Transcultura: Integrating Cuba, The Caribbean And The European Union Through Culture And Creativity

Opportunities and challenges offered by the European market for Caribbean audiovisual producers, filmmakers and animators were discussed by participants at the second forum of the International Creative Exchange Caribbean (ICEC) 2020 - Europe Connection.

Organized by the UNESCO Transcultura Programme and the South-South Collective of Jamaica, the encounter brought together artists from Asia and the Caribbean in a productive exchange of ideas and experiences. The two-day event allowed artists to share their work with arts producers, festival directors, and cultural managers from Asia through virtual platforms.

With a comprehensive diagnosis of the building as a starting point, and the knowledge gained in decades of archaeological work, specialists and workers from the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana are working to turn the former Santa Clara Convent into the Santa Clara College for Restoration Arts and Crafts in Cuba and the Caribbean.

By making use of the creative spirit and multiculturalism of the Caribbean to promote socio-economic development and deepen sub-regional integration, UNESCO and the European Union promote the Transcultura Programme: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, which will be implemented over the next three and a half years.

ultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries senior level experts, artists and practitioners from eight of the seventeen countries targeted by the Transcultura Programme participated in the first meeting of the Caribbean Experts' Voice initiative. Transcultura is a cooperation programme funded by the European Union and implemented by UNESCO, aiming to deepen integration within the Caribbean region through culture. 

On 29 June, Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) highlighted the impact capacity of the Transcultura Programme.