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

Jamil Massa

Writer/Poet

Jamil Massa, a writer/poet based in Gorontalo, is one of the selected poets to participate in the Poets Exchange Programme between the UK and Indonesia in 2019. 

Jane Gauntlett

Jane is a writer for film and theatre, with an eclectic portfolio of working in the charity sector (Mencap, Mind), working as a freelance creative producer and collaborating with other artists and organisations.

Jane began to use technology as an alternative method of communication, her first piece In My Shoes: Waking in Slough  It helped to break the boundaries between her and her family and friends, it became both a performance and an educational tool, it has taken her on many adventures.

Jeannie Park, Septi Hariana, Istifadah Nur Rahma

PSBK

Jo Verrent

Speaker, writer, activist, and creative producer for arts and disability., UNLIMITED

Joseph Hopkinson

Artist, Ceramicist, Wales Arts International

Hopkinson is a Welsh ceramic artist with a keen exploration in ceramic bodies. Among his works, he is able to convey the medium into coarsely textured masses, resembling artifactual relics seemingly discovered in archaeological sites. He graduated recently in 2015 with an MA in ceramics from the Cardiff Metropolitan University. He has been his JCCB4 Residency program in Timbul Rahardjo – studio, Kasongan, Yogyakarta, October 2016.

Josette Chiang Josette Chiang

Intermedia Artist, Residency at Platform3

Josette Chiang is a Chinese-British artist. Her work includes drawing, sound, text, performance, video, installation and sculpture. Referencing geology, mythology, Chinese cosmology and systems of measurement, her recent work is about the perception and nature of change within the built and natural environment. She creates narratives that communicate the interplay between culture, science and landscape. She explores ways that social interaction contributes to emotional experiences of place. 

Kevin Williamson

Neu!Reekie!

Kevin is Neu! Reekie!’s co-founder and co-director; a Robert Louis Stevenson Award winner; founder and Editor-in-Chief of the infamous Rebel Inc publishing house (known for launching the careers of writers such as Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner and Laura Hird; working with Howard Marks, Charles Bukowski and Damien Hirst; and their Rebel Inc Classics range). 

Laura Kidd

Laura Kidd Laura Kidd

Multi-instrumentalist and Visual Artist, Residence - KunoKini

Bristol based multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Laura Kidd makes music under the moniker She Makes War...because love is a battlefield. Described as blending "the emotional resonance of Elliott Smith with the barbed vigour of Sleater-Kinney”, third album "Direction Of Travel" is a mix of gloom-pop anthems and heartstealing ballads, with guest appearances from Tanya Donelly (Belly, Throwing Muses) and Mark Chadwick (The Levellers).
 
 

LearnEnglish Sports World

In this beautifully illustrated app, players need to find and spell sports events and technical moves. A range of activities will help players learn the spelling and definitions of hundreds of Olympic and Paralympic sports words.

Download for: iOS

Liam O'Shea

No Bounds Festival