Explore initiatives & stories from UNESCO networks.

The campaign, implemented by the Ministry of Culture and Creative Azerbaijan portal, aims to support the population to spend their time effectively and encourage their creativity during the quarantine and social isolation. The terms are very simple. One needs to follow Creative Azerbaijan Facebook page, share creative work on his/her page with the hashtag #evdəqalevdəyarat, and tag Creative Azerbaijan Facebook page. The authors of the most liked works (recipients of “likes”) will receive various gifts from the Creative Azerbaijan portal and the Ministry of Culture in May.

A work of community art in a park in Joensuu, Finland. Everyone could place their own sculpture in the vicinity of the others.

The spread of Coronvirus (COVID-19) has had and is still having a rippling effect on everyone’s life: one after the other, all public events and activities have been canceled for the foreseeable future, forcing people to stay home and cope with this unprecedented hard moment by themselves. While watching tv and reading may sound like a productive ways of spending time, they just aren’t enough to satisfy our needs, we want more, we want to live joyful convivial moments that make us feel like everything will be ok and that “normal life”, as we know it, is just around the corner. The Cultural Department of the City of Lugano in collaboration with IBSA Foundation presented to the press on March 10, 2020 the Culture and Health project, which stems from the understanding that a greater cross-sectoral alliance between two seemingly distant worlds, such as art and wellbeing, can improve people’s life quality. As a response to the current COVID-19 situation, the partnership created a special project, a web-information hub available on culturaesalute.ch, which contains Switzerland’s digital cultural offer as a whole, offering direct access to museums, music, dance, and theatre experiences through virtual views accessible directly from everyone’s home devices, alongside a number of international art resources and experiences to broaden the offer and make everyone feel connected through a shared love of art, creation, and life. The website’s content, which currently counts 250+ initiatives, is divided in 11 categories: architecture and design, visual arts, cinema, literature, media, museums and libraries, music, kids, theatre and dance, formation/education, culture and health in addition to a list of support resources available in Switzerland for the artistic community. www.culturaesalute.ch is allowing us the opportunity to showcase, share, celebrate, and connect with the evolution of culture, but most of all help our people get through.

As part of the community, we invite you to participate in an artistic initiative under the #NeverDisconnet campaign to motivate and ignite your creativity and encourage artistic production from the comfort of your homes through a variety of topics that are relevant to our current lifestyle. Every week Misk Art Institute will announce a new challenge on our social media platforms. You can participate by sharing your artwork, musical piece, sculpture, photo, video or drawing relevant to the subject presented.

As part of a Creatives against COVID-19 initiative, the Africa Digital Media Foundation (Kenya) has launched webinar series to explore the ways in which Kenyan artists are overcoming the current COVID-19 crisis. #CreativesAgainstCovid Photography Edition webinar aimed at initiating a vibrant discussion on how photographers are managing the crisis in Kenya, and how they can come out stronger.

Gabrovo is a Creative city of Crafts and folk art since 2017. This year, the Municipality of Gabrovo announced a carnival contest during the isolation period. The event will be held on 16th May 2020, event that you can watch online. You can also participate to the contest from your balconies, terraces, windows...

Take a virtual tour of Viljandi city.

A platform that raises awareness for our creative community while nurturing and supporting local and emerging designers, allowing brands to engage and further develop relationships with globally influential stores and increase their visibility. JFW launched the campaign “born again”, which aims to produce conscious, impactful face masks created by local women artisans

Ololo Art Studio has launched a series of" Corona Lifestyle" live broadcasts. Lot of people with different professional backgrounds took part in the broadcast, among which doctors, marketers, nutritionists, bloggers, psychologists, scientists, restaurateurs, ecologists, etc.

ŻiguŻajg International Arts Festival for Children & Young People was the first festival in Malta for children & young people. You can find ŻiguŻajg’s past performances, tailor-made for kids, published online every Thursdays.

Des membres de collectifs d'artistes-graffeurs s'engagent dans le combat contre le Covid-19 en mettant leur art au service de la sensibilisation.

The Ministry of Communication and Culture distributed aid to Malagasy artists from all walks of life. 1000 pieces of supplies are being distributed to these artists. It came from organizing a conference of various actors, such as singers, filmmakers and others, as well as within the Ministry, to see who needs the most. These federations took the help and distributed it to a group of artists. Artists in the art world are also among those who are experiencing difficulties with inability to perform shows and events.

As an emergency response to COVID-19, UNESCO Almaty aims to support children and adolescents from the most vulnerable groups through the series of online art workshops lead by youth artists and members of Kazakhstan National Federation of UNESCO Clubs. This initiative corresponds with the UNESCO’s global campaign #ResiliArt #ArtConnects dedicated to the World Arts Day (15 April).

Curitiba mobilized its expertise in design and innovation to start producing 3D printed face shields to protect health professionals working in the city.

Museums and cultural institutions in Bergamo, Italy, have launched online initiatives to allow inhabitants to continue experiencing the vibrant cultural life of the city, through virtual tours, videos and podcasts.See more

Through to the initiative #Cinemadacasa, sequences and images of films are projected on urban building facades throughout the city.See more

The city of Slemani launched the initiative ‘Literature and Arts as Helpmate and Therapist’ to help people in confinement experiencing solitude to stay resilient and united.See more

The social media campaign #WindowsOfMusicAndHope aims at unite people and spread a message of hope by encouraging music enthusiasts to perform on their balconies. See more

Wuhan launched the global call “Fight the Pandemic, Wuhan We Can” to strengthen public knowledge of precautionary measures through graphic design works.See more

The initiative provides free access to medical staff to various cultural activities to pay respect to their valuable work in the ongoing pandemic.See more

The initiative provides free access to medical staff to various cultural activities to pay respect to their valuable work in the ongoing pandemic.

The online platform ‘Cultural Capital in Your Home’ gives access to all digital cultural activities provided by cultural institutions based in Mexico City.See more

A poetry flash mob will take place on social media with an appeal to readers to share poems online. Videos will be posted by local, Russian and foreign poets on social networks #WPDULSK20

Poet and organiser of literary events Ignor, Dejan Koban, will be reading his poetry and a selection of other poems throughout the day live on Facebook.

The Reykjavic City of Literature poetry collective Svikaskald will have poety reading from poets of Iceland or abroad and discuss their favorite poems. The videos will have English subtitles.

On 20 march A group of Heidelberg authors will do a livestreamed reading with the title "Des dunklen Lichtes voll (a Holderlin quote "ful of dark light"). the video will also be shared on Saturday 21 March.

Manchester poets will be reading about their connection to trees and nature. Poems will be shared throughout the day.

Edinburgh's Scottish Poetry Library will be sharing a poetry podcast from their collection every hour free of charge. Be sure to stay tuned in and celebrate poetry.