purpleronnie Posted 19 June 2013 Posted 19 June 2013 The thing is, if we have to promote multiculturalism so much it just shows we are clutching at straws. I don't know how Leicester can be a candidate tbh why's that? Its a cultural award.
lavrentis Posted 19 June 2013 Posted 19 June 2013 why's that? Its a cultural award. Well I'm sure all the monocultural cities around the world are just vastly devoid of culture.
Webbo Posted 19 June 2013 Posted 19 June 2013 I'm sure our multiculturalism is an advantage in bidding for this but it's not about promoting multiculturalism. If we get this it will mean exhibitions, plays, concerts etc. Even if you don't care about that sort of thing the local hotels, pub, restaurants and shops will see an increase in business, it will promote the city across the country.
Guest MattP Posted 19 June 2013 Posted 19 June 2013 lol The more I read about this the more I think the judges etc are trolling all four cities as a pisstake.
EastNeukFox Posted 19 June 2013 Posted 19 June 2013 With that as our competition we might stand a chance. Dundee: City of Discovery. ......you get there and discover it's 5hite!!
Voll Blau Posted 19 June 2013 Posted 19 June 2013 Well I'm sure all the monocultural cities around the world are just vastly devoid of culture. Can you name a monocultural city?
Guest Bilo Posted 19 June 2013 Posted 19 June 2013 Can you name a monocultural city? I can. Pyongyang. Get me.
Ozwin Posted 19 June 2013 Posted 19 June 2013 One look at these Spotted pages on Facebook and we'd be ****ed. Utterly ruthless some of them!
Guest Posted 19 June 2013 Posted 19 June 2013 Perhaps if we win we can offer to sell it to Hull for £10 million (which means they'll start the haggling at £3.75)
Captain... Posted 19 June 2013 Posted 19 June 2013 One look at these Spotted pages on Facebook and we'd be ****ed. Utterly ruthless some of them! What's that then?
MPH Posted 20 June 2013 Posted 20 June 2013 Perhaps if we win we can offer to sell it to Hull for £10 million (which means they'll start the haggling at £3.75) We'd start at 10million, end up employing someone to over see the sale of said asset and probably accept 50 quid in the end soon after going into administration
davieG Posted 31 July 2013 Author Posted 31 July 2013 Merc Engelbert, Showaddywaddy or Kasabian performing live from the roof of Leicester Town Hall? Or hot air balloons carrying orchestras to wake up the city with classical music? These are among ideas mooted as possibilities should Leicester succeed in winning the UK City of Culture 2017 title. ​ Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival founder Geoff Rowe The team behind the city’s campaign is currently compiling a 74 page final bid to the Government’s judges in the hope of outshining rivals Dundee, Hull and Swansea Bay. Yesterday members of the bidding consortium, city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby and Dave’s Leicester Comedy festival founder Geoff Rowe, met members of the public to reveal a few more glimpses of what Leicester could offer as City of Culture, as well as hear their ideas for the bid. They held two discussion sessions at the Bishop Street library with dozens of people interested in the bid. They said the city’s bid would feature a range of “outdoor spectaculars†involving pyrotechnics to reinforce the bid’s Festival of Light theme. Mr Rowe said just 10 ideas were being requested by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in the final bid, due in at the end of September but said that other concepts would make up a year of events should Leicester win. He said few details of the bid could be revealed in case the other contending cities stole the ideas. He said: “The Government wants us to do high profile stuff with brilliant international artists. At the same time it has to be distinct to Leicester. “We need to do some amazing and spectacular things.†Other ideas suggested included film festivals, a children’s festival and riverside celebrations. Sir Peter said: “We have had some brilliant suggestions from people and I am very happy that people want to get involved with the bid. Leicester has always been a very modest city which has suffered from a collective inferiority complex. “This city deserves to be proud of lots of things but it also needs to get on with doing something about the things it is not so proud of. “I am determined we will be City of Culture in 2017 and that year will deliver something that is remembered by generations to come. “people will look back and say it was a time we realised what a special place Leicester was.†Sir Peter has agreed to underwrite the potential £10 million cost of staging a City of Culture programme but he said conversations had been held with businesses about potential sponsorship. He said: “I am not anticipating writing a cheque for £10 million. “Other organisations want to put some real money behind this but they will make their announcements when they are ready.†He said the expense would be “money well spent†because of the international profile the city would gain as well as the jobs that will created. No firm figures have yet been produced on the economic impact of winning the contest but they are likely to be part of the final bid.
davieG Posted 31 July 2013 Author Posted 31 July 2013 Surely this should be based on what you do in a normal year in the life of the chosen City. Not how you can spend £10mill putting on made up one off events. With several events like the Caribbean Carnival struggling to continue, Museums on reduced opening hours, subsidies to theatres and other arts being cut on a regular basis doesn't make us great candidates for a City of Culture.
Webbo Posted 31 July 2013 Posted 31 July 2013 Surely this should be based on what you do in a normal year in the life of the chosen City. Not how you can spend £10mill putting on made up one off events. With several events like the Caribbean Carnival struggling to continue, Museums on reduced opening hours, subsidies to theatres and other arts being cut on a regular basis doesn't make us great candidates for a City of Culture. I doubt if we're worse than any of the other candidates.
davieG Posted 31 July 2013 Author Posted 31 July 2013 I doubt if we're worse than any of the other candidates. Probably not I was just using us an example of how flawed the whole thing is. What's the point of having a one off event of Engelbert singing from the top of the town hall when so many 'cultural' aspects of the City are floundering or ceasing to take place.
Webbo Posted 31 July 2013 Posted 31 July 2013 All these schemes are a load of crap but the money is going to spent anyway so I'd rather it was spent here.
bovril Posted 31 July 2013 Posted 31 July 2013 Probably not I was just using us an example of how flawed the whole thing is. What's the point of having a one off event of Engelbert singing from the top of the town hall when so many 'cultural' aspects of the City are floundering or ceasing to take place. Basically what you said... I was in Sarajevo for two weeks during the film festival in 2011 and someone told me that to finance the European capital of culture bid they'd had to close two museums.
Rincewind Posted 31 July 2013 Posted 31 July 2013 Carnival this Saturday, Leicester Day end of August, DocFil Fest and Media Week in November and some secret hush hush event happening in October. So a little bit happening the rest of the year culture like. The winner receives the David Cameron Myth Certificate which has as it's emblem a Phoenix.
Guest MattP Posted 31 July 2013 Posted 31 July 2013 Speaking of the carnival we could use that as an idea for the capital culture show. We could have floats of local Leicester talent coming down Granby Street into the centre. One of the local chavs who hand around near the clock tower showing just how smashed you can get on a fiver (we'll double it up float travel as a free bus fare for to attract the best) One of the local homeless shouting at people and revealing the "scents of Leicester" (sponsored by Down and Out of course) The fat single women with three kids of different colour to show our diversity (sponsored by Greggs and we can drop them off on the way) We could have the "Asian Sex Gang" on the next one waving to the crowd before they are dropped off at court (to either be sentenced or sue any Sikhs (sorry asians!) who may have attacked them) We could round it off with a Primark fashion show and for the nightparty have some Carribean flavours with Mark Morrison doing the music and Heskey's brother providing the fireworks. We could be onto a winner here Ken.
Rincewind Posted 31 July 2013 Posted 31 July 2013 We could also have a pub landlord contest. See which pub customers comes up with the biggest list of stereotypes to use as scapegoats. The use of the Mail for reference is not allowed, The prize for the winner is The David Cameron Myth Of The Year Award a statuette resembling a Phoenix.
Guest MattP Posted 31 July 2013 Posted 31 July 2013 We could also have a pub landlord contest. See which pub customers comes up with the biggest list of stereotypes to use as scapegoats. The use of the Mail for reference is not allowed, Great idea, they could pass pubs on the way and be leered and jeered at by locals. Like a freak show for pissheads, we could sell raffle tickets and make a fortune. And I thought you didn't have a business brain, I feel embarrassed.
separator Posted 6 September 2013 Posted 6 September 2013 Another A-lister backs Leicester's bid for city of culture 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-23976671
davieG Posted 10 September 2013 Author Posted 10 September 2013 http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/City-culture-Bid-backed-poster-unveiled/story-19774833-detail/story.html
Zingari Posted 10 September 2013 Posted 10 September 2013 http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/City-culture-Bid-backed-poster-unveiled/story-19774833-detail/story.html Culture.jpg I thought that bloke on the right was Inspector Barnaby from Midsomer Murders.
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