Newport officially named as 2027 Urdd host

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Newport has officially been put forward as the host for the Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2027. It’s a massive Welsh language youth event that travels around the country every year. Newport has never hosted the celebration before, so will be a very different occasion that many are used to, but with so many global events in the past, Newport is more than ready to bring the Urdd to the city.

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00:00Newport is certainly not known as a hotbed for the Welsh language.

00:05It ranks fourth from bottom in terms of percentage of population of Welsh speakers at roughly 18%

00:10as of 2022. But Newport in a few years time is set to host one of the biggest Welsh language

00:15celebrations in Wales as the council agree plans to host the Eisteddfod yr Urdd, the youth

00:20Eisteddfod in 2027. The annual event is thought to be one of if not the largest youth festival

00:26anywhere in Europe and changes location every year, being hosted all around Wales.

00:31It brings with it a music festival called The Mice as well as thousands of young people from

00:36schools all across Wales competing in over 400 different categories from singing to dancing

00:41to musical renditions. Newport is no stranger from massive events coming to the city and has hosted

00:47some genuinely global ones in recent years. Back in 2010 it hosted the Ryder Cup, one of

00:52Galvin's biggest international events, and then hosted the NATO summit in 2014, bringing some of

00:57the most important people on the planet to South Wales in an event many people will still remember

01:02in the city. So for Newport the Urdd, as it's often known, will be another one of those massive

01:08events the city has hosted. It will be the first time Newport has ever hosted the celebration and

01:13it's over a hundred years history. So for Welsh speakers and non-Welsh speakers in Newport it

01:18will be a truly unique event. The last time Newport hosted a Welsh-language specific event of

01:23this magnitude was way back in 2004 when the full Eisteddfod came to the city, bringing almost 150,000

01:30people to the local area. Councillor Emma Sowell-Corten, Cabinet Member for Communications and Culture,

01:36said the Eisteddfod of the Urdd is one of Wales's biggest annual events, drawing in visitors from

01:41across Wales and beyond, and the council are delighted that the Urdd Gobaith Cymru are keen

01:46to bring the 2027 Eisteddfod to Newport. No specific locations where it might be hosted

01:51are official yet and that will be proposed officially to the public in September when

01:55the full plans are announced.

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