Right here’s our full presentation to the committee.
Tradition and the Olympics
Tradition is one in every of three pillars of the Olympic Motion, together with Sport and Sustainability. It’s central to the Olympic mandate:
- Showcases the tradition of the host metropolis and nation.
- Captures the chance of a worldwide Olympic gathering to create intercultural exchanges, additional intercultural understanding and promote the prospects for world peace.
If Calgary have been to host one other Olympics and Paralympics, there could be a tradition element to internet hosting the Video games. It could embrace occasions, packages and celebrations that showcase Calgary, Alberta and Canada’s tradition to the world, together with a concentrate on Indigenous individuals. These cultural experiences are a method a number metropolis might help obtain its cultural plan targets and construct pleasure for the Olympic and Paralympic Video games.
The tradition element to the Olympics and Paralympics is mostly a four-year program that begins with the flag handover ceremony on the earlier Video games’ closing ceremony. For the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Video games, the ceremony will happen on the closing ceremony of the Beijing Video games in 2022. Cultural packages in the course of the Video games are organized by the Organizing Committee, in addition to by authorities companions and sponsors.
Beginning in 2022, the next 4 years would see cultural occasions and programming underway, usually starting with regional occasions. These occasions and programming acquire momentum, concluding in a global Cultural Olympiad for 60 days, which takes place earlier than and in the course of the Video games. It concludes on the closing ceremonies of the Paralympic Winter Video games.
Tradition occasions and programming might embrace many choices:
- College and youth programming
- Ticketed occasions
- Commissioning native artists for artwork or reveals
- Torch relay, occasions within the streets
- Medal ceremonies
- Concert events or exhibits
- Neighborhood-based and initiated celebrations on the neighbourhood stage
Tradition occasions and programming would offer experiences for residents and guests outdoors the sporting occasions. They’d additionally present a possibility to have interaction all Calgary communities.
A part of figuring out whether or not we should always bid on the Olympic and Paralympic Video games, is ensuring a bid advances all 5 strategic priorities of Calgary’s cultural plan:
- Maximize Calgary’s variety benefit
- Develop Calgary’s cultural sector and inventive industries
- Activate culturally vibrant neighbourhoods and districts
- Reinvigorate centre metropolis as a tradition coronary heart of town
- Preserve and have fun Calgary’s constructed, pure and indigenous heritage
Funding sources and investing within the host metropolis’s arts and tradition
The tradition function of an Olympic bid rests throughout the operational price to host an Olympic and Paralympic Video games. The operational prices are usually lined by means of a mixture of funding sources: ticket gross sales, personal sponsorships and authorities. They’re supported by means of companions and sponsors, along with the occasions supplied by the host committee.
Wanting again on the ’88 Calgary Video games, there have been each sporting legacies, such because the Winsport amenities, Olympic Oval, Nakiska ski hill, and Canmore Nordic Centre, in addition to tradition legacies. Examples embrace development of the Olympic Plaza, and main funding in the direction of Arts Commons and lots of Calgary arts organizations, such because the Calgary Philharmonic, Calgary Opera, Alberta Theatre Initiatives and One Yellow Rabbit Efficiency Theatre.
As a part of The Metropolis’s public engagement occasions, there can be alternatives so that you can discuss with us about Calgary’s tradition scene and whether or not internet hosting an Olympic and Paralympic Video games might match with our metropolis.
Public engagement
It will be significant residents have the chance to study as a lot as doable in regards to the bid course of and the parts of Calgary’s bid by means of the engagement course of.
We’re planning our public engagement to start in September. Engagement alternatives will proceed main as much as the vote of the electors, happening within the fall.
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For extra details about the Olympic bid challenge, go to calgary.ca/OlympicBid.
