Posthumus from Cymbeline at the Globe
Tony Calderbank blogs about South Sudan Theatre Company’s recent performance of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline in Juba Arabic at the Globe Theatre, how the world’s newest nation took the London stage by storm and shows that it is the poets and musicians who create the soul of a country.
Henry Moore in the Top Studio at Perry Green, circa 1946, all images reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation
Mary Moore talks openly about growing up as the daughter of the celebrated artist and sculptor Henry Moore in an interview with the British Council‘s Director Visual Arts Andrea Rose.
Active Citizens football programme in Kenya
In the second and final blog from his week with the Active Citizens programme in Kenya, Tim Hartley explains how community football schemes in Wales are helping to inspire young volunteers in Kenya, to start similar cross-community teams and tournaments and how the aim of ‘football for all’ is being achieved.
Stabua Khatija Yusuf and Tim Hartley
In the first of two blogs, Tim Hartley writes about his week working with football coaches and community leaders from across Kenya and how the Active Citizens programme is helping to rebuild lives damaged by the inter-community and political violence of the past few years.
The winners of the HSBC Mandarin Speaking Competition 2012
With China emerging as the fastest growing economy in the world, and with a high level people-to-people agreement just decided between the UK and China, mutual language skills are all the more important. The winning students from the HSBC Mandarin Speaking Competition 2012 blog about their experiences of visiting China and how their language learning has opened a world of new possibilities.
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