Music Projects

The festival was held by the participation of different groups of Daf players throughout Iran and some bands from Kurdistan of Iraq and Afghanistan in two ranges of adults and adolescents from 23rd to 25th July 2022, in the Cinema Bahman of Sanandaj. The festival’s referees included five masters of music in Iran, Bizhan Kamkar, […]

Under the curation of Rita Nabais, the project brings together a panel of guests connected to music through the word: music journalists, authors of books about Portuguese music. The action is inserted in the premise of the Creative City of Music, in line with respective principles that identify it: one of them focuses Music for […]

A Blog from Kevin McManus, Head of Liverpool UNESCO City of Music, about World Music Day in the city of Liverpool. World Music Day (or Fête de la musique) is celebrated every year on 21st June.  If you haven’t heard of it before, it is the simple but brilliant concept of having a day that […]

World Music Day 2022 in Sanandaj, the creative city of music in UNESCO, has been celebrated.   The event was held by the cooperation of governmental, public, and social sectors. Barin Music Institute’s, music teachers and students of vilon played various international famouse of music tracks. The students of vilon along with their parents participated […]

Equaliser (EQ) is an open-source gender equality project designed to raise the participation and opportunities for women entering or working in the music sector.

The Sanandaj Day celebration was held in the presence of citizens, artists, musicians and civic organizations. This day, the occasion of the establishment of the city of Sanandaj in 1046 AH by the order of Suleiman Khan Ardalan has been registered in the cultural and artistic calendar of the city of Sanandaj. Every year, this […]

The conference was attended by university professors, researchers, government officials and private sector organizations in the field of tourism.   The main topics of the conference were sustainable development and tourism, cultural tourism, art and tourism, education and tourism, economy and tourism. The two-day conference, held on March 9th and 10th, included various panels as […]

In order to celebrate Nowruz and in order to register Sanandaj as the Nowruz capital of the world, various ceremonies will be held during Nowruz. Also, holding this festival internationally is in line with the events of the Creative Cities Network program, so that a significant number of stakeholders, including artists, private institutions, and the […]

We invite you to the “UNESCO Music City Kırşehir International Music Conference” hosted by Kırşehir Municipality, jointly organized with the cooperation of Kirsehir Ahi Evran University, and which will be held face-to-face and online at the same time in Kirsehir on May 17th-18th, 2022. (The participation of our guests and speakers abroad to the conference […]