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The Connections Through Culture programme nurtures fresh cultural partnerships between the UK and select countries in Asia Pacific and Europe, including Georgia. This programme supports new ideas and collaborations from artists and cultural organisations at any stage of development.

The funding in this round of the Connections Through Culture programme, directed to UK partners for UK-Georgia collaborations that focus on two areas: diversity and inclusion as well as addressing climate change. The collaborations across borders and artistic disciplines will lead to new ideas to address these global challenges.

The programme supports new connections, exchanges and collaborations between artists, cultural professionals, creative practitioners and art and cultural organisations.

2025 Projects: Georgia

Connections Through Culture – Reclaiming Bodies in Motion

Reclaiming Bodies in Motion

UK: Stopgap Dance Company

Georgia: InForm – Platform for Inclusive Minds

The project aims to address the challenges disabled artists face by founding the ground for long-term collaboration, where inclusive art is still in its early stages. Through a six-day intensive workshop, public performance and production of a dance film, the project brings together disabled and non-disabled dancers in Georgia with two professional artists from Stopgap.

Connections Through Culture – TRAPLORD at the Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre

TRAPLORD at the Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre

UK: Ivan Blackstock Company

Georgia: Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre

This Olivier Award-winning multimedia dance performance takes its audience on a transformative journey between dreams and reality. Mediated through the influences of street and internet culture, the performance utilises a raw and confrontational style of dance, movement and spoken word to examine opposing themes from police brutality and gang culture, to transformation, mental resilience and spirituality.