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3 November 2015
Bugsy Malone by Chris
Nightingale Class from Cambridge School went to the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith to see Bugsy Malone.
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3 November 2015
Bugsy Malone by Andrei
Nightingale Class from Cambridge School went to the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith to see Bugsy Malone.
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2 November 2015
Music and Me - a love letter
Me and music go back a long, long way. But recently...let's just say things are a bit complicated. Here's what happened:
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29 October 2015
Backstage with...BBC Ten Pieces
Ten Pieces is a huge scale project that aims to support teachers to deliver the music curriculum. After watching 10 Pieces II, we chatted to Jennifer Redmond, Assistant Producer at BBC Ten Pieces about making classical music appealing to all ages.
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29 October 2015
10 ways to...get a career in music
Call Me Unique is a 'singer / songwriter heavily influenced by jazz, soul and the forgotten art of jazz scat-singing'. Here, she gives Voice Reporter, Idriss Assoumanou her tops tips for breaking the industry.
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28 October 2015
What has happened in music since Arts Award was born?
This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best music from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box.
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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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19 October 2015
Are wooden instruments potentially a biohazard?
The destruction of a musician's wooden instruments at the hands of US customs, on the grounds that they are agricultural products and thus pose a biological hazard to native species, poses a grave question to musicians the world over: is there any justification on which an instrument that forms a key part to someone's livelihood can be destroyed because of what it is made of?
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8 October 2015
BBC Music’s Ten Pieces Secondary Film Screening in Salford
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.
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5 October 2015
Arts Award movers and shakers: Diana Walton
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
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2 October 2015
Review – Fightstar: “Grand Unification”
These hard-rocking heroes from London faced a lot of criticism due to frontman Charlie Simpson's previous pop career with Busted (now McBusted…). However, views soon changed when they exploded on to the scene with their debut back in 2006… (Honestly. It's that good. Everything exploded)
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1 October 2015
10 tips for getting going with Arts Award
It's Start Your Arts Award Day! Here are our top tips for getting going with Arts Award...
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25 September 2015
Arts Award Discover Club at Latitude Festival
The Arts Award Youth Network smashed it again! 68 Discover Arts Award were completed at Latitude Festival!
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25 September 2015
Arts Award Discover Club at Elderflower Fields
This year the Arts Award Youth Network supported the achievement of 18 Discover Arts Awards onsite at Elderflower!
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25 September 2015
Arts Award Discover Club at Dissfest 2015
This year the Arts Award Youth Network supported the achievement of 13 Discover Arts Awards at DissFest, Diss in Norfolk!
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14 September 2015
Joe Craig on creativity
Musician, screenwriter and author of the Jimmy Coates series talks about creative processes
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9 September 2015
Backstage with...Susan M Coles
Susan M Coles is a passionate advocate for art, craft and design education in the UK (and beyond).
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3 September 2015
My issue with creative education
Issues with commitment and hard work may be more accurate...