Voicebox: Schools on Voice
All you need to know about what schools are doing to get their students through their Awards and a look at what the students themselves are creating!
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22 September 2015
What goes on at...Bath Children's Literature Festival
Bath Children's Literature Festival is a week-long festival that kicks off this weekend. John and Gill McLay founded the festival in 2006, and have returned this year as Artistic Directors. Voice caught up with them to find out more...
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15 September 2015
Want my job?...with Esther Burns
Esther Burns (Estie B) is a British artist, who created a film for ROH Bridge, about the status of art in UK schools and wider life.
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14 September 2015
Can young people fully understand the importance of arts in our current system?
Arts education is not effective in demonstrating the value of the arts to young people.
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14 September 2015
Minecraft as an art
Could the block style sandbox game stimulate creativity and allow children to easily create individual utopias?
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9 September 2015
Backstage with...Susan M Coles
Susan M Coles is a passionate advocate for art, craft and design education in the UK (and beyond).
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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
How Schools View Careers in the Arts
This is a topic that is very close to my heart and the opinions I have formed come mainly from my own experiences in attempting to gain acceptance and help from my school in regards to the career path I have chosen to follow.
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25 August 2015
How to write a review of an event
You'll get a lot of people telling you that writing a review is easy, but the simple fact of the matter is that if you've never done it before, it definitely isn't going to be. We'll all have done some textual analysis in school for English but after that exam, it escaped our memories quicker than, well… you can remember.
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5 August 2015
What goes on at...Trinity Rock & Pop
Trinity Rock & Pop offers musicians the chance to gain formal qualifications in rock and pop music, right up to Grade 8. We caught up with Christopher Walters, Head of Qualifications for music at Trinity to find out more.
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5 August 2015
How to...review Shakespeare Schools Festival performances
Shakespeare Schools Festival is the largest youth drama festival in the UK! Whether your school is taking part or not, there's no reason why you can't get to a performance in your area. Here's a simple guide to reviewing a performance yourself.