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The role would involve developing and delivering media strategies, issuing press releases and using press contacts to secure high profile coverage. Recent successes for the programme involve appearing at Channel 4's 'T4 On The Beach' as well as a large amount of coverage following a promotional film shoot inside 10 Downing Street.

The ideal candidate will have extensive press contacts, a proven track record of securing coverage across a range of genres (including youth media) and the ability to translate and clearly communicate complex campaign messages.

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Today saw the launch of the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12 week celebration across the UK marking the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad and, of course, the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The festival will bring together the best home grown and international artists and performers in a programme of events running from 21 June to 9 September 2012.

The festival will open with a spectacular series of events on Midsummer's Day. This will include an all-star concert hosted by Jeremy Gilley and Jude Law in Derry to mark the three month countdown to Peace Day 2012, the acclaimed Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra performing in Stirling and the UK premiere of a new choral work by Jonathan Harvey performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus, Youth Chorus and Children's Chorus.

The fourth showpiece event opening the festival will feature the musicians and pyrotechnicians of Les Commandos Percu performing by Lake Windermere as part of next year’s Lakes Alive festival. As Legacy Trust UK is a principal funder of the Cultural Olympiad, several funded projects including Big Dance, Tate Movie Project, Speed of Light and Carnival Crossroads are being included as part of the festival programme.

Other highlights across a range of art forms include the London debut of Damon Albarn’s opera Dr Dee, the World Shakespeare Festival and Martin Creed’s Work No. 1197: All the bells in a country rung as quickly and loudly as possible for three minutes, to mark the opening day of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on 27 July.

Ruth Mackenzie, Director, Cultural Olympiad, said: “From 21 June to 9 September 2012, across the whole of the UK, new work from the best artists, musicians, writers, comedians, film makers and other creative talent will be presented in the largest festival in the country. From food to fashion, street dance to digital, and pop to opera, the festival will offer once in a lifetime chance to be inspired by the best in the world. I would like to thank our Premier Partners BP and BT and Principle Funders Arts Council England, Legacy Trust UK and the Olympic Lottery Distributor for making it possible”.

For more information, visit the London 2012 Festival website.

Public art charity NVA today put out a call for runners to participate in Speed of Light, which will bring people together from all over the UK in an extraordinary programme of cultural activity and presentations.  NVA’s Speed of Light will climax with a series of mass participation performances that will take place in August 2012 on Edinburgh’s iconic Arthur’s Seat as part of the Edinburgh International Festival and London 2012 Festival.

A tremendous fusion of sport and culture, NVA’s Speed of Light is one of only four national projects to be commissioned as part of Legacy Trust UK’s Community Celebrations programme, an independent charity set up to build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.  The project has also been supported and funded by Creative Scotland and the Dunard Fund.

NVA’s Speed of Light is looking for thousands of runners to bring Arthur’s Seat to life through sporting endeavour and performative visual art between Thursday 9th August and Saturday 1st September 2012.

Each night hundreds of runners will activate specially designed light suits at night, illuminating the hillside. Runners will follow a choreographed series of movements over Arthur’s Seat path network creating an astonishing visual display. 

Speed of Light will also investigate the physiological and psychological aspects to endurance running, exploring the impact within the body and the extent to which power of mind can override physical pain. To be able to take part in this momentous event, runners will need to have a good level of fitness. By summer 2012, those signing up to the challenge will need to have the stamina to complete a 3-5K hill run and be able to stay active over a 1 ½  - 2 ½ hour period a night. 

In addition to runners, audience members, 800 per night, will be integral to the event. They will generate their own light through the movement of bespoke walking staffs as they ascend to the summit to witness the remarkable moving tableaux below.

Angus Farquhar, Creative Director NVA said: "Speed of Light is an exciting and equally challenging new work for NVA which will see us collaborating with thousands of runners and new cultural and sporting partnerships across the country. It is a runners dream to be part of making such an extraordinary collective visual statement.

Our ambitions with Speed of Light are many and varied - to encourage interaction and participation on a massive scale; to investigate new technologies using light and energy and to challenge peoples perceptions of themselves and the  landscape of Scotland."

Dugald Mackie, Chair of Legacy Trust UK, added: ‘The games are about more than just sport. They are a once in a lifetime opportunity to showcase Scotland to millions of people across the world. We believe that Speed of Light will inspire and encourage people throughout Scotland to get involved and will leave a lasting legacy for the country.’