THE PLENARY UNANIMOUSLY AGREES THE INTEGRATION AND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY AS FOUNDER IN THIS STATE PLATFORM
The plenary session of the City Council of Llíria, agreed, in its last session, the integration of Llíria, as founder, in the Spanish Association of Creative Cities of UNESCO. As explained by the Councilor for Tourism, Paco García, this new platform “is intended to coordinate those Spanish cities that have been designated Creative Cities by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), within the framework of its Creative Cities Network program”.
The fundamental objectives of this Association, and assuming as its own the contents in the “Mission Statement” of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network program, will be to strengthen international cooperation between member cities, promote the creation, production, distribution and dissemination of activities, cultural goods and services, develop centers of creativity and innovation, as well as expand opportunities for creators and professionals in the cultural sector, integrating creativity into local development strategies and plans within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
García has pointed out that Llíria “has a great potential for musical talent, both from the educational side and from the most interpretive and artistic creation, which must be internationalized and made known outside the borders of our Community”.
For this reason, the Association “intends to jointly disseminate, both nationally and internationally, the cultural values that UNESCO Creative Cities represent, using as many actions, promotions and publications as it deems appropriate, in addition to activating projects and exchanges with institutions and companies. to promote all our talent abroad”.
This new platform, “we want to position our town in cultural tourism by enhancing the different creative fields that make up the Spanish network (crafts and popular arts, gastronomy, design, literature, music, cinema/audiovisual and digital arts). and with which synergies can be generated for local creative ecosystems and the exchange and transfer of knowledge within the framework of the creative economy, the circular economy and the paradigm of the new smart cities”, commented the mayor.
Thus, this new initiative will serve to open new opportunities for job creation in the cultural and creative sectors through entrepreneurship, training and professionalization, in order to attract talent and new projects and investments.
