UNESCO Creative Cities Network

Since 2004, the UNESCO Creative Cities Network highlights its members’ creativity within seven fields:  Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Film, Gastronomy, Literature, Media Arts and Music. It now counts a total of 180 cities in 72 countries.

Within the framework of the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda, the Network provides a platform for cities to demonstrate culture’s role as an enabler for building sustainable cities.

Previous annual meetings have been held in

1. Paris (France, UNESCO HQ) in 2008,

2. Santa Fe (United States of America) in 2008,

3. Lyon (France) in 2009,

4. Shenzhen (People’s republic of China) in 2010,

5. Seoul (Republic of Korea) in 2011,

6. Montréal (Canada) in 2012, Bologna (Italy) in 2013,

7. Chengdu (People’s republic of China) in 2014,

8.  Kanazawa (Japan) in 2015,

9. Östersund (Sweden) in 2016 and

10. Enghien-les-Bains (France) in 2017.

The forthcoming Annual Meeting will be held in Krakow-Katowice (Poland) in 2018.

Three Indian cities which have been designed as members of UNESCO’s creative cities network(UCCN).

1. VARANSI (Uttar Pradesh): It has been added in the City of Music category of network and

2. JAIPUR (Rajasthan): It has been added in the City of Crafts and Folk Art category of network.

3. CHENNAI (Tamilnadu) : It has been added in the city of music category of network .

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