Agenda item

12 February 2014

City of London Festival

It is proposed thatthe City hosts a pre-concert reception on the occasion of the performance of a ‘Commonwealth Concert’ at Guildhall on Monday, 14^th July as part of the 2014 City of London Festival.

The City of London Festival was founded in 1962 as an independent trust with the aim of revitalising the cultural life of the City and is supported equally by the business community, the City of London Corporation and the general public. The first Festival programme ran over 8 days with both indoor and outdoor activities. Since then each year the City of London Festival has run an artistic programme incorporating a range of musical and visual arts performances and using the City’s unique buildings and outdoor spaces.

The Commonwealth Concert performance is a key strand of this year’s Festival’s activity and will form part of the contribution to the 2014 Commonwealth Games’ cultural programme - a nationwide calendar of cultural events to help “ensure the Games touch every part of the nation, as part of a year-long countdown.”  Guests at the reception will include City representatives together with Commonwealth political and diplomatic contacts.

We recommend that hospitalitybe granted and that arrangements are made under the auspices of the Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee; the cost to be met from City’s Cash, within the approved cost parameters.

(This will be a Committee event.)

12 February 2014

City of London Festival

It is proposed thatthe City hosts a pre-concert reception on the occasion of the performance of a ‘Commonwealth Concert’ at Guildhall on Monday, 14^th July as part of the 2014 City of London Festival.

The City of London Festival was founded in 1962 as an independent trust with the aim of revitalising the cultural life of the City and is supported equally by the business community, the City of London Corporation and the general public. The first Festival programme ran over 8 days with both indoor and outdoor activities. Since then each year the City of London Festival has run an artistic programme incorporating a range of musical and visual arts performances and using the City’s unique buildings and outdoor spaces.

The Commonwealth Concert performance is a key strand of this year’s Festival’s activity and will form part of the contribution to the 2014 Commonwealth Games’ cultural programme - a nationwide calendar of cultural events to help “ensure the Games touch every part of the nation, as part of a year-long countdown.”  Guests at the reception will include City representatives together with Commonwealth political and diplomatic contacts.

We recommend that hospitalitybe granted and that arrangements are made under the auspices of the Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee; the cost to be met from City’s Cash, within the approved cost parameters.

(This will be a Committee event.)

Read and agreed to.