Resources | British Council

The British Council works across art forms and creative disciplines. Our activities in the arts and creative industries cover a wide range of areas including policy advocacy, research, capacity building in arts and creative skills, showcasing the best of UK and Vietnamese art, and promoting artistic and creative collaboration. In this section you will find resource materials useful for artists, creative professionals, arts and cultural managers, researchers, and those with an interest in the field of arts and creativity.

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Report - UK & Vietnam collaboration and development opportunities for the music business (2024-2027)

An industry education and development blueprint for the Vietnamese music industry

Festivals in South East Asia Report: Catalysts for the Creative Economy

Explore how festivals are driving economic impact across South East Asia.

UK-SEA Creative Hubs Connect

UK-SEA Creative Hubs Connect is a new online network connecting Creative Hub leaders, innovators, and practitioners in South East Asia and the UK.

Cultural and Creative Hubs Viet Nam – Project book

This publication will take you on the three-year journey of Cultural and Creative Hubs Viet Nam project through the stories which are contributed by the project’s participants.

Cultural and Creative Hubs Vietnam 2018–2021

A project funded by the European Union and implemented by the British Council in partnership with VICAS.

Heritage of Future Past – Resources

This section presents audio-visual and textual content generated across the two strands of the project: Community Cultural Heritage, and FAMLAB

Mapping Creative Hubs in Vietnam

Mapping Creative Hubs in Vietnam lists over 140 creative hubs in Vietnam, which have over two million ‘likes’ on their collective Facebook pages. This number is still growing.

Creative hubs: Learning from Europe, lessons for Vietnam

Research report by Prof. Andy Pratt, City University London, commissioned by the British Council.

The regulatory framework for creative hubs in Vietnam

The British Council in collaboration with the Vietnam National Institute of Arts and Culture Studies (VICAS) initiate this research programme.

Policy

The National Strategy for the Development of Cultural Industries to 2020, vision 2030 (draft version) has set an ambitious vision and direction for the culture industries in Vietnam.

The mapping of creative hubs in Vietnam

The research highlights the exciting new period for the creative hubs in Vietnam

A research paper about policy and creative hubs in Vietnam

Journalist and media consultant Truong Uyen Ly presents an insight into the cultural/creative industries, and a firsthand account of running a creative hub in Vietnam.

Creative hubkit: Made by hubs for emerging hubs

The Creative HubKit is a free toolkit for people already managing or looking to set up a creative hub.

Creative Enterprise Toolkit

British Council Vietnam proudly presents the Creative Enterprise Toolkit with methods for teaching enterprise skills to creative individuals who are thinking of setting up a business.