Broadcast online from New York, the President of the United Nations General Assembly will convene on 21 May 2021 a one-day high-level event on Culture and Sustainable Development in partnership with UNESCO, in accordance with the General Assembly Resolution 74/230.
This event, which will be held on the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, will highlight the resilient and transformative role of culture as an accelerator of SDG implementation, as well as the challenges within the cultural and creative industries and the broader cultural ecosystem that were exposed and exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis.
Its overall theme shall be “Building back better: towards a more resilient and impactful culture sector throughout COVID-19 and the Decade of Action”. It will, inter alia, provide the opportunity for Member States to share experiences on crisis-response measures to support the creative economy during the pandemic; identify implementation gaps and solutions; and call for strengthening strategic cross-sectoral partnerships to unlock the transformative potential of culture in the recovery context and throughout the Decade of Action.
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