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Selected young musicians will form a new Caribbean band to perform at the 2024 Fifty Lab Music Festival that will take place from 13 to 15 November in Brussels, Belgium.

UNESCO Regional Director for Southern Africa is calling for expressions of interest for the study of the cultural, social, economic, and environmental impact of a selected number of arts and cultural festivals on their local communities in nine Southern African countries.

Established under the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) is a voluntary multi-donor fund which supports the emergence of dynamic cultural sectors in developing countries.

As an integral part of the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee and in the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme, the Ministry of Culture through the Archaeological Survey of India, will host the World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2024 under the theme of ‘World Heritage in the 21st Century: Building Capacities and Exploring Opportunities for Youth’ from 14 to 23 July 2024 in Delhi, Republic of India.

UNESCO, the British Council and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) are jointly managing Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans (CC4WBs), a project funded by the European Union to foster dialogue in the Western Balkans by enhancing the cultural and creative sectors for increased socio-economic impact.

The UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok), under the project ‘Strengthening digital capacity for cultural and creative entrepreneurs in Mekong Cluster’ as part of the Creative Digital Lab regional project initiative funded by Korea Funds-in-Trust (KFIT), is seeking a contractor to develop online training and pilot a creative digital incubation programme.

UNESCO is launching a call for experts to create a Reflection Group on the diversity of cultural expressions in the digital environment (2024-2025) within the framework of the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.

‘Export development and market opportunities in the handcraft sector’ is a six-week online incubator initiative (August - early September 2023) which offers an innovative framework for export development and increasing market opportunities. Applicants must be between 18 and 35 years old and citizens / permanent residents of Transcultura Caribbean countries.

Transcultura invite you to present your poetic work at the 40th edition of the Poetry Market, which will take place from 7-11 June 2023 at the Place Saint Sulpice, Paris, France, with the Caribbean, for the first time, as guest of honour. The call is open to young Caribbean poets between 18 and 35 years of age.

The UNESCO programme Transcultura: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, funded by the European Union, launches the call for the third round of the free online course ‘FondosCultura: Writing Grant Proposals to Unlock Cultural Funding’.