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19 November 2015
Working at Affinity Festival: Part 1
The 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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19 November 2015
What goes on at? Takeover Day
Takeover 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 2015
Top tip 10: Use your Voice
Love the content on our new site? Get posting now!
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18 November 2015
What's it like to intern at Affinity Festival?
Collabor-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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18 November 2015
Lumiere Festival
Lumiere 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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12 November 2015
What Goes on at…Lumiere
Lumiere, 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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12 November 2015
Case Study: Meridith Dickin, Gold Arts Award
My 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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10 November 2015
Do artists have a responsibility when representing conflict?
Hannah 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...
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7 November 2015
MozFest2015-AADigital
Arts Award are down at MozFest 2015 this weekend to look at the ways we can get creative with technology and digital media.
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5 November 2015
Get Gold - a blog by Emrys
A new blog by Arts Award Youth Network Project Manager, Emrys Green, sharing insights and ideas from his experience of doing and advising on Arts Award. Informal ramblings designed to give some useful information about how you can achieve your own Gold Arts Award.
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5 November 2015
Get Gold with the Arts Award Youth Network
If you read my first post, then you'll known that I have the privilege of managing the Arts Award Youth Network. We run events and activities to support young people interested in the arts and Arts Award.
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5 November 2015
Get Gold with a difference
Gold is about preparing you for the creative industries - in a way A levels don't often do (in my opinion). Keeping a broad cultural experience is exciting.
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5 November 2015
Get Gold by reaching out
Outreach programmes and 'making art accessible' are not about belittling it, relying on 'amateur' work, or squeezing it into strange places.
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31 October 2015
What has happened in visual art since Arts Award was born?
This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of visual art 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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30 October 2015
Arts Award Off The Shelf: Laura Dockrill
Arts Award Voice's deputy editor Tom interviews Laura Dockrill about how she decided to get into writing, and the authors that inspired her to follow her dream career. This video will be useful if you are completing the Arts Award Part C Inspiration section of your Bronze portfolio.
Tom also talks to Emma Jones from the Ministry of Stories about the ways in which they support young people taking their Arts Award to find their own inspiration.
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28 October 2015
I can do both! Is the multi-skilled artist a good thing?
With a specific focus on the backstage theatre industry, is being a multi-skilled practitioner a help or a hindrance within the industry today? Can someone market themselves as having skills in multiple departments? And how important is it for someone who has chosen to specialise to have a knowledge of other departments?
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28 October 2015
Backstage with…Curing Perfect
Curing Perfect is an online graphic novel that explores stem cell biology, presented by Creative Mind's Carousel. We caught up with Becky Bruzas, speaker at Curing Perfect and Sarah Gordy, networker and presenter at Curing Perfect to find out more.
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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.