Who is Perry? Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
Who is Perry? Well, you’ll be seeing a lot more of him during the countdown to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games as the official mascot. Perry will become a powerful icon for Birmingham 2022 all over the world, as a global audience of more than one billion people tune into one of the biggest sports events to be held in the UK for a decade.
Perry, is a bull adorned with a patchwork of multi-coloured hexagons becomes the first mascot at any multi-sport Games who will be brought to life through augmented reality, giving people the opportunity to #PoseWithPerry using their mobile phone camera and via a special filter on Facebook and Instagram.
Perry was designed by 10-year-old Emma Lou, following a nationwide competition. After Emma’s design was chosen as the winning mascot she said: “I chose a bull because of the Bullring in Birmingham, and I decided to use hexagons because they are the strongest shape and the whole world depends on each other.”
Chief Executive of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Ian Reid, said: “Perry is everything I hoped our mascot would be and more: bright, colourful, energetic and totally representative of modern Birmingham and the West Midlands. Perry celebrates diversity, community, and our region’s heritage as well as its future”.
