August 2012 Newsletter
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| Olympic Glory in London 2012 | |
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The Olympic Games start in London
Millions of people from around the world are watching the Olympic Games in London this month. But we're working to make sure the impact continues long after the athletes have collected their medals. Through International Inspiration, the official sports legacy program of London 2012, the British Council provides access to sport and physical education to 12 million children in 20 countries.
In July, 20 young leaders from the 20 International Inspiration countries were given the opportunity of a lifetime to run with the Olympic Torch. Read what young torchbearers from Turkey and Brazil thought about their experience.
Two thousand of the students who took part in International Inspiration joined their teachers at the Opening Ceremony to greet the Olympic athletes during the Parade of Nations. Check out the blog for a behind-the-scenes look at the Guard of Honour.
Don't have tickets to the Games? Live vicariously through one of our resident bloggers who attended last weekend's equestrian events.
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 | | Downtown Dubai from above. Image credit: Tom Olliver (Flickr) |
Going Global | |
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Call for Proposals
The British Council's flagship higher education conference, Going Global, will take place March 4-6, 2013 in Dubai. The call for proposals is open. We are looking for higher education leaders to present new ideas in these areas:
- Research and innovation: the role of international collaboration
- Developing skilled knowledge workers: the role of international collaboration
- Internationalized tertiary education structures and systems
Learn how to submit a proposal for a paper or poster presentation before the deadline of Monday, September 17, 2012. Registration will open on Monday, November 19, 2012. A special early bird registration rate will be available until Friday, December 14, 2012.
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Partnerships
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Partnering with the British Council
In the US, we are increasingly identifying opportunities to work in partnership with American organizations and corporations on shared global agendas.
We've produced a short video to show how we work with partners around the world. You can learn more by watching the video.
If you would like to explore partnership opportunities for a project or event, please contact us.
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Cultural Exchange International Fellowship
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| Three US artists win UK residencies
 | | Malcolm K Darrell, (Image credit: Anna Mae Lam Photography) |
We've teamed up with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to offer three US artists a $5,000 grant each, to conduct cultural residencies in the UK.
The three winners are all socially-engaged artists who address contemporary issues in Los Angeles through art and culture.
The winners are:
Malcolm K Darrell, who works for Center Theatre Group, a large theatre company with many outreach and school programs in LA
Sabra Williams, who works for The Actors Gang, a theatre led by Tim Robbins that produces thought-provoking, financially accessible work
Dena Younkin, who works at the Downtown Women's Center to help homeless women develop job skills.
To learn more about the program, check out our website.
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Sharon Memis (center) with Friends of the British Council Chair Sandra Gibson and British Ambassador to the US Sir Peter Westmacott
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A Month of Transition
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Farewell to USA Country Director Sharon Memis
This month sees the departure of our country director for the past six years, Sharon Memis. Sharon has been an inspirational boss and we wish her all the best in her new role as director of innovation for our EU region, based in Brussels.
Read our 2012 Annual Review to learn more about our recent work under Sharon's leadership.
Our new country director, Paul Smith, arrives in post later this month.
Paul joins us from Kabul, where he led the rebuilding of our Afghanistan mission after a deadly Taliban attack in August 2011. You can read Paul's blog post about the attack in the New York Times.
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From Leeds to Madison Avenue
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Advertising team Charlie Frank and Liz Sadkowski
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UK Student Interns in New York City
How does a British student end up working at one of the world's biggest advertising agencies in New York City? If you're interested in encouraging your students to find international internships, or if you would like to try out a US internship yourself, you might be interested in the latest post on our Voices series.
Leeds College of Art student Charlotte Frank explains how she came upon a summer internship in the Big Apple.
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British Council Around the World
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English Language Assistant Jennifer Murray in Spain
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Spain: A Year Teaching English
Jennifer Murray from Glasgow, Scotland who is blind and hearing impaired, blogs about her year as an English Language Assistant in Spain with the British Council, and how the experience has changed her.
Brazil: Football in the Favela
Community leader Charles Siqueira, coordinator of the Premier Skills Esporte Seguro or 'Safe Sport' project in Morro dos Prazeres, writes about his experience of working with young people in a Rio favela.
Pakistan: Eradicating Polio
Fatima Riaz, a young Active Citizen who is campaigning to eradicate polio, writes about her experience of meeting an inspirational mentor at the British Council's Global Citizenship Conference in Pakistan.
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Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good)
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 | | Gob Squad's Kitchen. Image credit: Dan Baltzer. |
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British theatre company tours the West Coast next month
"It's 1965, and it's New York. This film that we're in is the essence of its time." And so the scene is set for Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good), a witty theatrical production that takes pop art icon Andy Warhol's film Kitchen as its starting point for a journey through underground cinema in 1960s New York. See performances in Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles this fall, beginning September 13. Learn more on our website. |
 | | Antony Gormley, Mansion, 1982 © Antony Gormley Image courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York |
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| Antony Gormley: Drawing Space | |
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Exhibition at the Phillips Collection
If you're in Washington DC this summer, do stop by the Phillips Collection to enjoy the first major US exhibition of works on paper by internationally-acclaimed British artist Antony Gormley, on show until 9 September.
Antony Gormley: Drawing Space features a wide range of the artist's works on paper as well as a selection of recent sculpture, linking Gormley's work in various media.
On July 26, we led a Twitter tour of the exhibition before joining The Phillips Collection for a screening of Just Trial and Error: Conversations on Consciousness, a documentary that includes interviews with Antony Gormley. Read more on the blog and take our Twitter tour of the exhibition.
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