BC announces winners of Arts Residency Grants Programme 2023-2024.

ISLAMABAD -- The British Council (BC) on Wednesday announced the winners of its Arts Residency Grants Programme 2023-2024.

The Open Call for Arts Residency Grants was published in February 2023, and offered support on the design and delivery of innovative arts residencies across multiple art forms that provide early/mid-career artists from Pakistan with opportunities to research, produce, showcase new work, widen the international context for their practice through learning and artistic exchange, build new relationships with creative practitioners, communities, institutions, access

new networks, audiences, explore future creative commissions and partnership projects.

This is an opportunity to support emerging and transdisciplinary creative practices and to explore new ways of artistic alliance across Pakistan and the UK. The arts residencies are Pakistan-led and encourage partnerships across disciplines and organisations, including new models of exchange between art, research and other fields ,said a news release.

Laila Jamil, Director Arts, British Council Pakistan, said: 'Residencies provide artists with valuable opportunities to be challenged and inspired by new surroundings, new connections and new ways of...