The 2009 Bupa Great North Run Cultural Programme was a year of firsts.
Our programme of new commissions and projects featured our first theatre show for families, 13.1 by Mike Kenny, our first exhibition Hit The Ground with new work by Vicki Bennett, Amy Feneck and Laura Mansfield, our first online project, Dry Run by NAME and Atau Tanaka, which enabled viewers to trace the emotional and physical journeys of ten Bupa Great North Run participants, and our first interactive digital playground, Great Street Games by media artists KMA, which linked Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough for a series of spectacular athletics games.
With an artist talk and book launch, schools visits and artist interventions in papers and on billboards, there was plenty for everyone to see and enjoy.
The spectators and iconic vistas along the route of the Bupa Great North Run are given centre stage in Vicki Bennett's new film Parade, an animated collage of archive footage from the last 28 years of the event.
A series of outdoor games which took place simultaneously in three North East locations; Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Each area competed against the others in this world-first event created by media artists KMA.
This group show presents work by internationally renowned artists on the theme of running and what running means to all kinds of people, from highly-trained athletes to enthusiastic amateurs to first-time participants.
Artists Amy Feneck and Laura Mansfield worked with a group of runners from Wallsend Harriers to make this new work.
Dry Run enabled the public to follow the emotional and psychological journeys of runners who were in training for their first Bupa Great North Run on this interactive website.
Artists Vicki Bennett and susan pui san lok discussed their work with Rebecca Shatwell, Director of AV Festival.
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