Roadkill is “unlike any other theatrical experience,” as Chicago Shakespeare Theater director Criss Henderson blogged for us. Audiences who attend a performance of Roadkill will receive this “passport” we’ve designed with resources to find out more about the fight to end sex trafficking.
Reblog this post if you think you can stand up to stop sex trafficking.
On 11 May the British Embassy in Washington opened its doors to the public for the annual EU Open House Day. We showcased UK culture, heritage, innovation and creativity: a bit of everything that makes Britain GREAT. Visitors were able to interact with multiple exhibits, tour the Ambassador’s residence and gardens, and learn more about why the UK remains a fantastic destination for travel, study and business.
Sarah Hall, Adam Thirlwell, Benjamin Markovits and Ned Beauman read excerpts from their work at DC bookstore Politics and Prose last night and at a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan on Monday. All four have been selected for Granta magazine’s “Best of Young British Novelists” issue, published every 10 years to spotlight the next generation of British literary talent.
These novelists are an international group in many ways, which raises the question: What does it mean to be a “British” novelist?
Before the US theatrical debut of ‘Roadkill’, the British Council co-hosted a conversation on 2 May 2013 at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater to discuss global efforts to stop sex trafficking.
Roadkill tells the story of a young girl who has been trafficked. Find performance dates, read our e-book on the fight to end sex trafficking, and check out upcoming events on our website.
A couple of daredevils, a woman who tells the future, and a Brit who narrates the decline of the American automobile are just a few of the UK artists Forest Fringe has brought to this year’s Fusebox Festival in Texas. Catch their performances through April 28.
If you’re at Fusebox, share some of your photos with us and we’ll reblog.
Photos, top to bottom: Action Hero, Watch Me Fall; Deborah Pearson, The Future Show; Andy Field, Motor Vehicle Sundown. (All courtesy of the artists.)
In London, “you have so many different lives being lived around you,” says Best of Young British Novelists writer Nadifa Mohamed, who moved there from Somalia as a child.
Meet Nadifa and fellow Best Young writer Ross Raisin during their US tour.
Last night Granta announced its fourth list of the Best of Young British Novelists, and next week, two of them are heading to the US.
See Ross Raisin and Nadifa Mohamed in Los Angeles on April 23 and other cities up and down the East and West Coasts in the coming weeks.
As we look back on the life and career of former British prime minister Lady Margaret Thatcher, check out this photo from her official visit to Washington, DC in 1985, when she stopped by the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution.
(Photo from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, http://siarchives.si.edu/).
Matt is studying for a D.Phil at Green Templeton College at Oxford and spends a lot of his free time working on community development projects with young leaders.
Find out how you can study at a British university by attending Study in the UK Day, our virtual fair.
