The British Council works in collaboration with partners and artists in Italy and the UK who help create inspirational events and support emerging talents.

Our current arts project is called New Connections. For an overview, see the column on the left, information on our work in specific disciplines is given below.

Interested in UK art? See our current events in Italy

Find out about our New Connections Recognition Award Scheme

Looking for funding to bring an artist based in England to Italy? Find out about the Artists International Development Fund run in collaboration with Arts Council England.

Mo Enrico Bettinello, was part of the British Council delegation to the Huddersfield Festival (16-25 November) and the London Jazz Festival (9-18 November).

British Council collaborated with Xplosiva, pioneering contemporary ‘pre-pop’ event organisers, on bringing the best of UK electronic music and 19 UK artists, to the Club To Club Festival in Turin, 8 - 11 November 2012

Emufest the International Festival for Electroacustic Music organised by Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, took place from 7th to 17th October. Denis Smalley, Professor Emeritus at City University London and composer specialising in electroacoustic music, participated.

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Talents of the new and contemporary UK Literature on tour in Italy:

Welsh Children’s poet laureate Eurig Salisbury, Mantova Literature Festival, September 2012.
Read Cwlwm (Knot), a poem by Eurig Salisbury written in his mother-tongue of Welsh with an English translation.

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We are entering year 2 of the Short Latitudes project: Theatre Workshops with UK playwrights and Mise en Espace in Puglia, in partnership with Teatro Pubblico Pugliese.

Tim Crouch’s latest play, I, Malvolio, re-imagines Twelfth Night from the point of view of Shakespeare’s pent-up steward. Showed at the XXV Intercity Festival, in Sesto Fiorentino.

Workshops led by Kwame Kwei-Armah, part of an ongoing theatre project in ‘Intercultural dialogues‘, took place in April, in partnership with the Università degli Studi di Milano and the Piccolo Teatro di Milano.

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This strand of New Connections deals with the buzz behind the scenes – the business of creativity. We bring together young innovators and cultural entrepreneurs to share new ideas on the business of the creative economy. The talents we bring together are at the nexus of science, business and culture.

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We propose a great opportunity to co-create a film festival dedicated to new UK talents: deciding together theme and format, with British Council film experts selecting most outstanding pieces and a local partner delivering the event.

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The British Council possesses the British Council Arts Collection, one of the largest private art collections in the world. Following the phenomenal success of our Passports exhibition at the PAC in Milan in 2010, we would be happy to discuss with partners the creation of a public or private art exhibition using our own artworks.

UK-based collective Auto Italia South East presented their latest commission for Artissima Lido on the 8th of November.

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Since 1938 the British Council has been responsible for the British Pavilion in Venice, showing British artists at the longest-running, most prestigious international art biennial in the world: the Venice Biennale of Art.
With Venice Takeaway the UK showed proposals for British architecture inspired by an ambitious global research project.

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Four UK theatre groups took part at the Teatro a Corte festival in July, which features theatre and dance in Turin and Piemonte.

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