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Participate in Creative Clusters Thematic Workshop on the Creative Ecosystem

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09 October 2017
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Creative Clusters is an URBACT project testing how quite small cities with a rural hinterland, can generate a dynamic creative environment and creative industries. The project fourth and last thematic workshop will take place in Barnsley, UK, on 17-18 March, 2011. Entitled "The Creative Ecosystem: Events and Cultural Agenda as Catalysts", the workshop will discuss how events and cultural agenda can be catalysts in promoting creative-based strategies in local development. 

Cultural events and agendas can not only help to build the local creative ecosystem but also to establish a real connection between cultural policy and economic development policy at city level. Beyond the "put-on-the-map" effect, singular cultural events must be used to establish credibility, by engaging the local creative fabric as much as possible. Savonlinna (Finland), Óbidos (Portugal) or Viareggio (Italy), partners in the Creative Clusters project, are associated with distinctive summertime opera festivals spread through word-of-mouth. There are a number of examples of small and medium towns linked to unique experiences and creative events such as Sundance-independent cinema, Sitges-fantastic cinema, Glastonbury-rock music, Avignon-theatre, Montreaux-music festival, Basel-modern art.

During the thematic workshop, a series of key contributions will discuss issues at the crossroad between cultural and economic development policies. The event will be organised around three working session:

  • Linking cultural policy to economic development
  • The role of cultural and creative hubs and facilities linking cultural policy to economic development strategy
  • The impact of festivals and event on urban centres

Study trips, welcome party and evening reception are also on the agenda of this two-day event. The event is open to a wide range of active participants who wish to feed the debate – cultural managers and cultural planners, creative professionals and entrepreneurs, economic development practitioners, experts and scholars.

Participation in the thematic workshop is free although registration is mandatory. Please, make an on-line registration.


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