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Culture and Press news
Golden Jubilee – Embassy 24 – April 2010
Celebrations for Cyprus’s Golden Jubilee began early with an exhibition and musical concert entitled 50 Years of the Republic of Cyprus...
First Lady inspires UK youngsters – Embassy 23 – February 2010
Ten talented Islington school children were entertained at the White House by First Lady Michelle Obama as part of an inspirational...
Chinese memento – Embassy 22 – January 2010
Departing Chinese Ambassador Fu Ying has donated her mother's food coupons to the British Museum as part of the exhibition...
The Year Ahead – Milestones... – Embassy 22 – January 2010
Whatever happens in the world out there will affect the missions here in London, so here Embassy gives you a quick heads up..
The Year Ahead – Culture & Sport... – Embassy 22 – January 2010
Whatever happens in the world out there will affect the missions here in London, so here Embassy gives you a quick heads up..
The spirit of Gandhi – Embassy 20 – November 2009
A priceless series of letters written by Mahatma Gandhi and a signed cloth were presented to the President of India...
What your embassy says about you – Embassy 19 – October 2009
The public has a rather warped view of the shrouded world behind embassy doors, as cultural attachés recently discovered...
EU heads wield pedal power – Embassy 18 – July/August 2009
It was a hot and steamy start to the Swedish Presidency. Putting a new spin on the institution, the Swedish Embassy launched its ‘green...
Pop tsar sings at Embassy – Embassy 16 – April 2009
They call her the 'Red Madonna' – and while Russian superstar Valeriya might be a platinum blonde with 100 million album sales under her tightly cinched belt, not even Madonna...
Wall and Peace – Embassy 16 – April 2009
To mark the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the German National Tourist Office together with the German Embassy and Lufthansa ran the clever 'Post-Wall...
The Ambassador and the Architect – Embassy 15 – February 2009
There is something missing from the Swiss Ambassador's Residence. Where the imposing riot of colours of a Le Corbusier tapestry once hung, is now an empty wall...
Slumdog diplomat – Embassy 14 – January 2009
A month ago Vikas Swarup was an unassuming Indian diplomat with a flair for writing. Now he is the toast of Hollywood...
Ciné Lumière reopens – Embassy 14 – January 2009
Following a major refurbishment, the Ciné Lumière at the Institut Français has reopened. Icon of the French silver...
A date for your diary – Embassy 14 – January 2009
Meet the movers and shakers in the Scottish cultural scene at the next Cultural Attaché event in collaboration with Visiting Arts.
Diplomatic Press Club launched – Embassy 14 – January 2009
A club for foreign press attachés was launched in December, on the initiative of Cristina Nita, press secretary at the Romanian Embassy...
Zaha Hadid unveils Freedom Square – Embassy 13 – Nov/Dec 2008
Zaha Hadid likes to push boundaries. But the task of uniting a divided city is one of the greatest challenges...
Cultural attachés visit Liverpool – Embassy 12 – Oct 2008
Twelve cultural attachés joined Visiting Arts on a tour of Liverpool, the European Capital of Culture 2008, while taking in the sites...
Interculturalism – a Spanish view – Embassy 9 – Jun 2008
The terrorist attacks in Spain on 11 March 2004 shocked the nation and caused a period of introspection about inter-cultural relations.
The Embassies Project – Embassy 9 – Jun 2008
It started with anonymous, intimate sexual confessions whispered inside the Residence of the Ambassador of Argentina...
Wurth seeing – Embassy 8 – May 2008
How does a diplomat endure the tedium of meetings in Brussels? Hubert Wurth, the Ambassador of Luxembourg, doodled...
Attachés visit new cultural quarter – Embassy 8 – May 2008
The transformation of Kings Cross into an emerging cultural quarter was the topic for the first event of Visiting Arts' cultural attaché programme for 2008/09.
Tuttle tattle – Embassy 7 – Apr 2008
Dick Custin and Anna Girvan from the US Embassy tell Elizabeth Stewart how embassies in London can reach out to a global audience...
Swiss on a roll – Embassy 6 – Mar 2008
This was a diplomatic reception with a difference – a garage rave in the subterranean carpark of the Swiss Ambassador’s residence with footballers, street dancing, Hip Hop...
Czechs rock – Embassy 4 – Jan 2008
Few embassies would risk hosting a gig for a British indie band – but the Czechs have always been a little different...
Art exhibition thaws relations – a bit – Embassy 4 – Jan 2008
It was business as usual as British and Russian officials put aside hostilities this week at the inauguration of the much-anticipated From Russia exhibition
Art becomes pawn in diplomatic row – Embassy 2 – Nov 2007
Icy diplomatic relations between London and Moscow got even frostier after the Roskultura, the Russian state culture agency....
Cultural attachés visit Oxford – Embassy 2 – Nov 2007
About 20 Cultural Attachés ventured beyond the M25 to spend a day being inspired in the City of Spires...
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