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Chiletabacos runs a Culture Bus for the local communities

Chile

Our company Chiletabacos runs a Culture Bus in the towns of San Fernando and Casablanca where it operates, visiting communities with books, magazines and educational materials for loan free of charge.  Users can also receive basic computer training.  In its first 3 months, more books were loaned through the Culture Bus in Casablanca than in the previous 20 years through the local library.

Netherlands

The British American Tobacco Artventure Collection  is a collection owned by the company of more than 1,400 contemporary artworks, mainly paintings, by artists from over 40 countries.  It was founded originally to improve the factory working environment and today has become one of Europe’s most notable contemporary art collections. It is exhibited at company sites in the Netherlands, Switzerland and France.

UK

As part of our 2002 Centenary celebrations, we sponsored a new production of Bizet's Carmen at the Glyndebourne opera house and, to bring it to a wider audience, sponsored a live relay of a performance shown free to the public on a big screen in the courtyard of Somerset House in central London.

Venezuela

The Bigott Foundation  was established in 1963 as a division of our local subsidiary Cigarrera Bigott and has become a centre of excellence for promoting and preserving Venezuelan culture.  The Foundation's popular workshops on traditional music and dance, staged annually in Caracas, attract hundreds of entrants and have helped in the success of many professional performance groups.  It has helped to make traditional Venezuelan culture more available via books, magazines, radio and television, works closely with the Ministry of Education, supports teacher training on Venezuelan folklore and helps to export the culture through overseas performances.