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PASCAL subscribers will be interested to know that since the announcement that Erbil is planning to join the PASCAL Learning City Networks project, and sending a delegation to the Catania conference; I am being contacting by over a hundred people every day.

The Rolling Workshop approach which has been successfully applied by the Harnessing Cultural Policy Network will now be applied by the LCN's Inclusion Network with an Inclusion Rolling Workshop which commenced in Townsville on 4 May. The Townsville Workshop will be followed by workshops in Glasgow (early July), Bristol (15 October), and Melbourne (2 December).

This is the prospective title of the 6^th Communique of the Big Tent, to be finalized and issued at the end of the 12th PASCAL Conference in Catania, Sicily, on 9 October this year.

One of the speakers at the next PASCAL Conference in Catania, Sicily from 7-9 October 2015 will be Josef Konvitz, PASCAL Chair, who will be introducing his new book, Cities and Crisis.

For the second year running I had the pleasure of attending the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival. Because of a previous appointment, I had missed the UNESCO Growing Learning in Cork event and had only the Thursday and the Friday to enjoy the proceedings, being picked up at the airport on a wet and miserable Wednesday night by Willie McAuliffe (Chair of the Festival Organising Committee) after a 14 hour journey.