Hull UK City of Culture 2017
editAfter 2013, the next UK City of Culture was scheduled for 2017. Officials from Aberdeen stated they would bid for the title,[1] as did officials from Dundee,[2] while local officials from Colchester,[3] Derby,[4] Leicester,[5] Plymouth,[6] Stoke-on-Trent,[7] Swansea,[8] Hull,[9] and York[10] suggested that those cities would bid for the 2017 title. On 18 April 2013, the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce announced that Portsmouth and Southampton were making a joint bid for the 2017 title.[11] There was also a bid from East Kent (Canterbury, Ashford, Folkestone, Dover and Thanet),[12] and another from Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea, supported by celebrity Graham Norton.[13]
In June 2013 the shortlist of four bids from Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay was announced.[14] The winner of the 2017 title was announced on 20 November 2013 and Hull was chosen.[15] TV producer Phil Redmond, who chaired the City of Culture panel, said Hull was the unanimous choice because it put forward "the most compelling case based on its theme as 'a city coming out of the shadows'". On 31 July 2014, Martin Green was announced as chief executive of the team. Green was previously head of ceremonies for the 2012 Summer Olympics, and organised the 2014 Tour de France Grand Départ ceremony in Yorkshire.[16]
On 1st January 2017 the Hull event opened with a fireworks display over the river Humber and a series of sound and light installations collectively known as Made in Hull which attracted 25,000 visitors. [17][18]
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- ^ Business News Hampshire. Hampshire Chamber. Retrieved on 23 July 2013.
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- ^ "UK City of Culture: Fireworks and projections start Hull 2017". BBC. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ "Made in Hull - the crowds keep coming". BBC. Retrieved 4 January 2017.