The 2024 Dulwich Olympiad will take place in Singapore over the third week of March, hosted by Dulwich College (Singapore). A truly unique network-wide event celebrating students and communities across our family of schools, the Dulwich Olympiad combines a number of Sport, Drama, Music and Art competitions and activities, giving students from across the world the opportunity to meet their peers, often for the first time, learn about other cultures and the other schools in the network and to create new friendships across borders.
This year’s Olympiad will see more than 1000 participating students from across our family of schools experience five days of exciting adventures in Singapore, including visiting iconic locations including the Merlion, Gardens by the Bay, and Marina Bay Sands.
As we get excited about the upcoming Olympiad, let’s look back at the previous two iconic events in Beijing and London.
Beijing
Dulwich Olympiad 2015
The first Dulwich Olympiad took place in the vibrant city of Beijing in April 2015, where over 500 students from 8 schools converged beneath the iconic skyline for the inaugural Dulwich Olympiad. Events took place in iconic venues within the historical city, including the National Olympic Sports Centre.
Highlights:
- Athletics, Football, Basketball and Swimming were held at the National Olympic Sports Centre Basketball stadium, constructed for the 1990 Asian Games. Three courts in the stadium saw participation from all participating Colleges in at least one of the age groups.
- Over 200 musicians and singers took part in performances at Dulwich College Beijing and the V-Continent Hotel, with a joint performance that included John Williams’s epic Olympic Fanfare and Theme, a medley for the orchestra of music from the James Bond movies, and Christopher Tin’s Grammy Award winning classic Baba Yetu for mass choir, orchestra, and percussion.
- The winners of the second annual Science and Art Photography Competition were displayed at the Dulwich Olympiad Gala Dinner.
London
Dulwich Olympiad 2019
In March 2019, 400 years after Dulwich College was founded, over 900 students from 11 schools around the world gathered in London for the second Dulwich Olympiad. Ranging from Year 7 to Year 13, artists, musicians, athletes, actors and actresses from Shanghai, Suzhou, Beijing, Zhuhai, Yangon, Singapore and Seoul flew in for five days of competition, collaboration and a once-in-a-lifetime experience, including visiting some of the most iconic venues in the city, such as Olympic Park and Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Highlights:
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The basketball tournament held in the Copperbox at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, swimming in the Aquatics Centre and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and athletics at Olympic Park, with the opportunity to train on the warm-up track that had once been used by Usain Bolt and Mo Farah.
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Music featuring combined choirs, ensembles and orchestras, Taiko drums, Korean drumming performances in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and a drama performance of an Elizabethan play, Doctor Faustus, in the Queen Elizabeth Hall featuring students from every school!
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Art workshops, football, touch rugby, pop-up concerts, badminton and tug-of-war at our founding school, Dulwich College.
Singapore
Dulwich Olympiad 2024
The Dulwich Olympiad held in Singapore will see over 1000 students from 13 schools across the world, including Dulwich College and James Allen’s Girls’ School, Dulwich College Beijing, Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong, Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi, Dulwich College Suzhou, Dulwich College Seoul, Dulwich College (Singapore), Dulwich International High School Suzhou, Dulwich International High School Zhuhai, Dehong Shanghai, Dehong Beijing, and Dehong Xi’an. There will be five incredible action-packed days of skill, talent, creativity, competition, collaboration, teamwork, and friendship.
Across the disciplines, students will have the opportunity to work with local artist collectives, renowned designers, award-winning theatre directors, guest conductors, learn unique and local cultural dances, partake in various masterclasses and participate in sports activities that provide healthy competition in a collaborative and friendly environment.
More information and highlights about the 2024 Olympiad will be shared in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!
