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British Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, Sajid Javid here on Tuesday launched a new £6.5 million fund, set up by the Arts Council England and the British Council, to build creative connections between the people of the UK and India.
Titled ‘Re-Imagine India’, the fund will support artists and cultural organisations to exchange ideas and influences, promote new creative collaborations, showcase the best of UK and Indian arts across a range of forms. While the new fund will last till 2017, there is a likelyhood of additional funds for the project in 2016, British sources said.
The Minister, who led the delegation of experts, hosted a roundtable on UK-India museum partnerships. The meeting discussed opportunities in sharing best practices in collections, policies, strategies, HR, education programming, and audience profiling in Indian and UK museums and galleries.
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