![]() ![]() ![]() She turned in the application in June three months later she learned it was successful. Utilizing extensive research by Wagner, Dixon, who felt a personal drive to honor local African-American musicians, past and present, began the process in early 2017. The application to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network was laborious and time-consuming. The prestigious designation came roughly 18 months before Kansas City attained another cultural recognition benchmark: This past spring we became the first city in North America to get its own dedicated page on the Google Arts & Culture website. 31, 2017, thanks to the efforts of Anita Dixon, principal of Sage Consulting, and Jacob Wagner, associate professor in the department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design at UMKC. City of Music in the network (there are 31 in all), was awarded the designation Oct. Steve Karbank, chairman of Karbank Real Estate Company, introduced the band and the 1900 Building’s plan for an upcoming series of world music concerts in conjunction with Kansas City’s new status as a UNESCO City of Music, part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network of 180 cities worldwide “that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development.”įields covered by the network include crafts and folk arts, media arts, film, design, gastronomy, literature and music. In August, the 1900 Building, a Karbank project, presented a rousing, electric performance by Jupiter & Okwess, an Afropop/funk band from Kinshasa, Congo, to an enthusiastic crowd. ![]()
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