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After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions
Leading artists and writers explore Charles Darwin's book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals – with new and existing work from Jeremy Deller and Matthew Killip with Richard Wiseman, Diana Thater, Mark Haddon, Ruth Padel, Bill Viola, Tina Gonsalves and Gautier Deblonde. Exhibition supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
25 June 2009 Natural History Museum

Marcus Coates wins the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize
Marcus Coates, who in 2008 visited Galapagos on the Gulbenkian Galapagos Artists Residency programme, has won the inaugural Daiwa Foundation Art Prize for his film of Giant Tortoises, Intelligent Design. After his residency Coates commented: 'I have come away with a lifetime’s worth of ideas and inspiration.’ 17 June 2009

Diverse young Europeans show what it means to belong
Today, Manifesta and the Runnymede Trust release over 40 films from young people across Europe on the theme of belonging – addressing the realities of migration and settlement in London, Lisbon and Paris. A project supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The educational resources will be made available by Runnymede free of charge to schools and youth workers. 21 May 2009
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Dark Matter at the Hay Festival, 30 May 2009
Join Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Maurice Riordan, Paul Murdin, James Fenton and Sian Ede at the Hay Festival for readings and conversation on the theme of poetry and space in celebration of the UNESCO Year of Astronomy.

Get It: The Power of Cultural Learning
Feedback and recommendations from a public consultation by the Cutlure and Learning Consortium. 27 April 2009

Sheila McKechnie Awards 2009
The Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK), the UK’s only charity dedicated to supporting campaigners across a wide spectrum of issues, has launched its annual awards programme for campaigners. The twelve award categories include the Environment Award sponsored by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. This award is for campaigners of all ages based in the UK who are working to provide sustainable solutions to the environmental problems we face locally and globally. Closing date for entries to the Awards is Tuesday 30 June 2009.

TREE by Tania Kovats is installed at the Natural History Museum, 19 March 2009
Inlaid into the ceiling of a mezzanine gallery behind the Museum’s iconic Central Hall TREE is the largest botany specimen on display at the Museum. It is a 17-metre-long wafer-thin section of a 200-year-old oak tree, from the roots, to the trunk and branches. Commissioned with support from the Foundation, the artwork was chosen from 10 proposals by a shortlist of leading artists at the Darwin’s Canopy exhibition held at the Museum in summer 2008.

Litterbugs
Policy Exhange and Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) launch new report Litterbugs, supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, to highlight the blight of littering in Britain, and to propose new means of cracking down on those responsible. 9 March 2009
Bill Bryson, President of CPRE, says "We must build civic pride in clean and tidy environments."
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The Embodied Mind
A report of the Foundation's groundbreaking symposium held at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in December 2008 is now available as a PDF to download free of charge.

Gulbenkian to focus on Cultural Understanding, Fulfilling Potential and the Environment
press release 19 January 2009
Download our Strategic Plan 2009

Funding in 2009
In 2009 we are working in a new way. The majority of our funding will be proactive and we will identify and work with partners whose activities will best meet our aims.
Our aims and current Partnerships and Initiatives are set out here.
Our only responsive programme is a new Innovation Fund.

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