Music Projects

  Chennai City of Music, under the leadership of Greater Chennai Corporation headed by the Commissioner (Mr. G. Prakash) , Joint Commissioner – Revenue and Finance (Ms. R. Lalitha) , Revenue Officer (Mr. Sukumar Chittibabu), and Superintendent Engineer – Parks (Mr. Vijayakumar) have brought together a core commitee featuring representatives of Kalakshetra Foundation, The Music […]

Released by Adelaide UNESCO City of Music Office in early 2019, the Activity Report 17/18 includes specific highlights and selected activities of Adelaide as a City of Music, new initiatives and up coming projects. 

Registration for the Asia-Pacific Creative Cities Conference, (October 23-26, 2019) held in Adelaide, Australia is now open! The event will take place in parallel to the world-class OzAsia Festival and will be the first-ever meeting of UNESCO Creative Cities of the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific Creative Cities Conference will aim to strengthen the exchange of […]

The Adelaide Guitar Festival, led by Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan, is the most significant festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. The Adelaide Guitar Festival has a Special Edition in 2019 from 15 – 19 July 2019 where Slava Grigoryan curates a sampler of the Adelaide Guitar Festival experience with a series of intimate […]

The Goethe Institut Pop-Up Kansas City has partnered with Kansas City’s UNESCO Creative City team to promote international friendship and peace through music during the Year of German-American Friendship – known as Wunderbar Together.  Two events are planned for April and May 2019 – with additional partnerships in the works.  On Friday April 26, the […]

We, the members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), stand in solidarity with the people of New Zealand and our colleagues in UNESCO Cities of Auckland (Music) and Dunedin (Literature) during this terrible moment of suffering in Christchurch. It is important at this moment that we stand with the Mayor and people of Christchurch, […]

Under the direction of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) of Harvard University and in partnership with PLADES Foundation, 40 musicians/ social entrepreneurs shared three days of work with a group of organizations from Frutillar. This initiative is within the framework of the Global Leader Program (GLP) that brings together musicians from […]

A project between the Creative Cities of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico (Crafts and Folk Art) and Kansas City, Missouri, USA (Music). Cuéntame un Cuento Llorona. This project was born in 2012 as a proposal for the rescue of the cultural heritage of the traditional neighborhoods of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. It consists of an […]

“In 2017 I received an email from Alice Moser, the Coordinator of Hanover’s Culture Bureau, inviting me to play a festival in her city. The idea described to me was that an artist from each European UNESCO City Of Music (a status that Liverpool and Hanover share) would travel to the city, where they would […]