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16 July 2021
Youth Card launched by leading social mobility charities
Speakers for Schools, UK Youth and Young Enterprise have combined to create the free app which will provide young people with a variety of career development opportunities as well as numerous discounts at different retailers.
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16 July 2021
Manchester International Festival: Far Away From Russia
The pandemic exposed and excluded elderly people from social life, with only their carers able to provide a short-lived moment of community in the midst of a stressful and alien time.
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16 July 2021
Notes on Grief
An affecting exploration of loss and remembrance, Notes on Grief adapts Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s original essay for the stage at this year’s Manchester International Festival.
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16 July 2021
All of This Unreal Time
Starring Cillian Murphy, the short film features a series of apologies, that in their poetical quality, result in a production that makes for thought-provoking viewing at Manchester International Festival 2021.
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16 July 2021
Manchester International Festival: Portrait of Black Britain By Cephas Williams
With Black Britain, a hot topic, Cephas Williams’s public exhibit showcases the diverse faces of the Black community and what it means to be Black in the UK.
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16 July 2021
Review: New Coal by Stacie Woolsey
Reviewing Stacie Woolsey's three-part narrative, based on a fictional industrial revolution after creating the strong, malleable and corrosion-resistant material of graphene in the north of England.
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16 July 2021
Sylvie, Loki, President Loki or Crocodile Loki???
If Loki is your favourite Marvel character (not villain he is just misunderstood) you will love the series. But are the series linking again? Will there be a cameo? Who knows.. well apart from the so-called "time keepers"...
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16 July 2021
Review: This Camera is Broken
Brimming with concentrated emotion and a dash of ambiguity, This Camera is Broken depicts a conversation between a veteran director and her younger self.
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16 July 2021
Through the Ages: The First Written Music
What you probably didn’t realise about the Middle Ages…
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16 July 2021
The elephant in the classroom: Equality in school
Claudia McIntosh talks about the work she is doing both in her school and more broadly to bring conversations of diversity and inclusivity into the forefront.
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16 July 2021
Eastbury Community School: ECS Empower Magazine
Discover the magazine created by students of Eastbury Community School that explores racism, colonialism in the curriculum, and reveals some shocking statistics about personal experiences of racism in secondary school pupils.
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16 July 2021
Inteview with Kiswa Akhtar, contributor to ECS Empower
14-year-old Kiswa Akhtar speaks to the power of open dialogue around racism, the process of creating a magazine, and her aspirations for the future.
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16 July 2021
Inteview with Affiyah Fayyaz, contributor to ECS Empower
12-year-old Affiyah Fayyaz tells us about the process of creating a magazine, their hopes for the future, and shares a simple message that we are all "amazing, unique, and beautiful, and there is nothing wrong with that".
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16 July 2021
How to create a student magazine
Have you got a burning message you want to share with your school peers? 14-year-old Kiswa Akhtar talks us through the steps to creating your own magazine, and how to draw on individual talents to produce something exceptional.
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16 July 2021
New Music Friday: Featuring Ed Staal, Jerome Thomas & more
Independent artists dominate using their creative control to produce authentic music that transcends trends. Ed Staal & Dom Porter represent soulful pop with their new release ‘With You’.
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16 July 2021
Interview with Testimony Olumoroti, contributor to ECS Empower
12-year-old Testimony Olumoroti tells us about the process of creating a magazine, and some of the challenges they faced.
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16 July 2021
Interview with Areesh Azhar, contributor to ECS Empower
12-year-old Areesh Azhar tells us about the process of creating a magazine, their hopes for the future, and shares a simple message that you should "never be afraid to share your opinion."
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15 July 2021
Voice Retrospects: Notting Hill
A look back at a classic English romantic comedy that is balm for the soul.