Adelaide joins Creative Cities network

Adelaide has been declared a UNESCO City of Music and plans are already afoot for collaborations between our three Creative Cities.
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Archie Roach performing at WOMADelaide; image via Wikipedia

The South Australian capital joins Bogotá, Ghent, Glasgow, Hamamatsu, Hannover and Seville as a UNESCO City of Music; part of the broader Creative Cities Network which connects 116 cities in 33 countries around the world.

Adelaide joins Melbourne (a City of Literature) and Sydney (a City of Film) as UNESCO Creative Cities. Collaborations between Australia’s Creative Cities are already being developed.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts