#Nairobi: Opportunity: Open Call for 2025 [#VeniceBiennale] British Pavillion #Exhibition ~ Collaborative Architectural Team from UK & Kenya! Until Jan. 5 2024. 📅: Until January 5, 2024 🔗: Access the call, here - > venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/open-call-veni… .British Council ADF / British Council Kenya

IT’S TIMEEEE… For the very latest IGNITE BUZZ🚨 As we get ready to enter the festive season, we have shared the December edition of the Ignite Culture EA Newsletter with you to read & catch up on all the buzz that took place in the past month. #IgniteCultureEA

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Exciting News! Applications for the UK/Kenya Season 2025 Scoping Grants are now open. Explore new connections and collaborations with the UK in the arts and creative industries. Read more here: t.ly/PjG6J #UKKenyaSeason #ConnectionThroughCulture #BCArtsSSA

Don't miss out on a special showcase event happening during the ongoing @KileleSummit at Moov Café & Bistro on Thursday, 15th February. We will have electrifying performance by Kwame Nafo Funk Butcher, British Council Relationship Manager, SSA, and Nigeria UK-based DJ @kemilijadu 🎧

📣 Join us for an insightful Information Session for our 2025 UK/Kenya Season's Scoping Grant on 20 Feb at 4 pm EAT | 1 pm UK time! Register: t.ly/prAiU 📆 Grant applications are still open and close on 10 March 2024 #UKKenyaSeason #BCArtsSSA

📣New festival grants open for applications. We're inviting festivals across Africa to submit grant proposals for the Festival Connect Fund grants. Whether you're into dance, theatre, film, literature, music and/or multidisciplinary arts, we're all ears! t.ly/pzEYw

Introducing Nawiri #CreativeDNA: Kenya 4.0 cohort. NAWIRI, a Kenyan fashion brand, empowers African women with stylish and comfortable contemporary clothing that looks and feels great.#BCCESSA #BCArtsSSA #CreativeDNA #Britishcouncil #CreativeDNAKenya

Introducing Atieno Yarns #CreativeDNA: Kenya 4.0 cohort. Atieno Yarns, a Kenyan crochet brand, offers distinctive ready-made and personalized pieces, blending tradition with modern style for sought-after crochet fashion. # BCCESSA #BCArtsSSA #CDNA4.0 #CDNAKenya

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Happy International Women’s Day!🎉 On this auspicious day, the Ignite Culture team would like to shed light on our beneficiaries who have embodied this year’s theme i.e. Investing in Women: Accelerate progress. #IgniteCultureEA #internationalwomensday #IWD2024

Happy International Women's Day! 🎉 Delighted to host CREAW Kenya, championing women's rights. We delved into inclusive approaches on empowering women, ensuring everyone is part of the conversation. Thanks to Drops Mike 🎤 and team for an insightful discussion. #InspireInclusion

. FCDO Research, Science and Technology is honoured to partner with British Council Kenya, Ministry of Education, Kenya (MoE) & National Research Fund Kenya to add food security as the next thematic area of focus for the 🇰🇪#ResearchRepository in addition to Land, Water & Energy. Bold steps in the right direction for research utilisation & impact 📈

A first international collaboration for British Pavillion. I expect it to pose important, challenging questions. A UK Kenya partnership.

Nairobi International Comedy Festival! 4 days of fun and laughter. Don't miss out. The festival is brought to you by Standup Collective, one of our #IgniteCulture Grant Fund grantees. Get your tickets Nairobi International Comedy Festival – Standup Collective European Union In Kenya #BCCESSA

Excited to host artists like the versatile #MuthoniDrummerQueen at our installation. SampleBar is a inspiring blend of tradition harmony and tech. It's fun, it's powerful, it's #SampleBarKenya #NimeSample #IgniteCultureEA

💸 We've grants of up to £5,000 available right now to support biennales and festivals around the world. 👍 The grants support UK work at an international festival and international work at a UK-based festival. 🔗 Find out more and apply here: design.britishcouncil.org/blog/2024/may/…

We are hiring! Cadbury Research Fellowship in African Studies, 18 months from Jan '25. Any discipline (arts/ humanities/social sciences) research focus on any region of sub-Saharan Africa Africa Research Inst @Africa_IAI Journal of Southern African Studies African Studies Association AfricanStudiesUK jobs.ac.uk/job/DHL472/cad…

📢 Our 2024 Commissioning Round is OPEN. 📌 Apply for funding and support to develop and deliver a creative digital project for online audiences. This could be a video or audio project, an interactive or immersive experience. ➡️ bit.ly/Comm_Round24

Research and innovation are at the centre of the 🇬🇧UK-🇰🇪Kenya Strategic Partnership. Last evening,🇬🇧 High Commissioner Neil Wigan hosted Kenyan researchers and innovators for the launch of the International Science Partnership Fund (ISPF).