Taking The Cultural Olympiad To The UK's Regions - Culture Minister Margaret Hodge Names Eight Creative Programmers For England

Creative Programmers for the Four Year Nation-wide Cultural Olympiad

	Details of the eight regional Creative Programmers for the four year nation
	wide Cultural Olympiad starting 24th August 2008 and leading up to the Games
	proper in 2012 have been released and these are available on
	http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_library/Press_notices/archive_2007/dcms109_07.htm
	These should be able to offer assistance in the co-ordination of regional
	and city based events in addition to your local authority designated Olympic
	officer who may be able to assist with training individuals and staging
	local events in towns and cities.  It is imperative in order to raise the
	profile and the development of the Morris for the next generation that a
	programme of training young and new members should be incorporated into any
	plans that sides and regional reps wish to consider.  Besides events for the
	2008 Liverpool City of Culture, which each of the Morris Organisations are
	involved in, our own 75th anniversary events built round the Ring Meetings
	for 2009 and the Olympic Ring Meetings for 2012, the Joint Morris
	Organisations are already planning annual large scale events starting in
	Nottingham in 2009.  A 2012 Border Morris event centered on Much Wenlock
	involving West Midlands area sides and at Bodmin with South West sides that
	builds on the historic 'games' held in these locations could be another
	Olympic focus worth planning for on a regional basis.

	The Creative Programmers for the regions are:

	East: Liz Hughes
	East Midlands: Paul Brookes
	North East: Lorna Fulton
	North West: Deborah Lander
	South East: Caterina Loriggio
	South West: Richard Crowe
	Yorkshire: Tessa Gordziejko
	West Midlands: Paul Keynes

		Best of luck. Please contact me anmd your regional rep if you encounter any
		problems or wish to discuss proposals.
   
	email:  The Morris Ring Squire