British Council

In partnership with the Kingston Writing School and Kingston University, the British Council organizes, for the third consecutive year, the International Creative Writing Summer School in Athens and Thessaloniki.

Virtus philanthropy awards presented

BELGRADE -- B92 Fund's President of the Board of Directors Veran Matic has been presented with Virtus Annual Awards for Philanthropy Special Award.

The British Council, in cooperation with Snook, Google and the Future Library are organizing the first Culture Shift in Athens, between the 6th and 8th of March, 2015. The event will take place in the Ilioupolis Public Library.

PC Press selects b92.net as best news website

BELGRADE -- b92.net has been recognized as best website in 2014 in the News category of PC Press magazine's traditional annual selection dubbed "Best Online Things".

At the same time, the b92.net's Windows phone application was chosen among the best mobile apps.

BELGRADE - The first Film and Chips Festival, which focuses on new British film, will be held simultaneously in 10 cities in Serbia January 16-18, 2015, with identical programs.

The Festival is held in cooperation with the British Council, and according to a statement by Belgrade's Dom omladine, it will premiere some of the most recent work by young British authors.

It was very interesting to read an interview by Barçın Yinanç in the Hürriyet Daily News on a recent British Council survey in seven countries, including Turkey and the U.K., on views of the First World War.
 

In Turkey young generations know more about and feel more affected by events related to World War I than older generations and accordingly differ from their peers in the United Kingdom, says Anne Bostancı, the co-author of the British Council’s report based on a survey conducted in seven countries Younger people in Turkey know more and feel stronger about the consequences of World War I tha

NOVI SAD - The Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad will be a meeting place for all art buffs as of Friday, November 7, as it will host an exhibition of works by Henry Moore, one of the greatest British artists of the 20th century.

The exhibition consists of 80 prints, five sculpture models and a working model, all dating back to the period between 1934 and 1984.

Just as we yesterday celebrated the 91st year of the foundation of the Turkish Republic, this year also marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, which brought an end to the Ottoman Empire.

BELGRADE - An exhibition of works by Henry Moore (1898-1986), one of the greatest British artists of the 20th century, has opened at the National Museum in Belgrade and will run through October 31.