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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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24 September 2015
Is higher education worth the cost?
Now that university fees and living costs have shot up, is higher education worth it?
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18 September 2015
How to...Educate Yourself Creatively Outside School and University
Not getting enough creativity from your school or university? Worry not, there are many different options that can help you unleash your creative potential.
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16 September 2015
Technical Creativity: Using Practical Skills in the Arts
Can technical skill and creative freedom really both be found in the same place?
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16 September 2015
The Danish Girl: do trans roles belong to trans actors?
Last week, the first international trailer of the new film from Tom Hooper, the Oscar-machine director of The King's Speech and Les Misérables was released. His latest treat, The Danish Girl, is about one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
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4 September 2015
Is advanced education always the route to creative success?
Should we always look to success at school and uni to predict future success? Loads of famous artists, musicians and actors made it...without excelling at school.
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1 September 2015
What’s the role of film education at a young age?
Media literacy gives us so much. It's unquantifiable how much I've learnt, not from school, but from watching film and television.
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1 September 2015
The best TED picks: How can creativity help your career?
Who says it best? The most informative videos about the importance of creativity from school, to working life.
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1 September 2015
Education vs Creativity...the gloves are off!
Can these two vital elements in any young person's development be brought back together?
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1 September 2015
School: should it always be about academic achievement?
Sadly, it is the case that within the current educational climate, arts subjects are being put on the back seat within the school curriculum.
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30 August 2015
Is dance the most universal art form of all?
Dance needs no translation, does that mean it's universal?
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25 August 2015
Is visual art less universal than ever?
An exploration of the line between the conceptual and the accessible.
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25 August 2015
The UK’s filmmaking tax break and what it all means
Exciting news for the British Film Industry and our TV industry – yesterday, the EU approved state aid for film and TV projects in the UK which will be eligible for a 25% tax break on their production costs.
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22 August 2015
Location, location, location - how is the world landscaped in Hollywood films?
When films 'take a trip' and shoot in international locations, do these place become stereotyped or shown in a particular, exaggerated light?
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6 August 2015
How well do foreign films travel?
Foreign film is always different because the way in which different cultures and people make films differ wildly.
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4 August 2015
Do we live in a global art world?
Did you know that last year the Louvre was recorded as the most visited museum in the world? Did you know that five museums/galleries in the UK made it into the top twenty? Would you have guessed that the entire list was made up of museums and galleries in first world, fully developed countries?
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3 August 2015
A world of translations: does language hinder the success of a novel?
Literature is an art form that is intrinsically linked with language - so how do books manage to travel so well?