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5 April 2016
Where Are They Now?...with Nicola Slawson
Regularly writing for national titles, freelance journalist Nicola Slawson has also had her photographic work published in the Guardian, the Mirror and Positive news - having honed her photography skills while taking Gold Arts Award. She certainly hasn't forgotten her roots, though.
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31 March 2016
Where Are They Now?...with Phoebe Hill
Phoebe recently graduated from Cambridge and is looking through the fog of post-university life to find some creative project management work across the arts.
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31 March 2016
Where Are They Now?...with Idriss Assoumanou
Idriss is a professional filmmaker and videographer getting commissions to create audio visual work for companies all over the world.
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31 March 2016
Where Are They Now?...with Hannah Kemp-Welch
Hannah works for the Learning department at Tate Britain. She's also been an artist-in-residence and led, collaborated on, and taken part in a number of arts projects since doing her Gold.
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21 March 2016
What goes on at...Lambeth Music Festival
This week, Lambeth Music Festival takes place at Southbank Centre, bringing together over 3000 children and young people for live performances. We caught up with Lambeth Music Service's lead tutor, Oliver Bayley to find out more.
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16 March 2016
Backstage with...The Blue Man, Brighton
The Blue Man in Brighton is an independently run cafe bar, that hosts a variety of Fringe shows throughout the festival. This year they will be programming across two venues, showing the work of Suzy Bennett, Aidan Goatley and Daphna Baram amongst others. We caught up with venue director, Jess Woodfall to find out more.
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10 March 2016
What goes on at...The Core at Corby Cube
The Core at Corby Cube are a Northamptonshire-based theatre space, who run a wide variety of community and youth-led projects. They are also an Arts Award Good Practice Centre for 2015-16.
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9 March 2016
Where Are They Now?...with Sally Trivett
Sally Trivett has been a part of the Arts Award Youth Network Leaders team since 2013. After that, she started at Goldsmiths and has become the Community Co-ordinator for Arts Award Voice.
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9 March 2016
Want my job...with James Bennison
Comedian by night, Renewal Coordinator by day, James Bennison's latest show How to be a Supervillain is coming to Brighton Fringe this May, following last year's win of Brighton Fringe 2015 Best Young Comedy Performer.
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9 March 2016
10 ways to...get a career in film
Here, Steffan Zachiyah from BBC3's Transgender: Back to Jamaica discusses his top ten tips for getting a career as a filmmaker.
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3 March 2016
What goes on at...Brighton Fringe
Brighton Fringe kicks off on 6th May, and offers over 900 events, from cabaret, to theatre, comedy and dance. We'll be heading to Brighton ourselves to bring you the very best from the Fringe, in the meantime, we chatted to Julian Caddy, Managing Director for the festival.
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19 February 2016
What goes on at...Nonsuch Theatre
Nonsuch Theatre are a Nottingham-based physical theatre company, who are currently an Arts Award Good Practice Centre. They have a fantastic outreach programme, and undertake many community projects each year.
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16 February 2016
What goes on at...LGBT History Month
This month is LGBT History Month, and their theme is Religion, Belief and Philosophy. Here, Sue Sanders, Professor Emeritus at the Harvey Milk Institute and Chair of School's Out discusses education, making progress through the arts and tackling stereotypes.
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8 February 2016
Can art change the world?...with Jenny Hibberd and Emily Merchant
Georgie Cubin speaks to Jenny Hibberd (Spoken Word Poet, Graphic Deisgner and Founder House of Verse) and Emily Merchant (Graphic Designer) about the ways in which the arts can change the world.
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6 February 2016
Want my job...with Jackie Morris
Today is National Libraries day. We caught up with Gayton Library's Artist-in-Residence, Jackie Morris to discuss illustrating, writing, and finding the right editor.
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4 February 2016
What goes on at...Life and Deaf
Last December, Life & Deaf won the Arts and Culture Award at Children and Young People Now Awards, sponsored by Arts Award. Their winning project What the Jackdaw Saw is a children's book that takes an inventive look at sign language.
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6 January 2016
Want my job?...with Joelle Taylor
From the archive: Last April, we met the superb poet, spoken word artist, playwright, novelist and general wordsmith, Joelle Taylor. Who better, to call on for thoughts about using art to change the world?
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5 January 2016
Arts Award Off The Shelf: Max and Ivan
In this video, we got the chance to visit the Southbank Centre in London - a dedicated Arts Award Supporter centre offering young people a range of opportunities to engage with the world of the arts! Voice Activist Lizzy Whynes also had the pleasure of interviewing character comedy duo Max & Ivan about what it's like to be professional comedians and also getting some top tips on how to get started writing and performing comedy!