Sadiq Khan has named Waltham Forest as London Borough of Culture 2019, and Brent as London Borough of Culture 2020.
London Assembly media writes:
The award will give all Londoners, regardless of background, the opportunity to enjoy the capital’s fantastic cultural riches – increasing the level of participation across the city and especially in outer London boroughs. Six boroughs receive the Mayor’s Cultural Impact Award, enabling stand-out schemes from other bidders to go ahead. The Announcement follows a six-month bidding process, which saw 22 boroughs submit proposals…
Waltham Forest will be the inaugural London Borough of Culture in 2019. Waltham Forest’s bid promises a year of exciting cultural activity across the outer London borough, and has an ambitious target of getting 85 per cent of households to participate, attracting half a million visits. More than 12,000 local people backed Waltham Forest’s submission from across the borough’s diverse communities. Drawing on this diversity was a key strength of Waltham Forest’s bid…
The winner of 2020 London Borough of Culture is Brent. The voices of young people take centre stage in Brent’s bid. During the consultation for Brent’s bid the council found that, of the young people they worked with, none had been to the Tate and none had heard of the National Theatre. During 2020, the borough aims to reverse this by establishing a new trust for delivering culture in the area with 50 per cent of the trust’s board being both from the local community and under the age of 30. Rather than adopting a top-down approach, the borough is working with young people to explore what culture means to them in the 21st century and allowing them to directly influence the design of their London Borough of Culture programme.
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