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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Youth Food Movement | Netherlands

Are you interested in current topics around food, such as diminishing biodiversity or an increase in levels of obesity? And are you between 18-35 years old? Youth Food Movement (YFM) is offering an interactive learning programme to further knowledge about making our food chain more sustainable. This interactive programme lasts

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Limerick to bid for European Capital of Culture

Limerick City and County Council has announced plans to bid for Limerick City to be given the title of European Capital of Culture 2020. The Council confirmed that a local steering group, led by the local authority and comprising community, business interests and public representatives will be set up to

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

What Seven Families Across the Globe Eat in a Week?

There’s a lot of talk about the combined problems of food waste , obesity and, paradoxically, unprecedented hunger, but nobody has been able to put food politics into perspective as succinctly as Oxfam America. With an aim to raise awareness of issues of poverty and injustice throughout the globe, Oxfam staff

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Destinations try to build a brand with culinary tourism

In 2005, the tourism body for Providence, Rhode Island, discovered that it desperately needed a brand refresh and successfully turned itself into a New England culinary hub with chefs and new restaurants concepts attracting visitors for foodie trips. Now, a decade later, Providence is realizing that food alone isn’t enough

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Museomix: People Make Museums | An Audience Development Event

Museomix is a 3-day creative sprint to invent, design, prototype and test innovative museum installations with new technologies. It is the first international cultural makeathon that mixes skills and insights. The event is a gathering of mediators, tinkerers, designers, developers, graphic designers, communicators, artists, writers, scientists … at the heart

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Events to give a taste of 'the real Bermuda'

The Bermuda Tourism Authority’s new winter schedule, ‘Uncovering the Arts’, was kicked off by St George’s Town Crier David Frith. The strategy was launched with a view to attracting more visitors to the Island during slower season. Bermuda’s food, culture and heritage are high on the agenda for tourism attractions

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Blog
Diane Dodd

Forthcoming Publication on Audience Development and Community Engagement

IGCAT is working on a forthcoming publication looking at citizen engagement and audience development practices. We would like to identify cultural institutions from around the globe that are working to enhance citizens’ participation and community engagement in and through arts and cultural practices. Mainly we are trying to identify interesting, creative,

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Sustainable tourism path to stretch across Europe

It’s called EuroVelo8, and it is what is being planned as THE bike path in the Mediterranean. This is a European project co-funded by the European Commission and winner of the EU Commission called ‘Transnational Tourism Products to Increase the Competitiveness and Sustainability of European Tourism’ of the former CIP

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

How ancient crafts in Morocco’s Fez are adapting to globalisation

Few would disagree, as the ancient Moroccan city remains one of the great artisanal centres of the world. In this northwestern corner of Africa, where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean, the roaming Berbers of the Atlas Mountains traversed plains of olive and pomegranate trees to encounter the dense communities of

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Arterial Network's 4th African Creative Economy Conference

The Arterial Network’s African Creative Economies Conference will take place in Rabat/Morocco from November 13 – 15th  and will see hundreds of leaders, activists, artists and representatives of civil society and African governments converge to share their success stories with the intention to address the need for pragmatic solutions in their fields.

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Local Food Solutions Through Technology

Modern technology increasingly is empowering the buying and selling of local foods on an larger-than-ever scale. From radio frequency identification tags to online food hubs to mobile phone apps, technology is taking agriculture “back” to the future. The following article is providing nine interesting case studies regarding technology tools for

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World News
Diane Dodd

Creative Elena Travel Blog

Creative travel, hands-on workshops, cooking & craft lessons, painting, photography or simply preferring to speak four languages a day: Do you also prefer listening to locals’ advice, being off rather than on stage, being a traveller rather than a tourist? Then Creativelena’s Travel Blog is just what you are looking

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