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Best known for its music scene and for being home to world stars such as Bob Marley, the queen of pop, Rihanna, and hip hop artist Nicki Minaj – the Caribbean region hosts a hive of cultural creativity bursting with new talents. Recognizing the Caribbean’s important creative contribution to the global creative economy and its potential to participate as an equal partner in the global...
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Given its richness in cultural diversity, Indonesia acknowledges the importance of culture, including cultural expressions, as an integral part of its national sustainable development plan, especially within the development of its creative economy. Throughout the years, Indonesia has initiated several efforts in order to explore and fulfill the potential contributions of culture. Among their...
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UNESCO Headquarters | 12 – 15 December 2016This session included a number of debates, among which: the Secretariat’s report on its capacity-building and knowledge management activities; the Convention’s contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; the implementation of the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) and approval of new projects ; the engagement...
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The Basic Texts of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions are now available in Arabic language. This edition contains the text of the Convention adopted by UNESCO’s 33rd General Conference on 20 October 2005, as well as its Operational Guidelines. This edition includes, in particular, the revised guidelines for Article 9 on “Information...
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The Executive Summary of the 2015 edition of the Global Report “Re|Shaping Cultural Policies: A decade promoting the Diversity of Cultural Expression for Development”, is now available in Portuguese language.This translation was undertaken through the UNESCO Office in Brasilia, with the financial support of the Center Lucio Costa.This landmark Global Report is UNESCO’s first report tracking the...
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Following South Sudan’s ratification of the 2005 Convention on the protection and the promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in January 2016, UNESCO supported the launching of the first Film Festival in South Sudan, which opened on 4 July 2016 in Juba and runs through 7 July. Founded by South Sudanese filmmaker Mr. Simon Bingo and sponsored by USAID through Internews, and the Embassy...
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Cultural and creative industries contribute up to 10% of the GDP in some developing countries and generate about 30 million jobs worldwide, employing more people aged 15-29 than any other sector - that’s why it’s important to invest in creativity.
The International Fund for Cultural Diversity is now reaching out beyond its existing government donor base and entering into partnerships with...
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With East Africa rapidly emerging as one of the the world’s creative and entrepreneurial hotspots, UNESCO is launching on 27 July 2016 in Uganda, with the financial support of the Republic of Korea, a new project to strengthen the country’s cultural industries and skills of creative professionals.
This project, ‘Creative Industries Development for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions:...
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With East Africa rapidly emerging as one of the the world’s creative and entrepreneurial hotspots, UNESCO is launching on 27 July 2016 in Uganda, with the financial support of the Republic of Korea, a new project to strengthen the country’s cultural industries and skills of creative professionals.This project, ‘Creative Industries Development for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions:...
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Entrepreneurs, cultural policy makers and experts across Pakistan, together with UNESCO are engaging in talks to revitalize support for the country’s creative industries through a project funded by the Danish Centre for Culture and Development (CKU).
‘’Empowering people through active participation in art and cultural activities’’ will run over a 2 year period and will focus on how the...
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In support of the State Party of Kenya’s implementation of the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which was ratified by Kenya in 2007, UNESCO is sponsoring the sixth edition of Kenya’s innovative Slum Film Festival. This first ever film platform is featuring stories from slums, about slum realities and made by film-makers...
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Recommendations for stronger policies which protect and promote the creative industries in the western Indian state of Goa will be the focus of a UNESCO symposium on 21 and 22 August.Around 30 key players from Goa’s Directorate of Arts and Culture; creative professionals and NGOs working in the field of visual arts, music, the film industry, publishing, and the media will work with...
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UNESCO is sponsoring the sixth edition of Kenya’s innovative Slum Film Festival, taking place in the capital Nairobi through August. Featuring contemporary short, and documentary films from Africa and beyond, the Festival is unique in that it features film makers from slums around the world telling stories about life in their settlements.UNESCO will also present one of the awards during the...
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The impact of the digital revolution on the cultural and creative industries, as underscored in the 2005 Convention on the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, will be the focus of discussions at UNESCO Headquarters on 12 September 2016.Joining the debate will be two leading artists from the Republic of Korea, Mr Han Ho and Mr Byeong Sam Jeon, who will also...
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Artists, musicians, film makers and civil society representatives in Rwanda were invited to a public consultation in Kigali on 8 September 2016 to have their final say on what key cultural policies and measures will be featured in Rwanda’s first periodic report on the implementation of UNESCO’s 2005 Convention on the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
This...
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From gliding past 200 barbershop poles containing messages from typical conversations in a hair salon to immersing yourself in a room full of traditional canvas paintings masked with colourful LED light - watch the highlights of the “Digital meets Creativity” session and contemporary art show. The seminar at UNESCO on 12 September explored the power of digital technology in...
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This first meeting of the editorial board of the 2017 Global Report on the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, will be held from 21 to 23 September 2016 in Vienna, Austria, with the support of the Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria, and the Austrian National Commission for UNESCO.The 2015...
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As world leaders take part in the UN General Assembly in New York to discuss the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNESCO’s 2005 Convention on the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions continues to play a key role in sustainable development policies around the world.
Creativity and a diversity of cultural expressions...
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The communication journal Quaderns del CAC opens a new call for papers for the monographic section devoted to the new challenges faced by cultural industries and initiatives for the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions in the digital age.See announcement here.
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The 2015 edition of the Global Report “Re|Shaping Cultural Policies: A decade promoting the Diversity of Cultural Expression for Development”, is now available in Spanish. This translation is the fruit of efforts led by the UNESCO Office in Mexico.The 2015 Global Report is the first in a series tracking the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and the Promotion of the...
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The Executive Summary of the 2015 edition of the Global Report “Re|Shaping Cultural Policies: A decade promoting the Diversity of Cultural Expression for Development”, is now available in Korean. This landmark Global Report is UNESCO’s is the first of its kind in tracking the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, now...
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In Chad, musical trainings help young artists rise onto the regional stage.Only a few days after playing together in front of a captivated audience at the French Institute in N'Djamena, Chad, eight young artists from Cameroun, Congo, Gabon and Chad regrouped to record their first ever collective album, Unité. Today, the album’s ten songs, which have jazz, blues and afrobeat influences, can...
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“Three stages, four nights of concerts, one conference and one exhibition: we are waiting for you in Morocco from July 13 to 16!” read Edna Kankam’s Facebook status update a few months ago. This came as she was given the opportunity to help organize the Timitar Festival in Morocco, where every year audiences can hear a fusion of traditional amazighes, chaäbi and tarab music, alongside electro,...
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Setting up a new community radio station, cultural industry market infrastructures such as book fairs, or a mobility fund for artists to travel and exchange their work globally are some of the main recommendations highlighted in the final report issued as a result of a special pilot workshop held in the Indian State to strengthen policies for the cultural and creative Industries.
The workshop...
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Reforming cultural policies and designing new models for art production and distribution in the digital era is key for enhancing the creative industries. This was the message UNESCO presented at a session of the 7th annual World Summit on Arts and Culture in Malta between 18-21 October, 2016.
The theme of this year’s World Summit was ‘At the crossroads? Cultural Leadership in the 21st century -...
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The Secretariat of the 2005 Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the UNESCO Office in Quito, in cooperation with Colombia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture, are organizing, on 9-10 November, a national consultation workshop to mark the launch of Colombia’s first quadrennial periodic report drafting process. This workshop will...
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On 21st November 2016, Ms Deeyah Khan will be appointed as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador on artistic freedom by UNESCO Director General, Irina Bokova at UNESCO Heaquarters in Paris.Deeyah Khan is a critically acclaimed music producer and Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary film director and founder of media company Fuuse. Her work highlights human rights, women’s voices and freedom of...
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The countrywide workshops between 17 and 24 November will bring together government representatives, creative professionals , academics, as well as representatives from civil society organizations to discuss the growing importance of the creative economy in Pakistan. It will be a platform to listen to creative entrepreneurs about their challenges, needs and aspirations in order to elaborate...
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On November 18, a seminar will be held at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, entitled: "The Future of Culture in the Digital Age: Challenges for the State". Organized by the Center for Media Studies and the UNESCO Chair on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions at Université Laval, it will address the issue of promoting the diversity of cultural expressions in the digital age. This event...
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UNESCO Press Release N°2016-145
Paris, 17 November – UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova will designate the Norwegian film director of Punjabi (Pakistani) and Pashtun (Afghan) origin Deeyah Khan a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Artistic Freedom and Creativity. The ceremony will take place on Monday, 21 November at 1:00 pm at UNESCO Headquarters.
Deeyah Khan is being appointed in...
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''It’s very important that we continue to support this musical diversity to build Colombia’s cultural industries hand in hand with the artists, and that we can still count on financial support, so that culture remains an ambassador for Colombia,'' Catalina Garcia from the Colombian music band ‘Monsieur Perine’ said.
''This support - in a country that has been marked by war, where there are...
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Ms Deeyah Khan was appointed as UNESCO’s first ever Goodwill Ambassador for Artistic Freedom and Creativity on Monday 21st November.
The ceremony took place at UNESCO HQ in Paris in the presence of the Director General, Irina Bokova, Ms Laila Bokhari, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of Norway, and Elin Østebø Johansen, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Norway to UNESCO
Ms Khan,...
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The first Chair on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions was established at Laval University (Law Faculty), during a ceremony held on November 17, 2016 at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec City, Canada.
This Chair, placed under the authority of Professor Véronique Guèvremont, also Vice Dean for Studies and Research at the Law Faculty, will focus on several areas of research of relevance...
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The results of the selection process for submitted project proposals, in the framework of the 7th Call for the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD), have been published and can now be consulted here.
The IFCD Panel of Experts has recommended to the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions the following six project proposals...
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UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Artistic Freedom and Creativity Deeyah Khan calls for increased mobility of artists and better representation of women in creation.
Ms Khan, Norwegian Filmmaker and Music Producer, will be advocating for the implementation of UNESCO's 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
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Ms Deeyah Khan was appointed as UNESCO’s first ever Goodwill Ambassador for Artistic Freedom and Creativity at UNESCO Headquarters, in Paris, on 21st November 2016.
The ceremony featured speeches by UNESCO’s Director General, Irina Bokova, and Ms Laila Bokhari, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of Norway. Following the ceremony, a debate on freedom of artistic creation featuring...
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The capacity building workshop for the elaboration of Colombia’s first periodic report will take place on November, 30th and December, 1st 2016, at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, in Bogota. This workshop is organized in the framework of the “Enhancing fundamental freedoms through the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions” project.Colombia ratified the 2005 Convention on the...
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On November 29, 2016, a panel on "The Challenges of Cultural Diversity and Freedom of Information in the Digital Era” was organized at the Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This initiative, jointly organized by the Culture and Communication Sectors of the UNESCO Regional Office in Montevideo and the Federal Media and Public Content System, served to present and discuss...
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Four years after submitting its first periodic report, Burkina Faso’s Minister of Culture, Arts and Tourism, M. Tahirou Barry appointed on November 30th, 2016 the members of the national team in charge of drafting the country’s second periodic report on the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions. In this context, Mr Barry...
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The 10th Ordinary Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (UNESCO, 12-15 December 2016) will be inaugurated on 13 December 2016 at 17:00, with an exceptional digital installation by Senegalese artists Djiby Ba, Seydou Keita, Lamine Dieme and Essi Atiase, and DJ Ibaaku.The installation will be inaugurated in the presence...
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The workshop for Senegal’s first quadrennial periodic report was held at the Douta Seck Culture House on 29 November 2016 and was opened with a powerful sketch performed by a local theater company. This report, elaborated in accordance with Article 9 of the Convention, highlights policies and measures implemented to promote the diversity of Senegal’s cultural expressions, both at the national and...
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On December 2nd, 2016, the Global Report "RelShaping Cultural Policies: 10 Years of Promoting the Diversity of Cultural Expressions for Development" was presented at the Regional Center for Book Promotion in Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLALC), in Bogotá, Colombia.
The launch in Colombia of the Spanish version of the report, recently translated in collaboration with the UNESCO Office in...
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Today’s digital environment is fundamentally altering the creative economy and the way cultural goods and services are produced, distributed or accessed.
Ministers of Culture addressed the use of digital technologies and e-commerce in today’s cultural industries in the panel “Shaping digital policies for development”, which took place at UNESCO Headquarters on 13 December, 2016. ...
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From 2015 to 2017, the 2005 Convention Secretariat is implementing, with the support of the Government of Sweden, the project “Enhancing fundamental freedoms through the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions” in 12 developing countries (Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Morocco, Senegal, Rwanda, Tunisia, Vietnam, Zimbabwe).
The project’s overarching goal...
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UNESCO's first Global Report on the implementation and impact of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions was launched in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 15 December 2016.
The translation of the summary was carried out by the Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture, with coordination from the UNESCO Beijing Office and Mongolian National...
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The emergence of a dynamic cultural sector is powered by strong cultural policies for development, capacity building of cultural entrepreneurs and the creation of new cultural industry business models. The advent of the digital era has been heavily influencing the shape of today’s creative economies, driven by innovative cultural and creative industries.
UNESCO’s...
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On 14 December 2016, six creative initiatives from around the world have been selected as the new beneficiaries of the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) of the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. This year’s projects are:
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How digital creativity reinvents and reinterprets our environment? Watch the "Leral Thiossane" project video to find out.
From 13 to 15 December 2016, Senegalese artists Djiby Ba, Seydou Keita, Lamine Dieme, Esi Atiase and Ibaaku, curator Marion Louisgrand Sylla, and Spanish multimedia artist Fausto Morales Gil,...
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UNESCO launches a call for external independent evaluation firms/entities to assess the implementation of the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) and to produce a final external evaluation report.
The evaluation report’s aim is to assess the progress made towards supporting the implementation of the 2005 Convention and the emergence of dynamic cultural sectors in developing...
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From 31 January – 17 February 2017, a first technical assistance mission will take place in the Republic of Mauritius to support the Ministry of Arts and Culture in designing new legislation on the Status of the Artists. The law aims to stimulate artistic creation and the economic and social rights of artists. Vesna Čopič, member of the 2005 Convention Expert Facility, will provide advice and...
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