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  • The British Council
    Connecting the UK to the world and the world to the UK, the British Council is the UK's international cultural relations body. Read more.
  • Study in the UK
    The UK counts some of the most renowned universities among its institutions. Click through for practical information about studying in the UK.
  • Literature at Hay Festival
    Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, W. Dalrymple, Murong Xuecun and Ece Temelkuran are among the globally acclaimed writers to join our series at Hay this year.

Latest British Council blogs

  • Brazil: The brave horizon
    Luiz Coradazzi, blogs about how the life-size figures in Antony Gormley’s first ever solo exhibition in Brazil, are bringing the arts out of cultural centres and museums onto the streets and inviting people back inside.
  • Libya: poetry, passion and optimism
    Fatima Al Mater blogs about running a poetry workshop in post-revolution Libya.
  • South Sudan: All the Globe's a stage
    A South Sudan theatre company takes the London Globe Theatre's stage by storm.

Read more blogs on British Council Voices

On Audio

North By Southwest - Arte Oído with Philip Jeck and Vicki Bennett on experimental music View Video

In the latest edition of 'North By Southwest', we meet two UK musicians at Madrid's sound art festival Arte Oído and interview them about the meaning of 'experimental' and 'avant-garde'.

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On film

Henry Moore at the Kremlin Museums

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The exhibition 'Henry Moore and the classic canon of modern sculpture' will be at the Kremlin Museums until 10 May 2012. For the Moscow exhibition, Moore's best works were selected. They show a wide range of images and themes which excited the artist throughout his life, demonstrate his rich imagination, his innovative, creative thinking and the evolution of his artistic ideas.

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In photos

Out of Britain exhibition, Riyadh, 23 April - 25 May

For the first time in Saudi Arabia and in collaboration with the National Museum in Riyadh, the British Council is exhibiting selected artworks from its art collection. 'Out of Britain' focuses on the theme of the British landscape, from the urban to the rural and the UK’s encircling coastline.

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