Programme

Working with a range of partners, our programme builds connections between people in the UK and around the world.

Programme for 2012
A series of major commissions, Unlimited is the UK’s largest programme celebrating arts, culture and sport by disabled and Deaf people.
Working with London's embassies and cultural centres, the British Council will coordinate a three-month season of international architecture and design events.
A major festival featuring a series of high profile collaborations between UK theatre companies and their international counterparts.
Poetry Parnassus is an ambitious project that celebrates international poetry and the spoken word.  
A spectacular weekend of free music from across the 205 Olympic and Paralympic nations, presented at iconic sites along the River Thames during the London Festival. 
Big Dance is the world’s largest dance programme. We will make dance the focus of international school partnerships.
A drama festival featuring innovative theatrical collaborations with international partners, taking place in summer 2012.
We have developed a range of English Language materials to satisfy the huge global interest in the English Language inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Games this year.
International Inspiration is the London 2012 official sports legacy programme.
Schools and artists from the UK and around the world will write, learn and perform specially commissioned songs.
We have teamed up with BBC World Class to enable schools in the UK to twin with schools attended by World Olympic Dreams Athletes.
Culture
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