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Winter Olympics in Vancouver

The Cultural Olympiad will run from 2006 right up to just five weeks before the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

The Olympiad will begin in the host cities of Vancouver and Whistler, with a collection of activities that highlight our local cultures and creative artists. From there, in 2007 and 2008, it will extend across the country to involve a full range of Canada’s creative communities and national cultural institutions.

In 2008 and 2009, our Vancouver 2010 Cultural Festival will go on the road. Canada’s most creative talents will tour the world to display their skills and artistry and invite everyone, everywhere to come and join us in 2010.

Olympic Arts Festival: On January 22, 2010, three weeks before the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the five-week Olympic Arts Festival will begin.

The Festival will be both a celebration of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic spirit and a showcase of Canadian art and culture, together with the best the rest of the world has to offer. It will use more than 25 different locations across Vancouver and Whistler –spilling onto the sidewalks, streets and public spaces, into and around the sports venues and the Olympic Village – to present a blend of traditional and contemporary arts and cultural events and experiences, many of them free.

Visiting Artists: To capture and reflect each nation’s participation in the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, we will invite each country to include a nationally recognized artist as part of its team. Just as in ancient times, the artists will create works that reflect their experience of the Games, and help us make the Olympic Arts Festival a truly international event.

We will develop an exhibition about our Canadian arts and cultural heritage for the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, and host an exhibition from the Olympic Museum here at the Vancouver Museum.

Find out more at www.vancouver2010.com