British Council

Art Exchange: Moving Image is a collaborative, cross-cultural curatorial development programme designed to strengthen the practice of early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa who are engaging with moving image as a medium.

World Cities Culture Forum and the British Council are commissioning a researcher, either an individual or a team, to produce a report on cultural policy in five Southeast Asian cities: Jakarta, Bangkok, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur, and Metro Manila.

The British Council Biennials Connect Grants are now offering grants of up to 9,500 GBP to UK and international biennials / festivals in eligible countries.

The new Festival Connect Fund enables festival collaboration between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the UK, supporting festival organisers and managers with funding, skills, network building and knowledge to enhance festival management and ensure scalability and sustainability.

This pilot is an initiative designed to foster international collaboration and creative exchange between disabled artists from the UK and China.

In partnership with Villa Karo, the Finnish Institute for West Africa, the British Council is supporting two designers—one UK-based and one West African-based (from Nigeria or Ghana)—to spend eight weeks at Villa Karo in Benin from 23 March to 17 May 2026.

The British Council are calling for applications from artists or organisations for their Connections Through Culture grants programme, which supports creative collaborations between the UK and select countries in Asia and Europe.

The 2025 call for applications for the Circular Culture programme is once again open to support cultural festivals that champion sustainability. Led by the British Council in Latin America and the Caribbean, this programme offers both financial and training resources to promote artistic exchange between LATAC and the UK, in the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.

As part of a shared commitment to enhancing learning and collaboration between UK and international curators, Liverpool Biennial and the British Council are offering eight fully funded opportunities to attend a curator’s networking and development week (22–29 July 2025), within the 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial. 

The British Council is looking to commission a supplier to work on the research entitled ‘Atlas of cultural policies for climate change and heritage: pathways and perspectives from Ibero-America and the Caribbean’.

The British Council is looking for a supplier to provide a gender analysis of the arts and culture sectors in a number of countries.

The British Council is seeking an experienced research supplier to provide an examination of diverse examples and approaches of how arts and culture have addressed fragility, peace and stability in different contexts.