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Sister Cities International and its members have been conducting arts and cultural exchanges for more than 50 years. It is often said that it is in cultural activities that a nation's ideas of itself are best represented. The ideas of our members are indeed vast and expressed through an expansive variety of arts and cultural exchanges!
Log in and visit our Tell Your Sister City Stories to see successful examples of our members' arts and cultural projects. If you need a username and password, please contact Bethany Rehling at brehling@sister-cities.org
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
The Sister Cities programs for Arts and Culture seeks to address a variety of issues related to Arts and Culture:
- To strengthen cultural diplomacy as the foundation of public diplomacy
- To increase the capacity of member communities to design and deliver effective institutional and community programs that incorporate innovative solutions around the issues of Arts and Culture
- To enhance America's global relationships community through community participation
- To educate the members about the importance of Arts and Culture and the types of projects and programs that support accountable global citizenship
- To create and sustain long-term and mutually beneficial partnerships focused around specific issues of Arts and Culture
- To establish solid financial and human resources from each sister city partnership to generate significant support and funding
Sister Cities International, on behalf of over 700 member communities in the United States, linked in partnership with over 1,800 communities in 137 countries around the world is a nonprofit citizen diplomacy network creating and strengthening partnerships between U.S. and international communities in an effort to increase cultural diplomacy and to promote cross cultural understanding.
ABOUT US
- Create a cohesive network of sister cities focused on arts and cultural activities
- Increase responsible global citizenship through cultural diplomacy
- Facilitate artistic and cultural exchanges among Sister Cities International members
- Promote cross-cultural dialogue through artistic and cultural diplomats
- Advance the notion of responsible global citizenship by increasing cultural diplomats within the Arts and Culture Network
- Increase cross-cultural understanding of both American and international citizens through artistic and cultural endeavors
- Identify cross-cultural commonalities through shared media and technology projects
- Use artistic expression to improve the quality of life for citizens across the globe