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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

The Leeds 2023 Conversation – Nicola Greenan

Even though the UK is selected to deliver an European Capital of Culture only in 2023, cities should already be thinking of bidding to obtaining this title. Nicola Greenan talks here about the need for any bid from the city Leeds. She is chair of Leeds Music Trust, an organization

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

New Mexico helps communities with arts, culture and preservation

Collaborating with surrounding towns, the village of Ruidoso and all of Lincoln County, a state program could bring ideas, money and exposure to the area. Building Creative Communities is part of a state initiative, the Arts and Cultural District designation, with the goal of revitalizing communities through arts, culture, tourism

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Liverpool can provide 'blueprint' for UK arts and culture scene

As a successful outcome of being European Capital of Culture in 2008, Liverpool will now provide the blueprint for how the whole country should use arts and culture. This in order to boost young people’s chances and regeneration under a  Labour government, said Harriet Harman, the party’s deputy leader. She

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Actualités du monde
Diane Dodd

Gastronomic routes and rural tourism: a perfect combination in Argentina

The rural world not only produces food, it also holds the cultural landscape, traditions, architecture, nature and knowledge of identity. Those who live there want to stay, but it is not easy; “from the 60’s, technological development tends to concentrate land and expels population”, says Ernesto Barrera, coordinator of the

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

President: Cultural development high in government priorities

Cyprus’ cultural development ranks highly among the government’s priorities, President Nicos Anastasiades assured,addressing on Friday evening the opening of the ‘Pafos Aphrodite Festival’, organized for the 16th consecutive year. ‘For this purpose we are promoting a series of further measures, with the first one being the restructuring of the management

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

SALONE SPECIAL: Europe Comes to Turin

The European Commission will have a significant presence at this year’s edition of the Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre event to be held in Turin, October 23-27. All speakers highlighted at the press conference that this remarkable participation of four Directorates-General at an international event held beyond the borders of

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Lima’s Mistura Culinary Fair Gets Going

Latin America’s biggest food festival opened its doors to the public on Friday, bringing together chefs, restaurant owners, farmers and everyone else in the food business from across Peru and other parts of the world. The 10-day annual event, known as Mistura, is being held along the Costa Verde beach in

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Free Access To European Cultural, Heritage Sites During September

Millions of people will enjoy free access to thousands of historic and cultural sites, many of which are normally closed to the public, in 50 countries throughout September as part of the annual European Heritage Days. The European Heritage Days is a joint initiative of the European Commission and Council

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Plovdiv to be 2019 European Capital of Culture in Bulgaria

The independent selection panel responsible for assessing the Bulgarian cities competing to be European Capital of Culture in 2019 has recommended that Plovdiv should be awarded the title. The other three cities short-listed after the initial selection round in December 2013 were Sofia, Varna and Veliko Turnovo. The formal nomination

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Call for Papers/Conference Teaching and Learning Cultural Entrepreneurship

Submissions are invited for a forthcoming book to be published in 2015, entitled: ‘Teaching and Learning Cultural Entrepreneurship: A global comparative analysis of course and program content in university – and community-based education for the cultural and creative industries’. Contributions to the book will be presented as part of the

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Actualités du monde
Diane Dodd

Street food festivals gaining in popularity

Restaurants on the streets – also known as outdoor food festivals – are finally catching on in Kyiv, long after they started flourishing in many capitals of the world. While Kyiv has had street food vendors for a long time, restaurateur Roman Tugashev organized the first Street Food Festival in August

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

EUNIC network awarded EU funding from Creative Europe Programme Crossroads for Culture – Enhancing EU member states transnational and international cooperation

The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC Global) was awarded EU funding from the European Commission Creative Europe Support to Networks Programme for the project EUNIC – Crossroads for Culture – Enhancing EU member states transnational and international cooperation. The project, which is expected to last 3 years, will

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Actualités du monde
Diane Dodd

Tourism goes local in the Mother City

Cape Town – Tourism is what makes the Mother City go around, and locals are being encouraged to join in and explore what it is that keeps international visitors coming back time and again. September sees the focus shift not only to heritage, but also domestic tourism. “Tourism is viewed as someone

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Joburg Tourism presents Top 10 at Soweto Wine & Lifestyle Festival

Joburg Tourism will be utilizing the Soweto Wine Festival, taking place at the UJ campus from September 4-6 as a promotional platform to celebrate spring, Tourism and Heritage Month, as well as launch its latest campaign – Love Joburg – Explore, Experience & Enjoy! The “Love Joburg” tagline is being introduced

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