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26 May 2017
Manchester handled its loss with kindness and creativity
22 May will be remembered eternally in Greater Manchester and further for suffering a crippling loss and dealing with it by being creative and "defiantly kind".
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24 May 2017
What goes on at...Engage?
Gallery education organisation, Engage, will curate this June's Children's Art Week. Their director tells us about the organisation and the preparations they're making.
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14 May 2017
Chris Dingli's Bad Dad
Chris Dingli shares an hour of telling us the worst sins he's committed in his short life as a father.
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13 May 2017
Shaggers - 6 May line-up
A variety comedy show whose theme is the above and where the ever-revolving set of comedians let loose with their sexual stories.
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12 May 2017
The Intimate Strangers: Mister Bond
Two proudly peculiar men with no filter bring to the Fringe a sketch comedy that relied heavily on sheer audacity and less on structure.
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12 May 2017
Comedy Sans Frontières - 6 May line-up
An admirable cause for comedy – 70% of donations from this free show go to Médecins Sans Frontières with a new line up every weekend.
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12 May 2017
Dave Chawner: C’est La Vegan, work in progress
My choice last year for the Pick of the Fringe, Dave Chawner returns with a new show very much a sequel to last year's show, Circumcision.
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12 May 2017
The Writers' Bloc
A play with huge jeopardy that suffered from little rehearsal time and a short running time.
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10 May 2017
Aaaand it’s back! Twig The Pixie’s Family Funsplosion!
I have always admired children's performers for their enormous physicality. Twig the Pixie is less physical than, say, Into The Water but has the storytelling and stand up talent to carry a ferociously loud audience.
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9 May 2017 – 9 July 2017
Join NYO 2018 - National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
If you are aged 13-18, playing (or composing) at Grade 8 Distinction level or equivalent, and are totally committed to music...the world's greatest prchestra of teenagers needs you.
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7 May 2017
Luke Nowell: Being Hueman Being
Newcomer Luke Nowell's absurdist routine took a worrying amount of time to get started. But when he did, the show exploded into life.
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7 May 2017
PASSPAWT
Helena, played by Elise Heaven, chronicles her time with her demon feline, Linda, in an altogether mild show.
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3 April 2017
Daniel, Silver achiever
Daniel did his Silver Arts Award involving making and reviewing folk music through the Selby High School in Yorkshire.
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29 March 2017
Callum Conroy, undertaking Gold
Callum Conroy is a poet and writer and is doing his Gold Arts Award alongside his A-Levels.
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21 March 2017
What goes on at...Selby High School?
Selby High School in Yorkshire is one of the schools with the highest output of Bronze Arts Awards in England. We caught up with one of their Advisors to find out the key to their success.
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16 March 2017
Give Me Your Love and the treatment of mental illness on-stage
Give Me Your Love wittily explores the complexity of post-traumatic stress disorder in a war veteran. We saw it at The Lowry, Salford as part of the Sick! Festival.
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9 March 2017
What goes on at...Waterhead Academy's Career Pathway Project?
Back in the dying months of 2016, I was asked by my Arts Award centre, Peshkar, to be a part of the leadership for the Creative Career Pathway at the Waterhead Academy, Oldham.
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7 March 2017
Maddie Drury, Bronze, Silver, and Gold achiever
Voice Reporter, Maddie is a vlogger and budding journalist and trained at the York Theatre Royal where she achieved the three highest levels of Arts Award.
Comment posted on 20 June 2018
Yeah it's massively problematic and really irks me. While the body and identity politics are worth heeding - specifically that ITV have defended their position by saying that physical appearance is NOT a criterion on which contestants, which is incredibly difficult to believe - my issue with it is more overarching and something that Iain Stirling, the voice presenter, has addressed somewhat when he said Love Island is seen to 'dumb down' the nation. As opposed to dumbing down, I think it serves as an overwhelming indictment of the superficiality of modernity. It takes love and sex and places it on an economistic platform without regard for how the men and women - who are wildly segregated, be it by choice or not - take the experience differently. It is, however, heartening (if that's the right word) to see the viewing public rally against the more problematic (at the very least) behaviour. Prime of which is throwing camaraderie out of the window for self-serving sex and ill excuses for emotional infatuation. I have watched this season to fathom out the appeal and I've moved away from my previous allegation that it's as close as you can get to porn on primetime television and towards the view that its issues are, ironically, more complex. There's also the argument that bad television has value, something you can switch your mind off to watch, but I think the spectatorial appeal around Love Island is much more sordid than that.