Voicebox: Kickstart your career
What's the best pathway into the arts and media - a creative apprenticeship or a university course? How do I build my experience and contacts, and survive as a young professional? This Voicebox offers ideas about developing your creative career, providing you with insights and opinions from both professionals and peers.
We also have a careers section dedicated to helping you find inspiration on taking that next step!
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17 May 2018
Want my job? Interview with the Executive Director of STORGY Magazine
We talk to Ross Jeffery, Executive Director and Head of Books at STORGY Magazine, about how STORGY came to exist and what helped him build his career in the arts.
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26 April 2018
Want my Job? from Jess Weiss, Press Officer for Brighton Fringe
Brighton Fringe Festival is just around the corner, so we catch up with their Press Officer, Jess Weiss, to find out how you can get a job like hers.
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17 April 2018
Top tips for running an arts workshop
We hear from Genevieve Rudd, Youth Engagement Officer of Creative Collisions about how to run successful arts skills sharing workshops and what to do when it doesn't go to plan.
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17 April 2018
Want my job? by comedian Suzi Ruffell
We speak to comedian Suzi Ruffell about getting into comedy, using arts as a platform for activism and her work with Alan Carr. Lauded as ‘a real stand up gem’ by The Guardian, this young independent woman celebrates her working-class roots with a sideways look at the world.
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17 April 2018
Interview with writer/performer Jackie Hagan - activism in the arts
We interview writer/performer Jackie Hagan about activism in the arts, diversity, inclusion and social engagement.
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15 March 2018 – 24 March 2018
Crafts Council Young People's Workshop @ The William Morris Gallery
Aged 16 – 25 and interested in craft and making?
We’d like to invite you to help plan and deliver our next Young People’s workshop, which will be part of our Hey Clay! festival in a few weeks’ time. This is a great opportunity to build your experience and gain lots of transferable skills. It’s fantastic for CV building, and if anyone is working towards Arts Award the workshop can be used for arts leadership/arts skill share units in your portfolio.
Hey Clay! is our nationwide free festival of ceramics. Studios, art centres and galleries all open their doors for the weekend to run free, hands on clay workshops for the public throughout the UK. The festival runs from the 23rd to the 25th of March, and is part of the Get Creative festival.
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9 March 2018
How volunteering helped me get a career in the arts
I started volunteering when I was 19 - which is 12 years ago - and I believe it's what sparked the start of my career in the arts. Find out more about how volunteering can help spark kick-start your career!
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26 January 2018
What goes on at Time & Tide Museum, Creative Collisions project
We talk to the team at Time & Tide Museum about their Arts and Design Arts Award projects through Creative Collisions.
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24 January 2018
Top Resolutions to help get you in to an arts career
Is 2018 your year to start an art career? Here are a few resolutions to help you get there, and some links to more resources too.
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10 October 2017
How to research work placements and training opportunities
A career in the arts is challenging, hard work and really rewarding. Work placements and training opportunities are a great way to test out your desired career, meet people in the industry and develop your skills and experience.
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18 September 2017
Apprenticeships - Why bother?
University is great. Three years of all-nighters, existential crises, ever-looming deadlined, never-ending stress and excessive drinking. Survive that and you come out with a degree and thousands upon thousands of pounds of debt. Compelling, right?
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21 August 2017
College is making my writing worse
Being repeatedly told what makes a good piece of writing by school and college has left my writing lifeless. How do i fix this?
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18 May 2017
Getting into the arts with or without a university degree?
Having completed my undergraduate degree in History and my postgraduate degree in Art History I am evidently a big advocate for going to university.
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30 September 2015
Creativity vs Education: What have we learnt this month, class?
This month we have discussed the current state of creative education in the UK and it has proved itself to be rather lacking. From interviews with leading demonstrators to creative utopias, here is the best from September.
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28 September 2015
I don't go to school? A vlog by Agi K
We've featured Agi on Voice before, she has completed all of her Arts Award levels (by the age of 11!) and is taught from home. Who better to call on, as we come to the close of creative education month.
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24 September 2015
We need a curriculum that will engage the emotions as well as the intellect
The biggest issue in Education has got to be the large percentage of children still being failed by the system.
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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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21 September 2015
How to...make the most of your academic creativity
This month we have rather naughtily put creativity and education up against one another - but obviously in a dream world they would be best pals. So, how do you really make the most of both?