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UNESCO City of Literature Announcement Ceremony
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November 25, 2008
The City of Iowa City and the University of Iowa celebrated the community's City of Literature designation by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in a free public event on Tuesday, Nov. 25, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol on the UI campus.
The event featured Iowa City Mayor Regenia Bailey, UI President Sally Mason and Writing University Chair Christopher Merrill, as well as representatives of, or messages from, the governor's office and the Iowa congressional delegation. A video was shown of poet Marvin Bell, an alumnus and long-time faculty member of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the state's first poet laureate, reading "Writers in a Café," a poem he wrote to accompany the application.
Iowa City has joined Edinburgh, Scotland and Melbourne, Australia as UNESCO Cities of Literature. Other cities in the Creative Cities Network -- honoring and connecting cultural centers for cinema, music, crafts and folk arts, design, media arts and gastronomy, as well as literature -- include Aswan, Egypt; Sante Fe, N.M.; Berlin, Germany; Montreal, Canada; Popayan, Colombia; Bologna, Italy; Shenzhen, China; Kobe, Japan; and Seville, Spain.
Presentations by the Honored Guests >>
- The University of Iowa President Mason's remarks
- Iowa City Mayor Regenia Bailey's speech
- Letters from Senator Tom Harkin, Senator Charles Grassley, Congressman Dave Loebsack
- Remarks from International Writing Program Director Christopher Merrill
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December 02, 2008
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