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28 October 2015
NAYT Raising The Game 2015
Raising The Game, an NAYT (National Association of Youth Theatres) event packed with workshops and opportunities for youth theatre groups to join and learn more.
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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
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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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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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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27 October 2015
What has happened in television 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 TV 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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26 October 2015
What goes on at...Juice Festival
Juice Festival is a week-long festival for children and young people from 24th-31st October. At their launch party Ellen Orange had the chance to talk to Chris, the Artistic Director, Ryan and Rachel, two Juice Festival Coordinators and member of Team Juice, Lily 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.
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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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26 October 2015
What has happened in film 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 film 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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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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23 October 2015
Hairspray Review
This is my review of Hairspray The Musical, which is currently touring the UK!
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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
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?