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6 July 2017
Social Media- Personal Expression or Personal Overload?
Social media is a constant and up in coming way which people can use to express themselves. However how much can be classed as expression. In my article I explore this idea.
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5 July 2017
Macbeth - Globe Theatre
Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about the rise and fall of a Scottish nobleman. I watched it being performed at the Globe Theatre in London, and this is my review of it.
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5 July 2017
Hookworms supported by Carla dal Forno review
Carla dal Forno opened for Hookworms in the Pavilion Theatre with her own hypnotic minimalist take on personal songwriting. Only Hookworms themselves kicked things off properly.
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5 July 2017
How to review an exhibition
How do you review something that can be so contentious?
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8 July 2017
Free Creative Development Workshop and Performance
Come and take part in a free workshop, then have the chance to ask all the questions you have about training and working in the arts! Finally, you'll get to see Wac Arts' Diploma students perform - all for free!
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5 July 2017
Grand Arena Youth Theatre Blog
Welcome to the Grand Arena Youth Theatre Blog where you can find out all about what our members get up to on a monthly basis.
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5 July 2017
Talk: Music for a Busy City with Philip Venables, Anna Meredith, Matthew Herbert and Huang Ruo
How privileged we are to have these composers give us their music and enrich our everyday life. This was the opening sentiment of this talk with four of the six composers of site-specific music for the project Music for a Busy City set across the city centre.
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4 July 2017
Harrison Marks, Discover achiever
The latest young person to break down their Arts Award experience is the Discover done by Year 1 student, Harrison Marks from Abbey Catholic Primary with some help from Mrs. Howard.
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4 July 2017
Katie, Caitlin and Hannah, Bronze achievers
Three Year 6 students took on their Bronze Arts Award together and lived to tell the tale. With the help of their Advisor, Mrs. Lonergan, we hear about their experience.
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4 July 2017
Sangam 2017 with Harshdeep Kaur review
Kaur was supposed to be one half of this mega set of three hours from the first Indian artist to perform at MIF, but when forced to carry the whole thing alone, she still blew the roof off.
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4 July 2017
Should Body image stereotypes matter within Performing Arts?
This is my unit 1 part D Arts Issue. I focused on body image stereotypes throughout the performing arts industry, this includes dance, drama and modelling, and how these reflect on upcoming generations. Also looking into the different weight and height restrictions there are throughout company's and auditions and why this is the case.
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4 July 2017
Challenging stereotypes in dance.
I am a dance student completing Gold Arts Award. in my blog I challenge stereotypes in dance, especially gender stereotypes.
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4 July 2017
Why do parents not want their children to take art subjects at GCSE/A level?
This is my Gold Arts Award Unit 1 Part D Arts Issue. I focused on why parents might not want their child to take an arts subject at GCSE/A level.
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4 July 2017
Dancing Through Distress - The Gender Struggles in the Dance Industry
I am student studying the Gold Arts Award. For this Arts Issue, I have decided to focus on the gender stereotypes and the struggles young men and women face when going into the dance industry. I decided to research deeper into this issue after receiving a comment from a family member regarding an all boys performance at a recent showcase.
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4 July 2017
Why some parents do not want their child taking art based subjects at GCSE/ A Level?
I have discussed the issue of why some parents do not want their child taking art form based subjects at GCSE/A Level as there are many different opinions on this. The reason I went into detail about this subject is because I was curious to see what other people's opinion was on this topic for my Gold Arts Award.
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4 July 2017
Why is dance so underrated in schools?
I'm a Gold Arts Award student and for my Arts Issue I've looked at why people don't support dance in schools. It is a very important topic to me and I have enjoyed looking into it further.
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4 July 2017
Do the arts benefit the elderly?
As the world ages it also creates more wonderful ideas to enhance the lives of the living. In this article I am discussing the benefits of the arts and how they make a large impact on the lives of many. I am very interested in this topic and have written this for my Gold Arts Award!
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3 July 2017
Questiong The Stigma Held Within Ballet
This is a subject that has always interested me from my own personal experiences with ballet and my general interests in the art altogether. I decided to write this arts issue for my gold arts award as its something that has always been such an issue within the world of ballet and dance itself as an art form overall and I felt so passionate about it and wanted to share this with others to see what they thought.