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23 November 2015Top tip 6: My beautiful portfolio
View FeatureThis is where you show off your wonderful work so get it going it from the off. Document everything as you go – or you'll miss out best bits! Your portfolio may come in handy for college or job interviews, so make sure you're proud! Take a look at Tom's Gold portfolio or Dan's Gold Blog or Corina's Bronze work experience blog.
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23 November 2015Top tip 4: Remember the backstage boys (and girls)
View FeatureCheck out the guys behind the art – techies, curators, website designers, marketeers…interesting work. Kolby thought so too – read his Gold opinion piece.
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23 November 2015Top tip 3: Artists are wonderful
View FeatureFind them, talk to them, work with them - get inspired across the arts. Great place to start is reading Voice interviews …and you'll find some artists already love Arts Award, check poet Holly McNIsh
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23 November 2015Top tip 2: KISS
View FeatureKeep It Simple Stupid! Challenge yourself to do one creative thing - don't make life too complicated. Check out Voice's How to guides for straight-talking help.
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23 November 2015Top tip 1: Love your art
View FeatureChoose 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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Interview
23 November 2015Want my job…with Noah Altshuler
View InterviewNoah 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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Review
22 November 2015Atom Egoyan's ‘Steenbeckett’
View ReviewReview of Steenbeckett exhibition at the MAC in Birmingham.
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Interview
20 November 2015Arts Award Movers and shakers: Ginny Scholey
View InterviewGinny has been rooting for Arts Award in Yorkshire since 2005 working with CapeUK.
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Blog
19 November 2015Working at Affinity Festival: Part 2
View BlogThroughout the week we had been working on making decorations for our area of the festival, the Space. Having spent weeks coming up with design ideas and sourcing materials, now was the time to put it into reality. Ola, myself and Leila had all been part of the same team working on this area.
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Blog
19 November 2015Working at Affinity Festival: Part 1
View BlogThe weekend before last a very exciting festival was held at Nottingham Contemporary for 15-25 year olds. Affinity Festival was a huge success, starting on Friday at 12pm and ending Saturday at 12am.
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Interview
19 November 2015What goes on at? Takeover Day
View InterviewTakeover 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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19 November 2015Top tip 10: Use your Voice
View FeatureLove the content on our new site? Get posting now!
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Interview
18 November 2015What's it like to intern at Affinity Festival?
View InterviewCollabor-8 collective are a group of young people aged 15-25 in Nottingham City who meet once a week at Nottingham Contemporary and work on youth programming for the gallery, and plan amazing social events like Affinity Festival.
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Review
18 November 2015Lumiere Festival
View ReviewLumiere is the UK's largest light festival, featuring light-based art installations across the city for four days. Produced by Artichoke and commissioned for the fourth time by Durham City Council, this year's festival offered a host of different artworks against the beautiful backdrop of Durham City.
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How-to Guide
18 November 2015How to..write about sports
View How-to GuideA 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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Interview
12 November 2015What Goes on at…Lumiere
View InterviewLumiere, is the UK's largest light festival in Durham, happening from 12th November and featuring light-based art installations across the city. I spoke to the festival producer Kate Harvey to find out more.
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Case Study
12 November 2015Case Study: Meridith Dickin, Gold Arts Award
View Case StudyMy first experience of Arts Award was when I got involved in Express Yourself, a project run by City Arts in Nottingham.
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Feature
10 November 2015Do artists have a responsibility when representing conflict?
View FeatureHannah Kemp-Welch is currently finishing her Gold Arts Award through Circuit, at the Tate. As part of her Award, she ran a live event looking at art and conflict. Here, she shares her thoughts on the artist's responsibility...
