Use your mobile phone camera to make a 3-minute film about ‘diversity’ and
you could win a brand new Sony video camera! The competition is open to secondary
school students of all ages. Deadline: September 30, 2009.
Cultural Leadership International (CLI) will help to develop a new
generation of cultural leaders. We are working with partners across
Europe, North America, the Middle East and North Africa on a leadership
development programme. In May, two participants from Malta took part
in the Leadership Development days in Madrid. Read more <http://www.britishcouncil.org/malta-events-cli.htm>
This year marks 75 years of the British Council’s
work in cultural relations. The historian Ali Fisher has written a short history
of the British Council, reviewing some of the achievements and challenges we’ve
seen over the past 75 years in our work. Read the story <http://www.britishcouncil.org/new/about-us/75th-anniversary/A-story-of-engagement/>
The British Council has supported Poems on the Underground since
they were first published in 1986. A new set of Poems on the Underground
are now on display on 3,000 London tube carriages. For more information,
and to read the poems, click here <http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature-poems-on-the-underground.htm> .