Get your child involved in a global English competition and win an all-expenses paid trip to London! The competition is open to schoolchildren aged 8-16 who study English as a foreign language and focuses on Paralympic sports and values.

Participants will have to develop different projects depending on their age group: 8-11 years old - create a project entitled “She’s my heroine”/”He’s my hero” and 12-16 years old - design “My Perfect Paralympic Poster”.

Entries can be either individual, joint or class entries and must be submited by 31 May!

Join us for the European Literature Night for an attractive and representative selection of contemporary British literature on 30 May, starting at 8.00 p.m. in the Löwendal Foundation office in Bucharest (Gheorghe Cantacuzino Square, next to the Ioanid Park).

We will enjoy excerpts from Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Stephen Fry, David Lodge, Hilary Mantel and Ian McEwan in the lecture of Radu Paraschivescu (translator, writer, journalist), Bogdan Stefanescu (vice-dean, lecturer at the Faculty of Foreign Languages,  University of Bucharest), Bogdan Serban (DJ at Radio Guerrilla) and Alice Cojocaru (British Council).

The European Literature Night is a cultural project supported by the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC). In Romania, the first edition of the project is taking place in 2012, bringing together ten cultural institutes. The same evening marks the opening of the book fair Bookfest, so important international authors are expected to pass by the European Literature Night as well.

“Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books.” – Stephen Fry, “The Liar”, 1991.

We’re launching the second edition of the British Documentary screenings in Galati, at the Visual Arts Museum, on 19 May, within the “Museum Nights” event!

Following the opening, the selection of British internationally awarded documentaries will be screened weekly until 5 July, on Thursday, at the Visual Arts Museum in Galati. The entrance is free.

“British Documentary” is a British Council project.

Partner: Visual Arts Museum in Galati

The British Council is once again joining with the BBC World Service to launch the International Radio Playwriting Competition. The competition is now in its 23rd year and has been incredibly successful in enabling voices from around the world to be heard.

The competition opened on 1 May 2012 and the closing date for applications will be 31 July 2012.

About the competition

The complete set of rules can be found here. The main criteria are as follows:

			The competition is open to any writer who is not normally a resident of the United Kingdom.
			Applicants are invited to write a radio play of approximately 53 minutes in length on a subject of their choice.
			The play must be the original, unpublished work of the person or persons submitting it.
			The play must be written in English but can be translated by a third party (we are not able to offer any assistance with translation costs). Translated work must be identified as such, and the translator must be credited

Prizes

There are two main prizes given: to the best play written in English as a first language and to the best play written in English as a second language. The two prize winners will each receive £2000 sterling and a trip to London to see their plays being recorded and to attend a prize-giving evening.

Applications

Application forms are available to download from: www.bbcworldservice.com/radioplay.

Submissions and application forms can be emailed to radioplay@bbc.co.uk.