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The Architecture, Design & Fashion Biennales and Festivals Grants 2025-26 are open for applications!

These grants, offering up to £10,000, aim to support biennales and festivals in showcasing international design talent, fostering cross-cultural exchange. UK-based events can apply to feature non-UK designers, while international festivals can present UK designers. Eligible projects include exhibitions, installations, and presentations across architecture, design, fashion, and craft. Apply before 1 June 2025.

Photo: Rising from the Water: Designing in a Climate Emergency, Yasmeen Lari, Material Cultures and 22 young people for the Breaking Waves programme by Create London for London Festival of Architecture, photography by J.Lee @createlondon

International Audio Drama Competition – open for entries!

Writers from around the world are invited to submit their scripts for the 29th International Audio Drama Competition. The global competition, hosted by BBC World Service and the British Council, offers writers from outside the UK the unique opportunity to use the medium of audio drama to tell stories for an international audience.

Winners will receive a cash prize, be invited to attend an award ceremony in the UK in 2026 and participate in recording their dramas for a world premiere on BBC World Service platforms. A Special Commendation will be made for the runner-up in honour of the BBC World Service journalist and writer Georgi Markov (1929-1978). Deadline is on 4 June 2025.

Happening this month

Sound Shapes Scene: A Live Scoring Workshop

Join award-winning director Lorna Nickson Brown, composer-guitarist Jonathan Escoto Brown, and singer-sound artist Anjeline de Dios for an experimental and accessible workshop on the creative possibilities of live film scoring. Through collaborative exercises inspired by the facilitators’ experiences in filmmaking, composition, and sound improvisation, participants will learn the basics of interweaving sound-making with film editing to compose cinematic narratives that are intimate, sensory, and revelatory.

"Sound Shapes Scene" is part of The Net, a British-Filipino film co-production project sponsored by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture 2024 grant programme.

Dancing to Music You Hate

After touring the UK to multiple sold out venues and international acclaim, Jasmine Gardosi brings their award-winning debut show Dancing To Music You Hate to the Philippines — reimagined and remixed with local artists and traditional instruments for a one-night-only performance that cracks open the binary with poetry, humour, and bass drops.

This exciting collaboration between Jasmine Gardosi, Leandro Reyes, and Babaylanes transforms the award-winning show with Philippine folk music, dialects, and queer narratives and is supported by the British Council's Connections Through Culture 2024 grant programme.

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