Animating literature

North America Western Europe
Animating Creativity in Literature
April 2005 – March 2006
This project is to examine Britsh Council supported arts education projects across the region. The survey will incorporate impact and sustainability of individual projects.

Czech Republic, Poland, Latvia, Finland, Ukraine, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia
Animating Literature in North America and Central Europe
October 2005 – March 2007
This project aims to provide an opportunity for information sharing, project and skills development for internal and external contacts involved in reader development work.

Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysian, Singapore, China and Hong Kong
Animating Literature East Asia and China
November 2005 – March 2008
Aims for this project include increasing the range, scope and accessibility of literature projects across the region. creating wider audiences for country-specific literature programmes and increasing awareness and access to contacts and opportunities in the UK.

Jamaica
Animating Literature Seminar
University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
27-29 July 2005
This three-day workshop is aimed at British Council colleagues and external contacts in Latin America and the Caribbean interested in developing fresh approaches to literature programming.

Poland
Imagine This
2003-2006
British Fantasy and Science Fiction: aimed at increasing awareness of contemporary UK writing for a wider audience., providing better access and encourgement to read English. Through reading groups, workshops, book exhibitions, an online forum, live author chats online, film shows, talks and workshops with science fiction and science fact visiting authors (Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, Gwyneth Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, Susanna Clarke).

(First in a series to run in collaboration with Polish publishers and bookshops - followed by Faces and Places 2005/6).

Russia
Reading Across the Lines
2003-2005
A selection of creative writers (experienced in teaching creative writing in a school environment), teachers and reader development specialists will be visiting Russia to deliver a series of events, workshops and discussion forums

Romania
2002-2005
Promoting interest in reading stories in upper secondary and lower secondary school age children and promoting creative writing in the classroom

Book Mania

Three-year project to build an awareness of contemporary UK writing amoung young audiences in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia through reading groups, storytelling sessions, seminars and reader development workshops.

The first year will involve an exhibition of contemporary UK literature in various cities and an author visit to Baku for a range of audiences (Information/Library staff, Englsih students etc).

Project Manager: Gulya Bayramova, Information Services Manager, British Council Azerbaijan.

BritLit

Writing teaching materials based on contemporary UK literature.

• Aimed at secondary school teachers of tennage 14 - 17 years old.
• Materials are cleared for copyright, piloted, editied and proofread.
• Materials golive on the BritLit website: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/britlit.shtml

Developed in Portugal and now being extended to Hungary.

Hungary 2005/6 - focuses on four UK cities through the eyes of their native poets. First the city of Liverpool through the words of Levi Tafari.

www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/britlit/liverpool.shtml

Project Manger: Fitch O'Connell, British Council Oporto, Portugal

Project Manager: Christina Smart, British Council Budapest, Hungary