Voices
British artist Michael Landy explains the inspiration behind his Saints Alive exhibition, which recently moved from London to Mexico City.
Setting up and running a book group is a different experience in every country. Miriam Vaswani, who organised a book group at the British Council in Tunis, explains how she did it.
World-renowned environmental conservationist Dr Jane Goodall shares her views on the future of our planet and how we should think about animals.
Vivian Futran Fuhrman, PhD candidate at Ben Gurion University, explains why desertification is a threat to us all ahead of the 'Drylands, Deserts and Desertification' conference.
Best-selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak spoke to the British Council's Ted Hodgkinson about how her global perspective has influenced her hugely successful fiction.
This Black History Month in the UK, the British Council’s Paul Howson explains how the Harlem Renaissance turned disillusionment into pride.
Zuzanna Stanska, one of the British Council’s Young Creative Entrepreneurs, created DailyArt, a mobile app that sends users a piece of art every day, now downloaded by 100,000 people
If you’re curious about Korean poetry, understanding the country’s rich and turbulent history is a great place to start.
Scholar and translator Brother Anthony of Taizé (An Sonjae) explains why Korea’s recent history has played such an important part in shaping its literature.
The British Council’s Daud Rasool explains how Afghanistan’s traditional creative industries are being rebuilt after years of war.