- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Tags
- Visual Arts, Equal opportunities and diversity, History
- Date
- 28 August 2017 - 14:12
'Recognisable yet strange': a guide to Shetlandic dialect
Christine De Luca is a poet who writes in Shetlandic, which is spoken in the Shetland Isles off the north coast of Scotland. We asked her about the dialect.
- Tags
- Literature, English language, History
- Date
- 25 May 2017 - 17:33
The Polish town that vanished off the map
What happens to people's memories when their town disappears? We asked Filip Springer, author of 'History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town'.
- Tags
- Literature, History
- Date
- 25 April 2017 - 14:55
Seven pieces of Scandinavian music to enjoy
Writer and translator Robert Ferguson, who has lived in Norway for 30 years, takes us on a tour of Scandinavia's musical heritage.
- Tags
- Music, Performance, History, Cultural relations
- Date
- 15 October 2014 - 13:02
How black culture in the US took off after First World War
This Black History Month in the UK, the British Council’s Paul Howson explains how the Harlem Renaissance turned disillusionment into pride.
- Tags
- Arts, Music, Literature, History, Dance