Deadline: 5-Feb-23
The British Council is inviting collaborative proposals by UK and Vietnamese partners to join them in celebrating UK/Viet Nam Season 2023.
The Season will showcase the best of the UK and Vietnamese culture, support professional development across sectors, and build strong networks between the UK and Viet Nam.
Celebrating the best of UK-Vietnamese partnerships across the arts, creative industries, higher education, and English.
Marking 50 years of UK-Vietnamese diplomatic relations, and 30 years of the British Council’s presence in Viet Nam, the Season will ignite new collaborations that celebrate the best of UK-Vietnamese partnerships, and strengthen the connections between the people of the UK and Viet Nam.
The Season will imagine their future by bringing together artists, universities, and civil society leaders.
Themes
- Climate and the Environment: Tackling the threats of climate change is a shared priority for the citizens and governments of the UK and Viet Nam. They invite responses from across the arts and creative industries to find innovative and creative solutions that deepens knowledge and raises awareness about protecting and sustaining their planet towards shaping a better, more liveable environment for communities.
- Shared Heritage: The UK and Viet Nam has a rich and deep historic relationship built on trade and diplomatic engagement. They invite responses from across the arts and creative industries that share, reflect, and explore the UK and Viet Nam’s ties through cultural heritage in all forms (tangible and intangible) seeking to create contemporary dialogues, stimulate new narratives, and spark the creation of new initiatives and works inspired by the past.
Funding Information
- UK/Viet Nam Collaboration Grants worth up to £50,000 per partnership are available.
- There are three grant sizes you can apply for:
- Up to £10,000 grant
- Up to £30,000 grant
- Up to £50,000 grant
Projects Types
- Proposals must demonstrate excellence in at least one of the thematic areas: Climate and the Environment, or Shared Heritage. They welcome proposals from any artform or with cross artform elements, as well as proposals with themes relevant to the creative economy, or linked with festival and art in the public realms. They are interested to receive joint projects which are interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or cross-disciplinary (i.e. combining art, science, technology, education).
- They are looking for:
- Thought-provoking public engagement events that will appeal to general audiences, such as conferences, symposia, panel discussions, and talks.
- Small, medium, and large-scale artistic performances, exhibitions, interactive installations, and other cultural events.
- New and creative ways of designing and offering professional development and network building opportunities for artists, creatives, academics and researchers, such as residencies, workshops, open studios, open labs, and other co-creation opportunities.
- Interactive activities which will attract and inspire younger audiences through innovative use of digital technologies and ICT, such as Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR).
- Their cross-cutting themes of gender, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), equitable access (via digital and/or education technologies) and innovation, should be addressed and embedded in all proposals.
- Proposals can be for face-to-face or digital and/or an innovative combination of the two.
- All or part of the event/activity must be presented in Viet Nam between June 2023 to December 2023 as part of the Season celebration.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project proposals should be collaboratively developed and delivered by at least one UK-based organisation and at least one organisation based in Viet Nam.
- All the grants are open to arts and cultural organisations, as well as higher education and research organisations with arts and cultural focus.
- An ‘organisation’ is defined as a legally registered entity with a registered bank account, and can include collectives, consortia, and community, charity, private and public organisations.
- Proposals by unregistered entities such as artist collectives or non-formal professional networks might be considered if accompanied with evidence of a strong track record in developing and delivering projects and programmes of similar scale and nature.
For more information, visit British Council.