The Culture Summit is organized by the world organisation of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) to guarantee the place of culture in global debates on sustainable development and to encourage networking, peer-learning and the sharing of good practices between cities and local governments from across the world. Held in Bilbao, Jeju and Buenos Aires in previous years, the 4th UCLG Culture Summit will be hosted by Izmir Metropolitan Municipality on 9-11 September 2021 in Izmir, a global actor of local cultural policies.

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When | 10 June 2021, 14.30 – 16.30 CEST
Where | Please click here to register.
Languages | Interpretation in English, Turkish, French and Spanish.

"Daraj and Copenhagen-based IMS want to bring out stories from our lives in times of Coronavirus; stories of realities made and shared as we live it. Within one week, five of Lebanon’s strongest filmmakers have made five films, five reports, five brief encounters from a shared reality in a contagious world."

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Daniel Defoe- History of the Plague in London…(1722)

Cultural Policy Yearbook 2020

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