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Wales and Greece to host WOMEX
WOMEX – the World Music Expo – announces new host cities in northern and southern Europe: Thessaloniki in Greece will host in 2012 and Cardiff in Wales in 2013…. Read More
Crowdsourced funding for the arts | updated
Culture360.org’s popular round-up of crowdsourced funding initiatives for the arts in Asia and Europe is now updated. See what works and what doesn’t and pick up the latest tips from the successful crowdfunding sites. Read More
(7)Sustainability in Craft and Design | Volume 3
The Craft Australia Research Centre announces the publication of the third volume of craft + design enquiry, its open access, peer-reviewed, online journal, interrogating discourses surrounding craft and design practice. Edited… Read More
Singapore – UK cross cultural partnership in the arts
On May 18 2011, the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) and the British Council (BC) entered into a two-year collaboration to promote cross-cultural understanding between the people of Singapore and… Read More
English PEN campaigns on UK artists’ visas
English PEN issues a briefing on the situation of UK visas for writers and artists, to inform a parliamentary debate on the points-based visa system. Read More
Asia-Europe project wins ‘Best Dance Film’
Asia-Europe dance production ‘BOW’ won the Jury Prize for ‘Best Dance Film’ at the Dance On Camera Festival, 2011. Read More
(1)UK:Cultural Policy Research Award 2010 announced
Claire Bullen (UK) was announced winner of the 7th Cultural Policy Research Award 2010 (CPRA). Read More
Pakistani artist wins UK award
Pakistani artist, Aisha Khalid’s book project “Name, Class, Subject” was awarded the 2010 Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Artist Book Award at the London Artist’s Book Fair, held at the White chapel Art Gallery.
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature shortlist
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature celebrates the rich and varied world of literature of the South Asian region. The shortlist for this new US $50,000 prize was announced at the DSC South Asian Literature Festival in the UK. Read More
The Silk Road Online | International Dunhuang Project
The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is a ground-breaking international collaboration between institutions in China, Europe and Japan bringing information and images from the Silk Road online. Read More
UK-India strengthen cultural ties
A step change in cultural co-operation between India and the UK was made in July 2010 when a new cultural agreement was signed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt and Jawhar Sircar from the Indian Ministry of Culture, in the presence of Prime Minister David Cameron and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Read More
Environmental impact of theatre touring | report
Julie’s Bicycle, the UK based coalition of music, theatre and scientific experts committed to making the creative industries green publishes a report examining the carbon impacts of touring theatre. Read More
Korea-UK Connection 2010 | Producers’ Research Visit
Visiting Arts UK is working in partnership with Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS) to encourage and support collaborative exchange in the performing arts between the two countries. Read More
UK:Russian museum curators’ study visit
Visiting Arts, in partnership with British Council and the Vladimir Potanin Foundation Moscow, delivered a 10-day study visit for a group of museum curators from across the Russian Federation in june this year. The visit was a prize for the winners of the best submission to the Vladimir Potanin Foundation’s Changing Museums in a Changing World competition.
UK: Indian artworks sale causes protest
Dartington Hall Trust in the UK has raised widespread criticism when it announced the forthcoming auction of a dozen paintings by Indian Nobel prize winner Rabindranath Tagore. Read More
BBC: India, China cultural diplomacy
BBC World Service presents two radio documentaries on ‘Soft Power’ looking at how China and India are using culture in their diplomacy and image-making around the world. Read More
1st Festival Management workshop in Vietnam
The first Festival Management workshop was recently held in Ha Noi by the British Council. About 25 art promoters and festival organisers from Vietnam attended the training course. Read More
British-Indian artist wins top Danish art prize
New Delhi-based artist Bharti Kher was recently in Denmark to receive the prestigious ARKEN Art Prize. Inside Herning Art Museum in Western Denmark, lies an actual size fibreglass replica of… Read More
Korean wins top UK design award
His design beat off impressive competition from across the world – an eclectic mix that included fashion, newspapers, aircraft and flatpack furniture – to win the Brit Insurance design… Read More
Scotland: more funding for arts & business
Funding of £50,000 is to be made available to increase the number of businesses engaging with the arts. The new Arts Sponsorship grant scheme provides match-funding for first-time arts… Read More
First English-Slovak cultural portal launched
Cultural Profile of Slovakia is Slovakia’s first & only bilingual national cultural portal. Created by the Ministry of Culture of Slovakia & the British Council. Read More
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