This autumn and October, we will welcome the first World Special Olympics held in a developing country, and the largest World Special Olympics in Shanghai in 2007.
On the morning of May 17, the State Council Press Office held a press conference to introduce the preparation progress of the opening ceremony, torch relay, venues and capital budget of this Special Olympics, and announced that the mascot of this Special Olympics was announced as "Sunshine Sanmao" based on the famous cartoon image Sanmao. ...
Jump out of 525 works
Jumping out of the 525 mascot to collect works, this Sanmao is really sunny: a bright yellow vest, scarlet shorts, a pair of blue big-headed running shoes on her feet, her left hand rested on her hips, her right hand gave a thumbs up, and she smiled and showed her happiness to people.
"However, it was born after several hardships." Designer Sun said that he had submitted his work twice and revised the draft five times.
In June 2006, mascots were collected all over the world. Despite the flood of contributions, the judges were really "harsh" and were wiped out after two consecutive rounds of solicitation. What shall we do? Yang Jun, who is in charge of collecting mascots and posters, clearly remembers: At that time, a judge suggested that we could learn from the existing image of Shanghai with local characteristics.
Coincidentally, almost all the judges thought of drawing lessons from Zhang Leping's cartoon character Sanmao, who was born in Shanghai in the 1930s. He was a little boy with a round nose, big eyes and bald head and three hairs: he was naughty in the 1930s, joined the army and wandered in the 40s, and was reborn later, learning from Lei Feng, loving science and taking part in sports. He strives to improve his situation, and the characteristics of optimism and never giving up are innate.
But San Mao, can I borrow it when I say so?
Zhang Leping's youngest son, Zhang, told reporters: In recent years, Sanmao's influence has been increasing. Last year, the cartoon "San Mao's Wandering Story" broadcast by CCTV hit a new high at the box office. This year, France, Belgium and China will also shoot the film "San Mao" ... "Every time the right to use San Mao's image is involved, we will discuss it repeatedly and carefully safeguard my father's precious legacy. Only this time, everyone did not negotiate. " Zhang said that Zhang Leping's eldest son, Sandrine Pinna, was contacted. "My brother agreed as soon as you listen, and said that he would reply immediately after asking his brothers and sisters. But in fact, even the family meeting was not held. He called and asked and we all agreed. "
As a result, Sun, who participated in the second round of mascot solicitation, surfaced.
"Although the works I submitted at that time, Kung Fu Kid' Yang Yang' and water sprite' Lingling' were not selected in the end, the judges thought it was not bad." Sun Shaobo said, "Later, I made a decision to learn the image of Sanmao, and I felt suddenly enlightened."
I grew up reading Sanmao comics. When I was studying painting in Hongkou Children's Palace 30 years ago, I got a "San Mao Wandering" signed by Zhang Leping. When I got married 20 years ago, I was given a piece of "San Mao Set off firecrackers" painted by my former colleague Zhang Leping. This San Mao complex made Sun carefully review the draft-waving his hand, welcoming guests from all directions with a V-shaped victory gesture, wearing a red Chinese-style chest covering ... The last draft was drafted by Sun.
Sunshine, happiness, kindness, humor, frankness and self-improvement ... explain the connotation of Special Olympics in the new era of building a harmonious society, bathing in sunshine and sharing happiness. Zhang said: "This mascot embodies the spirit of equality, acceptance and tolerance, which coincides with Sanmao's humanitarian core." The seven brothers and sisters unanimously agreed to provide the intellectual property rights of Sanmao's image to the Special Olympics free of charge for one year. Zhang Weiwei, the eldest sister in Australia, also wrote to express her approval. What does freedom mean? A data can be reflected from the side. More than ten years ago, Zhang Leping's family entrusted a professional organization to evaluate the three hairs value of the image, and the result was 590 million yuan.
Touching and consistent. Sun said: "Last Saturday, I was informed that my work was selected and I would receive a prize of 50,000 yuan. I told my family the good news and said that I would donate this bonus. I didn't expect my son, who is in senior three, to solemnly say,' You made the right choice.' "
Love is participation.
There are 525 items in the mascot and 958 items in the poster. Behind every entry is a love and a warmth.
Love is participation. Yang Jun said that the deepest feeling of all the staff in this solicitation activity is: "We are experiencing and moving ... only thanks."
Thank you for so much love and warmth behind the event. The solicitation for more than five months ended last year1October 30th, 165438. That night, the staff waited until 12, but after the deadline 10 minutes, there were still works on the internet, and they were still delivered by courier after half a month.
The oldest author, Li Kezhan, is 75 years old and can't use a computer. Because he asked for two copies, he just drew two identical posters with paint. The reporter dialed his home phone yesterday, and "hello" several times. The other end of the phone was still a confused loud voice. "Why don't you talk?" Why don't you talk? "Finally, the hard of hearing old man clearly heard his intention. He said that participation itself is a concern for mentally retarded groups, but it is a pity that it is too late, or it can be better. ...
The youngest author is more than ten years old, not one, but a group of special children in Luwan District Auxiliary School. Xu Jin, the art teacher who sent the works to the collection office on their behalf, said softly, "The children drew a colorful bean family hand in hand and a happy bear ..." She said that actually participating in the collection activity is not only a kind of participation and experience, but also a kind of help for the children. For example, a boy who participated in painting has been much happier recently. "Two days ago, he took the initiative to say thank you to me, saying that we won't worry about it again in the future. I heard that, I almost burst into tears ... "
Little talk, great love is silent. Teachers and students of Qixing School in Putuo District, with the collection, are promoted in colleges and universities: singing, reciting and giving speeches. Teacher Yang told the story of children with autism learning to paint "Beauty 8", and students with cerebral palsy sang "Life is like a Song" together with their teachers ... "But they don't need car transport or labor. They even came all the way to participate in an after-school promotion, and even didn't bother to eat dinner, but they still insisted on not buying lunch boxes. Yang Jun said that they made more people feel the charm of Special Olympics.
Three thousandths of a painting.
At yesterday's press conference, there were posters collected together with the mascots: three of the 958 entries were selected.
A hand-painted illustration, all kinds of lovely animals and buildings enjoy themselves in a grand space, shouting "Welcome to Shanghai"; A crayon drawing, with abstract colored lines, outlines the contestants' brave attempts to chase each other, and also writes "2007" with red lines, forming the feeling that the ribbons flutter when the athletes hit the line; There is also the most freehand brushwork. Two dancing figures cross to form green eyes, which echo the symbol "eyes" of this Special Olympics. The composition is smooth and rhythmic.
Upon inquiry, all three works were made by foreign college students. Su, a fourth-year student majoring in advertising design at Qingdao University, said that he worked very hard and consulted many relevant materials of the Special Olympics before participating in the solicitation activities. TanJing, a third-year student in the same university, admitted that she took part in this solicitation activity at the suggestion of her teacher, and didn't know much about the mentally retarded at first. Benlei Zhu of Zhejiang Normal University is a little embarrassed. "At first, even the Special Olympics and Paralympics were confused. Fortunately, the teacher immediately organized a visit to the local auxiliary school to watch them attend classes and play games with them, so I got this work about eyes. "
"Through these paintings, what we want to express is that we hope that everyone, like us, will begin to pay more attention to this flawed group and sincerely applaud these Special Olympics athletes for their' brave attempt and victory'." Benlei Zhu finally said.
The opening ceremony was held on 10 10.
The theme of this Special Olympics is "IknowIcan", which fully embodies the Special Olympics spirit of "try bravely and strive for victory".
At the press conference of 17, Zhou Taitong, executive vice chairman of the Shanghai Special Olympics Organizing Committee and vice mayor of Shanghai, introduced that the opening ceremony will be held at the Shanghai Stadium on the evening of 10 and broadcast live at home and abroad. The closing ceremony was held in Jiangwan Sports Center on the evening of June 65438+ 101.
The torch relay of this Special Olympics will be lit and started in Greece at the end of June. The torch will be carried in the United States, Ireland, Japan and other countries that have hosted the World Special Olympics, and will arrive in Beijing in late September to hold a grand torch welcoming ceremony. Subsequently, the torch was carried in the city that undertook the task of community reception, and finally the torch arrived in Shanghai and entered the main venue of the opening ceremony.
There are 2/kloc-0 official sports events, 4 performance events and more than/kloc-0 non-sports events in this Special Olympics, which are undertaken by 9 districts and counties in Shanghai. At present, the training of referees and competition directors, the purchase and debugging of special sports equipment are progressing as planned; More than 1000 athletes from China who participated in this Special Olympics are stepping up their training and actively preparing for the war. The renovation and renovation of the venue will be basically completed by the end of June; Recruitment training and simulation exercises for volunteers, professional doctors and translators (including six official languages and some minority languages) have been fully launched.
The Special Olympics is the largest international event held in China before the 2008 Olympic Games, with a total budget of no more than 60 million US dollars. At the press conference, Zhou Taitong said in response to a reporter's question that the Special Olympics is a public welfare activity, reflecting a humanistic concern, not a commercial activity. In the process of preparing for the Special Olympics, there is the content of market development; But generally speaking, the fund-raising depends on corporate donations and donations from all walks of life who are enthusiastic about helping the disabled. In addition, the government finances give appropriate subsidies.
Zhou Taitong said that the preparations for the Shanghai Special Olympics implemented the principle of diligence and thrift, and at the same time highlighted the atmosphere of participation from all walks of life. According to him, the 34 competition venues needed by the Shanghai Special Olympics are mainly renovation and maintenance, and there are no new projects. Human resources are mainly volunteers, and the human expenditure is not much. In addition, the whole preparatory work for the Shanghai Special Olympics is progressing smoothly, with strong support from the central government and various departments, and has not been affected in any way.
Trace back to the special Olympics
Special Olympics (referred to as Special Olympics) is an international sports training and competition based on the Olympic spirit, which is specially aimed at people with mental retardation. Special Olympics sports are very rich, from the most basic functional activities to the most advanced competitions, suitable for Special Olympics athletes of all ages and abilities. Special Olympics (referred to as Special Olympics or Special Olympics) includes local, national, intercontinental and world-class. Among them, the World Special Olympics is held every two years, alternating between summer and winter. So far, special olympics international has hosted 1 1 Summer Special Olympics and 8 Winter Special Olympics. In 2007, Shanghai will host the 12 World Special Summer Olympics.
Its founder is eunice Kennedy shriver, the sister of former US President John F. Kennedy. 1In June, 962, she held a summer camp for some mentally retarded children and adults in her hometown of Maryland, and she came up with the idea of establishing the Special Olympics Movement. 1968 On July 20th, she held the first World Summer Special Olympics in Soldier Square, Chicago, USA. 1000 athletes from 26 states in the United States and Canada participated in track and field, swimming and hockey competitions.