W2 Media House Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
This morning was the official opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for the W2 Culture and Media House; the first independent media centre of its kind, offering space and providing the infrastructure, resources and support for unaccredited media, independent journalists and bloggers from around the world and around the corner who are covering this story of Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Games.
BC Preps for Opening of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
Vancouver's Olympic Fibre Network
With 4 days until the Olympics begin in Vancouver, Bell, Canadas' largest phone network offered a taste of the world's first all-IP (internet protocol) Games. This is the first Olympic Games, in history, to be broadcast and shared across a fibre, digital infrastructure.
CODE Dialogues at Emily Carr University
On the 6th of February, 2010, to coincide with the opening of CODE Live at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, the Cultural Olympiad 2010 and Emily Carr presented a one-day forum that brought together national and international artists, (many of which were exhibiting work within CODE) curators and thinkers for a series of dialogues on the relationships between digital technologies and creative practices today.
CODE Live Launch
Over the evenings of the 3rd and 4th Febuary, Culture @ the Olympics staff (Jennifer Jones, Kris Krug and Danielle Sipple) have been present at the pre-launch and launch of the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad events, CODE Live.
@CulturalOlympic (2009.10.15-2010.01.06)
Our Twitter Feed Summary for 15 Dec 2009 -06 Jan 2010
Whistler launches resort-wide social media effort
Vancouver 2010 Alternative Olympic Calendar
C@tO and Huffington Post
International Sport Business Symposium in Vancouver 2010
Fresh Media Olympics Conference
C@tO at Vancouver 2010
Latest Issue
10 Years of Culture @ the Olympics (1999-2009)
Art Exhibition
Just over a year after the Beijing Olympics, artist Tim Vyner’s latest exhibition entitled World of Games: An Exhibition of Paintings from Beijing 2008-London 2012 opened on Tuesday 25th of November, 2009 at the Bankside Gallery in London.
Third International Sport Business Symposium - Vancouver
This call for abstracts is directed to researchers of all disciplines. The Third International Sport Business Symposium calls for research directly related to the business of the Olympic Games; the upcoming 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, as well as prior and future Olympic, Youth, and Paralympic Games. Papers about Olympic media, legacy, tourism, consumers, organizations, finance, economics, environment, Paralympics and others are welcome. The official language for abstracts and the Symposium is English.
Intellectual Muscle
Intellectual Muscle is an eclectic series of talks by prominent and up-and-coming Canadian intellectuals on topics related to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Public lectures will be delivered at universities across Canada and made available online in podcast form. The online program will include polls, discussion forums and other interactive features, providing Canadians with a unique opportunity to participate in a series of national dialogues.
Our Twitter Feed summary (2009.10.02-13)
A summary of the Twitter data from the 2nd to the 13th of October - capturing the online discussions from the 121st IOC session.
IOC Congress 2 October 2009
Rundown of IOC Congress 2009 - 2nd of October, 2009