CULTURAL OLYMPIAD

What is the Cultural Olympiad? An artistic and cultural programme
How to take part? Calls for participation and calls for projects
How to submit your project ? Visit the Paris 2024 cultural platform
The calendar To take part until 2024

Combining art and sport – or “muscles and mind” as Pierre de Coubertin put it, is one of Olympism’s cornerstones. Sport and culture interact and enrich each other with the Paris 2024 Games. For the Games to be open, participatory, uniting and inclusive, Paris 2024 is encouraging everyone – artists, troupes, non-profits, communities, sports clubs and so forth – to play a part in the Games’ cultural programme. Culture is offering more and more people in towns and cities the opportunity to take part in the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad starting now.    

What is the Cultural Olympiad?

The Cultural Olympiad is a multidisciplinary artistic and cultural programme that unfolds from the end of the previous Games to the end of the following Paralympic Games. Paris 2024, in other words, has three seasons to add artistic creation to sports thrills and chills.

The Cultural Olympiad is an original programme to explore the connections between art and athletics, and the values they share excellence, inclusion, cultural diversity and universalism for instance.

It brings culture into sports venues and unexpected places. From summer 2022 to September 2024, several large gatherings will feature artistic creation to spur conversations between sport and culture in all the towns and cities that wish to be part of this adventure.

The Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad: a one-of-a-kind programme combining artistic practice and sporting culture  

Artists, cultural institutions and organisations in the sporting movement can apply to be part of this all-new programme.

For all the news on the Cultural Olympiad, please check the platform from 20 April onwards.

Photo exhibition during the 2021 Jogging Festival, at Le Carreau du Temple. ©Le Marais Mood

How to take part?

People in the cultural and sporting spheres

To submit a project for the Cultural Olympiad, you need to be active in the cultural or sporting sphere and keen on an artistic experience. You can submit it through one of two channels: the call for participation or the call for projects.

Illustration: Weaving Marjane Satrapi’s Tisser les Jeux (“Interlacing the Games”) tapestry, at Manufacture des Gobelins. © Justine Rossignol

Call for participation

The call for participation is for cultural institutions, troupes, art schools, non-profits and sports clubs in Terre de Jeux 2024 geographies. The projects selected through this channel will be awarded the Cultural Olympiad label but not receive subsidies from Paris 2024.   

Illustration: Les Traceurs, a 670-metre slackline walk by Nathan Paulin from the Eiffel Tower to Palais de Chaillot, 18 September 2021. © Benjamin Mengelle

Call for projects

On the call for projects, you can submit an artistic proposal that fits one of the precise criteria. Projects can be tendered by Paris 2024 stakeholders, Paris 2024, leadings schools, partners, etc.

The selected projects will be awarded the Cultural Olympiad label and subsidies for their production and to promote the involvement of cultural organisations in this unique adventure.

Illustration: Colour charts for Marjane Satrapi’s Tisser les Jeux tapestry, Manufacture des Gobelins. © Mobilier National/Camille Gasser

How to submit your project ?

To take part in the Cultural Olympiad, you can present your project to your Terre de Jeux correspondent in order to take part in the call for participation (check your community is included in the Terre de Jeux 2024 programme). Local authorities, cultural institutions and non-profits will find all the information they need about the process on our platform.