Olympic Art Exhibition

Wed, Jun 11, 2008

My Art, My Family, My Friends, My School, My Stuff

The Olympics Development Authority (ODA) conducted a competition between all the schools in the UK to try and come up with art work that could be used in the promotion of the Olympics 2012 and on the billboards of the Olympics billboards that would be visible at the Olympics Village at Stratford, London.

A few schools won the competition and our school was one of the winners. From our school, I was one of the students that worked on the art work that we submitted. I came up with the concept, the direction and also the poem that would go with the artwork.

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The Olympic Development Authority (ODA) invited all the artists who won and their parents to visit a small exhibition that they conducted. London 2012 Organising Committee Chair Sebastian Coe; ODA Chief Executive David Higgins; the Mayor of Hackney, Jules Pipe and World Triple Jump record holder Jonathan Edwards came to the event.

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The ODA held the celebration event for all the children and young people involved in the project from 17 different schools at Hackney Wick Community Centre.

There were a lot of press people and here in this picture you can see one of the press people taking a picture of our team in front of our artwork!

Here is a picture of me with our head teacher, Mr. Berry; our art teacher, Ms. Beazly and our school PR person, Mr. Das.

Our Art work was displayed all around the leaflets, rooms, and the billboard. There were lots of different children who won the competition to. We are now on the newspapers and the BBC news. You can even find a press release on the official Olympics 2012 website.

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell said: ‘I am extremely impressed with all the hard work that local children have put into this project. They have demonstrated not only pride in their community but also a real enthusiasm to be part of London 2012.

Here is a photo of our school team with ODA chairman, the mayor, the ODA CEO and Jonathan Edwards. You can see my sister Sahi also in it!