The Valletta 2018 Foundation will host the first in a series of annual conferences titled ‘Dialogue in the Med: exploring identity through networks’ on Thursday and Friday at the University’s Valletta campus. It will encourage debates on the common histories and geo-political realities of Europe and the Mediterranean within the
This year makes the first year of the «Culture City of East Asia» project, which was agreed on by cultural affairs ministers from Japan, China and South Korea last year. The aim of the project is to promote understanding and a sense of unity among the three nations, said Kimiyoshi
Crisis… what crisis? It seems that the economic downturn in Greece has brought a new outlook and fresh creative life to the city. ‘Greeks are being forced to be creative, to work together for the first time’, says Tina Kyriakis (Alternative Athens). She provides a few examples of creative innovations…READ
Cities should always be thinking about their future, but this year Leeds is thinking about a very specific point in its future: the year 2023. 2023 is the next year that a city from the UK can be declared European Capital of Culture, following Glasgow’s turn in 1990 and Liverpool’s
