{"id":102,"date":"2013-02-15T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T14:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=102"},"modified":"2013-02-15T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T14:49:54","slug":"museums-shortlisted-for-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Museums shortlisted for national competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Two Council run museums in the City have made it to the final of a national competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The winners of the \u2018Museums at Night Connect10\u2019 contest benefit from \u00a32,000 per venue and a celebrity artist of their choice to exhibit at two special night events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Now, the City Council is urging residents to get behind the campaign and vote to help both Gloucester museums win in their categories. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The Folk Museum has bid to win Richard Wentworth (Damien Hurst\u2019s tutor and British Sculptor), and the City Museum has bid to win Julia Vogl (Catlin Prize winner, American-English).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Councillor Paul James, Leader and Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Gloucester City Council said: \u201cThis is a great opportunity for the City to be visited by highly acclaimed artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201cThe events themselves have something for everyone and being in a museum or gallery at night is always incredibly exciting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201cWhether you have visited either museum before or not, they really will be great events to attend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The Connect10 competition is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The online voting commences at Tuesday 19<sup>th<\/sup> February at 11am, and closes at 5pm on Tuesday 5<sup>th<\/sup> March.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">From Tuesday 19<sup>th<\/sup> everyone who visits the museums will be invited to vote for both museums via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gloucestermuseums.co.uk\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">www.gloucestermuseums.co.uk<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Council run museums in the City have made it to the final of a national competition. The winners of the \u2018Museums at Night Connect10\u2019 contest benefit from \u00a32,000 per venue and a celebrity artist of their choice to exhibit at two special night events. Now, the City Council is urging residents to get behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}