Bronze Hub

This part is all about developing your arts skills, interests and knowledge! You need to take part in one or more arts activities to develop your skills and collect evidence of what you did and what you learned for your portfolio. 

Get going and take part in one or more arts activities - it could be dance, music, poetry, fashion, or whatever you're into! This could be something completely new to you or something that you are ready familiar with. The key thing is to watch your skills develop and track your own progress. 

Check out this How to Use Voice for your Arts Award Portfolio or check out the Bronze Resources in the Get Inspired section for more hints and tips. 

Keep track of everything you’re doing by taking pictures, making a video or audio recording, or writing a blog as you go! Include these in your Arts Award portfolio so your adviser can see everything you’ve been up to. Check out Bronze portfolios in the Get Inspired section for examples.

This is the bit where you get to enjoy something someone else has created. There are three things you need to do in this section: experience the arts as an audience member, review your experience and share your opinion with others.

Exhibitions - Public art - Plays - Gigs - Arts festivals

Comedy shows - Fashion shows - Films - Online events

Browse our Arts Award Supporters to see what events are happening in your area. 

What was it like? Which art form was involved? What did you like best and why? What didn’t you like and why? 

Discuss your views with your group or your adviser.

You might like to create a review of what you've seen. You can record yourself talking about the show on a podcast or make a video or a presentation.

Top tips for creating reviews:

• Record your thoughts during or immediately after the event, whether you want to make bullet points, record a quick video, make an audio recording or Tweet about it. Make notes while it's still fresh in your head.  
• Back up your opinion, if you can, with some research about the artistic content. Are they the first artist to have created this kind of work? If not, who or what might be their inspiration? How does it compare?
• Think about the why. Okay, so you loved the music event, but what was good and why? It helps people to understand your review if you can explain your opinions.

Get some inspiration by checking out the reviews in Arts Inspiration in the Get Inspired section

Make sure you share your opinions with others by discussing them or posting a review. Keep some evidence of doing that!

Here's a handy guide on How to Review a Music Event or How to Review an Exhibition, or head to our reviews page for some examples. 

Keep track of everything you’re doing by taking pictures, making a video or audio recording, or writing a blog as you go! Include it in your Arts Award portfolio so your adviser can see everything you’ve been up to. Check out Bronze portfolios in the Get Inspired section for examples.

Sharing your arts skills is all about telling people ‘how-to’ - how to make, create or do the things that you know how to do. Make sure to plan who will participate and how to make it fun and interesting. Think about what materials you might need, whether you need any help from others and remember to practice and prepare!

• Run a workshop with your group to teach them a new dance routine
• Teach a friend how to rig a theatre light up
• Create a tutorial video about how to draw
• Run a warm-up session to support artists in their workshop
• Run a Facebook or Instagram live session 
• Write and upload a how-to guide for artsawardvoice.com

Read this guide on How to Share your Arts Skills, or head to the Bronze Resources in the Get Inspired section for more hints and tips. 

Keep track of everything you’re doing by taking pictures, making a video or audio recording, or writing a blog as you go! Include it in your Arts Award portfolio so your adviser can see everything you’ve been up to. Check out Bronze portfolios in the Get Inspired section for examples.