ARCADE is thrilled to announce that our submission to FestivalUK*2022 has been successful! We have been selected as one of 30 creative teams, out of the 299 teams who applied, for the research and development phase of the Festival that culminates in pitching our idea to the Festival panel.
FestivalUK*2022 is a programme created to celebrate the best of UK STEAM, ultimately commissioning ten large scale public engagement projects that will showcase the UK's creativity and innovation to the world, and we join an incredibly exciting team now competing for one of those ten commissions:
- London Marathon Events (Hugh Brasher and Penny Dain, Lead Organisation)
- Imperial War Museums (Ellie Head and Michael Hoeschen)
- National Physical Laboratory (Sundeep Bhandari)
- Welsh National Opera (Emma Flatley and Tianyi Lu)
- NTS Live (Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura)
- Dr Rashmi Becker
- Kinjal Dave
- and, of course, Arcade (Jon Meggitt and Alex Book)
The full set of teams can be found here:https://www.festival2022.uk/the-r-d-the-30-creative-teams
Alex Book, Arcade Chief Strategy Officer, said:
We could not be more proud that the FestivalUK*2022 team have looked at this incredible collaboration of creative talents, and selected us as one of just 30 teams tasked with thinking big and coming up something truly spectacular. We are so privileged to be a part of this process, and so excited to see what we come up with.
Hugh Brasher, Event Director of team lead London Marathon Events, said:
We’re hugely excited by this amazing team and working together on a vision for engaging with millions of people in Great Britain and around the world. This is a wonderful opportunity to create a truly innovative project that will live long in people’s memories.
The full FestivalUK*2022 press release can be found here: https://www.festival2022.uk/press-area
