‘It was empowering’: Bradford considers the legacy of its city of culture year
Organisers hope its hyper-localised ‘levelling up’ agenda will translate into sustainable, long-term upliftShanaz Gulzar is taking stock the day after Bradford’s city of culture year officially wrapped. There’s a lot...
By Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent · The Guardian Culture
Organisers hope its hyper-localised ‘levelling up’ agenda will translate into sustainable, long-term uplift Shanaz Gulzar is taking stock the day after Bradford’s city of culture year officially wrapped. There’s a lot for the creative director to reflect on: more than 5,000 events have taken place and £51m has been spent during a year that was by far the biggest city of culture since the project started in 2013 . Her personal highlights include the opening ceremony Rise in January, when temperatures got as low as -8 C; seeing 600 people turn up to the start of The Bradford Progress – Jeremy Deller and Charles Hazlewood’s sprawling musical epic with the Paraorchestra; and the exhibition of Victor Wedderburn’s photographs that captured Black Bradford in the mid-1980s . Continue reading...