2017/18 Activity Report
2017/ 1 8 Activity Report This report has been compiled by Rebecca Pearce, Director for Office Adelaide UNESCO City of Music Contents In December 2015, Adelaide was designated a City of Music by the 4 Mission, Vision, Objectives, UNESCO Creative Cities Network Strategic Pillars (UCCN). The UCCN was created in 6 Introduction 2004 to promote cooperation with, and among, cities that have identified 8 Background & Context creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development. 10 Activities 10 • Music education The 180 cities which currently make up 14 • Health and wellbeing this worldwide network work together 15 • Local initiatives towards a common objective: placing 20 • International pathways, creativity and cultural industries at collaborations and exchanges the heart of their development plans 24 • Visibility and promotion at a local level, and cooperating 25 • Government reforms and support actively at an international level. 26 Planned Activities for 2019 Front page photo credit / Grant Hancock Mission, Vision, Objectives & Strategic Pillars The Network covers seven creative fields: Crafts and Folk Arts, Media Arts, Film, Design, Gastronomy, Literature and Music. Our mission is to amplify music as Strategic Pillars the heartbeat of Adelaide. 1. Enhance and promote collaboration, Our vision is to be a creative city, with excellence, diversity and sustainability in music as its heartbeat, outward looking all aspects of music making throughout and internationally engaged, enriching the City of Music, including urban 4 5 the whole State of South Australia. and regional South Australia. Our objectives are 2. Build international pathways for the City of Music throughout the UNESCO • connection through music, Creative Cities Network and beyond.
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