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CODE Live of the Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition is seeking volunteers for the Olympic Truce Project as part of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. A large-scale interactive art installation is happening between February 4 and 28 at the Vancouver Public Library Square. This is an opportunity to be involved in an interactive experience for a broad international Games time audience.

PROJECT:
2010 Olympic Truce Project: Room To Make Your Peace
Room To Make Your Peace is an interactive art installation created in the spirit of the Olympic Truce with contributions from people both online and at the site reflecting on what it takes to “make your peace”. It’s a fitting phrase because this collaborative art work feature depends on people turning the peace reflections into delicate pieces of origami and sending them into flight. These small creations, each with their own little LED light collect high above the pedestrian atrium of the Vancouver Central Library, shimmering in the air as they become a collective art piece that grows in size with each contribution. As visitors participate in the seed of truce installation, their simple actions remind us that peace requires intention and action.
The official Patron of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Truce is Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada who challenged all Canadians to respond online to the question: In your life or community how do you make your peace? Their responses were collected as part of the Canada CODE project and are now joined together with those who participate at Room to Make Your Peace resulting in a truce collaboration that can be shared and “owned” by all.
More information about the Olympic Truce: www.olympictruce.org /

VOLUNTEERS:
Exhibition Ushers
Volunteers will have the opportunity to assist as exhibition ushers, facilitating the interaction between the viewer and the interactive art exhibition and ushering the public through the installation. Exhibition ushers will assist with the daily set-up and preparation of the exhibit including art materials, videos and displays.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Dates: February 4 – 28, 2010
Shifts: 4 shifts between 12:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Vancouver Central Library – 350 West Georgia Street
Training: 2010 Legacy – 1095 W. Pender St (at Thurlow)
# of Volunteers: 3 volunteers per shift. We can arrange volunteering at the same time as friends/family.

4-Hour Shifts:
12:30 – 4:30 PM
4:30 – 8:30 PM

If World Peace, Interactive Art and the Olympics sound good to you, don’t hesitate - participate!

CONTACT:
Please send your resume and availability to:
Lorien Henson
LimeLight Event Marketing
E: Truce2010@gmail.com
P: 604.628.9415