Last Unlimited commissions announced

Twelve artists will share £700,000 as part of the final round of funding for the Cultural Olympiad ‘Unlimited’ programme. The 12 new commissions include a participatory music project led by a young artist with autism and produced by Heart’n Soul; an audiovisual opera integrating music with moving images, text, audio description, lighting and sound projection; a comedy show which encourages audience to re-examine the way in which they view the Paralympics; and a collaboration between artist Rachel Gadsden, South African artist and activist Nondumiso Hlwele and the Bambanani Group from Khayelitsha Township near Cape Town, exploring issues of identity, survival in the face of chronic medical conditions, and the politics of HIV. Four of the commissions are international collaborations which will be supported by the British Council, including partnerships between groups of disabled performers in the North East and Brazil, and a digital musical collaboration between artists in up to seven countries.