Our work in arts | British Council

Our work in arts creates new relationships between artists, organisations and audiences to develop stronger creative sectors around the world. We help artists to break new ground, support creativity and innovation, increase capacity by building skills to support livelihoods and cultural enterprise, extend safe spaces for creative exchange and contribute to research and policy.

Delegate Opportunities

We invite selected arts venue and festival organisers, journalists and policy makers to arts showcases in the UK

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WEFT @ Dublin Fringe Festival 2023/24

British Council Ireland are delighted to be supporting Weft, a Dublin Fringe Festival initiative, talent development for emerging and early career Black and global majority artists.

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Building Capacity for Cultural Industries: A Shared-Island Approach

This project brings together existing academic and sector-based research to understand how all-island relations within the professional performing arts (dance and theatre) may be nurtured.

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Literary Cities: Myth, Story, Song

Literary Cities (re)introduced Irish audiences to a canon of Scottish writers both past and present, in Irish and Scots Gaelic as well as English.

Climate Postcards

This project comprised artwork from 36 secondary schools in Ireland and the UK who took as their inspiration Turner: The Sun is God exhibition in the National Gallery of Ireland.

Date: Thursday 01 September 2022 to Friday 31 March 2023
Location: St. Louis Secondary School Dundalk

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Arts and Disability

Arts and Disability aims to support greater access to the arts by disabled people as audiences and as artists.

Our work with EUNIC

Find out more about our work as part of European Union National Institutes for Culture network

GAZE International LGBT Film Festival

We are proud to work with GAZE International LGBT Film Festival, which celebrates diversity and human rights since 1992

Selector

Selecting the best UK music every week and sharing it with the world!