| Event title and date | Location |
Festival Live
25 Jul - 4 Aug | Manchester - various locations |
| Visitors to Manchester city centre can celebrate the Games at Festival Live, a festival of free entertainment in the city. For a full programme of events click here. |
Shisha Sri Lanka - Crafty Thoughts
8 Jul - 14 Sep | The University of Liverpool Art Gallery |
The 1st group exhibition in the UK of work by 8 leading contempory Sri Lankan artists. Crafty Thoughts presents a range of works that play off the provocative relationship between high and low art. Ranging from plasercine models and terracotta sculptures to photographs and textile based installations.
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British Waterways Boat Arrivals
6 July - 25 July | Castlefield, Piccadilly Basin, Salford Keys |
| Up to 300 boats will arrive in the city centre during games time, the biggest gathering Manchester has ever seen on water. Arriving via Ashton, Bridgewater and Leeds/ Liverpool Canals. To celebrate and encourage the use our waterways. |
Waterfire
11 August | Manchester - Piccadilly Canal Basin |
| Will attract 6000 people to British Waterways finale to their Aquafest feature to encourage the use of the regenerated inland waterways. Community event featuring performances with commonwealth theme and a firework finale. |
Chandrika - Silver Ornaments of India
20 Jul - 14 Sep | Kendal - Brewery Arts Centre |
Chandrika Silver Ornaments of India brings together for the first time rarely seen silver objects from India. The collection comprises of a stunning array of beautiful silver jewellery and other items from the Chandrika Foundation in Jaipur, India.
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Salford Young Peoples University
22 Jul-9 Aug | University of Salford |
| 3 themes to include science and technology/ performing arts/sports-ages 9 to 1314-15 ages one day tour of facilities+up to 5 days spent over the campus. |
Web Cam Link
26 Jul - 4 Aug | Warrington - Fordton Leisure Centre |
| The ICT Learning Centre will be available for competitors from Barbados for a web cam link up with family and friends. |
Party In The Park
27 -28 July & 3 -4 Aug | Manchester - Various Locations |
| Funday for the local community at local parks. Activities include sports, food and celebration. |
Swim the Commonwealth Challenge
11 Mar - 10 Aug | Blackburn with Darwen - Pools in the area |
| Challenge to swim from any of the Commonwealth Games countries to Manchester before the end of the games. Includes all levels of swimmer to log their distances at pools throughout the region. |
Interface: The Men Who Knew Too Much
1 May - 31 Aug | Zion Arts Centre |
Melbourne's masters of precision absurdity perform both live and virtually in this bizarre journey through cyberface. The Goons meet Blade Runner and decide the future of theatre in this unorthodox tumble through web-world.
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Our Commonwealth
25 May - 31 Aug | Bolton - Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium |
Celebrates the achievements of a sparkling array of poets drawn from across the Commonwealth. Using unique material from the Ryland’s collection of modern literacy archives, this exhibition tells the remarkable story of how Carcanet Press, a small publishing house in the Northern City of Manchester, has listened to these voices over the past thirty years and given them a permanent life in print.
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Visible Cities
18 Jun - 20 Aug | Manchester - Cube, Young Person's Gallery |
| Exhibition of children's sculpture, drawings and paintings of imaginary cities displayed at a gallery of international reputation. |
The Dunham Massey Maize Maze
13 Jul - 15 Sep | Altrincham - Dunham Massey |
| Based at redhouse farm next to Dunham Massey. The maze will be sown in the form of a grid and the design will be pegged out in the shape of the three c/w athletes. After closure grain will be harvested and fed to local farm animals. |
Tales of Power - West African Textiles
23 Feb - 20 Oct | Whitworth Art Gallery |
| Ritual, tradition, spirituality and magic are explored in this display of West African textiles with a difference, offering a radical retelling of Macbeth as a Yorath story of kings, war, and conflict. |
Blackpool Queen's Golden Jubilee Family Festival
Summer 2002 | Blackpool - Stanley Park |
| Major family festival celebrating the Queen's Golden Jubilee. The festival will include the Howard Haigh and Sounds 18-piece orchestra playing in the bandstand. There will also be street-theatre, local bands (performing in a marquee), participatory music workshops and taster sessions, horticultural show, displays, activities etc. |
String of Pearls
11 Mar - 31 Dec | London |
| Prominent buildings along the river Thames in London will take part. They will be specially lit and opened for public viewings with some offering special Jubilee activities such as exhibitions etc. |
Cultural Identity and Cricket
Apr - End of Aug | Edgbaston Cricket Club, Birmingham |
| Exploring how cricket has unified and integrated different areas of the Commonwealth. Leading to a book and touring exhibition. Photographer in residence Ravi Deepres |
