Performance art: Niya B ©

Brian Hartley

Since 2019, we have awarded grants to support exchange, collaboration and research between the UK and the Philippines.  

Prior to Covid-19, we offered mobility grants designed to support exciting collaborative initiatives in the arts which involved international travel. Given the uncertainty and restrictions brought by the pandemic, we awarded the following grants to deliver online/digital art residencies, exhibitions, webinars, archives, toolkits and research in 2020: 

Meet our grantees and learn more about their initiatives that celebrate diverse cultural expression and knowledge sharing.

Collaboration Grantees
Name of grantee Project

Carmen Flores, Nottingham Chamber Music Festival (United Kingdom)

UP Arco, Joselle Cayetano (Philippines)

Bridging Communities in Music: String Ensembles in Manila and Leyte

Pilot Theatre LTD (United Kingdom)

Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) (Philippines)

 Coastal Connections

Jasmine Gardosi (United Kingdom)

Leandro Reyes, Babaylanes (Philippines)

 Dancing To Music You Hate: The Philippine Remix

Earl "Tengal" Drilon (Philippines)

Freya Edmondes aka Elvin Brandhi (United Kingdom)

 Forage Friction

Katherine Nunez (Philippines)

Renata Minoldo (United Kingdom)

 growing a field

Jen Horn (Good Food Community) (Philippines)

Malaika Cunningham (The Bare Project) (United Kingdom)

 Hapag Ugnayan Potlucks: an international exchange with women creatives and land workers

Lokal Lab (Philippines)

ESEA Green Lions (United Kingdom)

 Nature KwenTour: Exploring Island-urban dialogues from Siargao to London

Ken Santos (Philippines)

Angel Cohn Castle (United Kingdom)

 Shame Parade

Rappler (Philippines)

Atlantic Institute - XR Lab (United Kingdom)

  Swallowed by Water

Anjeline de Dios (Philippines)

Lorna Nickson Brown (United Kingdom)

  The Net

Collaboration Grantees
Name of grantee Project

Komiket (Philippines)

Lakes Arts Festivals (United Kingdom)

 Comics Create A Better World

Mica Cabildo (Philippines)

Curtis Cresswell (United Kingdom)

 The Possibility of Forests: Twin Installations in a Celtic Rainforest and a Tropical Cloud Rainforest

TAYO House of Culture and Creativity (Philippines)

Bea Gemperle (United Kingdom)

 Where the Flowers Bloom: Transforming the Colonial Study and artistry of Philippine-UK Botanicals through weaving identity in the retelling of biodiversity amidst the Ecological Crisis

Paul Jatayna (Elephant) (Philippines)

INFERNO London (United Kingdom)

 God Save the Queen, Bless the Badings

Ram Botero (Philippines)

Giulia Casalini (United Kingdom)

 Performing Diwata: Locating exotransfeminism in precolonial Philippine mythology

Diego Maranan (UP Open University) (Philippines)

Amy Holt (United Kingdom)

 biosignals

Derek Tumala (Philippines)

Ligaya Salazar (United Kingdom)

 Wild Patch

Gantala Press (Philippines)

Tilted Axis Press (United Kingdom)

 Song and Sovereignty: Food Justice and the Preservation of Local Farming Culture

Twinkle Ferraren (Philippines)

League of Artisans (United Kingdom)

 Inspiring Creative Action to Help Artisan Communities Surmount Climate Change Induced Disaster

Binhi Creatives (Philippines)

Michelle Roche (United Kingdom)

 Listen: Can you hear the fish Cry? An embodied audio project with writers in the UK and the Philippies platforming voices impacted by Climate Crisis

Collaboration Grantees
Name of grantee Project

Joseph Wallace, Animation Director, writer and producer (England, United Kingdom)

Jemina Legaspi, Filmmaker (Bulacan, Philippines)

 Environmental Storytelling Through Stop Motion Animation: An exploration of recycled puppetry, sustainable practice and poetic visions

Mac Andre Arboleda, Artist and Founding President, UP Internet Freedom Network (Laguna, Philippines)

April Lin, Artist-filmmaker and videographer (England, United Kingdom)

 Toolkits for Counterparts

Emerging Islands, Arts for impact organisation (La Union, Philippines)

Mandy Barker, Photographer (England, United Kingdom)

 Plastic Passages: Mapping our way towards collective sea change

Jerome Dulin, Founder and Director, North Luzon Cinema Guild, Inc. (Cagayan, Philippines)

Noémie Mendelle, Director, Scottish Documentary Institute (Scotland, United Kingdom)

 LensesXCultures (Lenses Cross Cultures): Creative documentary film lab

Alumni Grantee

MATIC Hub or Materials, Art, Technology, Innovation and Creativity Hub (Cebu, Philippines)

Gillian Easson, Director, Creative Dundee (Scotland, United Kingdom)

 #MaterialsWiki - A virtual knowledge sharing with arts and design students

Collaboration Grantees 
Name of grantee Project

Renan Laru-an, Public Engagement and Artistic Formation Coordinator, Philippine Contemporary Art, UP Vargas Museum (Sultan Kudarat, Philippines)

Helena Hunter and Mandy El-Sayegh, Artists (England, United Kingdom) 

 Into the year of birds and clouds (Motions of this Kind 2021 Digital Archives and Research) 

MATIC Hub represented by Patricia Kyle Gillera Mendoza, Project Manager (Cebu, Philippines)

Gillian Easson, Director, Creative Dundee (Scotland, United Kingdom) 

 Materials Library Expansion – An art and cultural research collaboration between Cebu and Dundee UNESCO Creative Cities of Design 

33-33 represented by Nathan Comer, Project Manager (England, United Kingdom)

University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology represented by Dr LaVerne de la Peña, Director (Quezon City, Philippines)  

 José Maceda’s ‘Cassette 100’ – an international online broadcast 

Everything Green Trading and Consulting represented by Camille Rose Albarracin, Chief Greennovator (Quezon City, Philippines)

Ericka Santiago, Independent fashion designer (England, United Kingdom)  

 DisPOSE: A collaborative virtual runway of agri-waste footwear and accessories by Filipino artisans and UK designers 

Nathalie Dagmang, Artist and Educator, Ateneo de Manila University (Marikina, Philippines)

Deirdre McKay, Professor, Keele University (England, United Kingdom)  

 Situating soundscapes and textures of migration: A psychogeographic map of the Filipino diaspora during the Covid-19 pandemic 

Niya B, Transfeminist artist (England, United Kingdom)

Bunny Cadag, Multi-disciplinary artist (Manila, Philippines) 

 Intimate Threads – performance making and gender plurality in the UK and the Philippines: online residencies and performances
Arts and Creative Economy Research Grantees  
Name of grantee  Research focus 
Stephanie Tudtud, Educator and Creative Director, White Brick (Cebu, Philippines)
 Implementation Framework of a 'Practical' Makerspace & Incubator in Cebu City  
Diego Silang Maranan, Educator and Co-founder, SEAD (Quezon City, Philippines) 
 The Creative Turn in the Sciences  
Ma Himaya Tamayo, Co-founder, Angat Bayi (Quezon City, Philippines) 
 CREATE Local

For more information, contact us at arts@britishcouncil.org.ph.

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