Arts
British Council Arts Group brings the best of UK arts to the rest of the world - helping to create and support numerous events yearly in 110 countries.
Current activities
- Shereen Diab, winner of the IYVAE award. Photo by David Lake.
International Young Visual Arts Entrepreneur 2008
Highlighting the work of creative entrepreneurs worldwide
Shereen Diab, from Lebanon, has been announced as the winner of the inaugural International Young Visual Arts Entrepreneur award at a ceremony at the INIVA gallery in London. Shereen is the Director of Lens on Lebanon, a not-for-profit organisation formed in 2006 as a non-partisan, grassroots arts and media initiative.
Shereen received the IYVAE trophy and a prize fund with which she will develop a visual arts project between Lebanon and the UK.
- The Wansey Street Project by de Rijke Marsh Morgan, photo by Jonas Lerner
11th Venice Architecture Biennale
Home/Away: Five British architects build housing in Europe
Award-winning architecture critic Ellis Woodman’s exhibition, Home/Away: Five British architects build housing in Europe, located in the British Pavilion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale, has now opened to the public.
Woodman’s exhibition examines how five contemporary architects, all inheritors of the generation gap that ensued when Britain’s programme of post-war reconstruction drew to a close in the 1970s, are beginning to address the question of housing again.
- Susie Nicklin and James Meek, Caledonian Conversations at the Edinburgh Bookcase 2008. Copyright: British Council
Edinburgh Bookcase August 2008
Intercultural dialogue through literature
As part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival the Bookcase programme offered readings, performances and discussion from a wide range of established and emerging authors from the UK with opportunities for interaction amongst the participants. As part of UNESCO’s City of Literature title bid programme and continuing a tradition of writers' exchanges, the British Council also hosted three writers from Kolkata at the Bookcase.
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Design Cities
The British Council and the Design Museum are holding a debate on the next Design City on 15 December, featuring presentations about four ‘proto’ design cities: Moscow, Beijing, Bangalore and Sao Paulo.
Folk Archive
Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane’s visual account of contemporary popular British culture is currently being shown in Paris, and can also be viewed in our new online virtual exhibition.
International Radio Playwriting Competition
Have you ever dreamed of hearing your work broadcast on the BBC World Service? If so, then read on to find out more about our competition for radio playwrights.
The Powering Music Workshop. Copyright: British Council.
Incubator
Incubator is a long-term project that aims to bring cutting-edge UK musical talent to Latin America and the Caribbean by developing a network of music producers connecting the UK and the region.
Poems on the Underground
To mark the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice in 1918, the Autumn/Winter set of Poems on the Underground features six poems about love, loss and war.
Highlights
Image: The IYSE finalists. Photo by Frank Noon.
Young Screen Entrepreneur awards
This was the second year of the IYSE, and the inagural year of the UKYSE awards - given to the brightest and best International and UK young screen entrepreneurs in the business.
Dinard Film Festival
The feature film 'Boy A' was the big winner at this year's British Film Festival in Dinard, France, which was sponsored in part by the British Council.
Speechless East Asia participating artist Liu Liang Yen. Copyright: British Council
Speechless
The British Council's performance poetry project in conjunction with Apples & Snakes, Speechless, toured the UK during October, featuring newly commissioned work from both UK and East Asian poets.
Rock Music Rock Art
Last year a group of musicians and artists travelled to Uganda to create various works inspired by natural 'rock gongs'. During October the project came to London for a series of events, concerts and workshops.
YAP Youth Forum in Beijing
The international youth forum, designed to coincide with the Beijing Paralympics, included creative workshops from the Northern Ballet Theatre and Yeast Culture.
