This year the Summit is presented online.
When the global impact of decades of economic and social behaviour is being so abruptly overturned, this Special Edition considers how imaginative perspectives, creative endeavours and cultural experiences can help sustain us and take us beyond our current predicament.
Culture enables us to understand our world; it helps us all to understand and appreciate each other; our similarities and our differences.
Begin with the Welcome and Introduction to the Summit which brings together in a succinct format, an overview of the different components of this Special Edition, its performances, ministerial messages, focused themes and extended interviews.
Delve into the Summit Special Edition 2020 page where Summit Themes on Culture and Education; Culture and Social Cohesion and Culture in Vibrant Communities examine more deeply these areas of focus interlaced with digital performances.
Engage with different political perspectives and priorities in the Special Messages from Ministers of Culture and arts leaders of many nations across the globe.
Immerse yourself in the full range of digital Performances assembled and recorded for this Special Edition.
Explore our Contributors where, in a diverse range of extended interviews, each speaker can be heard in greater depth.
Participate in the Summit Webinars where you can interact with other like-minded people and hear some of our contributors, partners and Ministers of Culture discuss the themes in more depth live (24-26 August).
Please discover the range of ideas we have assembled on this site at your own pace. There is no hurry, as all the content will be added to and freely available for many months to come.
We hope you find the content of this Summit as stimulating and rewarding as it has been for us to work on with the contributors and performers who have together created this exciting web-based Special Edition.
Full film (26:00)
Opens with insights from Contributors to the Summit
Renowned theatre critic and political and social commentator, Joyce McMillan talks to Andrew Gilmour, Executive Director of the Berghof Foundation and previously United National Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights on the eve of the Summit Special Edition 2020. ON THE DAY when we met online to talk about his contribution to this year’s Culture Summit, Andrew […]
Author and journalist Mark Fisher explores the impact of access to music participation with Assal Habibi, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California. Being a teenager from a deprived background must be especially hard during the pandemic. But one such group of youngsters have had an advantage. They’re […]
It feels like nothing in the world today is as it should, or was expected to be and the process of reimagining how we learn, socialise and even live side by side in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic is testing individuals, communities and governments internationally. In keeping with this need for change, Edinburgh International […]