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27 October 2015
What's Happening for the Young - Subjectivity UK
As part of the What's Happening for the Young Festival that took place at the Southbank Centre this weekend, Subjectivity UK held a talk entitled "Crime and Punishment Vs. the Youth". This discussion incorporated performance and specialist speakers to look at issues inspired by an article from the UN Convention.
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24 October 2015
WHY? What's Happening for the Young? 2015
WHY? Festival celebrates the rights of children and young people and uses the arts to confront difficult issues.
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23 October 2015
Hairspray Review
This is my review of Hairspray The Musical, which is currently touring the UK!
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21 October 2015
An open letter to photography
To my camera: I like it best when we are as one. My eye against yours.
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19 October 2015
Are wooden instruments potentially a biohazard?
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?
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19 October 2015
Being an Apprentice – 1 Month later…
Just over one month after I joined Unit Twenty Three as an apprentice, and so far it's gone pretty well!
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13 October 2015
Why we need to bring the Lush ‘Go Naked’ advert back
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.
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12 October 2015
Get Gold with Arts Award's 10th Birthday
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.
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9 October 2015
An Open Letter To Modern Hip Hop
My opinion on the current state of Hip Hop today.
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8 October 2015
BBC Music’s Ten Pieces Secondary Film Screening in Salford
The BBC filmed ten pieces of classical music for Arts Award's tenth birthday! Well no, they didn't. But Ten Pieces? Tenth birthday? It's meant to be. They made the BBC Music Ten Pieces film in order to inspire young people of secondary school age to embrace classical music and filmmaking.
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8 October 2015
Case Study: Sally Trivett, Voice Community Coordinator and Silver Achiever
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.
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2 October 2015
Raising the Game: National Association of Youth Theatre event
To Be or not To Be at NAYT... That is the question
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2 October 2015
Review – Fightstar: “Grand Unification”
These hard-rocking heroes from London faced a lot of criticism due to frontman Charlie Simpson's previous pop career with Busted (now McBusted…). However, views soon changed when they exploded on to the scene with their debut back in 2006… (Honestly. It's that good. Everything exploded)
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30 September 2015
Danny Wallace and Jamie Littler at Bath Children's Literature Festival
Danny Wallace is a natural fit as a children's author, achieving that nigh on impossible adult trait of speaking to children as equals.
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29 September 2015
Desi Rascals: The debate about how ‘desi’ it actually is
My family and I have been watching the acclaimed Sky Living, scripted reality series Desi Rascals.
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27 September 2015
Classic Stories with Kate Saunders and Holly Webb
Should classic books be sacred? And, if you do choose to revamp or serialise a classic, how should you go about it?
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26 September 2015
Judith Kerr at Bath Children’s Literature Festival
Witnessing the brilliant Judith Kerr in conversation at Bath Children's Literature Festival, it's great find the renowned author is still at such a creative highpoint.
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24 September 2015
My Morning With Lenny!
Sitting on a panel alongside a member of the Casting Directors Guild, a famous actor/comedian, and a freelance director, is not a bad way to start your Saturday.