Arts
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Arts News
- South Sudan Theatre Company
This film documents the South Sudan Theatre Company's journey, as they prepared to perform Shakespeare’s Cymbeline in Juba Arabic at the Globe Theatre as part of the Cultural Olympiad. The British Council supported the development process of three productions in the Globe to Globe season.
- The Vanity of Small Differences
The Arts Council Collection and British Council announce the joint acquisition of Grayson Perry’s The Vanity of Small Differences, a series of six tapestries Perry created this year alongside the Channel 4 series ‘All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry’.
- ARTiculation
The Kremlin Museums and the British Council were inspired by the successful ARTiculation Prize, which began in the UK, to host the prize for the recent Henry Moore exhibition. This film explains why inspiring young people, like winner Andrey Kuznetsov, to talk about and appreciate art is so important.
- Egypt: The Jeweller
This film looks at how renowned Egyptian jewellery designer Azza Fahmy, who studied in the UK thanks to the British Council, is inspiring the next generation of Egypt's creative entrepreneurs and supporting their work as part of a collaboration with the European Union.
Arts in Partnership
- Plans announced for major programme of events in Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture
The British Council, the British Library, the Royal Academy of Arts, Sadler’s Wells, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tate and the V&A are among the leading British cultural and educational organisations participating in a major programme of cultural events in Qatar and across the UK.
- Artists International Development Fund
A jointly funded British Council and Arts Council England programme, offering early stage development opportunities for individual freelance and self employed artists based in England to spend time building links with artists, organisations and/or creative producers in another country.
