The Games Walk

One of the many jobs I have at the minute is the Project Administrator for 'The Games Walk'.

The Games Walk is an interactive Arts trail created by The Firestation Centre for Arts and Culture. It will run along the stretch of river that connects Dorney Rowing lake [home of the Olympic and Paralympic Rowing and Sprint Canoe events] to Windsor and Eton.

On most of the Bridges and Waterway structures that line the route, we are planning on creating a series of Interactive Art installations. From poems being engraved into the wooden slats of a bridge, to a computer game station projected on the wall of a fly-over underpass, the project is unique and as good Arts projects do, it has a real and lasting effect on the community it is placed in. Each bridge installation will connect a local artist with a sector of the community, and each original piece of work that evolves from the connection, will be there for all to enjoy long after 2012 has left us.

I'll write about this now and again. Already, the project has has introduced me into a world of knowledge of regional community involvement in Culture and Arts Funding. I'm finding it fascinating, although I'm aware the debate over the statistical change of private sector individual giving in culture to regions vs London isn't everyone's idea of a good time.