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Louisa Mahon, Glasgow 2026\u2019s chief marketing officer, with some of the members of the upcoming opening ceremony (Glasgow 2026\/Craig Watson\/PA)<\/p>\nThe ceremony will take place on July 23 at the Ovo Hydro and the team is calling for support from 700 volunteers who can contribute to the show.<\/p>\n
Details regarding the ceremony have yet to be unveiled but bosses have said it will be a fruitful opportunity for those who want to help.<\/p>\n
Louisa Mahon, chief marketing officer for this year\u2019s games, said: \u201cThis is going to be an incredible opportunity to be part of the best show that\u2019s going to be taking place this year.<\/p>\n
Louisa Mahon, Glasgow 2026\u2019s chief marketing officer, with some of the members of the upcoming opening ceremony (Glasgow 2026\/Craig Watson\/PA)<\/p>\n
\u201cAn opening ceremony is an incredible moment for a Commonwealth Games that marks the start of all the incredible sport and it\u2019s an amazing opportunity to tell the story of this incredible city and a story of the Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cThis is a gorgeous story of Glasgow told in a really authentic way, but with an incredible Commonwealth twist.<\/p>\n
\u201cA story about what happens when you have people feel transformation and really amplifying the story of Glasgow, which is a place that forever has reinvented and invented and created things that have, quite frankly, transformed the world, and the show will tell that story and why it\u2019s so important, particularly at a time like now, for people to be together, come together and celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone aged over 16 can volunteer for the wide range of roles in the ceremony, including musicians, singers and dancers, and experience is not necessary.<\/p>\n
Costumes for the ceremony were designed by Carole Millar, who said being involved helped rekindle her love for the city.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI\u2019ve kind of rediscovered my love of Glasgow, just out in the streets, just observing and thrashing out within creative meetings, and just trying to deliver the Glasgow that I live in and love, trying to show that positive, passionate Glasgow, and with all its diversity and all its lovely people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Show and stage director Roxana Cole said: \u201cWe\u2019re creating something that we hope is the most inclusive and, yeah, the most sustainable opening ceremony that we\u2019ve done so far.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there is so much in it for a volunteer that wants to come and be part of this kind of project.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, they are the most memorable, and we involve communities, because it\u2019s really at the core of what this show is we worked last year, we did two big workshops with the community across Glasgow so that we know that they\u2019re really rooted and integral to the narrative we\u2019ve made so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
The deadline to apply is April 24 (subject to close if demand is high) and auditions will take place in Glasgow on May 9 and 10.<\/p>\n
Interested parties can submit their application at glasgow2026.com\/casting and can be kept informed of ticket release by signing up to a newsletter via glasgow2026.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ceremony will take place on July 23 at the Ovo Hydro and the team is calling for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-143777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}