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This Exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Tokyo and The British Council


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Aderemi Adegbite

He was part of a two-year Creative Enterprise Programme (2008-2010), facilitated by the British Council which earned him certificates in Business Managements and Media & Communications from Pan-African University.

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Royle also goes on to note that the novel The Russia House by John Le Carré (former consular official David Cornwell) opens with a reference to The British Council.

Christopher Nyholm Shawcross

He was a Europhile parliamentarian, serving on the Parliamentary Committee on the Channel Tunnel, the all party group for European Union, and the British Council of the European Movement.

Jeet Thayil

He received a Masters in Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College (New York), and is the recipient of grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Swiss Arts Council, the British Council and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Marek Skrobecki

He received grants from the British Council and worked at Jim Henson's Creature Shop and Aardman Animation in 1992.

Pete M. Wyer

Other scores include The Far Shore commissioned by the British Council and English National Ballet in 2010, and recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Rajesh Pratap Singh

In 2009, the designer showcased his ecologically responsible collection at the “Green Fashion Show” on Earth Day organised by National Geographic Channel in partnership with the British Council and Madi Design.

Ridwan Kamil

In 2006, Kamil was the Indonesian winner of the British Council's Young Creative Entrepreneur award, representing Indonesia in the International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Rubber Soul Project

Together, they started their Belgrade Tour '99 which was stopped by the NATO bombing of Belgrade, but the band held concerts at the British Council Cultural Centre (16 March), the Center for Cultural Decontamination (on 19 March), Hemingway Club in Zemun (on 21 March), and the Museum of Yugoslav Kinotheque (on 23 March).

Sarine Voltage

The PV '94 tour culminated with the Inter-Week festival, a huge event sponsored by Novosibirsk State University and supported by the British Council, bringing together cultural and scientific figures in the scientists' enclave of Akademgorodok.

Stephen Kinnock

He is the son of Neil Kinnock, former leader of the Labour Party and ex-chair of the British Council, and Glenys Kinnock, a former Labour Member of the European Parliament and Minister of State at (2009–10) at the UK Foreign Office.

Tarporley

Established in 1983, through The British Council, Tarporley is twinned with the Breton village of Bohars, near Brest, France.