Connections Through Culture Grants 2022

Connections Through Culture (CTC) is an arts grant programme run by the British Council in the UK and East Asia. It was established in August 2019 in Southeast Asia to provide grants to residents of the UK, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

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

These projects include artistic and creative exchanges of skills, knowledge, and practice, or the collaborative production of new artistic and creative content. Projects can be art residencies, exhibitions, performances and showcases, publications, webinars, and conferences.The grants are used to support the development of projects with artistic expression that result in collaborative activities.

Grant Recipients - Stories from Connections Through Culture 2022

In Malaysia, for 2022, we offered the grant to six projects, each comprising partners from Malaysia and the UK:

In Every Bite of the Emperor

This artistic residency explores the climate crisis through the experience of grief, as a process for gathering, witnessing, and speculating different futures.

Seeking generative tourism through art and architecture - Foundation for a new way

Seeking generative tourism through art and architecture contributes towards the conceptual and physical formation of Samong Haven, a new transnational hub for culture and learning.

Growing a Dream Ecology

A collaborative and socially-engaged visual arts project based around the awkward and slippery subject of nocturnal dreaming.