Cosmetic company Lush's new adverts have been labelled pornographic and banned in Australia, but body positive campaigns like this are exactly what we need.

I'm taking a slightly new slant this month. Partly because I've been terrible over the summer and ashamedly got out of the habit of my regular blogging. But I hope that this blog becomes a useful resource for our exciting new Gold Hub - a dedicated collection of resources and support on Voice to help you complete your Gold Arts Award - so I'm going to improve the regularity.

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!

My opinion on the current state of Hip Hop today.

Do you have what it takes to be the next Billy Elliot, can you dance like Ashley Banjo or perhaps you want to be the next Fred Astaire? – DanceEast wants you!

The BBC filmed ten pieces of classical music for Arts Award's tenth birthday! Well no, they didn't. But Ten Pieces? Tenth birthday? It's meant to be. They made the BBC Music Ten Pieces film in order to inspire young people of secondary school age to embrace classical music and filmmaking.

This month, we're celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday. We've called on the Arts Award Youth Network to discuss the impact that Arts Award has had on them. Today, it's our Voice Community Coordinator, Sally Trivett.

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

The most important arts and media stories of the week

To Be or not To Be at NAYT... That is the question

This month we're teaming up with Bath Literature Festival, and delving into the world of lit.

This month we're teaming up with Bath Festivals to bring you news and opinions from the festival, and the wider world of lit. Here, we meet festival Literature Producer, Judith Robinson.