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27 October 2015
What's Happening for the Young - an interview with Holly Hunter
Holly is the Lead Programmer of the WHYFest 2015 at the Southbank Centre. What is Happening for the Young is a festival aimed to create awareness of the rights of the youth and encourage them to use their voice. In this interview, Holly gives me an insight into her own career path and some of the highlights of this weekend.
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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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26 October 2015
Case study: Neha Lakhanpaul, Arts Award Activist, Bronze and Silver achiever
Neha has just joined the Youth Network as an Arts Award activist. She also studies Law at Brunel University.
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26 October 2015
Case Study: Mary Strickson, Silver Arts Award
Mary Strickson was an Arts Award Voice Reporter from 2014-15, and is now a regular contributor to the magazine. She is also close to finishing her Silver Arts Award.
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24 October 2015
WHY? What's Happening for the Young? 2015
WHY? Festival celebrates the rights of children and young people and uses the arts to confront difficult issues.
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22 October 2015
10 ways to…survive social awkwardness!
Sadly, socialising doesn't come naturally to a lot of young people, especially me, who are only just getting to grips with the real world.
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22 October 2015
Case Study: Shannon Hay, Arts Award Activist
Shannon has just joined the Youth Network as an Activist, and is currently working on her Gold Arts Award with Chichester Festival Theatre.
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21 October 2015
An open letter to photography
To my camera: I like it best when we are as one. My eye against yours.
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20 October 2015
'My Word is Gold' winner: Freya Averley
Freya Averley, lives in Newcastle. She is now 16 - she did her Gold Arts Award while 15 - and has been training circus intensively for nearly 4 years with Five Ring Circus at Circus Central in Newcastle.
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19 October 2015
Being an Apprentice – 1 Month later…
Just over one month after I joined Unit Twenty Three as an apprentice, and so far it's gone pretty well!
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19 October 2015
My Word is Gold: Winners Announced!
Congratulations to the winners of our competition My Word is Gold.
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17 October 2015
Case Study: Georgie Cosette, Arts Award Activist, Bronze and Gold achiever
Georgie is brand new to the Arts Award Youth Network, and has already completed her Bronze and Gold awards.
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15 October 2015
Case Study: Carli Green, Arts Award Activist
Carli Green has joined the Arts Award Youth Network as an Arts Award Activist, and is currently completing his Gold at Sixth Sense Theatre Company.
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15 October 2015
BBC Director of Television, Danny Cohen, steps down
Danny Cohen has announced that he is standing down from his role as Director of Television for the BBC after eight years of working with the corporation.
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14 October 2015
Top tip 7: Call AAA
Your help-at-hand, mentor and fixer. Artist, teacher or youth worker. Use them – they want to help you make your Arts Award fly, and they'll have great experience to share.
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13 October 2015
Why we need to bring the Lush ‘Go Naked’ advert back
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.
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12 October 2015
Get Gold with Arts Award's 10th Birthday
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.
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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!