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Medellín UNESCO City of Music Membership Monitoring Report 2016 – 2019 Medellín UNESCO City of Music Membership Monitoring Report 2016 – 2019 A platform for the development of the culture sector and the international recognition of Medellín Agency Responsible: Secretariat of Citizen Culture of Medellín May 1st, 2020 Executive Summary In the past, the City of Eternal Spring faced episodes generated by violence that wrote painful pages in its history. However, countries to share knowledge, generate over time, the arts, especially music, have reflection, contribute to the exchange of been one of Medellín’s most effective tools to experiences and strengthen each and every accompany and strengthen the processes of process guiding the Network. With this goal building citizenry and social transformation. in mind, the city seeks to take advantage of Through sounds, lyrics, melodies, and the alliances established with civil society, songs, a territory full of dreams and hope cultural entities, community organizations, has been cemented. This territory of music entrepreneurs and cultural businesspeople, has been able to show the world how culture as well as higher education institutions, the is the best strategy for resilience and self- business sector, science, technology and improvement. innovation leaders, and other actors at the local and national levels. Medellín, as an active member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the The Secretariat of Citizen Culture has been area of music since 2015, has been making responsible for promoting, implementing, efforts to project itself as a city that makes and fostering the City process through cultural opportunities for all its citizens a key programs such as: foundation of its sustainable development, as a city that wants to advance in the consolidation of alliances with member 2 La Red de Escuelas de la Música The Network of Music Schools — created 23 years ago receives an average of 4,600 students per year, benefiting, not only the musicians, but also their families and the surrounding communities. 3 ALTAVOZ an annual process 16 years in the making that seeks to generate spaces of coexistence for big audiences and participants, as well as the promotion of local and international artists. Its most recent version had more than 200 shows in all its phases and an audience of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) people. 4 Arts and Culture Grant Call Initiative encourages the promotion and strengthening of the processes of creation, training, production, research, along with artistic and cultural circulation of artists, cultural leaders, and cultural entities. 5 Medellín a City of Artists and Expocultura generates a space for dialogue and strengthening of artists and cultural organizations through talks and business rounds that seek to generate circulation and give sustainability to the sector. 6 Feria de las Flores Flower Festival — is committed to building a social fabric and well-being of citizens, offering spaces to mingle, for enjoyment, and meet-ups with others through art, culture and traditions uniting participants. 7 International Tango Festival stimulates the circulation of proposals and contents that emphasize the relevance of this genre for the City. 8 Participatory Budgeting policies and strategic plans for culture built in a and execution of entrepreneurship along the participatory perspective, which have been an music industry production chain through example in the region and the country. These training and the allocation of resources.1. strengthen governance and the construction In short, the Eternal Spring villa has been of citizenry and the public, generate cohesion, recognized as a resilient city, capable of improve coexistence and create opportunities overcoming violence and conquering the for participation in the cultural life of citizens. difficulties encountered the last twenty years, Medellín is a city which established permanent thanks to the construction of a cultural and contact with the entire musical ecosystem social project. Furthermore, as a member city between 2016 and 2019, thus consolidating of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, it has existing public policies and allowing for the fostered the exchange of significant experiences creation of new strategies to foster its growth. and learnings with national and international It has generated free public spaces for musical organizations, based on the Network of Music education throughout the city; it has also Schools good practices, as well as the Arts strengthened the processes of building citizenry, and Culture Grant Call Initiative, Altavoz, the promoting the cultural scene, and creating life International Tango Festival, Participatory opportunities for children and young people. Budgeting, the Flower Festival, among others. During this four-year term, it has strengthened Medellín is proof that arts, culture, innovation, spaces for the dissemination of local artists and and creativity are the strongest allies for the their proposals and has facilitated the design sustainable development of a city. 1 Participatory Budgeting Report 2019 9 General Information: a. City: g. Contact information: Medellín David Gómez Cadavid, b. Country: Consultant and Music Advisor Colombia of the Secretariat of Citizen c. Creative domain: Culture of Medellín Music +57 301 630 17 01 d. Appointment date: [email protected] 2015 e. Report delivery date: Diego Alejandro Vélez Martínez, May 2020 Senior Professional in f. Entity responsible for the Investment and Cooperation elaboration of the report: Management, ACI Medellín Secretariat of Citizen Culture of Medellín +57 300 218 67 42 [email protected] 10 Contribution to network management a. Number of annual meetings of the The proposed theme is “Culture and Creativity Network attended by the city in the as Strategies for Peace” that will foster the previous four years promotion of spaces for reflection. It will also allow for the analysis and understanding of the Medellín has participated in four annual role of creative communities at the local and meetings of the UCCN held in Sweden community levels. All of the above favors social (2016), France (2017), Poland (2018) and and urban transformation towards spaces of Italy (2019). peace and promotes inclusion, equity, good b. Organization of an annual meeting and living habits and sustainable development. dates The meeting is intended to give rise to the The city of Medellín is seeking to organize the exchange of experiences and the achievement 17th Meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities of action agreements around three axes: Network between June 14 and 18, 2023, through a) Women and arts in the construction of a joint effort between UNESCO, the Medellín peace, b) Creative activity in overcoming the Mayor’s Office and various public, private and traumas of war, and c) Rural and urban arts for non-governmental entities that are part of the strengthening community ties. city’s cultural ecosystem. 11 The 2023 meeting will promote: workshops, entrepreneurs seminars, meeting of heads of music festivals of the UCCN, and • A preliminary meeting with the four other activities proposed by the city’s cultural creative cities of Colombia (Bogotá, Popayán, organizations, subject to approval by UNESCO Buenaventura and Medellín) in order to join forces and promote the participation of other · Artistic and cultural exhibitions in the seven cities of the country in the UCCN. This will areas of the Creative Cities Network: music, be arranged with UNESCO and the cultural gastronomy, digital arts, crafts and popular authorities of those cities arts, design, cinema, literature · A previous meeting among the 31 creative · Opening and closing ceremonies, and cities of music with the aim of promoting development of social programs that allow dialogues and exchanges of experiences and people to share and experience the city and its the achievement of joint action agreements opportunities that will materialize new ways of working · Publication of the reports of the Summit together, in accordance with the guidelines set and the various activities carried out as a for by UNESCO and the UCCN contribution to the generation of knowledge · The annual meeting will bring together and result dissemination delegates from the 180-member Creative Cities c. Participation of the monitoring group and · Simultaneous events: Altavoz Festival 2023, intervention period seminars open to the public on topics such as Third UNESCO Creative Cities Coordinators’ copyright, creativity in the digital era, cultural Workshop: Towards a future strategy for forum and meetings of cultural and community UNESCO Creative Cities - December 6, 2019 organizations, tours and visits to significant creative and cultural experiences in the city, 12 Main initiatives carried out at the local level to achieve the Network’s objectives 3.1 . Arts and Culture Grant Call Initiative This program has been in operation for 16 years, offering grants, support, awards, and recognition for the artists of the city, enabling the materialization of their ideas, dissemination of research and processes on an ongoing basis. This call guarantees innovation, creation, equity, transparency and sustainability, through the allocation of resources to stimulate and promote the cultural and artistic sector of the city for the consolidation of initiatives, programs and projects from the training processes, through production, support, promotion, dissemination and subsequent circulation. 13 3.1.1 “Agenda Cultural” Through the Cultural Agenda action line, activities are carried
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