Olympics 2012

Our first stakeholder meeting to discuss the Olympics took place on 30 January 2007. We're now developing a strategy based on a vision that promotes North London and the Upper Lee as a cultural crossroads where communities living and working on both sides of the Lee Valley meet and share the Olympic ideal.

North London arts conference

On Saturday 9 June, Waltham Forest is hosting a conference for arts practitioners who are working with or in local communities to find out more about the Cultural Olympiad and what the Olympics will mean for them.
It will take place in Waltham Forest Town Hall, Forest Road, Walthamstow from 10.30 to 4pm. The first presentations will include ACE London and London Councils (11-12 noon), followed by networking sessions with the funders, a buffet lunch (1-2pm), workshops and feedback with Stratford Circus, Studio 3 Arts, Four Greens, Waltham Forest Arts Club and Creative Partnerships London North (2-4pm).
If you are a practitioner who works with local people and would like to attend, please contact northlondonartsconference@hotmail.co.uk for an invitation.

Olympics business opportunities for creative businesses

On Tuesday 26 June, Four Greens is organising a meeting for creative businesses in North London to hear about the opportunities that will be available during the run-up to the Olympics in 2012.
This will be the first time that arts and creative businesses can find out what they must do to meet the tendering criteria. Currently the ODA is receiving tenders for infrastructural work and a similar process will be used by LOCOG after 2009. However, the requirements are stringent, so the next two years will be vital for North London businesses to put in place what they need in order to compete successfully - and the earlier the better!
The meeting is free and will take place at the newly opened - and impressive - Lee Valley Athletics Centre at Picketts Lock, Edmonton, from 4 to 5.30pm, with presentations by Mike Mulvey (CEO of the London Business Network, the conduit for Olympics contracts) and Eryl Smith (Executive Director of the 5 Boroughs London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Programme).
If you would like to attend, please email peter@fourgreens.org.