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Creative Clusters 2006, the leading global Conference on the creative economy and culture-led regeneration, runs 5th-8th Nov in NewcastleGateshead, UK. The programme is packed with inspiring examples of culture and creativity as a force for mainstream economic development across the world:

* New York and London: what does it mean to be 'world creative hubs'?
* Transforming Seoul: the extraordinary Cheonggyecheon restoration
* The culture-led regeneration of Old Havana
* Inclusion in media: films from Brazil, Australia, Bosnia, Slovakia
and UK
* New cultural forms, new kinds of economy: the virtual
world `Second Life' and the massively multiplayer online
game `Lineage'
* Major UK developments: the DCMS Creative Economy Programme, the
new National Design Centre and `Design of the Times' initiative.
* City policy in Amsterdam, Shanghai, Singapore, Washington and more
* Rural creativity in Poland, Maine and England
* Creativity and the Remaking of the Middle East
* `Creativity after Crisis': reports from Bosnia, India and New
Orleans
* Participative workshops on creative investment and online meetings
* Advice from London and Los Angeles about regional screen agencies
* Global cultural diversity: are we entering a golden age, or an era
of mass extinctions? Discussants from Canada and India.
* A warm Geordie welcome: project visits, networking and
entertainment
* A pre-conference seminar `Introduction to UK Creative Industries' at DCMS, London

Creative Clusters 2006 takes place in Norman Foster's world-famous Sage music venue in NewcastleGateshead, UK. For more programme information, to see who is coming and to register for the conference, go to:

http://www.creativeclusters.com.

Please spread the word about Creative Clusters - tell your colleagues and wider networks about us, or post this information in your newsletter, blog or website.

If you are responsible for creative development in your community, you too should be at Creative Clusters! Join your colleagues from around the world for a programme of inspiring presentations, exciting project visits, networking and entertainment events.

Many thanks,

Simon, Dan, Rosemary and Krassimira
The Creative Clusters Team