{"id":327121,"date":"2025-12-20T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327121\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:43:08","slug":"crowds-celebrate-bradfords-city-of-culture-year-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327121\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds celebrate Bradford&#8217;s City of Culture year finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of those who took part, Gavin Wood, said to participate in the show was &#8220;very fulfilling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m Bradford born and bred and incredibly proud of my roots,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a beautiful place to live, and I feel like the City of Culture is helping the city turn its narrative around towards a more positive outlook.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shanaz Gulzar, creative director of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, described Brighter Still as a &#8220;dynamic reflection of Bradford, honouring our heritage, marking the present and looking to the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;We complete this remarkable year by putting local people centre stage where they belong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is estimated the year-long City of Culture celebration cost about \u00a351m and generated audiences of three million people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The overall budget was created through fundraising, ticket sales and commercial activities, organisers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Major grants included \u00a315m from the government, \u00a310m from Bradford Council and \u00a36m from West Yorkshire Combined Authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other highlights of the year included a stage production of the Railway Children inside an engine shed, Bradford-born artist David Hockney&#8217;s work recreated using drones and a celebration of local brass bands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of those who took part, Gavin Wood, said to participate in the show was &#8220;very fulfilling&#8221;. &#8220;I&#8217;m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-327121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}