| Event
title and date |
Location |
Festival
Live
25 Jul - 4 Aug |
Manchester
- various locations |
| Visitors
to Manchester city centre can celebrate the Games at Festival
Live, a festival of free entertainment in the city. For
a full programme of events click
here. |
Shisha
Sri Lanka - Crafty Thoughts
8 Jul - 14 Sep |
The
University of Liverpool Art Gallery |
The
1st group exhibition in the UK of work by 8 leading contempory
Sri Lankan artists. Crafty Thoughts presents a range of
works that play off the provocative relationship between
high and low art. Ranging from plasercine models and terracotta
sculptures to photographs and textile based installations.
|
British
Waterways Boat Arrivals
6 July - 25 July |
Castlefield,
Piccadilly Basin, Salford Keys |
| Up
to 300 boats will arrive in the city centre during games
time, the biggest gathering Manchester has ever seen on
water. Arriving via Ashton, Bridgewater and Leeds/ Liverpool
Canals. To celebrate and encourage the use our waterways. |
Waterfire
11 August |
Manchester
- Piccadilly Canal Basin |
| Will
attract 6000 people to British Waterways finale to their
Aquafest feature to encourage the use of the regenerated
inland waterways. Community event featuring performances
with commonwealth theme and a firework finale. |
Chandrika
- Silver Ornaments of India
20 Jul - 14 Sep |
Kendal
- Brewery Arts Centre |
Chandrika
Silver Ornaments of India brings together for the first
time rarely seen silver objects from India. The collection
comprises of a stunning array of beautiful silver jewellery
and other items from the Chandrika Foundation in Jaipur,
India.
|
Salford
Young Peoples University
22 Jul-9 Aug |
University
of Salford |
| 3
themes to include science and technology/ performing arts/sports-ages
9 to 1314-15 ages one day tour of facilities+up to 5 days
spent over the campus. |
Web
Cam Link
26 Jul - 4 Aug |
Warrington
- Fordton Leisure Centre |
| The
ICT Learning Centre will be available for competitors
from Barbados for a web cam link up with family and friends. |
Party
In The Park
27 -28 July & 3 -4 Aug |
Manchester
- Various Locations |
| Funday
for the local community at local parks. Activities include
sports, food and celebration. |
Swim
the Commonwealth Challenge
11 Mar - 10 Aug |
Blackburn
with Darwen - Pools in the area |
| Challenge
to swim from any of the Commonwealth Games countries to
Manchester before the end of the games. Includes all levels
of swimmer to log their distances at pools throughout
the region. |
Interface:
The Men Who Knew Too Much
1 May - 31 Aug |
Zion
Arts Centre |
| Melbourne's
masters of precision absurdity perform both live and virtually
in this bizarre journey through cyberface. The Goons meet
Blade Runner and decide the future of theatre in this
unorthodox tumble through web-world. |
Our
Commonwealth
25 May - 31 Aug |
Bolton
- Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium |
| Celebrates
the achievements of a sparkling array of poets drawn from
across the Commonwealth. Using unique material from the
Ryland鈥檚 collection of modern literacy archives, this
exhibition tells the remarkable story of how Carcanet
Press, a small publishing house in the Northern City of
Manchester, has listened to these voices over the past
thirty years and given them a permanent life in print. |
Visible
Cities
18 Jun - 20 Aug |
Manchester
- Cube, Young Person's Gallery |
| Exhibition
of children's sculpture, drawings and paintings of imaginary
cities displayed at a gallery of international reputation. |
The
Dunham Massey Maize Maze
13 Jul - 15 Sep |
Altrincham
- Dunham Massey |
| Based
at redhouse farm next to Dunham Massey. The maze will
be sown in the form of a grid and the design will be pegged
out in the shape of the three c/w athletes. After closure
grain will be harvested and fed to local farm animals. |
Tales
of Power - West African Textiles
23 Feb - 20 Oct |
Whitworth
Art Gallery |
| Ritual,
tradition, spirituality and magic are explored in this
display of West African textiles with a difference, offering
a radical retelling of Macbeth as a Yorath story of kings,
war, and conflict. |
Blackpool
Queen's Golden Jubilee Family Festival
Summer 2002 |
Blackpool
- Stanley Park |
| Major
family festival celebrating the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
The festival will include the Howard Haigh and Sounds
18-piece orchestra playing in the bandstand. There will
also be street-theatre, local bands (performing in a marquee),
participatory music workshops and taster sessions, horticultural
show, displays, activities etc. |
String
of Pearls
11 Mar - 31 Dec |
London |
| Prominent
buildings along the river Thames in London will take part.
They will be specially lit and opened for public viewings
with some offering special Jubilee activities such as
exhibitions etc. |
Cultural
Identity and Cricket
Apr - End of Aug |
Edgbaston
Cricket Club, Birmingham |
| Exploring
how cricket has unified and integrated different areas
of the Commonwealth. Leading to a book and touring exhibition.
Photographer in residence Ravi Deepres |
