NEW DEADLINE for The Wellcome Trust Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts. - new deadline 2 May 2008

Inspire - Award from Scottish Arts Council The Scottish Arts Council has launched Inspire, a major new Lottery fund for the development of exciting, innovative projects

2008 Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Grants ProgrammeApplications are invited under the following funding programmes in 2008

AIR – Artists’ Interaction and Representation is a membership scheme for practising visual and applied artists that provides them with professional benefits and opportunities to represent their aspirations and concerns to others

McMaster Review: Supporting excellence in the arts - from measurement to judgement

Bristol Community & Festival Fund The fund is for Bristol-based community groups, organisations, companies and charities that are organising existing, or emerging cultural festivals and events in Bristol from April 2008 - March 2009

moves08 one of the largest exhibition platforms in the UK for screen-based work exploring 'choreographed movement’.. moves is now accepting submissions for features, shorts and documentaries with a special focus on movement made in 2006, 2007 and 2008 only. Deadline: 1 February 2008

Liverpool 2008 opens at 20:08 on Friday 11 January, the artists and people of the city are set to gather together on St George's Plateau. The People's Opening will include an extraordinary performance from the rooftops surrounding the cultural heart of the city. This will be the official People's Launch of the Year of Culture

The Wellcome Trust Arts Awards - small to medium-sized projects (up to and including £30,000) The Wellcome Trust believes the arts are an effective way of stimulating debate and engaging people with biomedical science

British Dance Edition 30 January - 2 February 2008
36 of the UK’s most exciting dance companies will perform across Liverpool’s major arts venues, with new and emerging work featuring alongside some of the more established and well known companies

Birds Eye View Film Festival 2008 The UK's celebration of women filmmakers returns with a stunning selection of international features, docs and short films

African Soul Rebels After three series of acclaimed concerts, the African Soul Rebels tour has raised its game further for 2008, uniting two legends and a young groundbreaker for 10 nights in venues across England... a West African spectacular

States of Exchange: Artists from Cuba @ iniva
23 January - 22 March 2008
Rivington Place, London, EC2A 3BA

IN SIDE#NO FORM The Embassy of Brazil in London is pleased to announce Ricardo Carioba’s IN SIDE#NO FORM. Ricardo Carioba is currently an artist-in-residency in London through the Artist Links programme, a joint initiative from Arts Council England and British Council, with support from the Visiting Arts

EAST'08 - from February to April, the North East will host a number of events designed to make connections with Chinese, Japanese and South Asian cultures and countries

There Is No I In Team To coincide with the celebrations of the Chinese New Year in Newcastle, There Is No I In Team includes installations and screenings of artist’s film, video and animation work that explores the new role of the individual in China today

London International Mime Festival

5th London Short Film Festival

SHEN: Chinese Icons of Divinity This exhibition will explore the carved wooden images found in Chinese temples and on household altars, both within China and in Chinese diaspora communities, and what the gods and deities mean to devotees (Bath)