MORE than 20 organisations have joined forces in Dorset to orchestrate the smooth running of the sailing competition and associated events for the London 2012 Games.

Key contacts from the Weymouth and Portland 2012 Operations Group are bringing insight to their activities in the Dorset Echo and online at dorsetforyou.com/london2012

Lorna Rees is a producer from Activate Performing Arts, a Dorset-based company who are producing the second day performance of Battle for the Winds – part of Maritime Mix, the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea.

I’VE HAD so much fun this February half term working with a community youth dance project in Portland which is a collaboration of three youth dance groups from Royal Manor Arts College Portland, G.WELL.C Dance Crew, Weymouth and Wyke Youth Dance, Wyke Regis.

We’ve been working with choreographer Carly Reader as part of preparations for Battle for the Winds, an ambitious three day event from July 26 to 28 and part of Maritime Mix – London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea which will celebrate the start of the London 2012 Olympic sailing events.

Activate Performing Arts is delivering the second day performance of this event, and we are using the eerie and atmospheric High Angle Batteries on Portland as the location.

The performance will pick up from the previous day’s display on Weymouth Beach where the SW winds are stolen by Doldrum from Aeolus during a spectacular battle.

The High Angle Batteries will act as Doldrum’s lair where he has stolen and is processing the voices of children from the community.

I must say it’s great for to be working with young people from the local community to deliver this and also for them to be part of such an epic and unprecedented event.

We’re also going to be celebrating a blue butterfly unique to Portland – the Cretaceous Silver Studded Blue.

To celebrate this extraordinary butterfly we are going to make 2,692 individual silver studded blue butterflies with the local community, each butterfly will represent every young person 18 and under living on Portland.

The High Angle Battery, and quarries around the Island are havens for blue butterflies which, if you’re lucky, rise up in a spectacular blue ‘cloud’ as you walk through the Battery.

We’re being supported by Dorset Family Learning Centre and are hoping to work with every primary school on the Island.

We really are hoping to bring something special to this whole event – a brief pause in all the chaos and spectacle.

It’s great to be working with the community to enhance the natural beauty of the High Angle Battery and adding something beautiful to it, made with the people of Portland.

If you want to read more about Battle for the Winds and the other 80 plus events which are part of Maritime Mix visit maritimemix2012.co.uk