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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...
Melbourne, a UNESCO Creative City of Literature since 2008, recently launched a collaborative project titled “The Road Less Travelled”. In conjunction with the Wheeler Centre of Melbourne, and the City of Literature Office, the project aims to cooperate with a select number of metropolitan and regional Literary Festivals to help them achieve sustainability during the pandemic.
Through the organization of a year-long series of events, the project will support festivals in their programming, marketing, and production, as well as, in...
From 18 to 23 May 2021, Odessa (Ukraine), a UNESCO Creative City of Literature organized an international gastronomic week. The focus of the celebratory week was to highlight Odessa’s gastronomic assets while also sharing and integrating experiences with Creative Cities worldwide on enogastronomy tourism.
Recognizing the importance of gastronomic traditions in connecting different cultures, the event held several conferences that emphasized the connection between literature, history and gastronomy. These conferences also provided...
Slemani (Iraq) and Exeter (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), two UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature designated in 2019, jointly launched a series of virtual talks focusing on various aspects of Kurdish culture.
Building on the power of literature for intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding and sustainable urban development, the webinars invite a wide range of stakeholders including poets, publishers, archivists, photojournalists, historians and other academic scholars, to share their stories and expertise on...
Bucheon (Republic of Korea), a UNESCO Creative City of Literature, has launched the Call for the second edition of the “Bucheon Residency Programme”. The residency offers a professional and artistic exchange programme to two selected writers, translators or cartoonists, foreseen to start in October 2021 for a total duration of up to 6 weeks.
With the aim of fostering international exchange and dialogue and in line with the objectives of the UCCN, the programme will contribute to the mobility of literary artists, provide them with a...
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...
As part of the 2020 Year of the Comic Strip, declared by the French Ministry of Culture, Angoulême, a UNESCO's Creative City of Literature, launched an international comic strip competition on the theme of "the City of the future".
Organised in partnership with the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image, the Festival international de la bande dessinée (FIBD) and the School of Urban Studies of Lyon, this competition aims to stimulate utopian ideas, awareness and cultures from all over the world. It further aims to share a...
In coordination with the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Wonju, a UNESCO Creative City of Literature, hosted the “2020 Korean UCCN Member Cities Workshop”, gathering stakeholders from 8 Korean member cities and the Advisory Commission of Korean UCCN.
The workshop invited Creative Cities from the country to share their initiatives and projects undertaken in 2019-2020 as well as their future activities for 2021. It was also the occasion to exchange ideas about the organization of a “Mega Festival” that would be launched by all Korean...
Iowa City (United States of America), a UNESCO Creative City of Literature since 2008, initiated the collective project “17 Books for the 17 SDGs” with fellow Creative Cities of Literature around the world. The project aims to draw attention to and raise awareness of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through books and storytelling.
From 7 to 23 December, UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature will tweet book suggestions from their respective cities, highlighting one Sustainable Development Goal per day using the hashtag #...
Québec (Canada), a UNESCO Creative City of Literature since 2017, together with the Festival ‘Québec en toutes lettres’, organized virtually ‘La grande traversée poétique’(The great poetic journey) from 23 to 25 October 2020.
On this unique occasion, more than 200 poets and creative writers from 20 countries gathered online and share their literary pieces through readings, performances and videos.
To celebrate poetry’s great diversity and its powerful means of bringing cultures together, Creative Cities of Literature, including Dunedin...