(5 July 2017) Dialogue, welcome, cooperation, and development ... all at a Festival. All the partners of the "Joint City Festival" project coordinated by Ong Tamat and co-funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) met in Perugia, in the Umbria Research Research Library (AUR). As the organisers explained, the project has a duration of 18 months (from April 2017 to September 2018) and will see preparatory activities and awareness raising initiatives that culminating with a 7-day touring festival in 7 locations in June 2018. The Festival aims to be a light-hearted initiative to illuminate the relationships made by decentralised cooperation, one that has its roots in Umbria, according to the criteria of community cooperation. "Umbria and its cities - underlines the Organising Committee - are places of welcome and of social life that find their way into the history of local associations in cultural diversity in a territory with a migrant flow of 2 percent of the national total (with 2 951 refugees)". (Red)

A CULTURAL WORKSHOP

The organisers of the festival emphasise that "by leveraging the cultural roots of our region, a programme that will intersect visual and narrative arts, music, creative workshops, and round table discussions to nurture attentions and sensibilities in each community on how to contribute (starting from reality Local) will be implemented to approach the Sustainable Development Goals (OSS) and how to be an active part in the dynamics of global citizenship. A great cultural site where all subjects - Umbria Region, 5 municipal administrations, associations, universities and international partners, and especially citizens, will be at the centre of the action promoted by Tamat with a multi-stakeholder and multidisciplinary approach.