Olympics in Trafalgar Square

A huge screen has been erected in Trafalgar Square that shows the Olympic Games. On Friday it was a warm, sunny day, and there were hundreds of people sitting on the steps of the National Gallery and along the fountain, and standing all around the square -- to watch Olympic events on the screen.






You can see in the photos that in front of the screen, there is a performance area with a rectangular vertical structure and a blue tarp on the ground. That area is used each evening, when the Games have ended for the day when live performers come to Trafalgar Square and are then broadcast onto the screen. When we were there one evening last week, men and women were performing acrobatic acts on that structure, while their images were projected on the screen.

It's all being called Festival Trafalgar.