🎻 Read the story behind the young musicians who took to the stage in a converted UK carpark and completely wowed the audience: bit.ly/MYO-Story. 📸 Images: Dan John Lloyd.

🌏 📣 We're looking for a new Director Arts! Someone to develop and steer the global Arts strategy, ensure alignment with our mission and objectives and foster artistic and cultural exchange between the UK and the rest of the world. 👉 Find out more: ow.ly/aKAw50SWyWu

Partner with us for the La Biennale di Venezia 2025! 🌍 Enhance your institution’s global profile and support UK creatives with a month in Venice as part of our Fellowships Programme. 🗓️ Apply by 30 Aug 2024! #VeniceBiennale 🔗 bit.ly/4cpo7QX

Art that provides moments of peace ✨ Sharing DIVA (2006) by Camilla Løw for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange, part of our #BritishCouncilCollection. © The Artist #Sculpture #BritishArt

⏰ Our Connections Through Culture grant applications close Monday 2 September so don't miss your chance to apply! 💸 Grants ranging from £5,000 to £10,000 per collaboration are available. 🔗 Apply here: britishcouncil.org/arts/connectio… 📅 Deadline: 2 September 2024, 23.59 (BST).

Conversations at the #EdinburghFestivals✨ Thanks to those who joined us and the industry professionals from 15 countries at Dance Base Scotland🌍🤝#CultureConnects

💫 Negative Space (1969) by #MungoThomson is our pick for today’s #OnlineArtExchange. Part of our #BritishCouncilCollection. Courtesy of the artist. This week's theme is outer space art for 'Out of this World, Heather Phillipson' at @GlynnVivia.

Mo Ayoub (MO) returns to Selector Radio! 🏛️ He chats to Doctor Dr Aleema Gray about the 'Beyond The Bassline' exhibition 🛁 Nikki Tesla shares a track in the Tastemaker Tip 🎛️ BLUE**** goes full throttle in the After Dark 🎧 Listen here: linktr.ee/selectorradio

For this week’s #OnlineArtExchange, we’re sharing Still Life with Indian Toy (1982), a lithograph by Elizabeth Blackadder. This work is part of our #BritishCouncilCollection. © The Artist. All Rights Reserved 2024/ Bridgeman Images #BritishArt #WomensArt

Congratulations to our colleague Anna Bubnova on her well deserved honorary MBE, recognising the key role she played in our UK/Ukraine Season. 👏 #UKUkraine

Fantastic to see the full online programme out now for Lviv BookForum Hay Festival – we supported the inaugural edition back in 2022. 📚 Find out more ...

Could your film benefit from an International Travel Grants Fund? UK filmmaker Michael Groom attended The Marketplace at the Galway Film Fleadh in July and had the opportunity to pitch Confessions of a Pagan Nun to potential financiers and partners. 🔗 film.britishcouncil.org/opportunities/…

🎻 Bold Tendencies was the incredible venue hosting The Mediterranean Youth Orchestra on their first trip to the UK with our support. 🙌 Huge thanks to Bold Tendencies, not just for hosting, but for their fantastic pictures: ow.ly/texA50TaAI7 📷 Credit: Dan John Lloyd

☀️ Motivational quote for the day: Strive for Excellence (1968) by #DavidShrigley Our #OnlineArtExchange pick for the theme yellow to celebrate 80 years of The Harris's Pauline in the Yellow Dress by Herbert James Gunn. #BritishCouncilCollection © David Shrigley

🥳 Massive congrats to English Teacher – album of the year Mercury Prize winners with ‘This Could Be Texas’. Check them out live for Selector Radio: youtu.be/fgOO5yapRo8?fe… via YouTube

🌍 The voices and stories of communities impacted by climate change need to be heard. 👀 We're looking for one Malaysian and one UK arts / climate organisation to lead our Human-Nature Storytelling Fellowship. 📝 Apply by 18 Sep 2024 🔗 ow.ly/SLer50TgpO6 #HumanNature