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 is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts