“Enhancing the creative economy through knowledge skills and artistic production for sustainable development”

In cities where the tall towers gleam,  
And rivers flicker with the golden dream  
Of futures built by practiced hand and mind,  
A gentle force propels the world behind—  
The art that hums inside a potter’s wheel,  
The flash of code that makes new visions real,  
A brushstroke born of knowing what has been,  
And how tomorrow’s canvas might begin.

We lift the chisels and the mighty pen,  
Connect with hearts of strangers, kin and kin,  
Invent and teach, unweave, and then rebraid  
The tapestry of culture that we’ve made;  
For knowledge blends with wonder as we grow,  
Ideas bloom in places rivers flow,  
Musicians learn their language from the land,  
And teachers offer wisdom, hand in hand.

Let every city nurture every seed  
Of talent, craft, and curiosity’s need—  
Where dancers leap, let science sketch the frame,  
And sculpture carve out spaces for the name  
Of every dreamer, coder, crafter, guide,  
Together drawing hope, and none deride.  
For when a world invests in skill and art,  
Sustainable horizons take their start.

So let us raise our voices, tools, and eyes  
To see the truth within each bright sunrise:  
A creative world is richer, more alive,  
With every dream and faculty we strive  
To teach, to share, to learn, to be, to build—  
That is how tomorrow’s earth is filled,  
Not just with profit, but with worth and grace—  
A luminous, sustained, creative place.

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