Made in England - Welcoming the World

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Welcoming the World

Up to 250 local people and a team of flag-designing artists teamed up to be inspired by the landscape. They will produce a series of stunning flags aiming to represent the North West.

The project involves 250 local people creating their own visual spectacle which will be part of the Lakes Alive events and festivals. It will stand in its own right as an original and distinctive visual spectacle for the outdoors. They will work with internationally-recognised designer and flag-maker Wendy Meadley and a team of specially-trained North West-based artists on an ambitious flag-making project.

The focus and theme for the project will be "Inspired by the Landscape" and will explore what kind of images and messages its participants want to portray to the wider world in the run-up to 2012. They will focus on how the landscape has and continues to define local identity and explore what their aspirations are for the future image and identity of Cumbria as it moves towards world heritage status..

The artists will work with participants on how to reflect their ideas through colours and designs to be made into a series of 100 stunning, large-scale flags for the outdoors. Each group will stand alone as an impressive, coherent display and the cumulative effect of the full 100 will be amazing.

The flags will be featured in increasing numbers at the events across the County from mid-August with a final full 'exhibition' and world premiere of all 100 flags at the Mintfest festival at the end of August. There will be a subsequent installation at Brockhole, the Lake District National Park's Visitor Centre in the Autumn.

This project is part of Lakes Alive, one of the North West's three Olympic Legacy programmes, which has at its core a world-class season of outdoor performance and arts events and festivals across the whole of Cumbria.

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