We worked with a group of 46 disabled people from Kabul and the provinces, helping them to express their feelings about peace through painting and calligraphy.

This pilot project, under our Culture and Peace-building programme, encourages women to tell their stories. The project gives them the chance to ‘be heard’ individually, and then to process their, often traumatic, stories into tangible material which will be of use to future generations as well as historians.

Community-led development through forum theatre, is the first joint arts for social development programme designed by the British Council and Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Myanmar in 2011. Its aim is to raise awareness of and implement behavioural change in health and social issues focusing on reproductive health, HIV/ AIDS, human trafficking, gender equality, gender based violence among young people and their community members and helping them work out solutions for family, social, justice and health issues. 

The British Council’s framework for working between Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia and the UK, connecting new audiences to new art, shares skills of creatives, and ignites partnerships.

Through exchange and utilisation of UK expertise, we focus on providing opportunities and skills for young people in underprivileged communities to express themselves through different art forms.

Since the end of the Revolution in October 2012, the British Council has been looking for ways to develop and showcase the best of young film-makers to give them increased access to the world and encourage them to find the confidence to bring their work to a wider audience. The programme reflects the British Council’s belief in Building open and inclusive societies through arts and culture, where young emerging artist are empowered to develop, influence and contribute to the positive transformation of their societies, and increase the appreciation of the role that arts and culture play in the development of societies   

We are committed to international development and the empowerment of individuals and communities through the arts – connecting the creative sector and audiences with the best of UK contemporary arts. We’re passionate about helping young artists pave a career in the arts and we support them with:pave a career in the arts and we support them with: - skills development - opportunities to showcase work - networking. We secure relationships with creative partners internationally to deliver exciting projects across the different art sectors including: theatre, dance, film, literature, visual arts and music

A new digital commissioning programme that aims to support and share the work of displaced artists.

First staged in Amman in 2013, and the subject of an award-winning documentary, this features 13 female refugees who skilfully amalgamate their own narratives of ferocious war and bitter exile with the ancient Greek text. The British Council supported Refuge Productions and director Omar Abusaada to launch the project in 2013 and supported Yasmin Fedda in her production of the documentary of the same name. The British Council believes that culture has a key role to play in building peaceful, stable and equitable societies and communities, and that the arts and education can reach places that traditional diplomacy and aid cannot.