Arts Award on Voice

Canva is a creative online program that you can use to create any graphic you need - a film poster, a book cover, Facebook cover images, and even logo designs. It’s very easy to use, so it’s great if you’re a graphic design novice!

If you’re feeling overwhelmed and disillusioned by your career, or you’re just about to enter an art career and want a balanced approach to enable a long and stable career, here are my top five tips to avoid burnout in an arts career.

Doing any project, qualifications, work or life in general can be taxing. It’s important to look after yourself and avoid burnout or break down!

To help us explore the best ways to form and express an opinion we got in touch with one of the most opinionated people around: Rants N Bants. 

There are lots of features on Voice that can help you complete your Arts Award portfolio from sharing your blogs and reviews to finding arts events. 

Doing your Arts Award is great fun but you must spend time organising everything and making sure nothing is missing from your portfolio. That's where Voice comes in with help!

Emrys answers a few questions about being self employed. There's advice about doing tax returns, getting work and what insurance types mean. And answers to several other questions. So if you're starting out in the big bad world of work or becoming a self employed individual for the first time - this article is to help you get going and through your first tax return.

Like Quince says in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', "Come, sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts!" I'll try and make that rehearsal period a bit smoother.

Talks, Q&As, roundtable discussions. Reviewing can be tough at the best of times but how do you review a talk?

Keeping yourself safe online is important. It fosters respect, a comfortable space and the ability to have fun. It also allows you to get the most out of your online interactions and use the internet for research and sharing your views.

This part of the Bronze Arts Award is notoriously sticky. Passing on an arts skill can be difficult for all sorts of logistical reasons but there's little more rewarding than teaching, so they say.

This ancient art form is said to originate in Japan but historians believe that Buddhist monks introduced the art of paper folding to Japan in the late 6th Century. But are you as skilled as the masters of this creative past time?