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20 December 2016
Everyday Choreography by Caldonia Walton | FIRST ACTS
From Random Acts Midlands, dancer-choreographer, Caldonia Walton gives us a poetic, jolly, expressive demonstration of what music makes us feel
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18 December 2016
Harrison Kelly, Random Acts Midlands filmmaker
From Random Acts Midlands, Harrison Kelly with Future Curious' short film, Organum, explores our reliance on social media and screen culture. We pried into his @motivations and #thoughts.
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15 December 2016
Send Her Victorious by Ben Norris | FIRST ACTS
From Random Acts Midlands, Victorious is an enigmatic film, a relevant film in the throes of controversial topics.
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13 December 2016
Golden Globes 2017: list of nominations
The only awards ceremony that recognises both film and television has released in nominations. La La Land and The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story lead this year's nominations.
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12 December 2016
Case Study: Luke Taylor, Projects Assistant at Unit Twenty Three & Gold Achiever
Voice contributor Luke completed his Gold Arts Award as part of his apprenticeship, and is now a full time employee of Unit Twenty Three.
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6 December 2016
GRAMMYs 2017: list of nominees
Here we go, the nominations for the biggest award in music in the world have been released and, little surprise, Beyoncé has come out on top.
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6 December 2016
British Independent Film Awards 2016: list of winners
Andrea Arnold's acclaimed global hit, American Honey, starring Shia LeBeouf took the most awards of the night with four, including the top prize. I, Daniel Blake, which had the most nominations, took only two awards for its two leads.
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6 December 2016
What goes on at...the Mercury Theatre Colchester?
Following on from our coverage from Mozfest 2016, we caught up with some of the organisations like the Mercury from the festival to highlight what work they do in the crossover between the digital sector and arts and culture.
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6 December 2016
Thomas Chimiak, Random Acts Midlands filmmaker
From Random Acts Midlands, Thomas Chimiak's visual poem, Vocal Barriers, is a statement on the role of technology in our society. He shared with us his experiences about the Random Acts project.
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4 December 2016
Danni Spooner, Random Acts Midlands filmmaker
From Random Acts Midlands, Danni Spooner's evocative short film, FAG, is a telling development of ideas around gender. She gave us her perspective on the Random Acts program, and what went into making the film. Read our review here
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14 November 2016
Change to UCAS' Tariff system - including the Gold Arts Award
There's been a change to UCAS' Tariff system but it doesn't mean your Gold Arts Award will be worth less, at all. Take a breath.
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5 November 2016
Letter to Myself - Into The Autumn
Nostalgic music and personal, poetic lyrics sung by a summery voice that gives each element the right importance.
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3 November 2016
Highlights from Mozfest 2016
Voice reported and led sessions once again at this year's Mozilla Festival.
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28 October 2016
Case Study: Kheira Bey, Arts Award Activist
Drama student, Kheira Bey, has recently joined the Arts Award Youth Activist Team. She can generally be spotted in the South East, and has completed her Silver and Gold Arts Awards.
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8 September 2016
The 30 Most Polarising Films of the 21st Century
The folks at Obscure Movie Stats have put together the 30 films of the 21st century that divide opinion the most.
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21 August 2016
Colin Cloud: Exposé
The mind-bending, astonishing ingenuity of Colin Cloud is back for another sell-out Fringe run.
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18 August 2016
Naz Osmanoglu: Exposure
The middle-class, Turkish-Englishman has a lot more than just his culture to credit his humour to: all his character flaws are more than enough.
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18 August 2016
Ed Patrick: Junior Optimist
A show by a comedian who is also a junior doctor will obviously make for wonderfully graphic material.
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.