The host city of the 2022 commonwealth games, Birmingham City, United Kingdom will stage festivals which will include more than 200 events from March to September across the West Midlands and will involve more than 100,000 participants, making it one of the largest cultural programmes to ever surround the games.
The festival’s chief creative officer Martin Green said the great gift of the mega-event is that it comes and it gives an opportunity for everybody to work towards the same goal.
“Sport is codified by its very nature, it is the same everywhere in the world. So it’s the cultural activity, the festival, the opening and closing ceremonies, that give you the sense of place, and we have a great opportunity to celebrate this extraordinary creative place we’ve got here in Birmingham.”
Green who was the former head of ceremonies at the London 2012 Olympics noted that Birmingham will benefit from the great gift of the mega-event.
Green speaking at the launch of a concurrent six-month-long cultural festival informed that programmes will includes on record album featuring 11 original songs about Birmingham by local artists including UB40, and Time Travel Tram, which will transform windows in a West Midlands Metro tram service between Wolverhampton and Birmingham into the world’s first immersive digital art installation powered by 5G.
A number of events will merge the worlds of culture and sport.
