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Parma (Italy), a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, will organize online the third “Italian Youth Forum” on 27 March. The forum aims to engage in a dialogue with youth on sustainable development challenges and to discuss on the innovative solutions to be devised to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Recognizing the power of youth and young generations towards building sustainable and resilient societies, the 2021 edition will focus on five main topics related to sustainable development: culture, environment, food,...
As a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy since 2019, Afyonkarahisar (Turkey) has committed itself to utilizing eco-friendly means and measures to support its activities related to cultural and creative fields. Recently, the city launched the Food Waste Reduction Project to further raise awareness as well as mobilize its inhabitants on topics related to sustainable food systems and zero waste approaches.
The project has been developed and implemented by the Afyonkarahisar Municipality in close cooperation with the British Embassy in Turkey, the...
Afyonkarahisar, a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy in Turkey since 2019, organized its first International Afyonkarahisar Gastronomy Workshop to exchange experiences among Creative Cities of Gastronomy worldwide. The workshop was also aimed at reflecting the designation of the city as a Creative City and its impact at local, national and international level.
During the two-day workshop, Creative Cities of Gastronomy from worldwide were invited to share online their initiatives and projects undertaken in 2019-2020 as well as their planned...
Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, Macao SAR (China), a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy since 2017, continues to strive for the promotion of its rich culinary heritage and techniques through education and innovation. Inscribed as Macao’s intangible cultural heritage since 2012, the Macanese gastronomy represents more than 400 years of food culture. The cuisine is inspired by and based on cooking methods from various parts of the world including Portuguese cuisine while incorporating ingredients and cooking methods from India, Malaysia, various...
Macao SAR, designated as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy in 2017, contributed to the worldwide celebration of Sustainable Gastronomy Day (18 June) by producing a special video displaying Macao’s unique gastronomic culture, recipes and culinary arts.
The celebration is in line with the city’s endeavor to foster preservation of gastronomic culture and contribute to the sustainable development of Macao’s tourism industry, while progressing towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Macao Government Tourism...
Östersund, a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, and the region of Jämtland Härjedalen in Sweden, will organize virtually the 4th edition of the Eat Art Festival from June 1st to 15th. The festival is a regional cross-cultural food event dedicated to sustainable food development in a cultural and creative context. It also marks the celebration of Östersund's 10 years of dedicated work as an UNESCO Creative City since 2010.
With the ongoing outbreak of the COVID-19 disease, for the first time the Eat Art 2020 will be organized virtually....
From 10 to 13 June 2019, Östersund, Sweden, celebrated the nordic artisan soul food through the Eat Art Festival. The event aimed at exploring new food experiences by combining cultural traditions and creativity while fostering more sustainable patterns within the food production.
The 3-days festival included workshops, exhibitions and talks to raise awareness about linkages between gastronomy, culture and sustainable development among the general public.
Local food designers, artists, international chefs, several Creative Cities of...
The UNESCO Creative City of Rasht, Iran, launched in December the first edition of the Festival of Organic Products. This year’s theme is "From Farm to Table" and aims at fostering healthy lifestyles and well-being fostering through creativity and gastronomy.
The Festival was introduced to increase the use of organic products and raise awareness on the importance of organic local food for health, social cohesion and collective identity. Both private and public sectors engaged in the Festival to encourage big and small food industries to...
From 11 to 17 November 2019, the Creative City of Gastronomy of Rasht hosts the Pumpkin Festival, an iconic event to explore the culinary traditions of the city through…pumpkins!
The festival, organized by the municipality of Rasht and its Cultural, Social and Sports Organization, showcases several types of pumpkin from different countries around the world, as well as local gastronomic products which use pumpkin as the main ingredient, as in the case of several Iranian traditional dishes.
International professional chefs, schools and food...
The Brazilian Creative City of Florianópolis mobilized its citizens to celebrate World Sustainable Day throughout the week of 18 to 21 June 2019.
The event was attended by more than 2000 people and involved different stakeholders, who joined forces to raise awareness on culture and sustainable gastronomy under the aegis of the educational institutions that are part of the management group of Florianópolis’ membership to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
The event aimed at fostering the development of responsible patterns of consumption and...