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Several million people saw and over 58,000 people visited Ryoji Ikeda’s spectra, as the light beamed thousands of metres into the
sky marking the start of the First World War.
Produced and presented by Artangel, co-commissioned with The Mayor of London (photo: Will Eckersley).
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VIKKI HEYWOOD, CBE LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN, 14-18 NOW
14-18 NOW is a major cultural programme taking place across the United
Kingdom to mark the centenary of the First World War. Working across
all art forms, 14-18 NOW is commissioning new works of art that will
reverberate for the next 100 years and inspire communities who may not
feel that heritage or the arts is for them.
We’ve been humbled and delighted by people’s response to 14-18 NOW’s
programme so far. In the summer of 2014 I walked among the Giants in
Liverpool with a million others, I was one of 21,439 who wrote a letter to
the statue of the Unknown Soldier and alongside 16.7 million people I
turned off my lights to mark the centenary of the beginning of War.
‘We need your help to create artworks that will be remembered 100 years from now’
The potential of this programme and people’s appetite to connect with
their heritage through art is enormous, but without your support it will
not be realised.
The Centenary gives us an unrepeatable opportunity to bring millions
more people together in relection on our shared past, present and future.
Support 14-18 NOW and together we can seize that opportunity.
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BE PART OF A HISTORIC COMMEMORATION‘When we embarked on creating a First World War centenary cultural programme, we could not have imagined the extraordinary way the artists’ projects would capture the public imagination.
Join us by supporting this unique programme to ensure future generations remember the role the First World War played in shaping the world we live in today’Jenny Waldman, Director 14-18 NOW
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Anya Gallaccio, Untitled Landscape 2014, SNAP Art at Aldeburgh Festival (photo: Owain Thomas). Balletboyz, Young Men,
co-commissioned with Sadlers Wells. Steve Bell, 1914 Day by Day Cartoons, co-commissioned with the Cartoon Museum and
BBC Radio 4. Billy Bragg, The Opening Act at the Leftield Stage, Glastonbury.
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Selected 14-18 NOW co-commissions (left to right); Neil Bartlett and Kate Pullinger, LETTER TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER, (photo: Dom Agius);
Richard Wentworth, If history could be folded, where would you put the crease? ; National Theatre Wales, Mametz (photo: Mark Douet);
Royal De Luxe, Memories of August 1914, Liverpool; Balletboyz, Young Men, (photo: Mike Prior).
So far over 19 million people have experienced a 14-18 NOW commission
Over 2 million young people aged 16-24
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78 new artworks in 77 locations across
the UK
200 partners including
83 cultural and heritage organisations
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A SHARED EXPERIENCE
14-18 NOW is bringing together people from every community across the United Kingdom to reflect on the First World War
One million people watched Royal De Luxe’s Memories of August 1914 tell the story of the Liverpool Pals Battalions who volunteered
to ight. Co-commissioned with Liverpool Council (photo: Liverpool City Council).
‘It brings everyone together. Generations, families, community, everybody’
Memories of August 1914, audience member
To mark the centenary of the beginning of the War, 14-18 NOW commissioned ive artists. Top left clockwise: Bedwyr Williams (Bangor),
Bob and Roberta Smith (Belfast), (not pictured) Ryoji Ikeda (London) and Jeremy Deller (LIGHTS OUT app), Nalini Malani (Edinburgh) in each
of the UK’s nations to mark the moment.
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19 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE ATTENDED OR PARTICIPATED IN 14-18 NOW PROJECTS
In the summer of 2014, millions of people took up the invitation to relect
together upon the outbreak of a war that shaped the world we live in today.
On 4th August, 16.7 million people and 1,000 public buildings took part in
LIGHTS OUT, marking the centenary of the beginning of war.
Participation encompassed the spectrum of cultural life, from a plot line in The Archers, to the front page of The Sun.
14-18 NOW’s participative projects show that people want to take part in the
shared experience of commemoration and prove the huge appetite for arts
and heritage events in the UK.
BRINGING LOCAL COMMUNITIES TOGETHER
Our 2014 projects engaged over 1,200 volunteers from disadvantaged
young men in Derry-Londonderry, to older people in Edinburgh.
In Cornwall, a one-day theatrical event was formed from workshops with local
people, drawing on memories passed down through the generations.
‘We’re still struggling to get two of our gardeners out of character… it brought us an amazing sense of achievement’Lost Gardens of Heligan, 100: The Day our World Changed
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INVOLVING YOUNG PEOPLE
14-18 NOW is involving young people and new audiences in a meaningful relection on their First World War heritage
Letter writers at Womad Festival as part of Neil Bartlett and Kate Pullinger, LETTER TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER.
Our LIGHTS OUT project provided a new way of connecting with the centenary of the beginning of War. LIGHTS OUT was inspired
by the statement made by Sir Edward Grey on the eve of WW1: ‘The lights are going out all over Europe. We will not see them lit again
in our lifetimes’ (photo: Will Eckersley).
21,439 PEOPLE WROTE TO THE STATUE OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER INCLUDING 15,000 CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
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INVOLVING YOUNG PEOPLE Contemporary art in all its forms has an enormous
capacity to engage people of all ages in commemorating
the First World War.
Few arts-led projects can match the levels of participation
achieved by 14-18 NOW and 1.4 million people aged 16-24
participated in LIGHTS OUT. Our projects are giving everyone
an opportunity to take an active role in their shared heritage,
the arts and public life.
‘A modern way of bringing everyone together to commemorate the First World War’ LIGHTS OUT participant
We want as many people as possible to take part in this
unprecedented cultural programme of commemoration.
In 2016, our large scale programme in Northern English
Cities will provide creative skills training for 70,000 people
and a major participative projects, will bring thousands of
individuals together in a spectacular commemoration of
the Battle of the Somme.
Learning and engagement programmes, as well as digital and
gaming projects will ensure that as many people as possible
are able to get involved and commemorate their shared First
World War heritage.
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COMMISSIONING WORLD CLASS ARTISTS
Support 14-18 NOW and get an unparalleled insight into artistic practice and work
Ryoji Ikeda’s spectra soared above London to mark 100 years since beginning of the First World War. A twenty-metre grid containing
forty-nine searchlights, installed at Victoria Tower Gardens, it appeared unannounced in the sky at dusk on Monday 4th August 2014
and for seven nights was visible across the city between sunset and sunrise.
Produced and presented by Artangel, co-commissioned with The Mayor of London (photo Jonathan Perugia).
‘Not in our lifetime are we going to see this type of remembrance for the First World War again’Spectra, audience member
Tobias Rehberger’s Dazzle Ship London moored at Victoria Embankment (photo: Chris Wainwright). Supported by Bloomberg
Philanthropies, the Goethe-Institut London and Schroder Charity Trust. ‘Dazzle’, developed by British artists such as Norman
Wilkinson is a style of ship camoulage used widely in the First World War, characterised by brilliant, glaring geometric patterns.
5 MILLION PEOPLE SAW DAZZLE SHIP LONDON
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GREAT ARTISTS INSPIRE
In 2014, 14-18 NOW brought the work of artists including Richard
Wentworth, Jeremy Deller, Bedwyr Williams, Graham Fagen and
Ryoji Ikeda to millions of people around the country.
The former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion was among those to
write to the Unknown Soldier. Colm Tóibín, Jeanette Winterson
and Noviolet Bulawayo contributed their relections to Lavinia
Greenlaw’s 1914: Goodbye to All That.
Our project ‘Dazzle Ships’ has seen Tobias Rehberger, Carlos
Cruz-Diez and Sir Peter Blake create stunning ‘dazzle’ designs for
ships in London and Liverpool and more great artists will continue
to create Dazzle ships throughout the centenary.
‘A timely reminder of the role of art and design in the war efort and how the work of artists saved lives’Dazzle Ships Artistic Assessor
14-18 NOW is providing artists and arts and heritage organisations
with the opportunity to realise ambitious, public-facing projects.
We are proud to be able to bring diverse works of art to people
across the United Kingdom, to create a shared experience and
deeper understanding of the First World War.
140 ARTISTS FROM 25 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES TOOK PART IN 2014
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CREATING A LEGACY
14-18 NOW is creating a body of work that will reverberate for the next 100 years
‘Weeping Window’ from the installation ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ – poppies and original concept created by artist
Paul Cummins and installation designed by Tom Piper – by Paul Cummins Ceramics Limited in conjunction with Historic Royal Palaces
originally at HM Tower of London 2014. (Photo: Richard Lea-Hair).
Supported by The Backstage Trust and Clore Dufield Foundation 14-18 NOW will take these installations around the UK before they are
presented at the Imperial War Museums in 2018.
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Induction Chromatique à Double Fréquence pour l’Edmund Gardner Ship co-commissioned with
Liverpool Biennial was the irst time that next-door neighbours Tate Liverpool and the Mersey Maritime Museum had worked
together, a partnership made possible by 14-18 NOW.
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AN UNPARALELLED GLIMPSE OF CONTEMPORARY ATTITUDES TO WAR
There may never be another opportunity to relect upon the
First World War on this scale. Many 14-18 NOW commissions
will physically remain, such as the 21,439 Letters to the Statue
of the Unknown Soldier at the British Library and the Poppies
at Imperial War Museums. Performance works will enter the
repertoire and over time, along with commissioned books and
ilms, will become part of the fabric of our thoughts about the
First World War.
‘It provided an exciting opportunity to build on our knowledge to deliver something at a much more ambitious scale’ 14-18 NOW partner organisation
14-18 NOW is the irst programme of new arts commissions
to mark a solemn national moment and we are creating
new, innovative partnerships to help make arts and heritage
organisations more sustainable. The independent evaluation
of the programme shows people’s appetite for engaging in
heritage through art.
But perhaps the greatest legacy of the programme and those
that support it will be held by the people across the UK who
experience this unique commemoration, and that the many
stories of the period are not forgotten.
470 members of the local community participated in the creation of 100: The Day Our World Changed, co-commissioned with
Lost Gardens of Heligan in collaboration with Wildworks, attended by 5,000 people (photo: Ian Kingsnorth).
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JOIN 14-18 NOW IN A COMMEMORATION THAT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN With your help, 14-18 NOW can continue to commission
ambitious new works of art that capture the imaginations of
people across the UK.
Our irst series of commissions in 2014 demonstrated the
extraordinary interest of people of all ages to learn more about
the First World War.
Future commissions will not be possible without the
support of individuals and organisations that share our vision
of a wide-reaching programme that meets the public demand
for new ways to commemorate their heritage now and for
future generations.
There are a number of ways to support 14-18 NOW as a
whole, as well as speciic artists, projects or aspects of the
programme including projects focused on young people or
local communities.
To ind out more about our plans and explore the different
ways that you or your organisation can be part of this
historic programme, please contact the 14-18 NOW
Development Team by phone on 0207 091 3110 or email
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PARTNERS
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FUNDERS TEAM & BOARD
Supported by
Principal Funders
Project Supporters
Team
Jenny Waldman
Director
Nigel Hinds
Executive Producer
Katie Cross
Head of Development
Alice Boff
Development Manager
Sarah Goodfellow
Producer
Pak Ling Wan
General Manager
Majeeda Goodall
Executive Assistant
Development Advisory Group
Jeremy Bennett
Lord Black of Brentwood
Clive Jones, CBE
Gailen Krug
Rhoda Macdonald
David Potter
Christophe Rust
General Sir Richard Shirreff, KCB, CBE
Jean-Michel Steg
Sir Richard Trainor, KCB
Board
Vikki Heywood, CBE
Chairman
Ade Adepitan, MBE
Alex Beard, CBE
Bonnie Greer, OBE
Lord Hall of Birkenhead, CBE
Diane Lees, CBE
Rhoda Macdonald
John Mathers
Sir Anthony Seldon
Jenny Waldman
Jonathan Watkins
Artistic Advisors
Lavinia Greenlaw
Ruth Mackenzie, CBE
Michael Morris, MBE
Tessa Ross, CBE
Cian Smyth
14-18 NOW
IWM, Lambeth Road
London, SE1 6HZ
www.1418now.org.uk
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