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Supporting creativity and showcasing the best of Welsh Art

Working with partners and sponsors in Wales and overseas, we seek to promote the most innovative and creative output from Wales to the rest of the world.

We support opportunities for international collaboration and through facilitating the exchange of knowledge and ideas, we contribute to the ongoing development of the Welsh creative sector

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Writers' Chain

We have developed a programme of work on translation which, over the long term, will give readers in the UK access to the diversity of Indian writing in a multiplicity of languages and bring the breadth of contemporary UK writing to audiences in India.

Connections through Culture
China-UK

Building lasting relationships between cultural organisations in the UK and China. The initiative offers support, information, advice, networking opportunities and development grants to cultural organisations in China and the UK.

Connections Through Culture
India-UK

Connections through Culture is the British Council’s new programme to provoke and support collaborative working between the UK and India in the arts.

The Playable City Sprint

12 leading artists and designers from across East Asia and the UK united in February 2012 for an intense five-day sprint around the theme of The Playable City.

Venice Takeaway:
Ideas to Change British Architecture

The British Council has announced that the British Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale will be the culmination of an ambitious global research project designed to make an original and far-reaching contribution to the debate about architecture in the UK. The project will be officially launched at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama on Wednesday 18 January in partnership with the Design Commission for Wales.

Creative Coalitions in Sudan

As part of an ongoing series of festival development and capacity-building work, the British Council will support two UK artists, Ty and Pen Pastwn, to visit Sudan to perform and collaborate with local artists in Khartoum and Port Sudan during February. The Port Sudan will be the first music event there of its kind for over 30 years.