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Past projects

Our work in Arts and Creative Industries
  • Connections Through Culture Grants 2025
  • International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2023
  • UK Arts: A Directory of Directories
  • Our global work in arts
  • Past projects
    • From Craft to Art
    • Human Drama
    • Video Storytelling Workshops: Exploring Human Rights and Advocacy
    • Hidden Words - Hidden Worlds
    • Photography exhibitions
    • Literature Development Workshop
    • Dialogues on Ethnic Nationality Literature
    • Link the Wor(l)ds Literary Translation Workshop
    • Human Rights Festival

From Craft to Art

A community- based art development project with the aim of exploring and creating opportunities for combining artistic creation with traditional crafts.

Human Drama

Human Drama, or community-led development through forum theatre, was the first joint arts for social development programme designed by the British Council in Myanmar and FXB Myanmar in 2011.

Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival

The festival brought together the human rights and film communities both domestically and overseas as the first and only festival in Myanmar with a principal focus on human rights.

Video Storytelling Workshops: Exploring Human Rights and Advocacy

Initiated in 2014, the Visual Storytelling Workshops were a collaborative effort between the British Council in Myanmar, Human Dignity Film Institute and Huston school of Film and Digital Media, Northern Ireland, and received support from University of Michigan (USA) and Witness organization in 2016. 

Hidden Words - Hidden Worlds

A unique, nation-wide project that uses literature as a platform to support freedom of expression, creativity and social change in Myanmar's ethnic nationality states.

Literature Development Workshop

Writers, bloggers, translators, publishers and distributors, spent two days assessing the current state of literature in Myanmar and what the future holds.

Dialogues on Ethnic Nationality Literature

To showcase the depth of literature across Myanmar, an historic two day symposium on the past, present and future of ethnic nationality language literature was held on the March 2015.

Link the Wor(l)ds Literary Translation Workshop

The British Council, in collaboration with PEN Myanmar and the Writers Centre Norwich, conducted 5 days of bi-lingual training for participants seeking skills in literary translation.

Our work in Arts and Creative Industries
  • Connections Through Culture Grants 2025
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  • UK Arts: A Directory of Directories
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  • Past projects
    • From Craft to Art
    • Human Drama
    • Video Storytelling Workshops: Exploring Human Rights and Advocacy
    • Hidden Words - Hidden Worlds
    • Photography exhibitions
    • Literature Development Workshop
    • Dialogues on Ethnic Nationality Literature
    • Link the Wor(l)ds Literary Translation Workshop
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