When Polish and British artists meet this year for the UK–Poland period 2025 — a programme of over 1 100 events across forty cities — they are doing more than celebrating creativity. They are investigating the strength of a relation shaped by war, migration, and a rapidly changing Europe, which is now being renegotiated in the wake of Brexit and ongoing tensions on the continent’s borders.
Poland has become 1 of Britain’s closest partners in Central and east Europe: a NATO ally, a frontline state in supporting Ukraine, and a origin of 1 of the UK’s largest migrant communities. Yet this closeness has not always translated into cultural understanding. The Season, organized by the British Council, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and Polish Cultural Institute, seeks to fill that gap by highlighting artistic innovation that underpins diplomacy.
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