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• Unboxed: Creativity in the UK will bring people together either in person or through digital media
• Unboxed will play a major role in a year of celebration for the country alongside Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and Her Majesty 皇冠体育app Queen鈥檚 Platinum Jubilee
• Programme will run from March to October 2022 boosting tourism, supporting local economies and helping the nation鈥檚 renewal following the Covid-19 pandemic

Today marks the unveiling of Unboxed: Creativity in the UK - a major festival taking place in 2022 featuring ten spectacular projects across the UK that people will be able to visit in person or experience through traditional broadcast and digital media.

Unboxed brings together some of the UK鈥檚 brightest talents in science, technology, engineering, arts and maths to work on jaw-dropping projects that will champion the nation鈥檚 creative ability, give people memorable days out and support tourism and local economies.

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Combined with the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and Her Majesty 皇冠体育app Queen鈥檚 Platinum Jubilee, next year will be one of pride, celebration and coming together for the nation following the Covid-19 pandemic.

皇冠体育app Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said:

From the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham to the Queen鈥檚 Platinum Jubilee, 2022 is going to be a year of celebrating the UK at its best.

And today, we are launching our fantastic new festival 鈥� Unboxed: Creativity in the UK.

A celebration of UK ingenuity, energy, innovation, optimism and all-round creative genius, it will be unlike anything else that has been seen before.

Light shows, sculpture trails and a festival of ideas are just some of the spectacular events that will take place in locations across the UK 鈥� alongside work and experiences you can interact with digitally.

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said:

Next year we will celebrate creativity in all four corners of the UK in what is set to be a huge year for the nation. Everyone should have the opportunity to experience world-leading arts and culture no matter what their background or where they鈥檙e from - and that鈥檚 what Unboxed is all about.

In 2022 we鈥檙e also preparing to host the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and mark Her Majesty 皇冠体育app Queen鈥檚 Platinum Jubilee. Together, these events will be at the heart of a year of celebration that will showcase the best of the UK to the world.

Martin Green CBE, Chief Creative Officer, Unboxed: Creativity in the UK, said:

Hundreds of creatives from across science, technology, engineering, arts and maths are creating extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime events and online experiences for millions in the UK鈥檚 biggest and most ambitious public creative programme to date.

Unboxed represents an unprecedented and timely opportunity for people to come together across the UK and beyond and take part in awe-inspiring projects that speak to who we are and explore the ideas that will define our futures.

Unboxing opportunities

皇冠体育app programme of events will also engage hundreds of thousands of school children, young people and communities throughout 2022 through school outreach and other ways to take part. 皇冠体育appre will be volunteering roles to be filled and Unboxed will create employment and training opportunities for people involved.

Unboxed will kick off in March with the incredible 鈥楢bout Us鈥� installation beginning in Paisley, before touring locations including Derry-Londonerry, Caernarfon, Luton and Hull. Featuring a spectacular sound and vision show, 鈥楢bout Us鈥� will take audiences on a journey through time and space - from the Big Bang to the present day - exploring the earth鈥檚 history and people鈥檚 connections to one another. Renowned musician Nitin Sawhney has composed a score for the show that will be performed by local choirs in host towns and cities. 皇冠体育appre will also be a UK-wide schools鈥� poetry and computer coding competition, launched today.

Across Scotland, the 鈥楧andelion鈥� project will feature Unexpected Gardens, vertical farms, free music events and plant giveaways to reimagine the annual harvest festival for the 21st Century, from Caithness to Dumfries.

In Wales, 鈥楪ALWAD鈥�, which means 鈥榗all鈥� in Welsh, is a story set thirty years in the future which will unfold across TV drama, digital platforms and live events in three Welsh locations鈥� Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea鈥� over seven days.

In Northern Ireland, 鈥極ur Place in Space鈥� will be a 10km scale model sculpture trail of the solar system that has been designed by children鈥檚 author and artist Oliver Jeffers. People will be able to visit it in person in Derry-Londonderry, Belfast Divis and the Black Mountain, Cambridge and Ulster Transport Museum or through augmented reality.

鈥楾our De Moon鈥� will be a series of festivals, satellite events and nightlife experiences inspired by the Moon. Young creative talent aged 18 to 25 will be involved in creating the programme that will include music, filmmaking and debate. It will take place across Leicester, Newcastle, Southampton and satellite events across England.

Weston-super-Mare will be home to 鈥楽EE MONSTER鈥� a decommissioned North Sea offshore platform which will be transformed into a large-scale public art installation on the site of the town鈥檚 former lido, the Tropicana.

A summary of the ten projects at 鈥楿nboxed: Creativity in the UK鈥�:

• About Us (locations: Paisley, Derry-Londonderry, Caernarfon, Luton, Hull) - An epic touring light and vision show will take audiences on a journey through time and space - from the Big Bang to the present day - exploring the earth鈥檚 history and people鈥檚 connections to one another.
• PoliNations (locations: Edinburgh, Birmingham) - A pop-up forest garden that celebrates the global origins of the UK鈥檚 plants and population through immersive installations, live music, talks and performances.
• Dandelion (locations: across Scotland with two major music and food festivals in Glasgow and Inverness) - 100,000 schoolchildren and young people will take part in the largest community growing experiment ever undertaken in Scotland. Featuring live events to explore the science of future growth.
• GALWAD: A Story from our Future (locations: Merthyr Tydfil, Blaenau Ffestiniog and Swansea, TV and Online) - GALWAD brings together Wales鈥� boldest talent in film and TV, creative technology and live performance with the imagination and talents of Welsh communities for a new kind of story which invites audiences to explore the moral dilemmas and possibilities of our future.
• Tour de Moon (locations: Leicester, Newcastle, Southampton and satellite locations across England) - A festival of ideas inspired by our 鈥榰niversal satellite鈥�, the Moon, held on a festival site created for young people and their families.
• Our Place in Space (locations: Derry-Londonderry, Belfast, Divis and Black Mountain, Cambridge and Ulster Transport Museum) - A 10km scale-model sculpture trail of the solar system, designed by artist and children鈥檚 author Oliver Jeffers, which can be visited physically or experienced in augmented reality. 皇冠体育app digital technology enables you to visit the virtual trail from any global location making it accessible to all.
• SEE MONSTER (location: Weston-super-Mare) - A decommissioned North Sea offshore platform installed in Weston-super-Mare will be transformed into a magnificent public art installation.
• StoryTrails (locations: Blackpool, Bradford, Bristol, London Borough of Lambeth and Lewisham, Lincoln, Sheffield, Slough, Wolverhampton, Swansea, Newport, Dundee, Dumfries, Swindon and Omagh) - StoryTrails will bring to life untold stories using augmented reality in civic spaces to see BBC and BFI archive footage and learn the story of where they live.
• Dreamachine (location: Edinburgh, Cardiff, London, Belfast) - An artwork seen with your eyes closed that explores the limitless potential of the human mind in a powerful new kind of collective experience.
• Green Space, Dark Skies (location: online) - A series of interventions celebrating the UK landscape to connect people with nature using a new lighting technology to be experienced by audiences online.

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