of the Paralympics on 9 September. The largest event is the World Shakespeare Festival in which the Royal Shakespeare Company is collaborating with more than 50 arts organisations, nine UK theatres and amateur companies to celebrate our greatest playwright. Chief among the Bard-related activities is Globe to Globe, in which all 37 of Shakespeare's plays will be performed in 37 different languages at Shakespeare's Globe in London, while visitors to London may be accosted on the street or in cafs by Mark Rylance and other thespian pals offering them snippets from Shakespeare's work. Some of the UK's most beautiful tourist spots have site-specific events. Les Commandos Peru, a French street-arts company, are staging a spectacular of music and fire on the shores of Lake Windermere; the Argentinian choreographer Constanza Macras is creating a show inspired by the ancient folk stories of Mabinogion in the Rheidol Forest of north Wales; Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh is the setting for a light installation combining sport and art in Speed of Light; the Manhattan artists' collective YesYesNo is creating a massive art installation along the 84-mile length of Hadrian's Wall; the Giant's Causeway is the setting for German artist Hans Peter Kuhn's visual project Flags; the Australian company Circa's How Like an Angel combines choral voices and aerial choreography and will be performed in cathedrals across the UK; while in Coventry Cathedral, celebrating its golden jubilee in 2012, James MacMillan's new work Gloria will be performed. Many events are being dovetailed into existing festivals,