- Date
- 13 September 2018 - 13:26
One Arabic-English translator shares his experience
Tony Calderbank has been translating from Arabic to English since 1992. He shares some of the knowledge he has acquired along the way.
- Tags
- Literature, History
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- Date
- 05 September 2018 - 10:34
Black Lives Matter Toronto founding member talks about his complex identity
Artist and activist Syrus Marcus Ware talks about black, transgender and disabled identity, and gives his best advice for effective activism.
- Tags
- Performance, Equal opportunities and diversity
- Date
- 13 August 2018 - 09:08
'If you remove language, you’re also removing knowledge of landscape' – Wesley Enoch
Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival Wesley Enoch is an Indigenous Australian whose language, Jandai, is vanishing. He talks about how to keep a language alive.
- Tags
- Festivals, Theatre, History
- Date
- 06 June 2018 - 15:00
'The work will not be quick' – Nancy Campbell, nature writer
Scottish author Nancy Campbell tells us about her approach to writing about the natural world, ahead of her appearance at the British Council Nature Writing Seminar in Munich.
- Tags
- Literature
- Date
- 06 June 2018 - 09:06
Who decides how to design public space?
This year's Venice Biennale architecture exhibition is titled 'Freespace'. We asked architecture and design journalist Debika Ray about public space and the British Pavilion.
- Tags
- Design, Architecture, Festivals
- Date
- 21 May 2018 - 12:16
How one sculptor chooses and uses materials
Artist Anina Major talks about how she turned glass into teeth, built a floor-to-ceiling spine, and how she sources sustainable material.
- Tags
- Visual Arts
- Date
- 09 May 2018 - 08:00
'Losing memory is like misplacing the rule book' – Jan Carson, novelist
The author Jan Carson writes about the role of memory – and its loss – in her books and in her life.
- Tags
- Literature, Equal opportunities and diversity
- Date
- 30 April 2018 - 15:09
The Lebanese designer who wants to make clothes for 'real bodies'
Cynthia Chamat Debbané is an entrepreneur and designer whose clothing business challenges the fashion industry's 'rules'.
- Tags
- Fashion
- Date
- 11 April 2018 - 08:00
Why one Lithuanian novelist is revisiting the past
Gabija Grušaitė is a novelist and curator. She talks about contemporary Lithuanian literature and her complicated relationship with the books of the past.
- Tags
- Literature
- Date
- 22 March 2018 - 12:03
How two artists interpreted their shared history for one exhibition
Bahamian artist Sonia Farmer and Scottish artist Graham Fagen created two very different artworks for an exhibition on the historical significance of slavery.
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- Visual Arts, History, Equal opportunities and diversity