A record 100 million people are displaced worldwide as they flee conflicts or the effects of climate change. Of these, 32.5 million are refugees and many are under 18. Migration and displ...
Now in its 29th year, the Crystal Award honours exceptional artists and cultural leaders whose important contributions to society have made a tangible impact on improving the state of the...
As summer sizzles in the northern hemisphere, you might be looking for a good book to take on holiday, or to help you travel in your imagination.
A highpoint of every World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is the official concert which this year was performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax. While the musicians played a Catalan folk tune a...
Our voice has more power and potential than most of us realize. It affects others, just as theirs affects us.
The creative sectors are some of the most important when it comes to social impact and human connection. When connected to the power of new technologies, arts and culture have an immense ...
All of my work is based on true story, real people, the things of life. For those I have filmed, whose lived experiences become the heartbeat of a work, I have often explained that art is...
“While Black”: shorthand for racial profiling so prevalent in the United States that African Americans have almost universally experienced it. The verbs that accompany the phrase represen...
Talking to your children about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic might feel fraught with risk.
The global music industry is worth over $50 billion, with two major income streams. The first, live music, makes up over 50% of total revenues and is derived mainly from sales of tickets ...
I had naively thought that 2020, at least from my musician’s perspective, would be a momentous year marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. Our opening concert at this year’s ...
In millions of homes across the globe this very minute, parents are juggling like never before as they struggle to teach their children while earning a living during the coronavirus lockd...
If you want to listen to a couple of minutes of calming, reflective cello music - here is Forum trustee and Cultural Leader Yo-Yo Ma playing “Goin’ Home” - a theme adapted from Antonín Dv...
From a VR installation that makes you feel what it would be like to be a tree, to a performance mixing beat-boxing with AI: there's a world-class arts festival hidden in plain sight at th...
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will take place in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland from 21-24 January 2020, under the theme, “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World.”
