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The 2013-2020 Strategy of Cultural Development of the City of Rijeka was developed in 2012. Following a broad public debate, it was adopted on 19 March 2013 by the City of Rijeka City Council with a view to modernising the system of financing and management of culture and instigating a number of changes in the management of the city's cultural resources.
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Rijeka is a city of the unobtrusive existence of diversity, a symbol of inclusivity and openness, at the heart of the natural and cultural diversity of Kvarner and Gorski Kotar. A city whose citizens on the whole nurture the original human impulse of tolerance, acceptance and connection. It was selected as a European Capital of Culture for 2020 because it offered a superb artistic and cultural programme
in which Europe can find a different expression.
Rijeka, the centre of the blue-green Primorje-
Gorski Kotar County and the largest Croatian port,
is a vibrant blend of the harshness of the port and industry and the magnificent splendour of fine architecture, the influence of Austria, Hungary, Italy and Yugoslav modernism. Its power of acceptance has developed over a turbulent history — in the last one hundred years, this city and the people who make it have lived in as many as seven different countries, therefore, few in the world can compare to Rijeka.
On that same track, the future was never taken for granted, but always done dialogically, carefully, and with the questioning of every intention, even in the case of the best of intentions.
Today's Rijeka has grown into a true port of diversity. And it is inexhaustible, just as is inscribed in its name and on its coat of arms.
Brosura-EN.pdf15.75 MB
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Next level of reconnecting is the one between the city and its citizens. With rich cultural programme and activating of public spaces we want to raise the citizens’ awareness about the strength and potential of the environment in which they live and strengthen their sense of belonging to a diverse European family. We want to use culture as a means of connecting the citizens (in the broadest sense of the word). We want to achieve deeper cultural awareness of the citizens and expand the circles of cultural audience through democratization and decentralization of cultural content. Finally, we want to integrate culture and the city, to fill its every pore with culture and achieve permanent impact.
Bid book Croatia English
The City of Rijeka announces its candidacy for the Euro- pean Capital of Culture 2020 at the time when the City, region and Europe are faced with numerous crises: eco- nomic, political, social and moral. This is as well the mo- ment when distinctive voices can be heard emphasizing the critical role of culture for sustainable community growth, its cohesion and economic development, but also warning of perils of instrumentalisation of culture and the vulnerability of social, cultural and humanistic val- ues of openness and pluralism as values we hold to be understood per se. We are announcing our candidacy well aware of the challenges lying ahead of us with a project of this magnitude. However, we firmly believe that culture is at the core of our societies and that it can open spaces in which people use creativity to shape their future.
Rijeka-Pre-Selection-BidBook.pdf10.49 MB