Whistler Live! is an outdoor network of stages, screens and performance sites throughout Whistler Village that will provide unique, free programming each day throughout the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Over 27 days, Whistler Live! will combine sport with live music, films, street performances and visual arts featuring artists from the Sea to Sky corridor, across Canada and around the world.

Whistler Medals Plaza will be the centrepiece of Whistler Live!. Produced by VANOC, Whistler Medals Plaza programming will showcase nightly Victory Ceremonies with athlete medals presentations and concerts. As Host Mountain Resort, Whistler also has the honour of presenting the Closing Ceremony for the Paralympic Winter Games at this venue.

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Whistler Live! - Whistler Arts Council Programs 

Whistler Live! ArtWalk - based on the objectives of the Whistler Arts Council's summer program - will showcase works by local artists and artisans for Games-time visitors to discover and purchase during the 2010 Winter Games. Whistler Live! ArtWalk brings the works of local artists to Whistler Village, the Upper Village and Creekside.

Over 60 artists were juried into the community exhibition with pieces that will be seen throughout 43 host galleries. The variety in medium and genre is as diverse as the people Whistler will host this winter. The interpretation of our local landscapes and animals adorn the walls of shops and cafes. Edgy ceramics are displayed in hotel lobbies and office spaces. Abstract and contemporary pieces add colour and intrigue to restaurants and spas. The Whistler Arts Council is encouraging visitors to choose a piece of local art to truly bring home an authentic piece of Whistler!

Detailed maps outlining participating venues and artists will be available at the Visitor Information Centre and Whistler hotles as of February 1, 2010.
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Whistler Live! GOBOs 

Visual art will create a vibrant light show during The Fire & Ice Remix. Local painters’ pieces will be etched into glass to become GOBOs (Goes Before Optics), which will be placed over the massive stage lights. The artists’ images will be projected onto the snow-covered mountain base each night to add an artistic visual element to the DJ sets and athletic snow show of huge air.
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Whistler Live! Artists at Work on the Stroll

The Whistler Arts Council is working with Whistler Live! to develop programming for the Village Stroll, including street entertainment and live painting throughout the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games from February 12 - March 21, 2010. Artists at Work on the Stroll brings artists from across B.C. to the Village to paint live for passersby, as local musicians play alongside. In Town Gazebo, beside The Gap, these artists will create huge masterpieces in acrylic and spray paint as local musicians play alongside. The artists will also exhibit prints of their original artwork to truly animate their tent on the stroll.
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Whistler Live! "CORE SHOTS!" Screen Photography Exhibit

The Whistler Arts Council is working with Whistler Live! on a digital photo exhibition for Sea-to-Sky photographers to showcase their work during the 2010 Winter Games in a way that will entertain the masses! Slideshows of outdoor photography will be shown on the 9 plasma screens along Village Stroll from the base of the mountains to Marketplace. Selected photos will be shown as 3-5 minute slideshows between concerts and performances, or individual photos will be used as backdrops to these performances.
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Whistler Live! CUT-OUTS 

The Whistler Arts Council is working with Whistler Live! to develop programming throughout Whistler Village. One-of-a-kind, locally created, painted wooden cut-outs will be situated along the Village Stroll during 2010 Winter Games to give residents and visitors the opportunity to take a piece of Whistler home with them in a photo.
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Whistler Live! Storytelling at Dusk

Tucked beside the Blackcomb Bridge across from Rebagliati Park people can gather every night from February 13 to 27 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Fiction and non- fiction writers, First Nations storytellers and long-time locals provide tales of the Corridor, urban myths of Whistler and traditional Aboriginal legends while the sun sets by the warm glow of a winter fire. Local musicians play acoustic sets for the last half hour each night. This is the perfect way to end a day of Whistler Live! performances and to kick off a night of fun at the Victory Ceremonies and Fire & Ice Remix. Storytellers include

Cindy Filipenko       Isobel Maclaurin        Marcel Richoz         Nigel Woods                       Tanina Williams

Feet Banks               Joan Richoz              Marie Abraham       Rebecca Wood Barrett        Vania Stager

GD Maxwell             Libby McKeever        Michel Beaudry       Stephen Vogler