting a workshop during the conference titled ‘Will there be sustainable benefits to the local visitor economy from 2012?’. This workshop will look at the local economy and examine the likely benefits and problems arising from the tourism associated with the London games.
The Creative Way, the lifelong learning network for the Thames Gateway, will be running an interactive session at the conference which will explore education and skills training routes that will support the Olympics and how these will contribute to the long term development of the experience economy and creative industries in the Thames Gateway region.
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