The Decibel UK Tour, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and A Winters Journey at the Barbican Centre close out the UK/Australia Season 2021-22.

About

The UK/Australia Season is a major new cultural exchange celebrating the diverse and innovative artist communities and cultural sectors of each nation. A collaboration between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, The Season is a vibrant programme spanning theatre, film, visual arts, dance, design, architecture, music, literature, higher education and a public engagement programme.

Designed to strengthen and build cultural connections, the Season theme is “Who Are We Now?” and will reflect on our history, explore our current relationship, and imagine our future together. The Season started in September 2021 and concluded in March 2022 in Australia and will conclude in December 2022 in the UK.

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Welcome to UK/ Australia Season. These introduction offers key information about the Season’s programme and theme, as well as some information about the website.

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Latest News

  • 19.10.22
  • Blog

Win a special prize from the Design Museum

  • 29.09.22
  • Blog

Win a cultural trip of a lifetime to Australia with the Metro

  • 10.09.22
  • Blog

Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – 2022)

You're Safe Til 2024 promo photo
  • 06.09.22
  • Blog

What’s On: September

  • 05.09.22
  • Blog

Special message from Season Ambassador Cate Blanchett

  • 26.08.22
  • Blog

ENTER NOW: London Underground Photography Competition

house of oz performers posing
  • 01.09.22
  • Blog

House of Oz Named Best Venue-Edinburgh Fringe 2022

  • 09.08.22
  • Blog

Edinburgh Festival Highlights: Opening Week

  • 06.08.22
  • Blog

Special message from Season ambassador Cate Blanchett

  • 01.08.22
  • Blog

Private: New UK/Australia Season Trailer

  • 18.07.22
  • Blog

In Conversation with William Barton

  • 05.07.22
  • Blog

Free Edinburgh International Festival Tickets Now Available

  • 29.06.22
  • Blog

Pip & Pop Competition

  • 15.06.22
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UK/Australia Season 2021-22 Brochure Now Available

  • 08.06.22
  • Blog

Catch Up: Instagram Live with Aboriginal Australian artist Yhonnie Scarce

  • 03.05.22
  • Blog

New Australian Music Playlist

  • 26.04.22
  • Blog

Australian World Orchestra to perform at BBC Proms

  • 05.04.22
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Facebook Live: In Conversation with Counting & Cracking and Edinburgh International Festival

  • 01.04.22
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Edinburgh international festival to feature tales of refugees and migration

  • 09.03.22
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International Women’s Day 2022 Live Twitter Q&A

  • 03.03.22
  • Blog

Birmingham 2022 Festival Launches

  • 11.02.22
  • Press

‘We wanted to kick in the doors’: the Indigenous film-makers reinventing horror

  • 15.02.22
  • Blog

In conversation with artist Annabel McCourt

  • 28.01.22
  • Blog

Live Chat with filmmaker Leah Purcell

  • 27.01.22
  • Blog

Adelaide Shines

  • 11.01.22
  • Press

Joelle Taylor wins TS Eliot poetry prize for ‘blazing’ C+nto & Othered Poems

  • 25.01.22
  • Blog

Richard Bell: Revolution within myself

  • 25.01.22
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Bec Hogan: Inclusion is daggy but that’s ok.

  • 06.01.22
  • Press

Dr Stuart Murray spoke to 2GB about Sports Diplomacy and Novak Djokovic

  • 21.12.21
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How precious old world artefacts vanished into the new

  • 15.11.21
  • Press

Let me show you Australia

Thom Roberts in Sydney’s Studio A with artistic director Gabrielle Mordy.
  • 03.12.21
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‘Your face looks like the Metro train service’: a new vision from art’s outsiders

  • 26.11.21
  • Blog

Alex Cloherty representing the Netherlands wins FameLab International Final 2021

  • 21.11.21
  • Blog

REFRAMING THE MARGINS: UK-AUSTRALIA MENTORING PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN OF COLOUR

  • 11.11.21
  • Press

COLONIAL AMNESIA: The Forgotten Victims of Transportation

  • 17.11.21
  • Blog

Top 10 FameLab International 2021 contestants announced

Photos of 2021 cohort of Sync Leadershp programme
  • 29.10.21
  • Blog

The next generation of Arts leaders are…

  • 25.10.21
  • Press

Songlines: the Indigenous Australian exhibition preserving 65,000 years of culture

  • 19.10.21
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Songlines Review – an epic pioneering show of Aboriginal art & culture

Abstract rectangular painting
  • 15.10.21
  • Blog

Ghost Tunes – In the beginning

  • 21.08.21
  • Press

I See You

  • 02.08.22
  • Blog

Enter Now: Win the Ultimate Australia in Edinburgh Experience

  • 22.07.22
  • Press

BBC Inside Culture: Down Under Episode

  • 13.05.22
  • Blog

The Role of the Artist in Public Life

  • 28.09.21
  • Press

Songlines and stolen children: lessons from Indigenous Australians

A picture of female artist Patricia Piccinini with her artwork Kindred
  • 17.09.21
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The Uncomfortable and Confronting World of Patricia Piccinini

  • 27.08.21
  • Blog

Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE and David Gonski AC on how the UK/Australia Season will forge stronger ties between the two nations

  • 25.08.21
  • Blog

Vision Statement from UK/Australia Season Directors

  • 23.07.21
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Biennale of Sydney & Cicada Innovations Launch Sustainable Materials Challenge

  • 25.06.21
  • Press

UK and Australia to collaborate on cultural exchange season

  • 24.06.21
  • Press

David Gonski gathers patrons for UK-Australia arts season

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