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 chicago summit builds bonds between future leaders ACROSS THE ATLANTIC |
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Last month, over 100 rising leaders and entrepreneurs spent a week together in Chicago for the British Council’s Transatlantic Network (TN2020) Summit, the project’s flagship annual event.
TN2020 is a network for action which brings together Europe and North America’s most dynamic emerging leaders to revitalize transatlantic and global links for the future. Aged 25 to 35, the network includes young professionals from business, civil society, the arts, science and media who are on track to lead their professions and societies by 2020.
For the first half of the week, members worked with local organizations on in-depth, two-day case studies. They learned about Chicago’s successful approaches to violence prevention, water conservation in the 21st century, sustainable building, migration and community integration, and innovation in the public and private sector.
During debates and brainstorming sessions later in the week, TN2020 members identified opportunities to forge new group initiatives. Collaborations will address challenges explored earlier in the week and TN2020’s focus areas: sustainable living, building resilience in communities, and creativity and innovation.
TN2020 proposed 30 new initiatives, including:
• A mentoring scheme between TN2020 and Global Changemakers, a British Council project for younger leaders aged 16-25
• A web community for Muslim women
• A project to empower Kosovo’s civil society
• A social innovation lab that embraces failure as a means to drive real change
Watch video recaps of the summit, browse photos, and follow blog posts and twitter feeds at www.tn2020.net.
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 young people take a stand on climate change at un exhibit
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An exhibition on display this month at United Nations Headquarters in New York shows how young people around the world experience the local impact of climate change.
The exhibition Climate Faces – Changing Earth, Changing Lives includes photos and quotes from two British Council projects:
- Cape Farewell, a voyage bringing high school students, scientists and artists to the Canadian Arctic to witness the effects of climate change.
- Turning the Tide, a photo contest inviting young people in 40 countries to illustrate how climate change impacts their communities.
Climate Faces also includes a World Bank Group video competition.
Topics covered in the exhibition range from how fishing, flooding, tourism, and erosion of homes threaten the survival of the Maldives to a tree planting campaign in Senegal and a young woman's story of witnessing her home being flooded by a typhoon in the Philippines.
Climate Faces highlights how the British Council is tackling climate change through cultural relations – connecting people around the world to increase understanding of both issues and possible solutions to climate change.
The exhibition also formed the backdrop to Her Majesty The Queen's visit to the United Nations on Tuesday.
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three job openings with british council usa
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We are currently recruiting for three positions in New York and Washington, DC:
Head of Partnerships New York
The Head of Partnerships New York will develop and manage relationships with New York based organizations, identifying partners to help fund and collaborate on the British Council’s work in over 100 countries around the world.
Head of Programs New York
In collaboration with the Director New York and the wider North American team, the Head of Programs New York will manage the New York components of a range of education, arts, climate change, intercultural dialogue and young leadership projects in the United States.
Project Manager, Our Shared Europe (based in Washington, DC)
The British Council seeks a Project Manager to head our US work on Our Shared Europe, the British Council’s response to one of the major cultural challenges of today: the growing mutual mistrust between Muslim communities and wider European society.
Please visit our website to read full job descriptions and application requirements.
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 football fans and school children join together in the international language of football |
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The British Council and official England football fans are uniting British and South African school children through the World Cup.
Over the last month, students taking part in our Connecting Classrooms program and the UK Department for International Development-funded Global School Partnerships program created football shirts, flags and posters for England fans to bring to their school partners in South Africa. The South African students gave their British peers decorated vuvuzelas and discussed the World Cup by Skype.
Harcel, a high school student in Cape Town, reflected on his experience working with British students in a blog post for British Council Voices:
We couldn’t hear our partners too well but it was great to speak to and see them. We sang Shosholoza for them, asked them questions about their school, and about the World Cup, and taught them the Diski Dance.
To know that the foreigners are enjoying their visit here has made me feel more proud of my country than before – to know that they feel welcomed and to only hear positive comments from them. I feel this day will change South Africa forever and unite us, immensely. I am a proud South African from this wonderful rainbow nation. South Africa….we are here.
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BRITISH COUNCIL SUPPORTED EVENTS
Susie MacMurray in Dead or Alive at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York: April 27 - October 24
Supported by Grants to Artists , UK artist Susie MacMurray contributes to Dead or Alive, a showcase of more than 30 international artists who transform organic materials into works of art. In the exhibition, a diverse array of materials including bones, hair, and cocoons are recombined and rearranged into images that addresses the transient, elegant, and alarming nature of life.
Complicite's A Disappearing Number at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York: July 15-18
UK theater company Complicite performs A Disappearing Number at the Lincoln Center Festival this July. This groundbreaking multimedia work blends mathematics and romance, with stories that blur the lines between numbers and beauty, continuity and permanence, how we create and how we love. Following performances in New York, Complicite travels to India to perform at Jamshed Bhabha in Mumbai and the Global Peace Auditorium in Hyderabad to coincide with the International Congress of Mathematicians.
OTHER EVENTS
At any given time, there are a large number of British cultural events taking place across the US. The following are a small selection of non-British Council events. Please contact the venues listed for more information.
Ian Rowlands's A Marriage of Convenience at PS 122, New York: July 10
Welsh Author Ian Rowlands directs a reading of his award-winning play A Marriage of Convenience at PS122 in New York as part of the Underground Zero festival. Learn more about Welsh cultural events in the United States at www.wales.com.
BBC's Planet Earth Live in Millenium Park, Chicago: July 20-21
BBC Earth presents its ground-breaking nature documentary as it makes its world-premiere tour, featuring a score by two-time Emmy Award winning composer George Fenton, who also conducts. Planet Earth Live will be presented during the Grant Park Music Festival in Millenium Park.
Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain at the Textile Museum, Washington, DC: May 15 - September 12
Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain will showcase the work of groundbreaking women designers Lucienne Day, Jacqueline Groag and Marian Mahler through the display of textiles together with preliminary drawings and collages, ceramics and period furniture.
UK Artists at the Birchmere, Alexandria, Virginia
The following UK artists will perform at the Birchmere, a Virginia music hall, this summer:
July 8-9: Joan Armatrading
July 22: Level 42
August 3: ASIA
August 27: Herman's Hermits feat. Peter Noone
September 1: Jon Anderson (of YES)
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The British Council is committed to equality of opportunity and diversity. Please visit our website to learn more about our approach to EO&D.
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The Global Risk Forum GRF Davos supports an exhibition on Climate Change at the UN Headquarters in New York, taking place from 01 to 31 July 2010. 
