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Photo from The Blue and Yellow Submarine Parade in Liverpool. The photo shows a big submarine-like parade float with glass windows. It is painted in colours of the Ukrainian flag (blue and yellow), and there are performers inside and on top of the submarine, performing. In the foreground, parade participants, visitors and revellers are dancing and celebrating in blue and yellow outfits.
Date
24 October 2023 - 07:12

United by Music: cultural mega-events and global relations

Christine Wilson, British Council's Director Research and Insight writes about the impact of mega-events like EuroFestival on cultural relations and soft power.

Tags
Arts and Culture – International Development, Arts, Festivals, Wider Europe, UK, Cultural leadership
Poplar Union's Artistic Director, Beth Watton, speaking at an event in 2019
Date
11 August 2021 - 14:56

How we built a digital arts and community centre

Artistic Director Beth Watton tells us how her organisation built a digital arts and community centre during the pandemic.

Tags
Arts and culture, Arts
Image of the sea
Date
24 November 2020 - 11:45

How to create art with someone on a different continent

Artists Alaa Tarabzouni and Ellie Niblock took part in a digital residency during the Covid-19 pandemic. They tell us how they created art together, virtually.

Tags
Arts, Arts and culture
Laundry hanging from a balcony
Date
05 August 2020 - 16:40

Why we turn city rooftops into public spaces

Claire Hall and Jak Spencer are part of the team at Urban Scale Interventions, which is reinventing underused rooftops in Belfast. Here, they tell us about using roofs creatively.

Tags
Architecture, Design, Arts
Woman dancing in striped dress in front of window
Date
26 October 2017 - 11:20

Two insider views on how Brexit will affect UK arts

Manick Govinda of UK arts producing organisation Artsadmin is an advocate for the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. Artsadmin founder Judith Knight takes the opposite view.

Tags
Arts
A person reading a book.
Date
16 January 2017 - 10:12

Bernardine Evaristo: 'Books expand our imaginations'

Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo talks about reading books against the internet's distractions, as well as which new writers to look out for.

Tags
Literature, Arts
'The more I took the journey of transition, the happier I felt as an actor and performer.'
Date
09 December 2016 - 15:30

Jo Clifford: 'I see writing as a way of resisting prejudice'

We asked playwright Jo Clifford to tell us about her creative process and how her experience of transgender issues has influenced her writing.

Tags
Theatre, Arts, Equal opportunities and diversity
'My poems are concerned with many different things, from local realities to the personal'. Image (c) Peter Hershey, used under licence and adapted from the original.
Date
07 November 2016 - 03:26

A brief introduction to the poetry of Burma

We asked Maung Day, Burmese poet and writer in residence at Edge Hill University in the UK, about poetry in Burma today, and the influences on his own writing.

Tags
Arts, Literature
Photo of English channel (c) NASA, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
08 July 2016 - 15:37

What did Europe mean to Shakespeare?

Professor Michael Dobson argues that Shakespeare was a champion of free movement, and averse to insular nationalism.

Tags
Shakespeare, Arts, Theatre, Literature
'[W]atch the films in advance so there are no awkward moments during the screening.' Photo
Date
29 June 2016 - 12:57

How to get film-based lessons right

Have you ever shown films to your class, or considered setting up a film club? Daryn Simon, Head of History at Ysgol Bryn Alyn, and Beatrix Clark of Into Film share some advice.

Tags
Film, Schools, Arts, Teaching resources, Teaching
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