London 2012 Festival
Leading artists from all over the world will come together in the UK’s biggest ever festival - a chance for everyone to celebrate London 2012 through dance, music, theatre, the visual arts, film and digital innovation, and to leave a lasting legacy for the arts in the UK.
The Festival will serve as the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad and will open on 21 June 2012 - Midsummer’s Day. It will run until 9 September 2012 - the last day of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
At the heart of the festival will be a programme of commissions by some of the finest artists in the world, with events ranging from pop to film, from visual arts and fashion to theatre, from circus to carnival, from opera to digital innovation.
The first commissions include works from the likes of Rachel Whiteread, Akram Khan, Cate Blanchett, Mike Leigh, Damon Albarn, Rufus Norris and Jamie Hewlett.
In total, the Festival will feature more than 1,000 events, with an estimated audience of more than three million people. Some of the events will be ticketed; some will be free to attend. Further information on ticketing, pricing and promotional plans will be provided in the build-up to the first tickets going on sale in November 2011. For the latest ticketing news and information
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