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🎉👏 Congratulations to all the #TurnerPrize nominees!

We're proud to have artworks by #ClaudetteJohnson and #DelaineLeBas as part of our #BritishCouncilCollection and have previously worked with Jasleen Kaur through our wider programme.

As opening week for #ListeningAllNightToTheRain at the #BritishPavilion draws to a close, you can still visit the exhibition in Venice until 24 November, or discover more online with our digital guide

👉 bit.ly/3W0pot2
@La_Biennale @smokingdog

♥️👏The 2024 #BritishPavilion would not have been possible without our numerous collaborators and partners.

Thanks to our headline partner @burberry for your continued support.

@La_Biennale @smokingdog #ListeningAllNighttotheRain

Don't leave it too late! If you've started your #InternationalCollaborationGrants application, make sure you submit before the 30 April deadline!

👊 Toolkit bit.ly/ICG_Toolkit
🚶‍♂️ Videos bit.ly/ICG_Videos
❓ FAQs bit.ly/ICG_FAQs

🔗 bit.ly/3S8a3mN

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🎧 New music and conversation with the incredible lucy rose
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😍 We’re delighted to support Crip Arte Spazio at @la_biennale

A huge, joyous and exuberant celebration showcasing the dynamism, wit, and grandeur of the Disability Arts Movement (DAM), curated by David Hevey.

👉 shapearts.org.uk/event/crip-art…
📷 Andy Barker

🎞️ #ListeningAllNightToTheRain artist John Akomfrah @smokingdog in conversation with this year’s Associate Curator Tarini Malik, discussing the themes behind this year's #BritishPavilion exhibition.

👉 See the full interview bit.ly/43SxKVI

🎙 Find out about our expanded public programme for #ListeningAllNightToTheRain

Inspired by the themes in John Akomfrah’s #BritishPavilion exhibition and providing a platform for new voices to connect with audiences beyond Venice

👉 bit.ly/3VZBfYo @smokingdog

⏰ Last chance to apply!

🌍 If you have a cultural project with an international ambition in mind and need funding to help realise it, here's your last chance to apply.

🔗 bit.ly/3S8a3mN

📅 Deadline: 30 April
#InternationalCollaborationGrants

💬 'For Akomfrah water is an endlessly generative image that provides a poetic language in which to think the world anew'

@La_Biennale #BritishPavilion curator Tarini Malik delves into the ideas behind #ListeningAllNightToTheRain @smokingdog

👉 bit.ly/3UdhBXH

#ListeningAllNightToTheRain by John Akomfrah @smokingdog is now officially open at @la_biennale 🎉

🔉📽️ The #BritishPavilion 2024 exhibition puts forward a manifesto that encourages the act of listening as a form of activism.

👉 bit.ly/3JgLOyw

Say hello to our Venice Fellows 🤝

A diverse group of visionary creatives and ambitious art students, they will work alongside John to enrich the #BritishPavilion programme of public events and develop their own practice.

👉 bit.ly/3xtiqmd
#ListeningAllNightToTheRain

⏰ Less than two weeks left to apply for an International Collaboration Grant of up to £75k.

🤝 The grants will support cultural collaborations around the world.

🔗 bit.ly/3S8a3mN

📅 Apply by 30 April
#InternationalCollaborationGrants

✨A special edition of Plaster Magazine dedicated to Smoking Dogs Films #ListeningAllNighttotheRain at #BritishPavilion La Biennale di Venezia 👀

Venice Biennale: John Akomfrah’s British Pavilion Tackles the Environment dlvr.it/T5ZPGW

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Independent Arts

'With 62 screens and 31 hours of footage, veteran video artist John Akomfrah’s Venice Biennale work, ‘Listening All Night to the Rain’, is a visual feast'

@smokingdog #ListeningAllNighttotheRain #BritishPavilion

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian culture review for @smokingdog #ListeningAllNighttotheRain #BritishPavilion 👇

John Akomfrah on representing Britain at the 60th Venice Biennale: ‘I am both terrified and enjoying being in charge’. Find out more here: christie-s.visitlink.me/rq5d3w

'Venice is very much the unseen guest in every one of the chapters in these works: it is the silent partner' John Akomfrah in The Art Newspaper 👇

@smokingdog #ListeningAllNighttotheRain #BritishPavilion