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Welcome new UNESCO Creative Cities!

Today, December 11, the UNESCO Creative Cities family has grown. Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, has announced 47 new members of the Creative Cities Network, with nine distinguished as Cities of Literature, including Lviv, Baghdad, Barcelona, Ljubljana, Montevideo, Nottingham,  Óbidos, Tartu and Ulyanovsk ! Congratulations to our new partners!

For the full list of 47 cities newly admitted to the network, click here.

The Creative Cities Network was founded in 2004. It brings together cities that consider culture and creativity to be strategic components of their economic and urban development. The network is divided into seven subgroups: music, film, literature, media arts, folk and craft art, gastronomy and design. The aim of the network is to promote the idea of the creative economy, exchange of best practices and increase participation in cultural life.

As a reminder, Krakow earned the title of City of LIterature in October 2013. For more information about the network, go to: www.unesco.org

It is with great pleasure that we announce that on December 11th, following the decision of Irina Bokova, the Director General of UNESCO, Katowice have received the title of UNESCO City of Music and have joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

This success is the result of many years of hard work and preparation, as well as the effect of consequential political support for the creative and cultural industries in Katowice, where the music industry is a vibrant, valued and quickly developing sector, in particular thanks to the such projects as Off Fetival, Tauron New Music, Rawa Blues Festival and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Kraków – the first and only Polish City of Literature has been a long-time supporter of Katowice’s application, convinced of the exceptional qualities of the city and its music, cultural and creative sectors.

The City of Music Network is currently composed of the following cities: Adelaide (Australia), Bologna (Italy), Bogota (Columbia), Brazzaville (Democratic Republic of Congo), Ghent (Belgium), Hamamatsu (Japan), Hannover (Germany), Idanha-a-Nova (Portugal), Kingston (Jamaica), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), Mannheim (Germany), Medellín (Colombia), Salvador (Brazil), Seville (Spain), Tongyeong (Republic of Korea), Varanasi (India).

Katowice are the first City of Music in Central and Eastern Europe and the second, after Krakow (City of Literature), UNESCO Creative City in Poland.

Congratulations!

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