Arts Award on Voice

Drama student, Kheira Bey, has recently joined the Arts Award Youth Activist Team. She can generally be spotted in the South East, and has completed her Silver and Gold Arts Awards.

I sat down with Sienna James to chat about her experiences with Arts Award.

I spoke to new Arts Award Activist Johanna about her artistic influences, interests and her most recent projects...

DJ and Nicole are both dancers with Corali Dance Company, a UK company who focus on performers with learning disabilities, pairing them with collaborators from the wider dance world, offering career development and training opportunities. Here we meet two of their dancers who have completed Arts Award, at Bronze and Silver.

Neha has just joined the Youth Network as an Arts Award activist. She also studies Law at Brunel University.

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.

Shannon has just joined the Youth Network as an Activist, and is currently working on her Gold Arts Award with Chichester Festival Theatre.

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.

I am twenty five. I have been ill since I was nine and was home educated from twelve till eighteen, owing to having severe ME/CFS. I have been bedridden since I was thirteen.

Fern found Arts Award at a low point in her life, having left school without qualifications due to anxiety and depression. "When I saw the Bronze Arts Award it was like a ray of light," says Fern, who went on to complete a Bronze and Gold Award using photography.

My family and I have been watching the acclaimed Sky Living, scripted reality series Desi Rascals.

Rianna Hobson is the first person to achieve her Gold Arts Award through a library project. Rianna's a keen photographer, who combined her love of image making, with words and library activity...