{"id":77908,"date":"2017-01-12T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2e3176456d7ec63d3dbfa44967c6d287"},"modified":"2017-01-12T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T10:44:00","slug":"news-story-uk-city-of-culture-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77908","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK City of Culture 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The prestigious title is a chance to use arts and culture as a catalyst for a city\u2019s economic and social regeneration.  And of course to raise the profile of the city\u2019s creative reputation right across the country.<\/p>\n<p>UK Government Minister Andrew Dunlop said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK City of Culture competition is a fantastic opportunity for the winning city to really put itself on the map. The title is a unique opportunity to drive artistic innovation, bring in visitors, and boost regeneration and economic growth. It would be great to bring the title to Scotland, and I urge Scottish towns and cities to get involved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Phil Redmond, chair of the competition\u2019s independent advisory panel, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Having been on the journey from Liverpool 2008, Derry-Londonderry 2013 and now Hull 2017, I am delighted other cities will have the opportunity to bid and build upon the award for 2021.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The launch of the 2021 competition comes in the same month Hull kicks off its year as UK City of Culture 2017.  Derry-Londonderry was the first UK City of Culture in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Cities have till the end of January to register interest, with final bids due by the end of April. A shortlist will be announced in July and the winning city in December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government has today [Thursday 12 January] fired the starting gun on the competition to find the UK City of Culture 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}