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It's not as bad as people are saying

A career in technology requires education, but not perhaps in the traditional sense of rote learning, passing exams, degrees and PHD's (although those do help), it's more about practicing your chosen art form through "independent learning and thinking" and connecting with your subject in depths and with passion as it is your choice, not someone telling you, you must do it.

Me and music go back a long, long way. But recently...let's just say things are a bit complicated. Here's what happened:

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.

To my camera: I like it best when we are as one. My eye against yours.

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?

Just over one month after I joined Unit Twenty Three as an apprentice, and so far it's gone pretty well!

When you go to the theatre to see the hit stage show 'Oliver' or 'Wicked', which do you appreciate the most the actors or the backstage crew?

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.

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.

My opinion on the current state of Hip Hop today.

This month, we're celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday. We've called on the Arts Award Youth Network to discuss the impact that Arts Award has had on them. Today, it's our Voice Community Coordinator, Sally Trivett.