The London 2012 Open Weekend takes place this weekend ahead of the celebrations marking a year until the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
Open Weekend has been held each year since 2008 as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, and this year’s event is reported to be the biggest and best yet, with more than 1,000 sporting and cultural events taking place across the UK ahead of the one-year-to-go milestone on July 27.
Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee said, “for our fourth year, Open Weekend is focused on celebrating the ‘One Year to Go’ countdown to the London 2012 Games and helping communities across the country experience the best of British sporting, artistic and cultural talents up close”.
Highlights of the event include a floating cinema which will navigate the Olympic Park waterways, an interactive treasure hunt through East London, youth theatre and dance performances, circus acts, children’s animation workshops and hands-on art activities.
London’s Trafalgar Square will be transformed for a screening of “The Itch of the Golden Nit”, an animated film conceived and drawn entirely by children; and Live Sites at 20 locations throughout the UK will also show the film on large screens, accompanied by a variety of interactive games.
