2012 is a landmark year in the history of the Paralympic Games: learning-disabled athletes are back after a controversial 12 year ban. Gold Run celebrates their return.

Learning-disabled athletes were first welcomed into the Atlanta Paralympics in 1996. But, at Sydney 2000, they were banned from competing when the Spanish basketball team were accused of fielding a team who were mostly non-learning disabled. London 2012 marks their return to the Games after the 12 year ban.

Gold Run is a creative response to this controversial history in film, music and visual art. The story is told through a solo voice represented onstage by a giant sculptural head backed up by a chorus of singing 'athletes'. Meanwhile specially commissioned films are projected onto the stage to illustrate the action.

Gold Run is an original commission and partnership between Carousel, the award-winning disability arts organisation; Glyndebourne, the international opera house renowned for excellence; and Pallant House Gallery, the acclaimed home of modern art in the South.

It  is created and presented by The Carousel Singers, Oska Bright filmmakers Matthew Hellett and Sarah Watson, Outside In artist James Lake, and learning-disabled and marginalised artists.

The final piece will be performed live in three prestigious venues in the South East, Glyndebourne,  Brighton Corn Exchangeand Chichester Festival Theatre in 2012.

Following the live performances the work will be transformed into a digital installation, which will be exhibited throughout the Olympics in a Dilston Grove, Southwark Park, just outside the Olympic Village, before touring as part of Pallant House Gallery's Outside In initiative.