123,000 children’s drawings to be displayed in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium• Guinness World Records™: World’s Largest Art Competition
• 1999 record might be surpassed
On 3 July 2008, 160 assistants will get up at 5 o’clock in the morning to prepare a world record attempt taking place within Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. 123,000 children’s drawings will be displayed on the 75,000 seats of the distinguished venue. Joined together, all the pictures will add up to a length of 37 km (22.99 miles). With such a high number of entries for the art competition, there is a chance that the 1999 Guinness World Record for the Largest Art Competition of 22,367 may be surpassed. The record attempt will be reviewed on-site by an
official Guinness World Records adjudicator who will certify if a new record has
been established.
This would be yet another record added to the long list of records previously set within the Olympic Stadium. The competition was initiated by the German federal minister of transport,
Wolfgang Tiefensee who, each year, commissions a children’s primer for traffic.
In this reader, the popular storybook character “Käpt’n Blaubär” explains the traffic rules to children. For the competition, Pre-school children were invited to paint pictures of traffic scenes and situations. Not only did this provide insight into the children’s knowledge and fears about traffic situations, but it also brought about an opportunity to set a new Guinness World Record.
Pupils in Berlin have another reason to be merry: The senate has allowed those who participated to take a day off school to join the festivities at the Olympic Stadium. The celebration for the world record starts at 11 a.m. with a big party for the children attended by minister Tiefensee, Käpt’n Blaubär himself and his fellow seaman Hein Blöd. There will also be a raffle among all the kindergartens and schools to win toys and other great prizes.
However, each participant already has reason to be proud: All 123,000 pictures can be seen online at www.rekordbild.de - and every little artist has earned a certificate to display in their home.
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Katharina Fleischer
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