{"id":6002,"date":"2013-06-22T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T15:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2013-06-22T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T15:28:38","slug":"final-4-cities-in-running-for-uk-city-of-culture-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6002","title":{"rendered":"Final 4 cities in running for UK City of Culture 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Department for Culture, Media &amp; Sport has announced the shortlist of four cities in contention for the 2017 City of culture: Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay<\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DCMS writes<\/span>:<br \/>\nThe announcement by England\u2019s Culture Minister Ed Vaizey follows a meeting of the independent advisory panel chaired by Phil Redmond at which a total of 11 bids were considered.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Vaizey said: \u2018I want to congratulate the 4 shortlisted cities who have made it this far, and indeed all 11 cities who put time and great effort into submitting bids. The events in Derry-Londonderry over recent weeks highlight just how much of an impact being \u2018City of Culture\u2019 can have. It brings together communities, encourages economic growth, and inspires social change and the shortlisted cities should be very proud of the bids they have put together so far.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The 4 shortlisted cities will now be invited to submit a final bid by the end of September 2013 and the winner will be announced in November.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Redmond, Chair of the independent advisory panel said: \u2018It was incredibly difficult to decide on a shortlist as all the bids recognised the power of culture to bring about social change and offered innovative and interesting programmes. In the end the panel thought the four short listed cities offered plans that were ambitious, realistic and would not only deliver for their communities, but would also maintain the momentum created around the success of Derry-Londonderry<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UK Government News<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/final-4-cities-in-running-to-be-uk-city-of-culture-2017-announced\" target=\"_blank\">LINK\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Culture, Media &amp; Sport has announced the shortlist of four cities in contention for the 2017 City of culture: Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay.\u00a0 DCMS writes: The announcement by England\u2019s Culture Minister Ed Vaizey follows a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}