Chineke! part of UK / Australia cultural exchange
Image: Ntando Brown
Chineke! is proud to be part of the 2021-2022 UK-AU Season, the largest cultural exchange between the UK and Australia to date, celebrating the diverse and innovative artist communities and cultural sectors of each nation.
Chineke! will be representing the UK arts sector along with a host of other wonderful artists and companies, organised in partnership with the British Council, British Council Australia and the Australian High Commission in the United Kingdom.
For the “UK in Australia” programme UK institutions and artists will both present new work in Australia, many for the first time, and collaborate with Australian artists to exchange knowledge. The collaborating UK partners include British Film Institute, Chineke Orchestra!, Hackney Showroom, Aakash Odedra Company, Blast Theory, Upswing, National Dance Company Wales, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, Oily Cart, AC Projects, Trigger, Javaad Alipoor Company, Crossover Labs, London Artists Projects, Science Gallery London, Watershed, Royal Shakespeare Company, Autograph, Wider Earth and Natural History Museum.
Australian companies and institutions presenting UK work and Season events in Australia include the Biennale of Sydney, Photo 2022, Ballarat International Photo Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, National Gallery Australia, British Film Festival, Museums Victoria, National Museum Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Remix, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Diversity Arts Australia, Ten Days on the Island, Australia Council for the Arts, Art Gallery of NSW, Australian Centre of Moving Image, Home of the Arts, National Gallery Victoria, National Institute of Dramatic Art, Melbourne’s UNESCO City of Literature, and festivals in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide.