Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Portuguese Arts Awards 2008 funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. Application deadline to Visiting Arts by 25 April 2008.

'A route to homelessness?', Shelter report, 22 April 2008
A Gulbenkian-funded report reveals that slum renting still exists. A copy of this report can be ordered via Shelter's website.

No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society
Tim Gill, the author of No Fear, is a guest on Radio 4's Bringing up Britain, debating issues of parenting and risk, 16 April 2008, repeated 19 April 2008.
"No Fear reviews key aspects of modern risk aversion for children... Tim's timely book is a must for anyone lobbying for a more child-friendly public realm." Play Today, November 2007

Signs: Photographs by Mark Power 10 April - 18 May 2008
Gulbenkian brings an exhibition of Mark Power's eclectic and groundbreaking work from its Paris Cultural Centre to Churchill College, Cambridge.
University of Cambridge, 8 April 2008

'Hard questions - Contemporary art and the obsession with science' by Siân Ede, The Royal Society, 6.30 pm, 10 April 2008
The Deputy Director of the UK Branch gave this year's Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture. A webcast of the lecture is available from the Royal Society: www.royalsociety.tv

Turf War, YouthNet's new viral game encouraging young people to make good financial decisions, has attracted 32% more visitors to the finance section of TheSite.org.

Rui Horta's Scope performed as part of New Territories 2008
A rare opportunity for UK audiences to witness some of the most vibrant and vital work being created in Portugal.

Margaret Jull Costa's translation of Eça de Queiroz's masterpiece The Maias has won The PEN/ Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize. The Maias is part of the Dedalus project with Margaret Jull Costa to translate all of Eça de Queiroz's work into English, with funding from the Gulbenkian Foundation in London and the Camões Institute and the Portuguese Book Institute in Lisbon. The Maias is the sixth book in the nine book project to be published by Dedalus and will be followed later this year by The City and the Mountains.

Funding Story: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Andrew Barnett talks to Radhika Holmström about the current work and future direction of the UK Branch. Third Sector, 12 March 2008

The Newspaper House
Video, Guardian, 10 March 2008
Artist unveils 'newspaper house' BBC News 24, 9 March 2008

Gulbenkian provides R&D funding for Creative City’s witty and unusual project to highlight the problems caused by discarded newspapers. Installation 3–9 March 2008.
www.newspaperhouse.blogspot.com
Society Guardian, 16 January 2008
Guardian Arts Diary, 27 February 2008
Building Design, 29 February 2008
Reuters, 29 February 2008
All in London: What's on and events, 29 February 2008
Metro, 4 March 2008

Delivering A Sure Start to Later Life
Gulbenkian funds new report from Counsel and Care, 27 February 2008
Over 1.2 million older people living in isolation, Richard Gray, Sunday Telegraph, 24 February 2008

Darwin inspires artists in London and the Galapagos
Gulbenkian awards significant grants to The Natural History Museum and the Galapagos Conservation Trust. The artists shortlisted for two new programmes responding to Darwin's ideas and the islands that inspired his theory of evolution are announced today, 11 February 2008.
The Sunday Times, Richard Brooks, 10 February 2008
BBC Radio 4 Today, 11 February 2008
24 Hour Museum, 11 February 2008
The Times, Simon Tait, 14 February 2008

Gulbenkian European Commissions for the Liverpool Biennial.
Gulbenkian will support a series of new commissions by European artists over a three-year period beginning in 2008, Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.

The Children Left Behind, Dispatches, Channel 4, 11 February 2008.
In new research funded by Gulbenkian, James Wetz argues that the size, design and organisation of comprehensive schools is a key factor in how pupils fare. Are the giant new schools now being built all over Britain really the best way to engage disaffected pupils, improve standards and reduce truancy and exclusion rates?

'Fresh Start' Managed Moves keep children in education
New publication Managed Moves: A complete guide to managed moves as an alternative to permanent exclusion by Adam Abdelnoor was published on 14 December 2007.
Education Guardian, 11 December 2007
TES, 18 January 2008
Learning Curve, 28 January 2008

Gulbenkian sponsors Environment category of the Sheila McKechnie Awards 2008
"The Foundation, which aims to take an innovative, international and involving approach to its work, is interested in this most global of social concerns and currently supports projects intended to help raise environmental awareness among the public." Andrew Barnett, 23 January 2008

Human Scale Schools
Teacher Steve McCormack reports on a reform – backed by the Gulbenkian Foundation and Human Scale Education – that will create smaller, friendlier units. The Independent, 17 January 2008
Moving on up: How can the transition to 'big school' be made less overwhelming and scary for 11-year-olds?, Caroline Roberts, Education Guardian, 5 February 2008

Involving, international and adventurous...
Andrew Barnett talks to Patrick Butler, Editor of Society Guardian, about taking the helm at the UK Branch and his priorities for the future. 1 January 2008
Andrew Barnett's biography

See our grant programmes for 2008

Everything Stopped
A new fly-on-the-wall documentary shows the impact of the arts on young people who have been excluded from school.
Moving Pictures
Richard Ings welcomes Everything Stopped, a new documentary about arts work with excluded young people

Recent Grants Awarded