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23 November 2015
Top tip 1: Love your art
Choose an arts activity you really enjoy and you'll love doing your award too. Arts Award lets you decide what you do, so now's the time to get into some crazy art form no-one's heard of but you think is great. Maybe it's time to give yarn-bombing a go?
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23 November 2015
Want my job…with Noah Altshuler
Noah Altshuler is an 18-year-old playwright who is currently working as playwright in residence at the Mark Twain House & Museum. His play The Sawyer Studies opens next Tuesday at Camden's Etcetera Theatre.
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19 November 2015
What goes on at? Takeover Day
Takeover Day was set up by Kids in Museums to allow children the chance to experience 'meaningful roles, working alongside staff and volunteers to participate in the life of the museum'. Takeover Day 2015 is happening tomorrow, with arts institutions and platforms across the UK allowing over 5000 kids to get behind the wheel. We caught up with Project Administrator, Mikaela Webb to find out more.
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18 November 2015
How to..write about sports
A lot of people want to write about sports. However, most people don't know how to do so. This article will help you out a little bit.
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10 November 2015
What goes on at...Shakespeare School's Festival
This year, we're running a review writing competition with Shakespeare School's Festival. You can review any SSF performance, just upload it to Voice and add it to the 'Shakespeare School's Festival' Voicebox to enter. We chatted to SSF's Venue Director Iain Jones to find out more about the festival.
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7 November 2015
MozFest2015-AADigital
Arts Award are down at MozFest 2015 this weekend to look at the ways we can get creative with technology and digital media.
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5 November 2015
Get Gold - a blog by Emrys
A new blog by Arts Award Youth Network Project Manager, Emrys Green, sharing insights and ideas from his experience of doing and advising on Arts Award. Informal ramblings designed to give some useful information about how you can achieve your own Gold Arts Award.
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5 November 2015
Get Gold with the Arts Award Youth Network
If you read my first post, then you'll known that I have the privilege of managing the Arts Award Youth Network. We run events and activities to support young people interested in the arts and Arts Award.
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5 November 2015
Get Gold with a difference
Gold is about preparing you for the creative industries - in a way A levels don't often do (in my opinion). Keeping a broad cultural experience is exciting.
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5 November 2015
Get Gold by reaching out
Outreach programmes and 'making art accessible' are not about belittling it, relying on 'amateur' work, or squeezing it into strange places.
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5 November 2015
Get Gold with literature
Literature isn't always the first art form that comes to mind for many. But wow is that a mistake. I personally enjoy reading a good book - it's just finding the time. It can certainly be more fulfilling than watching the film equivalent.
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3 November 2015
Bugsy Malone by Granit
Nightingale Class from Cambridge School went to the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith to see Bugsy Malone.
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2 November 2015
Music and Me - a love letter
Me and music go back a long, long way. But recently...let's just say things are a bit complicated. Here's what happened:
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30 October 2015
Arts Award Off The Shelf: Laura Dockrill
Arts Award Voice's deputy editor Tom interviews Laura Dockrill about how she decided to get into writing, and the authors that inspired her to follow her dream career. This video will be useful if you are completing the Arts Award Part C Inspiration section of your Bronze portfolio.
Tom also talks to Emma Jones from the Ministry of Stories about the ways in which they support young people taking their Arts Award to find their own inspiration.
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27 October 2015
What's Happening for the Young - Subjectivity UK
As part of the What's Happening for the Young Festival that took place at the Southbank Centre this weekend, Subjectivity UK held a talk entitled "Crime and Punishment Vs. the Youth". This discussion incorporated performance and specialist speakers to look at issues inspired by an article from the UN Convention.
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24 October 2015
Volunteering at festivals: my experience at Durham Book Festival
Getting involved in festivals can be a great way of getting experience in the industry and getting access to events, as I found out reviewing and volunteering at this year's Durham Book Festival.
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12 October 2015
Competition Brief: SSF reviewing on Arts Award Voice
Starting today, primary, secondary and sixth form students are being given the chance to enter reviews of Shakespeare School Festival (SSF) performances to a special competition on Voice!
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5 October 2015
Arts Award movers and shakers: Diana Walton
Diana has been around since the first shoots of Arts Award grew in the West Midlands in 2000 and has helped the award to flourish over the years