Free the Word! 2010 partners
 | Bloomberg is delighted to sponsor Free the Word!, International PEN's festival of world literature in London. As a leading global financial communications company, Bloomberg is deeply committed to education and creativity, and to expanding access to art, science and the humanities across boundaries. Bloomberg is proud to support Free the Word! for a third time, a festival that gives voice to some of the world's most inspiring writers and that reaches out to London's diverse audiences. www.bloomberg.com |
 | Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts, distributing grant-in aid and lottery funding to the arts sector. We support International PEN's Free the Word! festival through our Grants for the arts funding scheme. The festival contributes to our priorities of excellence, engagement and reach, and our International Policy, by bringing leading international authors to the UK. www.artscouncil.org.uk |
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 | The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was established in Portugal in 1956. The purpose of the UK Branch, based in London, is to help enrich and connect the experiences of people in the UK and Ireland and secure lasting, beneficial change. A key aim of its work is to improve cultural understanding, including through initiatives to promote literature in translation. www.gulbenkian.org.uk |
 | 26 is a UK association of writers, editors, publishers and designers from both the arts and commercial world who share a love of words. We are delighted to be collaborating with International PEN on Free the Word! for the third year running. Through '26:50', our creative project marking 50 years of the Writers in Prison Committee, and the 26 ‘Free the Blog', our partnership with International PEN upholds our belief that language and writing can bring about positive change. www.26.org.uk |
 | Foyles bookshop is the official bookseller for Free the Word! and will be selling the festival writers' books from 14 to 18 April. For more in international fiction, history, politics and art, visit Foyles at the Southbank Centre. Or come to our flagship store on Charing Cross Road or our shop at St Pancras or our newest shop at Westfield London. www.foyles.co.uk |
 | ICORN is the International Cities of Refuge Network, an association of cities and regions around the world dedicated to the value of freedom of expression. We work closely with International PEN's Writers in Prison Committee; and by providing writers with a safe place to stay, and economic security for a standard term of two years, ICORN cities make an important, practical contribution to the promotionof freedom of expression. www.icorn.org |
 | The future for the UK depends on people of all cultures living together on foundations of education, mutual understanding, respect and trust. Books by their very nature encourage expression and discussion. Dialogue is a fundamental tool we at the British Council use in stimulating an imaginative spark that may lead to joint solutions and will strengthen cultural relations. www.britishcouncil.org |
 | The Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel is delighted to sponsor Free the Word!, International PEN's festival of world literature in London. The hotel, located inthe heart of Bloomsbury, has commissioned an entire wall dedicated to one of Bloomsbury's most famous exports: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street is the first hotel to host its very own 'book club' each month, and is considered the hotel of choice for London's literati. |
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