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Ulyanovsk (Russian Federation), a UNESCO Creative City of Literature, has initiated “The Only Question – Authors in conversation” international project, with the aim of developing an online anthology issue.
Writers, poets and translators from UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature and beyond, have been invited to imagine one single question they would like to ask to another author coming from a different city. Questions and answers (in Russian and English) along with a short biography of each participant and...
Acknowledging the role of Literature as a positive driver for sustainable urban development, the UNESCO Creative City of Ulyanovsk (Russian Federation) brings literature to the urban space through its Literary Tram and Literary Trolleybus project.
Bringing together authors and writers from 11 UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature, namely: Ulyanovsk, Manchester, Odessa, Granada, Nanjing, Wonju, Iowa, Milan, Dunedin, Norwich, Kuhmo, the project aims to highlight the unifying role of literature in these trying times.
Reflecting on the theme...
Designated as a Creative City of Literature in 2015, Ulyanovsk (Russia) celebrates its fifth anniversary as a UNESCO Creative City. At this occasion, echoing the celebration of the Year of the Book in the region, the city initiated a new project titled “The International Literary Ice Rink”.
The project aimed to further strengthen literature in urban spaces and reaffirm its unifying role during these trying times. Authors and poets from all over the world were invited to record themselves reading poems in their native language and share it...
Ulyanovsk (Russian Federation), a UNESCO Creative City of Literature, organized the international online photo exhibition “A City as a Writer's Workplace”, that brought more than 100 photographs from writers and literary artists from the Creative Cities of Literature and other places around the world.
The pretext of the exhibition is to display photographs of places where authors and writers jump into their creative world and express their thoughts on paper. The project helps to understand further the writer’s relationship with their city as...
The city of Ulyanovsk, a UNESCO Creative City of Literature in Russia has launched a Call for Application for the project titled ‘A City as a Writer's Workplace’. This project is timely as many of the cities are currently on lockdown due to the global outbreak of COVID-19.
The Call is open to writers, poets, playwrights and other authors as well as translators, and literary artists from the UNESCO Cities of Literature who are invited to share about their favorite places in their cities, where their imaginative world is inked down on a...
Ulyanovsk, UNESCO Creative City of Literature, launched its 2020 Call for Applications for the second International Literary Residency Programme open to writers and artists from the UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature. The programme aims to create inter-city exchanges and promote culture-oriented development policies that support creativity and innovation, in line with the 2030 Agenda.
The project supports the diversity of cultural expressions, fosters contemporary urban narratives and provides a space for cultural expression with new and...
The VII International Cultural Forum held in Ulyanovsk (Russian Federation) on 14 and 15 September on the theme “Culture and Business: Creative Capital of Modern City” witnessed the participation of high-level representatives, including the Governor of the Ulyanovsk region, heads of UNESCO Creative Cities Granada (Spain) and Heidelberg (Germany), educational institutions, enterprises, mass media, artists and cultural professionals. The Forum provided an opportunity to gather leading specialists in culture and creativity, as well as cultural...
The city of Ulyanovsk, along with the Government of the Ulyanovsk region, the Ministry of Arts and Cultural Policy and the Foundation "Ulyanovsk – Capital of Culture”, is organizing the VII International Cultural Forum (ICF) on “Culture and Business: Creative Capital of a Modern City” on 14 and 15 September 2017.
The forum entails a series of themed events targeting a wide professional community from the region of Ulyanovsk, the Russian Federation and the international community as a whole.
The major themes of the ICF 2017 include:
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Officials, practitioners and civil society representatives met in Ulyanovsk 23 March to celebrate the city’s first year in the UCCN and look forward to its future activities.
Since the designation of Ulyanovsk was announced at the Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum in December 2015 by the Director-General of UNESCO, the City has been hard at work implementing its plans.
A key marker of success for the officials present, especially, was the engagement of citizens in the programming the City has undertaken, in addition to the...
Throughout the year 2016, Ulyanovsk and its region has held no less than 2000 events dedicated to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Russian historiographer, writer and thinker Nikolaï Mikhaïlovitch Karamzin. To name but a few major events: the Karamzin marathon “History in Faces”, a Literary festival “The Word” and the “Karamzin Assembly”.
This series of events has been organized further to the designation in 2015 of Ulyanovsk as the first Russian city to the UNESCO Creative Cities...