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13-07-2010
Collaborating for culture - Birmingham's bid for UK City of Culture 2013
Over 60 local cultural organisations, many business groups and thousands of residents have come together – have collaborated – to produce a bid which embraces large scale infrastructure projects such as the new Birmingham library (opening in 2013) through to local neighbourhood events and festivals.
The Birmingham Cultural Partnership has been using the bid to work on the following aims:
* Get more local people involved in culture (including arts, libraries, music, dance museums and galleries);
* Help more local residents experience our world class cultural venues such as Town Hall and Symphony Hall;
* Make connections between the most disadvantaged communities in our city, through cultural activities;
* Make sure there is plenty happening in our local communities for residents to get involved with and enjoy;
* Encourage visitors to come to Birmingham to experience what we have to offer.
As part of our work with Birmingham Forward, we were privileged to be involved in leading some of the collaborative efforts from the business community – most notably, the letter of support which can be found here on our website which brought together Birmingham Forward, Birmingham and Solihull Chamber of Commerce, Business Voice WM, the Institute of Directors and the Manufacturers' Organisation.
This letter set out to show that Birmingham’s business and professional services community fully supported the bid. There are questions as to whether a Birmingham hit by high unemployment and recessionary pay/recruitment freezes will be able to afford the role of City of Culture in three years’ time. But, Birmingham’s business community fully supports the benefits that winning the role will bring to the city – transforming the city’s reputation, creating thousands of much-needed jobs and injecting an estimated £200 million boost to the region’s economy.
As we will hopefully see on Thursday 15 July when the results of the bid are announced, the collaboration of cultural institutions, business groups and local residents has provided a formidable package of events and opportunities and a compelling argument as to why the city should be named UK City of Culture.
Just to end, thousands of people engaged with a 24 hour Big Culture blog which took place in April and recorded the many hundreds of events and cultural thoughts and activities set to take place on that one day in the city. If that isn’t a sign of the power of collaboration and messaging, then what is?
NB: UK City of Culture 2013 was won by Derry-Londonderry on Thursday 15 July 2010.
The Birmingham Cultural Partnership has been using the bid to work on the following aims:
* Get more local people involved in culture (including arts, libraries, music, dance museums and galleries);
* Help more local residents experience our world class cultural venues such as Town Hall and Symphony Hall;
* Make connections between the most disadvantaged communities in our city, through cultural activities;
* Make sure there is plenty happening in our local communities for residents to get involved with and enjoy;
* Encourage visitors to come to Birmingham to experience what we have to offer.
As part of our work with Birmingham Forward, we were privileged to be involved in leading some of the collaborative efforts from the business community – most notably, the letter of support which can be found here on our website which brought together Birmingham Forward, Birmingham and Solihull Chamber of Commerce, Business Voice WM, the Institute of Directors and the Manufacturers' Organisation.
This letter set out to show that Birmingham’s business and professional services community fully supported the bid. There are questions as to whether a Birmingham hit by high unemployment and recessionary pay/recruitment freezes will be able to afford the role of City of Culture in three years’ time. But, Birmingham’s business community fully supports the benefits that winning the role will bring to the city – transforming the city’s reputation, creating thousands of much-needed jobs and injecting an estimated £200 million boost to the region’s economy.
As we will hopefully see on Thursday 15 July when the results of the bid are announced, the collaboration of cultural institutions, business groups and local residents has provided a formidable package of events and opportunities and a compelling argument as to why the city should be named UK City of Culture.
Just to end, thousands of people engaged with a 24 hour Big Culture blog which took place in April and recorded the many hundreds of events and cultural thoughts and activities set to take place on that one day in the city. If that isn’t a sign of the power of collaboration and messaging, then what is?
NB: UK City of Culture 2013 was won by Derry-Londonderry on Thursday 15 July 2010.
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