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In this video, i talk about my experience with arts award as a whole. What i did for my leadership and some advice i would give to people who are thinking about doing gold.

Lumiere is the UK's largest light festival, featuring light-based art installations across the city for four days. Produced by Artichoke and commissioned for the fourth time by Durham City Council, this year's festival offered a host of different artworks against the beautiful backdrop of Durham City.

This year, we're running a review writing competition with Shakespeare School's Festival. You can review any SSF performance, just upload it to Voice and add it to the 'Shakespeare School's Festival' Voicebox to enter. We chatted to SSF's Venue Director Iain Jones to find out more about the festival.

If you read my first post, then you'll known that I have the privilege of managing the Arts Award Youth Network. We run events and activities to support young people interested in the arts and Arts Award.

Gold is about preparing you for the creative industries - in a way A levels don't often do (in my opinion). Keeping a broad cultural experience is exciting.

Outreach programmes and 'making art accessible' are not about belittling it, relying on 'amateur' work, or squeezing it into strange places.

Nightingale Class from Cambridge School went to the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith to see Bugsy Malone.

Nightingale Class from Cambridge School went to the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith to see Bugsy Malone.

Nightingale Class from Cambridge School went to the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith to see Bugsy Malone.

Nightingale Class from Cambridge School went to the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith to see Bugsy Malone.

Nightingale Class from Cambridge School went to the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith to see Bugsy Malone.