Please consider supporting the Breads of the Creative Cities project to protect Creative Knowledge Systems and help Creative People – the living keepers of Creative Knowledge of the world (bakers, farmers, millers) to thrive in their original communities.

Thank you for supporting us.

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Please consider supporting the Breads of the Creative Cities project to protect Creative Knowledge Systems and help Creative People – the living keepers of Creative Knowledge of the world (bakers, farmers, millers) to thrive in their original communities.

Thank you for supporting us.

Give an online gift.

Please consider supporting the Breads of the Creative Cities project to protect Creative Knowledge Systems and help Creative People – the living keepers of Creative Knowledge of the world (bakers, farmers, millers) to thrive in their original communities.

Thank you for supporting us.

Give an online gift.

“Obwarzaneko”, Krakow, Creative City of Literature

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WHY CONTRIBUTE?

The Breads of the Creative Cities project supports the preservation and the enhancement of the traditional knowledge around the typical bread. Considering bread as a staple food that plays a culturally significant role in a community’s heritage, raising its tradition allows entire communities to gather centuries of history and culture, telling them through a universal language like that of food. This way cities from all over the world can participate in the project, which is dedicated specifically to cities that are part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

BREADS OF THE CREATIVE CITIES

Breads of the Creative Cities is an ongoing project of CK Foundation and its partner Tucson City of Gastronomy. The goals behind the project are:

STRENGTHEN THE UCC NETWORK COLLABORATION

Achieve stronger relationships between the UNESCO Creative Cities around the world and their knowledge keepers.

CREATE A CULTURAL DIGITAL RESOURCE

Create a digital hub where stories and traditions of the traditional local bakers, farmers and millers of the UCC are collected.

HIGHLIGHT THE KNOWLEDGE KEEPERS AND THE LOCAL BREAD VALUE CHAIN

Highlight the cultural significance of artisanal bakers, farmers and millers who are part of the bread local value chain.

PROMOTE “BEST PRACTICES”

Promote a new format of inter-clusters project for the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

STRENGTHEN THE UCC NETWORK COLLABORATION

Achieve stronger relationships between the UNESCO Creative Cities around the world and their knowledge keepers.

HIGHLIGHT THE KNOWLEDGE KEEPERS AND THE LOCAL BREAD VALUE CHAIN

Highlight the cultural significance of artisanal bakers, farmers and millers who are part of the bread local value chain.

CREATE A CULTURAL DIGITAL RESOURCE

Create a digital hub where stories and traditions of the traditional local bakers, farmers and millers of the UCC are collected.

PROMOTE “BEST PRACTICES”

Promote a new format of inter-clusters project for the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

From the 88 participants of the first edition of the project in 2018, the third edition of 2022 gathered 99 participants, with 103 traditional knowledge about bread, flour and grains collected.

WHO WE ARE

The Creative Knowledge Foundation (CKF) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) that reinforces the role of “Creative People“ – the living keepers of the Creative Knowledges of the world – to enhance the wellbeing of unique and diverse communities in a more sustainable environment and resilient economy.

In the light of the changes that contemporary societies are experiencing with climate, environment, and urban density CK Systems can provide innovative and sustainable solutions, which can be adapted to the contemporary world.

DESIGNATED DONATIONS

All the donations are intended for the Breads of the Creative Cities project and managed by the Creative Knowledge Foundation.

Support the Breads of the Creative Cities project and help us to make it an annual event.

Each year our dedicated team is committed to support the new participating cities, create new formats to tell one’s traditions, publish a new edition of the book, organize meetings for exchanging and sharing traditions and techniques among the knowledge keepers of the territory.

To request a copy of the 2024 edition, please fill out the form below.