The Connections Through Culture grants programme is designed to nurture fresh cultural partnerships between East Asia and the UK. These grants are instrumental in supporting new ideas and collaborations from artists and cultural organisations at any stage of development.

The grants supported in this round of Connections Through Culture programme have focused on two distinct areas: diversity and inclusion and, addressing climate change. The collaborative efforts across borders and artistic disciplines will lead to new thoughts and ideas created to address global challenges.

The grants support new connections, exchanges and collaborations. These grants help build long-term relationships and collaborations between artists, cultural professionals, creative practitioners and art and cultural organisations, hubs, networks, and collectives.

Connections Through Culture grantees 2023

Emma Frankland, Tamarra

Eric Sasono

Film critic

Eric Sasono

Eric Sasono

Board Member of Indonesian Documentary Film Centre (In-Docs)

Eric Sasono is known as a multi-award winning film critique. Eric has also been the jury for film festivals across Indonesia, Philipines, Thailand and South Korea. Additional to that, Eric has been an honorary International Board member for Asian Film Awards in Hongkong. He has also been an active advisory board member for the Indonesian Documentary Film Centre (In-Docs) since 2008.

 

Fay Ryan

Digital Content Manager

Felix Dass

Music Journalist

Felix Dass was originally working at Air Asia as the Editor for the ThreeSixty Inflight Magazine, but, he would always find time to write and contribute articles on music for a number of other publications, including The Jakarta Post and Rolling Stone magazine. Recently he had decided to focus on music full time, taking up numerous music projects alongside his writing. In 2015 he started to manage Ari Reda, one of Indonesia’s leading folk duos, where he led them on a nation-wide tour. 

Gaia Khairina, Eliza Vitri Handayani

InterSastra

British Council UK Indonesia Residency 2017 Artist in Residence George Clark

George Clark George Clark

Filmmaker and Video Artist, Residency at Jatiwangi Art Factory

George Clark's work bridges art and curatorial practice with particular focus on film, exploring the history of images and how they are governed by culture, technology and socio-political conditions. Recent projects include A Distant Echo (2016) a feature length film that explores themes of cultural identity, ecology and the construction of history and the exhibition A Planter’s Art featuring a new body of moving image works installed alongside a specially grown participatory garden in Taiwan. 

Goldierocks a.k.a Sam Hall

With a celebrity following that includes Madonna and Richard Branson, Sam performs at endless festivals worldwide including Bestival, Latitude and Burning Man as well as more unusual venues such as Soviet bunkers in Kazakhstan. Through the British Council produced radio show, The Selector, she birthed big names in music such as the late Amy Winehouse, The Killers, Jake Bugg and The XX. 

Graham Daniels

Hana Madness, Artist