{"id":159732,"date":"2021-06-11T06:04:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T10:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=159732"},"modified":"2021-06-11T08:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:01:20","slug":"kickstarting-the-plans-to-develop-santo-domingo-as-a-unesco-creative-city-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/11\/kickstarting-the-plans-to-develop-santo-domingo-as-a-unesco-creative-city-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarting the plans to develop Santo Domingo as a Unesco Creative City of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"546\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ciudad-Creativa-de-la-Musica-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ciudad-Creativa-de-la-Musica-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ciudad-Creativa-de-la-Musica-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Twelve institutions signed a cooperation agreement on 10 June 2021 to promote Santo Domingo as a &#8220;Creative City of Music&#8221;, a designation granted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Culture Minister Carmen Heredia presided over signing the agreement at the Ram\u00f3n Oviedo Gallery at the Ministry of Culture headquarters. Also signing were officials of the Presidency General Strategic and Special Projects Agency (Propeep), the Ministry of Foreign Relations, the Dominican National Commission before the Unesco, the Dominican Municipal League (LMD) and city councils of Greater Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designated Unesco Cities of Music share similar characteristics. These are:<br>\u00b7 recognized centers of musical creation and activity<br>\u00b7 experience in hosting musical festivals and events at a national or international level<br>\u00b7 promotion of the music industry in all its forms<br>\u00b7 music schools, conservatories, academies, and higher education institutions specialized in music<br>\u00b7 informal structures for music education, including amateur choirs and orchestras<br>\u00b7 domestic or international platforms dedicated to particular genres of music and\/or music from other countries<br>\u00b7 cultural spaces suited for practicing and listening to music, e.g. open-air auditoriums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/entidades-promoveran-sd-ciudad-creativa\/\">Hoy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/citiesofmusic.net\/\">Cities of Music <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/creative-cities\/\">UNESCO <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 June 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve institutions signed a cooperation agreement on 10 June 2021 to promote Santo Domingo as a &#8220;Creative City of Music&#8221;, a designation granted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in October 2019. Culture Minister Carmen Heredia presided over signing the agreement at the Ram\u00f3n Oviedo Gallery at the Ministry of Culture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/11\/kickstarting-the-plans-to-develop-santo-domingo-as-a-unesco-creative-city-of-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159763,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159732\/revisions\/159763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}