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LEEDS 2023: levelling up in action

Since Britain’s exit from Europe, we have no longer been able to compete for European Capital of Culture. But, as Kully Thiarai writes, Leeds decided to do it anyway. 

Kully Thiarai
6 min read

I started as Creative Director of LEEDS 2023 just as the UK left the EU on 1 January 2020. It was an audacious call and one that would require tenacity, commitment, and a belief that, when people work...

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