World Day for Cultural Development

The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (English World Day for Cultural Diversity, for Dialogue and Development ) is a day of action of UNESCO , the year on May 21 will be celebrated. It is also called World Day for Cultural Diversity or World Day for Cultural Development for short .

On the occasion of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity adopted by the 31st General Assembly of UNESCO in November 2001, the World Day for Cultural Development was also proclaimed. It is intended to create awareness of cultural diversity and emphasize the contribution of artists to the dialogue between cultures .

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Germany

On March 3, 2011, the German Cultural Council presented the nationwide campaign “Strengthening culture well” at a press conference in Berlin on the occasion of UNESCO World Day on May 21, 2011, which is being organized together with the German Federal Cultural Foundation . The aim should be to set an example to protect and promote cultural diversity and against cultural degradation. The initiative aims to draw attention to the problems of financing culture and cultural institutions.

On the occasion of World Day on May 21, 2018, the study "Art in the Immigration Society - Contributions of the Arts for Coexistence in Diversity" was published by the German Commission for UNESCO and the Bertelsmann Foundation . This represented u. a. firmly: “The question of the diversity of a society is therefore not only a question of population composition, legal status or media reporting, but also always means negotiating ambiguities and identities, affiliations, shared or unrelated memories and common visions of the future. Culture is also the conversation about what and who we are, where we come from and what we may be in the future and how we can live. ”The study made seven recommendations for action, the first of which was: intercultural offers of the publicly funded arts and crafts To further strengthen and consolidate cultural institutions.

See also

• Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

Web links

• Unesco: World Day of Cultural Diversity
• Action day strengthening culture well in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Day of Cultural Diversity. German UNESCO Commission, accessed on April 23, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ten years of the “General Declaration on Cultural Diversity”. UNESCO, November 2011, accessed April 23, 2017 . 
3. ↑ unesco.de: The General Declaration on Cultural Diversity
4. ↑ Start of the “Culture well strengthening” campaign , press release by the German Commission for UNESCO; Retrieved April 20, 2011
5. ↑ UNESCO World Day of Cultural Diversity 2018. German UNESCO Commission, May 28, 2018, accessed on October 3, 2018 . 
6. ^ Art in the immigration society. Contributions of the arts to coexistence in diversity. Bertelsmann Stiftung / German UNESCO Commission, 2018, accessed on October 3, 2018 .  P. 9.
7. ^ Art in the immigration society. Contributions of the arts to coexistence in diversity. Bertelsmann Stiftung / German UNESCO Commission, 2018, accessed on October 3, 2018 .  P. 13.