| 2/10/2009: Creativity to play central role in Birmingham's Big City Plan | |
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Birmingham is facing the most ambitious planning process for the next twenty years and the city’s creative players might have their say in it. The Big City Plan is an extensive Birmingham City Council...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/30/2009: Gaia becomes the first Atlantic Axis Capital of Culture | |
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The Portuguese city of Vila Nova de Gaia becomes this month the first Atlantic Axis Capital of Culture, a qualification that will be attributed by the axis every two years.
In June, July and August...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/28/2008: Old Renault factory becomes artistic hub – but for how long ? | |
| A fallow Renault factory site in Lyon, invested by sculptors, painters, musicians and theatre groups, has become a creative and vibrant artistic hotbed. But the artists’ space is to be closed down in ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/29/2008: Alternative urban culture revitalizes downtown Lisbon | |
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Five associations with different profiles have filled downtown Lisbon with new cultural activities that go from music to cinema, as well as dance and theatre – all with the same goal: to make culture ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 9/16/2008: France celebrating 25th anniversary of European Heritage Days | |
| On September 9th France’s Minister of Culture Christine Albanel presented the program of this year’s 25th edition of the Journées européennes du patrimoine [European Heritage Days] scheduled for Septe...... Read Announcement... |
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| 9/5/2008: Lisbon debates creative territories, cultural tourism and urban regeneration | |
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Creative territories, cultural tourism and urban regeneration are the main topics of a debate organized by the Cultdigest Network and that will take place on September 30th in Lisbon.
Through the dec...... Read Announcement... |
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| 7/18/2008: Design in the Danish province: How periphery can become a strength | |
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Designer Anders Nørgaard has just received the prestigious German Red Dot Award for a simple chair with four identical legs. It's weather resistant, weighs only four kilograms, can be stacked in numbe...... Read Announcement... |
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| 7/14/2008: Creative people to put life into new urban areas | |
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The building of a bridge between Denmark and Sweden has prompted the creation of a new Copenhagen suburb, Ørestad, named after the waterway that the bridge crosses. But smooth planning of infrastructu...... Read Announcement... |
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| 5/5/2008: Power station transforming into film city | |
| French director and producer Luc Besson, manager of the production company EuropaCorp, plans to turn an industrial wasteland in the Parisian suburb Saint-Denis into a “Cité du Cinéma” [Film City]. Aft...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: Arts and art market in Austria | |
| Austria counts around 420 museums, 32 exhibition halls, 92 galleries for contemporary art, 70 festivals and 19 art and antiquity fairs. This dense network of cultural and artistic events and instituti...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: PECHA KUCHA in Vienna | |
| What is Pecha Kucha? Pecha Kucha is Japanese and means „gossip“. In 2003 the Tokyo-based architects Astrid Klein and Marky Dytham had the idea to launch a platform for the creative players of all sect...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/24/2007: Ottawa inviting to discuss creative building | |
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From April 28th to May 1st 2008 the Canadian Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities will be organising a three-day International Symposium on Cultural/Creative Infrastructure in collaboration ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/21/2007: Pinewood Studios: Expansion Plans to be make UK the best Film Production Place in Europe | |
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Pinewood studios unveiled yesterday ambitious expansion plans that would allow the UK to compete better with the northern and eastern European film production locations that have lured film-makers in ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 6/8/2007: Auckland in action | |
| After extensive consultation with different parties – people involved in culture, business people and political representatives – the Auckland City Council submitted on May 31st an action plan for the...... Read Announcement... |
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| 5/25/2007: Southeastern Europe and its creative cities | |
| 'The Creative City: Crossing Visions and New Realities in the Region' is a collection of papers from the postgraduate course on 'Cultural Transitions in Southeastern Europe. The Creative City: Crossin...... Read Announcement... |
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