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Culture and Heritage

How the past informs contemporary national cultures

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Ben Okri

The Nigerian novelist and poet discusses his creative process.

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Culture and Commerce

How culture represents, and draws inspiration from, what we buy, sell and produce.

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Reviving and Reclaiming Culture

How culture from Shakespeare to the Swinging Sixties is being revisited and remixed.

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Speaking Up and Uncovering Secrets

Culture that keeps secrets and culture that speaks out in Alaska, Pakistan, Ukraine, UK

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Cultural Revolution and Gardening as Art

Looking back fifty years to China's Cultural Revolution, visiting Angola's newest museum.

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Leaving Â鶹ԼÅÄ and Finding Inspiration

How journeys and travel can expose and inspire culture in Greece, Liberia and Vietnam.

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New Words and Changing Forms

How language is making waves in Sweden, Kenya, London and Spain

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Sacred Places and Sounds

How music, art and sculpture can provide sanctuary and convey spirituality

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Finding Calm in Public Spaces

Why public space matters for culture in London, Istanbul and Nairobi

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Caine Prize Short Stories

The 5 shortlisted authors in the running for The Caine Prize for African Writing.

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Uncovering Hidden Perspectives

Art, poetry and literature voicing hidden perspectives in Iraq, South Africa and Malaysia

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Culture as Catharsis

How music and literature can provide catharsis in America, South Africa, Spain and the UK

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Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion

Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion- institutional, virtual and symbolic.

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Who Tells The Story?

Reclaiming national narratives in the UK and Jamaica.

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Understanding the Refugee Crisis via Virtual Reality

Technology which simulates a refugee camp and using real crime as inspiration for fiction

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Challenging Racism Through Sculpture

Public art confronts racism in Berlin, plus wandering and writing in Vancouver

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Empathising Across Cultural Divides

Connecting through art and design in Lebanon, Nigeria, the Middle East and San Francisco.

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Fighting Cultural Destruction

Protecting Syria's antiquities, street art with a message, Pashtun fashion

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Watching and Being Watched

Fela's Shrine on stage; Mother Teresa's cultural legacy; art that walks the gender line

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Artistic Freedom in Russia and Saudi Arabia

How Russian and Saudi artists tackle censorship, and art evoking sounds of the Gulf War

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Capturing Aleppo's Destruction on Film

The film capturing the war in Aleppo; Berlin's iconic nightclub; Hong Kong's culture hub

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Can Art Change the World?

The Cultural Frontline: where arts and news collide.

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The First National Museum of African American History

Visiting a landmark museum, using art to explore the past, what makes a 'good' immigrant?

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Illustrating Syria's Civil War

The artist turning experiences of war into a graphic memoir

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Muhammad Ali on Stage, Iraq in 100 Years

How Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, writers imagine Iraq in 2103, Jón Kalman Stefánsson

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Writing Inspired by Chibok, US Election Art

Art inspired by this year's US election and a return home for a lost choral work.

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Swet Shop Boys, Drone Art

The Cultural Frontline: where arts and news collide.

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Dramatising the Refugee Crisis, Broken Fingaz Street Art

Berkun Oya on dramatising the refugee crisis; the Broken Fingaz street art collective

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The US Presidential Election

The Trump effect on culture; singing the election; emojis as art; literary ancestry

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