INC NEWS - Sister Cities of Durham Receives Global Recognition

[Blalock, Amy]

CITY OF DURHAM

Office of Public Affairs

101 City Hall Plaza

Durham, NC 27701

 

 

News Release

 

For Details, Contact:

Amy C. Blalock

Senior Public Affairs Specialist

(919) 560-4123 x 253

(919) 475-7735 (cell)

Amy.Blalock at durhamnc.gov <mailto:Amy.Blalock at durhamnc.gov> 

 

For Immediate Release:  August 27, 2008

 

Sister Cities of Durham Receives Global Recognition for Innovation in
Arts and Culture

Award Only One of 12 Given at Recent Sister Cities International
Convention

 

Durham, N.C. - Sister Cities of Durham, Inc. won one of only 12 awards
for its innovation in arts and culture at the Sister Cities
International Convention recently held in Kansas City, Mo.  

 

The 52nd Annual Sister Cities International Conference hosted over 500
delegates from around the globe, including the countries of Benin,
Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Ghana, Guyana, Japan, Kenya, Mali,
Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Peru,
Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, South Korea, Taiwan, and Uganda plus the
United States during the four-day conference in mid-July.

 

Sister Cities of Durham won the Arts and Culture Innovation Award for
cities with a population between 100,000 and 500,000 for construction of
a Japanese tea house in the Asiatic Arboretum of the Sarah P. Duke
Gardens at Duke University. This project involved fundraising in both
Durham and in the sister city of Toyama, Japan, and engaged more than
200 citizens and organizations to provide a tangible symbol of 20 years
of cooperation between the citizens of these two sister cities.

 

Only 11 other communities received recognition at this year's
conference, including Mount Prospect, Ill.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Omaha,
Neb.; Chicago, Ill.; Denver, Colo.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Suffolk, Va.;
Newport News, Va.; Riverside, Calif.; Fort Worth, Texas; and Phoenix,
Ariz.  For more information about this conference or Sister Cities
International visit www.sister-cities.org.  

 

Sister Cities of Durham seeks to promote peace, understanding, and
goodwill among all people by maintaining long-term affiliations with
communities in other countries to develop mutually beneficial
activities, programs, and ideas.  Sister Cities of Durham receives
support from the City of Durham, with Mayor William V. "Bill" Bell
acting as honorary chair.  A staff person with the City's Office of
Economic and Workforce Development also serves to support the program by
coordinating the direct involvement of various City departments in
exchanges concerning municipal entities, economic development,
technology, public safety, and numerous other areas. 

 

For more information about Sister Cities of Durham visit 
www.sistercities-durham.org or contact Trisha Gensic, assistant director
of the City's Office of Economic and Workforce Development, at (919)
560-4965, extension 210 or via e-mail at trisha.gensic at durhamnc.gov. 



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