Arts grants programme boosts cultural exchanges between UK, Southeast Asia
The British Council has launched its arts grants programme Connections Through Culture (CTC) UK - Southeast Asia for the 2020 – 2021 period, aiming to support exchanges and collaboration between the two sides.
Hanoi (VNA) – The British Council has launched its arts grants programmeConnections Through Culture (CTC) UK - Southeast Asia for the 2020 – 2021 period, aimingto support exchanges and collaboration between the two sides.
Established inSoutheast Asia in August 2019, it provides grants to artists, cultural and artsprofessionals, and representatives of art collectives, networks or organisationsfrom the UK, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand andVietnam.
Grantees willbenefit from the inspiration gained from exchanging ideas and sharing theircultural history.
A grant isworth 2,500 – 7,500 GBP (3,237 – 9,711 USD).
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the programme will be supporting onlinecollaboration projects between Southeast Asia and the UK. Projects will beneeded to be completed between January to June next year.
Prior to thepandemic, this would have most likely involved international travel. However,with travel restricted and uncertain, the grant will be used to develop andstrengthen new and existing bilateral relationships between the two sides, byproviding funding to allow conversations to happen, and for the possibilitiesof online collaboration to be explored.
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