$30 million dollars and a dream backed by NBC and the Olympic Committee brought color and light to my television screen tonight culminating in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. I imagined all that went into producing such a spectacle and the pressure to distill a whole nation’s culture into an evening of premium prime-time television. Producer David Atkins had his work cut out for him as he and his team assessed an inventory of symbols, stories, messages, and themes. The goal was to communicate the new face of Canada which combines progress and reverence for the past. A particular highlight was poet Shane Koyczan’s We Are More.
(excerpted)
we are young
we are cultures strung together
then woven into a tapestry
and the design
is what makes us more
than the sum total of our history
we are an experiment going right for a change
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