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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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World News
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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World News
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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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Soul music and tourism combine to boost visitor numbers

The Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) will receive $20,000 in funding from Tourism Victoria’s Events Program to help boost interstate and international marketing for this year’s November program. AWME has come to be known as the Southern Hemisphere’s premier roots music event attracting artists, industry professionals and music lovers from across

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Blog
Diane Dodd

IGCAT contributes to the VACuM training project organized by Visegrad Summer School Academy in Krakow (Poland)

The Visegrad Academy of Cultural Management (VACuM) is a new international educational initiative based on cooperation of Villa Decius Association with Marcel Hicter Association for Cultural Democracy from Brussels and supporting partners from Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine. The project is addressed to young culture managers working

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Series of conferences to explore cultural networks across the Med

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Yokohama hosting events as "Culture City of E. Asia"

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Plan of Action: Where to meet Athens' new creatives

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Introducing The Conversation: The City Talking X Leeds 2023

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

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