Great North Run Cultural Programme

Great North Run Cultural Programme

The Great North Run Cultural Programme is an annual series of artistic commissions which celebrate and respond to the Bupa Great North Run the world's largest half-marathon - its history and route, its spirit and recollection, the thousands of journeys and stories of those who take part.

Established in 2005 to celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of the Bupa Great North Run, the Cultural Programme explores the unqiue partnership between art and sport. Commissions over the last three years include film, music, painting, drawing, photography, writing and mass participation projects.

The Great North Run Cultural Programme works with some of the leading figures from the cultural world, including those based in the North East, each of whom offer an extraordinary insight into this very special event.

New work has been created by artists and creative practitioners including Jane and Louise Wilson, Michael Nyman, Julian Germain, Graham Dolphin, Nevillle Campbell, Michael Baig-Clifford and Ravi Deepres, Suky Best, James Edwards, Stephen Gill and Alan Clark.

Future projects are planned with Mark Wallinger, Beat Streuli, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Bill Bryson, David Almond, Claire Morgan, NAME and Atau Tanaka.

The Great North Run Moving Image Commission

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Bupa Great North Run and to create a legacy from the first Cultural Programme film by Jane and Louise Wilson, an annual Moving Image Commission was launched, awarding an artist of film-maker £30,000 to create a new piece of work based on the Great North Run.

The films are premiered in North East England in September as part of the Great North Run Cultural Programme, with an extract screened on the BBC as part of their live coverage of the BUPA Great North Run. There are plans to tour all of the works nationally and internationally from the end of 2008.

Previous Moving Image Commission Awards

2006: "Runner" by Michael Baig-Clifford and Ravi Deepres

Selected by: artist Louise Wilson; Steven Bode, Director of Film and Video Umbrella ;Brendan Foster, Chairman of the BUPA Great North Run; Beth Rowson, Curator and Manager of the Cultural Programme; Rebecca Shatwell, Visual Arts Officer at Arts Council England.

2007: "About Running" by Suky Best

Selected by: artist Mark Wallinger, Dave Gordon, Head of Special Events at BBC Sport; Brendan Foster; Beth Rowson; Rebecca Shatwell

2008: " Run for me" by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

Selected by: artist Beat Streuli; Dave Gordon; Brendan Foster; Beth Rowson; Rebecca Shatwell

External links

* [http://www.greatnorthrunculture.org Great North Run Cultural Programme]

*Great North Run Moving Image Commission webpage: [http://www.greatnorthrunculture.org/movingimage Great North Run Moving Image Commission]


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