RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)
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Really looking forward to this and the games as a whole.
The theme of the ceremony is about Human possibility.
From B.B.C website:-
The opening ceremony - which will be broadcast on Channel 4 and BBC Radio 5 live - will signal the start of 11 days of competition by more than 4,000 athletes from 165 countries, including more than 300 athletes from ParalympicsGB.
A capacity crowd of 80,000 people will watch the ceremony in Stratford, east London, which will be opened by the Queen and watched by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The start of the show will feature a flypast by Aerobility, a British charity that trains disabled people to become pilots.
Fifty specialist performers in the ceremony have taken part in an eight-week circus skills training programme in east London, and will take part in a high-wire act.
The show's two artistic directors have said the main themes of the ceremony will be empowerment and the challenging of perceptions of human possibility.
Prof Hawking - a world-renowned physicist who has motor neurone disease - will join Sir Ian McKellen to narrate a scientific "journey of discovery", inspired in part by Prof Hawking's own book A Brief History of Time.
The organisers have revealed that Prof Hawking will act as a guide to Miranda, a character from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, through the show.
Sir Ian will play Prospero, another character from the play.
But apparently the torch relay is running 2 hours late and they have lit a backup flame to light the caldron if the relay one doesn't turn up.
The theme of the ceremony is about Human possibility.
From B.B.C website:-
The opening ceremony - which will be broadcast on Channel 4 and BBC Radio 5 live - will signal the start of 11 days of competition by more than 4,000 athletes from 165 countries, including more than 300 athletes from ParalympicsGB.
A capacity crowd of 80,000 people will watch the ceremony in Stratford, east London, which will be opened by the Queen and watched by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The start of the show will feature a flypast by Aerobility, a British charity that trains disabled people to become pilots.
Fifty specialist performers in the ceremony have taken part in an eight-week circus skills training programme in east London, and will take part in a high-wire act.
The show's two artistic directors have said the main themes of the ceremony will be empowerment and the challenging of perceptions of human possibility.
Prof Hawking - a world-renowned physicist who has motor neurone disease - will join Sir Ian McKellen to narrate a scientific "journey of discovery", inspired in part by Prof Hawking's own book A Brief History of Time.
The organisers have revealed that Prof Hawking will act as a guide to Miranda, a character from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, through the show.
Sir Ian will play Prospero, another character from the play.
But apparently the torch relay is running 2 hours late and they have lit a backup flame to light the caldron if the relay one doesn't turn up.
