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From 10 to 15 June 2019, in Fabriano, Italy, the UNESCO Creative Cities Network XIII Annual Conference gathered 50 mayors among 480 participates from some 145 cities worldwide.
Committed to achieving the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, through culture-oriented policies, the mayors exchanged on the theme of “The Ideal City”, and shared examples of how their cities are addressing community needs by building on culture and creativity to develop innovative and inclusive urban strategies.
Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy,...
Bologna, along with eight other Italian creative cities: Milan, Pesaro, Rome, Torino, Carrara, Fabriano, Alba and Parma, are working together in the creation of a framework in order to the measure and manage the impact of culture and creativity on local development, including the impact of the UCCN designation. The data collected via the framework will not only be used to improve future policies surrounding creative programmes, but also provide a platform upon which the nine cities can collaborate and share ideas as well as solutions. Such...
UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, designated the Italian poet and writer Maria Francesca Merloni as Goodwill Ambassador for Creative Cities on Wednesday 4 October 2017 at a ceremony held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Maria Francesca Merloni is among the freest poetic voices of our times; her work is based on a multi-disciplinary approach to artistic expression. Ms Merloni has been appointed a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of her commitment to promoting the role of culture and creativity as a strategic...
The Italian Creative City of Crafts and Folk, Fabriano, has been selected to host the Annual Meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in 2019.
Following the call launched to the UCCN member cities, Fabriano was the only city to present a bid, according to the process set by the UCCN Selection Criteria, to host the Annual Meeting in two years. The city had the opportunity to make a presentation at the previous Annual Meeting held from 30 June to 2 July in Enghien-les-Bains, France, where its selection as Host City in 2019 has been...
From 28 to 30 October, the Creative City of Fabriano in cooperation with the Foundation Aristide Merloni, organize a series of meetings on the theme of the “common place”. The event will focus on transversal approaches associating philosophy, literature, media arts and music to further discuss and re-think the concept of city.
In the programme, a round table of regional Universities’ Chancellors will aim to identify and launch new scientific collaborations, innovative researches and projects, to be presented at the XI UCCN...
After the success of last year's first edition, Fabriano (Italy) organized the second UNESCO Creative Cities’ Forum. From 4 to 6 September 2015, representatives from several member cities of the Network gathered in the Italian city to exchange ideas on the theme “Industrial City, Creative City”.
Along with other two Italian cities, Bologna in “Music” and Turin in “Design”, representatives from Dakar (Senegal) and Enghien-Les-Bains (France) in “Media Arts”, Zalhè (Lebanon) in...