Louise Wheeler
BBC Local Live

That's all from me for today.

We now know more about what we can expect from the first 'season' of UK City of Culture, Hull 2017.

Let's have a look back at 5 things we didn't know this morning:

• A huge fireworks show to rival London's New Year's celebrations is planned for the opening of UK City of Culture, Hull 2017
• The CEO of Hull 2017, Martin Green, says the city will 'roar' when its culture celebrations get underway
• The Director General of the BBC, Tony Hall, says that Hull will appear on every local and national BBC weather map from 01-01-17
• Journalists from as far away as Germany, Spain and The Netherlands came to Hull to hear about its artistic programme
• The Humber Bridge is going to be turned into a musical extravaganza

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Hull 2017: UK City of Culture announcement

One of the things that has got people excited on social media following the UK City of Culture programme announcement is the news that the BBC will feature Hull on every local and national map from 01-01-17.

The Director General of the BBC Tony Hall made the commitment earlier today.

Hull 2017: UK City of Culture announcement

Music highlights:

• Holy Holy, the band made up of Hull's own Spiders From Mars drummer Woody Woodmansey, David Bowie producer Tony Visconti and Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory will perform The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars live for the first time.
• A three-day festival will celebrate Hull's ambient music pioneer Basil Kirchin, and will feature Goldfrapp's Will Gregory, saxophonist Evan Parker and The Specials' Jerry Dammers.
• Singer-songwriter John Grant will curate a festival of Nordic music, tapping into the city's links with northern Europe.
• Opera North will turn the Humber Bridge into an "epic musical installation", with sounds that change depending on your route and the climate.

Image source, Press Association

Louise Wheeler
BBC Local Live

• Lighting specialist Nayan Kulkarni will be lighting up historic buildings and sculptures across the city
• The Drypool bridge will receive a makeover from artist Sarah Daniels celebrating the work of John Venn - the 19th Century mathematician and philosopher from East Hull.
• The Ferens Art Gallery, built in 1927 is undergoing a £4.5 million refurbishment and will be staging the Turner Prize 2017

Ian Youngs
Entertainment and Arts Reporter, BBC News

Lots of people have spoken about how being City of Culture will "put Hull on the map".

BBC director general Tony Hall means it. He says the biggest complaint he gets in Hull is about the city not appearing on TV weather maps. 

"I've just made a call and as of Jan 1 Hull will be there on every weather map, national and local." That got the biggest cheer of the day.

BBC Newsbeat

Nick and Jim are from Hull - here's their alternative guide to Hull.

Chip spice anyone?

Will Gompertz
BBC Arts Editor

So, isn't it all a bit of a waste of money?

I don't think so. I accept the arts festival on its own won't change much. But its very existence might. It has the potential to transform the city.

The real point of having a City of Culture, an idea that started as a pan-European initiative, is not the fun stuff per se, but to use the festivities as a catalyst for change.

It's simple human psychology - if you're inviting people you want to impress around to your house for dinner, the chances are you'll have a bit of a tidy up.

Being bestowed with the title of UK City of Culture has already changed Hull. I've seen it with my own eyes.

The old dry dock has been turned into an amphitheatre, while old cracked paving stones are being replaced by smart granite setts. Right now the place is a building site. I kept expecting to bump into Kevin McCloud from Grand Designs, sucking his teeth and shaking his head at the last-minuteness of it all.

It's noisy, messy and impressive. Hull is not going about being UK City of Culture in a half-hearted way. It is really going for it.

Image source, Hull 2017

Louise Wheeler
BBC Local Live

A major new national spoken word festival, a ballet for young children made in Hull and the recruitment of a hundred local community reporters are just some of the projects the BBC will host as part of UK City of Culture.

The spoken world festival will be called Contains Strong Language. 

It'll be a four day festival and will open on National Poetry Day on September 28.

Image source, Octovision Media

Stuart Harratt
BBC Local Live

Simon Calder, travel editor for the Independent newspaper, said he was very impressed “just seeing the energy that is going into the city”.

However, he sounded a note of caution about the prospects of Hull benefitting from a tourism boom during the City of Culture due to its “geography”.

“The trouble is for Hull just that extra distance from the main north south corridors is always going to be bit of an ask,” he said.

“There’s quite a lot in terms of image that people have to contend with if they are going genuinely to benefit from the City of Culture year in terms of creating an image, a  tourism industry as it were for Hull rather than being somewhere people go to on the way to or from the ferry.”

“They don’t necessarily come here because it is a great and fascinating place that has no parallel elsewhere in the UK.

Louise Wheeler
BBC Local Live

So we now know what we can expect from the first 'season' of UK City of Culture, Hull 2017.

A musical Humber Bridge, an outrageous 1960s art collective and a promise to have Hull on every local and national BBC weather map.

Lots of comments on social media following the launch.

What do you make of today's announcement?

Louise Wheeler
BBC Local Live

The Director General of the BBC Tony Hall admits that Hull doesn't always feature of the national weather map.

But he has made a telephone call....and from January 1 2017 for a whole 12 months Hull will feature every day on the weather map!

We won't be forgotten now, will we?

Hull 2017: UK City of Culture announcement

Arts highlights:

• Pietro Lorenzetti's 14th-Century masterpiece Christ Between Saints Paul and Peter will go on show at the refurbished Ferens art gallery after four years of conservation by the National Gallery.
• Photographs of thousands of naked painted people on the streets of Hull, taken by US photographer Spencer Tunick in July, will go on show at the Ferens (pictured).
• As previously announced, the gallery will host the 2017 Turner Prize exhibition and ceremony.
• The new Humber Street Gallery will dedicate an exhibition to pioneering art and music collective COUM Transmissions, who gained notoriety in the 1960s and 1970s for improvised and chaotic sets featuring nudity, bodily fluids, live maggots and self-mutilation.

Louise Wheeler
BBC Local Live

Chairwoman of Hull 2017 Rosie Millard says they have recruited 2,000 volunteers and pledges that 60,000 children and young people will have access to events.

Ms Millard says that art will be commissioned throughout the city and expects that this will bring us together during Hull 2017.

Hull 2017: UK City of Culture announcement

Film and Festival highlights:

• A retrospective of the late English Patient director Anthony Minghella (pictured), who went to university in Hull, will be staged.
• Two film festivals will examine dystopian visions of a digital future and Hull's contribution to British film and TV.
• The BBC is staging a new four-day spoken word and poetry festival titled Contains Strong Language
• Festival LGBT 50 will mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality
• WOW (Women of the World) Hull will take place, with a focus on Hull-born pianist, composer and conductor pioneer Ethel Leginska.

Image source, PA

Hull 2017: UK City of Culture announcement

Theatre highlights:

• The world premiere of The Hypocrite by Hull-born Richard Bean, best known for One Man, Two Guvnors, billed as a "riotous comedy" about Hull's role at the star of the English Civil War, will be staged at the Hull Truck theatre.
• Northern Broadsides theatre company will return with Richard III, 25 years after staging the play as their first production in a boat shed in the city.
• The premiere of Mighty Atoms, a play about "Battling" Barbara Buttrick, a boxing champion in the 1940s and '50s, by Amanda Whittington, will also take place at the Truck.

Image source, Getty Images

Ian Youngs
Entertainment and Arts Reporter, BBC News

A musical Humber Bridge, a 14th-Century masterpiece, an outrageous 1960s art collective and the Spiders From Mars will all be part of the line-up for Hull's year as UK City of Culture.

The £32m programme will take over streets and venues throughout 2017.

Hull 2017 director Martin Green said it will reflect ideas from the city "that have changed and enriched the world".

The year will begin with an outdoor extravaganza using projections and performances to tell the story of Hull.

Image source, HULL CITY COUNCIL/ANNA BEAN/LOLA BELTRAIN

Watch the announcement of next year's schedule live from the Hull Truck Theatre

Louise Wheeler
BBC Local Live

The stage is set for the Hull 2017 announcement.

Details of the UK City of Culture artistic programme will be released shortly.

Ian Youngs
Entertainment and Arts Reporter, BBC News

Dozens of journalists and movers and shakers from the arts are filing in to Hull Truck for the line-up announcement and there's a real sense of excitement.  

Outgoing Tate boss Sir Nicholas Serota and Hull 2017 chair Rosie Millard have just given the great and good (and me) a short intro. 

Not sure the excitement has yet spread throughout the whole city quite yet though. Walking here, I passed one man who saw a poster, said "City of Culture?" then let out a loud, incredulous laugh. 

Louise Wheeler
BBC Local Live

We know there will be a massive fireworks display over the Humber Bridge to mark City of Culture - but what else can we expect?

Details will be revealed shortly.

Here's Sir Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate, lending support to Hull 2017.