I got an email earlier. There was a letter attached that said:
Andy Street, Chair of the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) Board invites you to the launch of Creative City by Ed Vaizey MP Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries. Creative City is an important new initiative bringing together the public and private sector to harness culture and creativity to drive economic recovery.
The event will include the launch of Catalyst, the new £100 million culture sector wide private giving investment programme, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Fund.
I’ve not come across this Creative City idea before and can’t find anything about it online, just stuff about the old Creative City Awards. On the other hand there’s a fair bit of info about the Catalyst fund here. So anyway, it’s the week after next and a light lunch is promised. Bonza. I’ll report back.
Fwiw, the invite had a lot of logos on it.
