Americas

Circular Culture is an initiative of the British Council in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. It provides financial resources and training to promote artistic exchange between Latin American and the Caribbean (LATAC) countries and the United Kingdom through strengthening the offering of cultural festivals and promoting sustainable cultural development. Circular Culture has made significant contributions to participants’ knowledge, skills, and competencies.

English without Borders is a strategy developed by the British Council that seeks to strengthen the learning of English of students through a virtual English course with an intensity of between 4 and 6 hours per week. The classes are led with a predominantly communicative, participatory, and student-centred approach. The British Council has implemented the English without Borders program since 2021. During its first year, it was offered to students from public schools in Bogotá.

In the third part of our arts and cultural COVID-19 series, we explore how the arts and cultural sector across the Americas are responding to the pandemic.

New research reveals the hopes, fears, and dreams of young Colombians as they look to a peaceful future.

Insight looks at the aftermath of the fire that recently devastated the Brazilian National Museum, to ask what lessons can be learned.

This preliminary report presents the early findings about what is known about young people in Columbia and the social conditions in which they live.

Insight talks to RUSI Director-General Karin von Hippel about populism, its causes, and its implications for the world order.