Great North Run Cultural Programme
The Great North Run Cultural Programme, now known as Bupa Great North Run Culture, is an annual series of artistic commissions which celebrate and respond to the Bupa Great North Run the world's largest half-marathon - its history and route, its spirit and recollection, the thousands of journeys and stories of those who take part.
Established in 2005 to celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of the Bupa Great North Run, Great North Run Culture explores the unqiue partnership between art and sport. Commissions over the last three years include film, photography, music, dance, painting, drawing, writing and mass participation projects.
Great North Run Culture works with some of the leading figures from the cultural world, including those based in the North East, each of whom offer an extraordinary insight into this very special event.
New work has been created by artists and creative practitioners including Jane and Louise Wilson, Michael Nyman, Fiona Banner, Bill Bryson, David Almond, Julian Germain, Graham Dolphin, Neville Campbell, Michael Baig-Clifford and Ravi Deepres, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Suky Best, James Edwards, Stephen Gill and Beat Streuli.
Read more about Great North Run Cultural Programme: The Great North Run Moving Image Commission
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