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The IX UCCN Annual Meeting took place in Kanazawa, Japan, from 25 to 28 May 2015. This highly successful event gathered over 150 representatives from 61 of the Network’s 69 member cities, including 17 Mayors and vice-Mayors.
The Meeting enabled the UCCN to:
Integrate the Network’s new members, designated in December 2014.
Strengthen the Network’s governance.
Define the Network’s priorities for the coming year (see Conclusions of the Meeting).
Reflect on the future development and strategic objectives of a...
As a Creative City of Film, Sydney is launching two annual funding programmes for 2015.
The Emerging Filmmakers Fund (EFF) supports new and emerging filmmakers in New South Wales (NSW) by funding the production and post-production of short form projects. It provides a funded career development opportunity for creative teams and encourages exploration, experimentation and the chance to master the art of screen storytelling. In partnership with Screen NSW, Metro Screen supports up to three projects with grants of up to $30,000. Each team will...
From 4-6th March 2015, the UNESCO Creative Cities are invited to Bradford, UK to celebrate and learn more about its UNESCO City of Film status at the Bradford International Film Summit 2015.
The summit will stage a series of seminars, events and screenings to discuss film &TV production and education, set against the backdrop of this film loving city. Following the prestigious award of the United Nations’ Education Social and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) City of Film status in 2009, Bradford has used the...
Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature organized a multilingual writing workshop for women that took place over a period of five months in 2015. Women of Icelandic and forein origin living in Iceland came together to create literary texts. Designed and facilitated by foreign-born Icelandic resident and internationally renowned author Angela Rawlings, the workshop became a platform for women with a wide range of writing experience and twenty-three distinct languages to explore their voices in a supportive and professional environment. This event...
The DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival is a week-long series of events focused on digital culture, creativity and urban innovation. The festival runs in parallel with Israel's largest international technology gathering, DLD Tel Aviv, and features around 100 different events ranging from meetups, conferences and panels to outdoor public happenings. One of the highlights of the week is the annual Cities Summit Tel Aviv: Cracking the Innovation Code. The Cities Summit brings together urban administrators, innovators and...
The "Salon du livre" is the second largest literature event in the world after the Frankfurt Book Fair. It combines large-scale promotion of reading with industry events. Since 1981, close to 200,000 people visit the stands at Salon du livre every spring, where nearly 1200 publishers from 25 countries exhibit their offer in the 55,000 m² exhibition center, the Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris.
The special guests of the Salon du livre have included: Umberto Eco, Paul Auster, Doris Lessing, Carlos Fuentes, Allen...
Melbourne is a literary city, of readers and curious minds. Celebrating Melbourne’s diverse literary heritage and love of printed matter, and international recognition as one of only eleven worldwide UNESCO Cities of Literature, the NGV presents the Melbourne Art Book Fair in 2015.A new project of its kind in Australia, the Melbourne Art Book Fair provides a unique art, architecture and design experience for visitors to the NGV.The 2015 Melbourne Art Book Fair was the first of a series of annual art book events developed by the NGV. The...
The 9th Biennale International Design of Saint-Etienne 2015 will be held from March 12 to April 15 2015. The theme of the exposition is “Les Sens du beau” (The meanings of beauty). The exposition offers sensitive experiences through objects, services, facilities and environments.
For this edition, Seoul: UNESCO Creative City of Design is invited as a honored guest city organizing an exhibition named Vitality 2014: “Beyond Craft & Design”, commissioner: Kyung Ran Choi, director of the OCDC, Seoul; the Vitality...
Sapporo organizes the SAPPORO YUKITERRACE 2015, a Media Arts event on Akapla Square.
Opened in July 2014, the Sapporo Kita 3-jo Plaza “Akapla” offers the city’s center a new space for relaxation and festivity. This Akapla square was the stage to the SAPPORO YUKITERRACE 2015 conveying the region’s winter allure through a combination of snow and light.
A projection named “Frontier Star” including five beams of light against the snowy sky was set up. It alluded to the theme of the five-...
Edinburgh recently celebrated 10 years as the world’s first UNESCO City of Literature. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Rt Hon Donald Wilson, hosted a reception at the City Chambers, welcoming over 150 guests from all corners of the literary community, including global bestselling Edinburgh writers Alexander McCall Smith and Ian Rankin and the Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) Christine De Luca.
To mark the anniversary of the designation a series of projects were unveiled including literary gardens, Edinburgh’s iconic...