Music Projects

The first edition, taking place between the 16th and 18th of November, will bring together renowned and emerging talents from alternative, jazz and classical music. Seventeen original works inspired by Saramago will be premiered at the first edition of the Leiria Creative City of Music Festival, which takes place between the 16th and 18th of […]

The Ring of the Nibelung, also known as the Ring Cycle (a cycle of four German-language epic operas) is being performed for the first time in Korea by the Nationaltheater Mannheim from Germany during the 19th Daegu International Opera Festival (DIOF) from October 16 to 23, 2022. The 2022 DIOF kicked off on September 23 […]

Talented young artists explore long dormant cultural spaces! The imagination of young artists, awaken Daegu’s cultural spaces! Let’s travel to these cultural spaces in Daegu with young artists An event will be held from October 12th to 15th in the Bukseong-ro neighborhood of Daegu. The people of Daegu are invited to experience the works of […]

The first meeting of the internal network of creative cities of Iran was held in Isfahan. In this meeting which was held with the presence of 5 creative cities of Iran in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network issues subjects common strategies and challenges of the network in moving towards sustainable development were discussed. The creative […]

Kirsehir transformed the Neşet Ertaş Culture and Art Festival into an international festival to reach the global level and create synergies between the cities in the network. Our commitment was to invite other UCCN cities that have artists to design music-related souvenirs to this festival. That’s why we brought a “çini” master and a silversmith […]

Compiler Emre Dayioglu, who traveled from village to village in Turkey in order to record the instruments and music masters of folk music that has sunk into oblivion, and Petra Nachtmanova, who is interested in Anatolian folk music and the development of this music, especially around the concept of identity in the diaspora have participated […]

Contemporary Glass Exhibition. [International Year of Glass | UNESCO 2022] Individual artistic exhibition by Nelson Figueiredo, under the theme “Falsified Tamagotchi”. In the International Year of Glass, we celebrate the role that glass plays in society. In this exhibition we praise its excellence as an artistic support, its tradition in the Leiria region and impact […]

The Leiria Creative City of Music – UNESCO in partnership with the Leiria Jazz Association and the Philharmonic Association of the Council of Leiria announces the 1st Edition of the International Leiria Composition Contest in the Jazz and Scholar Music categories. Learn more: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l1w75mwx2td92q9/regulamento_final_3.pdf?dl=0

With this competition, songwriters and composers were encouraged to produce more qualified works. In this way, the UCCN Mission Statement aims to “strengthen the creation, production, distribution and dissemination of cultural activities, goods and services”, “to develop centers of creativity and innovation and expand opportunities for creatives and professionals in the cultural sector” and “particularly […]