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The UNESCO Culture for Development Indicators publish the results of 5 years of applied research
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In 2015, UNESCO is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. The anniversary event will provide an opportunity to celebrate cultural diversity, creativity and the role of culture for sustainable development. Since its adoption, the Convention has achieved many milestones, both at the international and...
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9-11 December 2014. Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention holds its 8th session
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Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO and H.E. Annika Markovic, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Sweden to UNESCO, signed at UNESCO Headquarters on 28 November 2014 a Programme Cooperation Agreement (PCA) for 2014-2017 that includes a 2.5 million USD project to implement the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Entitled “...
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Launch on 29 November 2014 in Dakar, Senegal of the of the french version of the Creative Economy Report 2013, co-published by UNESCO and UNDP. The French edition of the UN Creative Economy Report 2013, will be launched on 29 November 2014 by the Director-General of UNESCO, Mrs Irina Bokova, in Dakar, Senegal. The event takes place in the margins of the XV Summit of Francophonie. Organized...
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Launch of the Spanish version of the Creative Economy Report
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The Spanish edition of the UN Creative Economy Report 2013, was launched in Mexico City on 18 November 2014. Organized by the UNESCO Office in Mexico, the launch took place during the design festival "El Abierto Mexicano de Diseño."Guest speakers included Ms Nuria Sanz, Director of the UNESCO Mexico Office, Dra Mara Robles, Secretary of Education for the Federal District, Mr...
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15 new projects have received IFCD funding for the 2015 cycle
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IFCD Convention in Florence, Italy from October 1 to October 4, 2014
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With the self-chosen theme of «Where technology meets culture» is the ideal setting to commemorate this event and rekindle «the Spirit of Mons» in the digital age. The Government of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels and the Mons 2015 Foundation intend to propose an International Forum to support the efforts initiated by France and Canada to reinforce the comments made by the Director General of...
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In 2015, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. This international law has been ratified to date by 140 countries. However, even after a decade, the Convention and its principles remains not very well known. One reason is that cultural diversity was mainly defended so far by diplomats and cultural professionals...
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In the new context of setting corporate networks, industries and cultures, the conference will rethink strategies, public policies and international cooperation that could eventually get the full benefit transformations related to digital. During the symposium, international experts and experts in cultural policy and digital policy, government representatives and cultural actors from different...
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The aim is to bring together experts, academics and practitioners around the challenges of digital for the implementation of cultural policies and measures as advocated by the Convention and to identify concrete opportunities to be explored to encourage this implementation. Following this conference, the CUREJ and the "Centro de Estudos Sociedade e Tecnologia" (CEST) from the University of São...
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More than a hundred people were invited to each of these two events. At the City Hall in Montreal, Mrs Mary Deros, Solange Drouin, Line Beauchamp and Elaine Ayotte will address the guests.
In the National Assembly, playwright and actor, Mani Soleymanlou, accompanied by the guitarist Sébastien Leblanc, will present the first act of his play "A" on his search for identity as a young Iranian...
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The Reflection Forum will include a celebration of the diversity of expressions with professional artists and young talents in services open to the public. Officials will join the opening and closing of the day with, particularly the representative of the Quebec Governement within the Permanent Delegation of Canada to UNESCO, Ms. Line Beauchamp. The Canadian Commission for UNESCO is a partner of...
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The Roundtable aimed to have a look at the Convention’s impacts on Canada’s creative economy and cultural sector, especially the implications for the British Columbia’s arts and cultural communities. The roundtable aimed also to review the strategic highlights of the Convention (under the lens of four main areas: trade & intellectual property; digital technologies & diversity on the...
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Cette conférence intervient dans le cadre des célébrations des dix ans de la Convention de l’UNESCO sur la protection et la promotion de la diversité culturelle et constitue une occasion pour présenter et discuter les principaux résultats de l’étude « Pour une culture en réseaux diversifiée. Appliquer la Convention sur la protection et la promotion de la diversité des expressions culturelles (...
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Faced with persistent forms of xenophobia and social exclusion, facing the spectacular acts of intolerance which our societies are witnessing, the UNESCO 2005 Convention, by which Parties undertake to develop public policies for the promotion and protection of the diversity of cultural expressions, is more relevant than ever: it encourages to take into consideration the role of culture in...
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In Europe there are many festivals dedicated to audiovisual, but it exists only one that deals exclusively with the European market for television and film, its technological development and its socio-cultural changes. This is the EUROVISIONI Festival, born in 1987, when European television did not yet exist. Today, when tens of millions of European households have the opportunity to receive and...
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The EBU is organizing an event on 7 October in conjunction with the European Parliament Creative Industries Intergroup (CII) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. The event will be hosted by the Co-Chairs of the European Parliament CII in Strasbourg.
It will address the role of the Convention in...
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The event will address the role of the Convention in shaping a thriving and pluralistic European media sector. Emphasis will be put on innovative programmes and initiatives contributing to societies’ democratic systems and diversity of cultural expressions; it will also address access to platforms and key conditions for diversity of expressions and a pluralistic market in a global, digital...
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Experts from the UNESCO/EU Expert Facility and representatives from beneficiary countries who received technical assistance (2011-2015) to implement the 2005 Convention will share their experience on the missions, to measure the results and impacts of the project on the systems of governance of culture and on the strengthening of human and institutional capacities in the field of public policies...
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The session will take place on Tuesday 9 June 2015 at the Goethe Institute in Dakar and will bring together cultural experts, partners of international cooperation and a broad network of artists and national and international cultural professionals. On the agenda: First part: The 3 hours session features experts of culture such as Luc Mayitoukou, Member of the International Expert Facility of the...
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The Conference will be divided into three panels:
The importance of cultural industries in the development, challenges and opportunities for Latin American industries
Latin American integration in the cultural field
Public policy on cultural industries in Latin America: The case of the film industry and the co-production as an integration tool
The conference will be followed by a Latin...
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MEMORIES ON STONE – 97 minutes – Original version subtitled in French Award winning writer/director Shawkat Amin Korki reflects the tragedy of the Kurdish genocide in this stirring yet comical tale of a film crew that tries to do the impossible and shoot a movie in a war affected country. After the fall of Saddam, childhood friends Hussein and Alan decide to make a film about the genocide of...
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A roundtable entitled "10 years of the Convention: Reflections on the participation of civil society in the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions" will take place on April 25 in Xalapa in Mexico as part of the International Fair of University Book "FILU 2015", with the participation of Luanda Smith, Network coordinator for U40 in Mexico and member...
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The Executive Secretariat of the Colombian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá and the Cátedra UNESCO - Intercultural Dialogue of the National University of Colombia will organize a forum on the advancements related to the implementation of the 2005 Convention in Colombia.The Conference will focus on four...
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Organized by the French National Commission for UNESCO, and the International Meeting of Cinema Heritage and the Henri Langlois Award, in partnership with the CNC, on the occasion of 120 years of Cinema and the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the diversity of Cultural Expressions, the ceremony will take place at the UNESCO House in Paris and be preceded by a...
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"Fort Antoine dans la ville" is seeking to develop a vibrant and eclectic theater, while being attentive to contemporary creation. It is a place of encounter, conviviality and complicity with the audience. Mixing contemporary and classical theater, this new edition of the festival, as every years, promotes various forms of cultural expressions, including classical theater, contemporary theater,...
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This international Conference will discuss the following themes, taking into account the cross-cutting issues of digitization and of economic development:
• Rethinking the role of cultural policies for the protection and the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions
• Culture as a lever for the development and strengthening of societies
• The linkages between the Convention and trade...
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The International conference "Cultural diversity: challenges of the creative economy" will address issues of cultural development and society. The event will consist of three sessions: • Culture as a leverage for the national and local development and strengthening of societies • Governance and evidence based policy for creativity: new pathways in the creative economy •...
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This seminar, entitled "Economic aspect of Culture – 2005 Convention priorities", will address issues of culture in development, and its contribution to social empowerment, as well as to artistic, and its contribution to social empowerment, as well as to artistic expressions. The event will include several important themes: • Legal frameworks for economic culture flows...
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The event will take place on 21 of May celebrating The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. Focus of the event will be on film production. Activities will include
• Desk research of the cinematography in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro;
• Comparative analysis of contemporary cinematographic work ;
• Analysis of the situation in...
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On the occasion of May 21st - World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development and the 10th anniversary of the Convention 2005 on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in collaboration with the UNESCO Antenna Office in Sarajevo, will organize an event aiming to promote the richness of cultural...
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the Swedish National Commission for UNESCO in cooperation with the Swedish Arts Council and Riksteatern will organize an all-day event with variety of participants and performances. Ms Danielle Cliche, Chief, Section of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and...
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A concert organized by the UNEAC and the Cuban Music Institute on the occasion of the World Day for Cultural Diversity and the 10th anniversary of the 2005 Convention will take place on 21 May 2015 at the Theater of Havana, as part as the 19th edition of the International Fair "Cubadisco 2015".
The concert features the Orchestra "del Gran Teatro de la Habana", directed by Giovanni Duarte and Ma...
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This is a study day on the theme "Cultural Diversity and New Technologies", organized by CEST / USP and some members of the Brazil U40 Group to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of cultural expressions. It will address the theme of the implementation of the 2005 Convention and the challenges and opportunities created by...
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Through its programming, this cultural presentation gives prominence to films selected for major international festivals and gives Canadian audiences an opportunity to see first-rate movies created by filmmakers from various countries of the francophone sphere that are rarely screened in Canada. DiverCiné celebrates the creativity of La Francophonie in Canada and around the world.
DiverCiné is...
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The two-day Summit will take place from August 6-August 8 2015 at United Nations Headquarters New York. The year 2015 offers opportunities to not only celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Convention but also to create new momentum towards its full implementation as a roadmap for development.The event will address key issues on the role and place of culture in the Post 2015 Development Agenda.
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