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7th July 2016 Skopje, North Macedonia

Eleonora Zaprova

Director of the British Council Macedonia

British Council – 20 years of building cultural relations between Macedonia and the UK

The British Council in Macedonia marks its 20th anniversary in 2016. We celebrate two decades of building cultural and education relations between Macedonia and the United Kingdom. It is the time when we reflect back and see the fruits of our work in creating links and understanding between British and Macedonian institutions, professionals and communities […]

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12th September 2013 Ottawa, Canada

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by Corin Robertson

Deputy High Commissioner to Canada

TIFF-erific: the UK takes TIFF 2013 by storm

I was in Toronto earlier this week for the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s a time of year when Toronto truly shines – there’s a buzz in the air, and the streets are littered with dark-windowed SUVs ferrying their precious cargo (or, as they are known in the trade “the Talent”) from premiere to press conference and back again…

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6th September 2013

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by Paul Madden

British Ambassador to Japan

Accelerating cultural collaboration

I announced this year’s participants in the British Council’s Accelerator programme in Melbourne yesterday. The initiative takes up-and-coming indigenous cultural leaders from Australia to the UK, to work with mentors and peers. Previous years’ winners have talked eloquently about the personal development which they gained from participating. We were serenaded at the event by the […]

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21st February 2013 Washington DC, USA

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by Hetty Crist

Deputy Press Secretary

Brit Brit hooray!

Watching the BRIT awards (the British Music industry awards) last night, I realised there was something different about them this year, something different… and yet very familiar. Then it dawned on me, just before the American musician Frank Ocean (who won best International Solo Male) said: ‘And thanks to Damien Hirst for the Polka Dots!’ […]

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9th July 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Hetty Crist

Deputy Press Secretary

A GREAT Evening for British Art

The following is a guest post by Maeve Atkins, Communications Officer at the British Embassy in Washington. As the newest member of the Communications team at the Embassy, I was especially excited to work my first event – in my first week – at one of Washington’s premiere modern art museums, The Phillips Collection. Every […]

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11th January 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

A GREAT reminder of home

I’m just on the train back from a trip to New York City—my first excursion out of DC since arriving in the US at the end of November. Of course, I’ve been to NYC many times before (indeed Layla and I went there on our honeymoon) but it’s a very different experience to go to […]

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