Upgrading culture in sustainable development: the time is now

Tuesday 20 April 2021, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), together with UN-Habitat and Metropolis, and in partnership with the #culture2030goal campaign, Rome City Council and Palaexpo, will be organizing a ‘Cities Are Listening’ session on culture. 

Entitled ‘Upgrading Culture in Sustainable Development: The Time is Now’, the session will aim at consolidating a dialogue between global cultural civil society networks, local and regional governments, In particular, the session will allow panelists and participants to give visibility to the campaign #culture2030goal; learn from the narratives, the activities, and the challenges of global cultural networks; give visibility to the Rome Charter; visualize specific examples of work by the Orchestras of Transformation that relate culture and the arts with the SDGs; and learn from narratives, activities, and challenges of UCLG members in the field of culture. 

Tere Badia, Secretary-General of Culture Action Europe, will be in attendance to join the conversation on the importance of enhancing the place of culture in the global development conversation and the mission of the #culture2030goal campaign. 

The session will take place online Tuesday 20 April 2021, 15:00 – 17:00 CEST. 

More information can be found here.