We are delighted to share the news that Xiaowen Zhu, Director of esea contemporary, has been appointed to the British Council's Arts and Creative Economy Advisory group. In this role, Xiaowen will contribute to shaping the organisation's global arts strategy alongside other leading figures in arts and culture.
The Arts and Creative Economy Advisory Group's role is to support the British Council's mission of fostering understanding between the UK and the wider world, advocate for its work, advise on strategy development, keep the Arts leadership team informed of sector developments, provide professional advice, identify opportunities and trends, and establish connections with relevant communities within the arts and creative economy sectors.
We are pleased to share that we have recently been granted funding from The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global. This funding will support our new project 'Voicing the Archive', which, by commissioning a group of British Sinophone artists to closely engage with archives and oral histories of early Chinese immigrants in the UK, aims to capture and broadcast a relatively under-reported yet significant period of cultural history. Stay tuned for more updates.