Ambitious Tour festival deadlines ‘will be met’

By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Mar 2014, 13:43 BST
Henrietta Duckworth, executive producer of the Tour de France cultural festival in Yorkshire, March 27 to July 6Henrietta Duckworth, executive producer of the Tour de France cultural festival in Yorkshire, March 27 to July 6
Henrietta Duckworth, executive producer of the Tour de France cultural festival in Yorkshire, March 27 to July 6
The woman tasked with delivering the £2m Tour de France arts festival is confident its “extraordinary deadlines” will be met.

Henrietta Duckworth, who was drafted in to the Yorkshire Festival 2014 as executive producer in December, is excited at the prospect of making the event’s 47 projects a reality in time for the start of its programme on March 27.

The West Yorkshire Playhouse producer of eight years took over after festival director Maria Bota left in December.

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The festival’s programme, marking the 100-day countdown to the Grand Depart on July 5 and 6, was announced at Trinity Leeds after an artistic flashmob in late January.