Audio and Fables…

Having looked at our brief from Mary our group have started to look into the use of audio and combining this with the fact that every culture has fables. Elizabetta from Italy has ‘Little red riding hood’ and ‘Pinocchio’ and in Ireland its ‘The Children of Lir’ and ‘Salmon of Knowledge’. This is only a starting point for our group and who knows where the project will go but I think recording stories from 30 countries (London will be the Games of the 30th (XXX) Olympiad) and combining them to create a new one could be interesting and fun.

Below I found a link to a simular project that the Olympic commitee will run.

Stories of the world.

Stories of the World is one of the major projects at the heard of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. It is being led by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in partnership with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Through Stories of the World people of all backgrounds, from every part o the UK, will become ‘curators’ of the collections and objects held in museums, libraries and archives. They’ll have the chance to come up with new ways of representing material, then put on their own series of exhibitions.

A few interesting facts about the games.

- We expect 205 nations to take part in 300 events at the Olympic Games in 2012. 147 nations will take part in the Paralympic Games.

- London will be the Games of the 30th (XXX) Olympiad.

- 900 medals will be handed out during the Olympic Games in 2012.

- A total of 14,700 athletes will compete at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

- The Olympic symbol (the Olympic rings) expresses the activity of the Olympic Movement and represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic  games.

Infographics

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