The UK and India have signed a “cultural cooperation agreement” to encourage more collaboration between the two countries’ creative businesses and cultural institutions.
The deal was announced by the UK’s culture secretary Lisa Nandy who is in India with a delegation of senior leaders from the British Film Institute (BFI) and other organisations.
Full details have not yet been disclosed but the culture secretary has said she wants to see more collaboration between UK and Indian film productions.
The agreement will also involve British Council in India and the Indian Ministry of Culture, with support from major UK institutions including Arts Council England, the British Library, the British Museum, Natural History Museum, Science Museum Group and the V&A Museum. They will work to launch new partnerships on exhibitions or public programmes that engage the Indian diaspora in the UK.
“In the arts and creative industries, Britain and India lead the world and I look forward to this agreement opening up fresh opportunities for collaboration, innovation and economic growth for our artists, cultural institutions and creative businesses,” Nandy said.
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