Sheffield's Tudor Square becomes an Olympic running track for the day! Arts organisations, sports groups and community groups, bands, dancers, parents and toddlers, people in fancy dress, ramblers, knitters, stilt walkers, gymnasts, singers and more who will be lapping the track using any means or in any guise! Participants will come up with weird and wonderful forms of transport - from ski's to broomsticks and in all manner of fancy dress from Flamenco dresses to diving suits.
Taking part are a choir singing the Hallelujah Chorus, Sheffield Libraries' Bookstart Bear with parents and toddlers, a group walking the track to Elizabethan music in full historical costume, gymnasts, karate experts, a marching band, pantomime ponies and many more! Pif Paf Arts have been commissioned to create a Flycycle a fantastic means of transport which will take people around the track.
As well as the spectacle of all the different groups making their way around the track, Tudor Square will be full of artists encouraging people to make fancy dress and carnival costumes and decorate their baby buggies, wheelchairs and bikes. Some of the activity on the day will reflect the culture of international athletes who will be resident in the city during that time and people will be able to have a go at Brazilian Capoeira and Carnival skills and enjoy Romany dancing. Tudor Square will be full of colour, activity and fun and we are expecting a large audience to watch the events throughout the day.
Each lap of the track will go towards a final distance covered throughout the course of the day. The target will be 297km the distance between Tudor Square and Marshgate Lane, Stratford the site of the Olympic Stadium. The whole 'journey' will be documented with time-lapse photography and shown live on a screen in Tudor Square.
Any individuals or groups wanting to participate in the event should contact Lesley Webster on 0114 273 4400 - lesley.webster@sheffield.gov.uk