Featured Events
Events are taking place in the UK and worldwide during our anniversary year, find out more about some of the highlights here.
07/06/09 Exhibtion: Steve McQueen's 'Giardini' @ the Venice Biennale
For his exhibition in the British Pavilion, McQueen presents a new film entitled Giardini. Closes 11th November.
02/10/09 - 06/12/09 Exhibition British Council Collection: My Yard @ the Whitechapel Gallery, London
My Yard sees artists Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane celebrate British people and places by presenting their selection on urban landscapes drawn from the collection.
31/10/09 - 07/02/10 Photography Exhibition: No Such Thing as Society @ Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
A document of British photography from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, 'No such thing as society' draws from the collections of the Arts Council and the British Council to give a radically new picture of these two turbulent decades.
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24/11/09 Talking without Borders debate: 'On the Origin of Species' @ The Royal Institution, London
A debate on global Darwinism looking at how evolutionary theory spread across the world. The debate is chaired by Pulitzer Prize winning biologist E O Wilson.
17/12/09 Talking without Borders lecture: Shami Chakrabarti @ Playhouse, Derry/Londonderry
The Director of Liberty addresses an audience on public diplomacy and the growing influence of NGOs in this area of international relations.
