Update on our 200 Voices project and how you can get involved

http://www.visitingarts.org.uk/content/200-voices-open-call

1mile2 participant Chen Hangfeng returns to Bradford for his first UK solo exhibition

http://www.visitingarts.org.uk/content/unnatural-selection-chen-hangfeng

1mile² Cardiff – details and images of our dance performances and creative workshops 28 & 30 October at Wales Millennium Centre - http://www.visitingarts.org.uk/content/1mile2-cardiff-3

1mile² Bradford – latest images from Chen Hangfeng’s exhibition and of the public and education workshops - http://www.square-mile.net/Photo.aspx?MileID=23

1mile² Guelph – new public interventions by DodoLab, a literacy slumber party with Dawn Matheson and Mary Mattingly’s Big Ideas in Art & Culture lecture - http://www.visitingarts.org.uk/content/1mile2-guelph-0

1mile² Karachi filmmaker Nameera Ahmed has been nominated for an Indian Environment Film Award for her documentary When the Rains Came. See her short for 1mile² Nursing the Mangroves -  http://www.square-mile.net/WhatsNew.aspx?MileID=29&ContentID=819

1mile² Smethwick artist Melanie Tomlinson has created a new series of work based on British native birds, and extinct species that were featured in the Ghosts of Gone Birds exhibition in London during November - http://www.square-mile.net/WhatsNew.aspx?MileID=20&ContentID=804

Report on the recent visit of Alisa Savitskaya from the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), in Russia initiated by British Council, Russia

http://www.visitingarts.org.uk/content/curatorial-exchange-programme-2011-alisa-savitskaya

For 2013, both Canada and Australia are eligible countries and for 2012 this is still South Africa. Both deadlines are the beginning of May of the respective year.

The Cooperation Projects with Third Countries strand (1.3.5) requires at least three partner organisations in three different European countries and at least one in the selected Third Country. Organisations can apply for up to EUR 200,000 of Culture programme funding for a jointly developed project which would run for up to two years.

For more information please visit http://www.culturefund.eu/

Two participants of our current Welsh Arts Critics Development Programme 2011, Susie Wild and Dylan Moore, give their views from the recent Kerala edition of the Hay Festival

http://www.visitingarts.org.uk/content/welsh-arts-critics-blogs-hay-festival-kerala

The New York times recently published an article regarding some of the issues affecting non-EU artists wanting to work in the UK

http://www.visitingarts.org.uk/content/artists-and-performers-britain-puts-out-unwelcome-mat

LIFT have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Development to join their small and dynamic team, someone willing to roll up their sleeves and help deliver their main Festival next summer and vision beyond

http://www.visitingarts.org.uk/content/call-applications-head-development-lift