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9 October 2015
An Open Letter To Modern Hip Hop
View BlogMy opinion on the current state of Hip Hop today.
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9 October 2015
Gold Arts Award Essay- Art Theft
View BlogThis is my Essay for my Gold Arts Award, which covers the topic of art theft.
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8 October 2015
Review of the British Library’s 'Animal Tales' Exhibition
View ReviewThis is a short review of the British Library's Animal Tales Exhibition. It was wonderful and deeply explained the use of animals in our literature.
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8 October 2015
Steve Cole Introduces Young Bond in Bath
View ReviewSteve's talk was entertaining and interactive, drawing us in with talk of action-packed chases and terrifying shoot-outs. It was filled with flasks in strange places, crazy and strange guns, and bizarre gadgets.
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8 October 2015
Review On George Orwell's play '1984'
View ReviewWinston Smith is a member of the Outer Party. He works in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting and distorting history. To escape Big Brother's tyranny, at least inside his own mind, Winston begins a diary — an act punishable by death.
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8 October 2015
BBC Music’s Ten Pieces Secondary Film Screening in Salford
View ReviewThe BBC filmed ten pieces of classical music for Arts Award's tenth birthday! Well no, they didn't. But Ten Pieces? Tenth birthday? It's meant to be. They made the BBC Music Ten Pieces film in order to inspire young people of secondary school age to embrace classical music and filmmaking.
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8 October 2015
Case Study: Sally Trivett, Voice Community Coordinator and Silver Achiever
View BlogThis month, we're celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday. We've called on the Arts Award Youth Network to discuss the impact that Arts Award has had on them. Today, it's our Voice Community Coordinator, Sally Trivett.
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4 October 2015
A Beautiful Mind - Review
View ReviewA classic film that is still held in high regard to this day.
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2 October 2015
Raising the Game: National Association of Youth Theatre event
View BlogTo Be or not To Be at NAYT... That is the question
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2 October 2015
Feminism and the Impact of the Digital Age
View ReviewBath Literature Festival has been showing a great variety of female content ahead of today's International Women's Day. Yesterday, I headed to Feminism and the Impact of the Digital Age, with Sarah Brown, Suzanne Moore, and Bath Festivals' own, Viv Groskop.
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2 October 2015
Fashion on the Ration
View ReviewYesterday I headed to a fun and enlightening talk at Bath Literature Festival. Fashion on the Ration focussed on the styles that sprung out of utility clothing and the surprising influence of Vogue during the war years.
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2 October 2015
Around the world in ten books
View ReviewA fun and enlightening end to a weekend at Bath Festivals, Scott Peck and Ann Morgan picked their top ten books from around the world.
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2 October 2015
Review – Fightstar: “Grand Unification”
View ReviewThese hard-rocking heroes from London faced a lot of criticism due to frontman Charlie Simpson's previous pop career with Busted (now McBusted…). However, views soon changed when they exploded on to the scene with their debut back in 2006… (Honestly. It's that good. Everything exploded)
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2 October 2015
Visibility Matters. Or, Why I Allow Myself To Be Labelled
View BlogThere's a well-used analogy about books as mirrors (in which we see ourselves reflected back), windows (through which we see experiences that are not our own) and doors (through which we can step as we discover new parts of ourselves right there in the text).
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30 September 2015
Review: The BBC's Lady Chatterly's Lover
View ReviewThe recent TV adaptation may not have remained faithful, but it does shed new light on the classic.
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30 September 2015
Danny Wallace and Jamie Littler at Bath Children's Literature Festival
View ReviewDanny Wallace is a natural fit as a children's author, achieving that nigh on impossible adult trait of speaking to children as equals.
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30 September 2015
Ambivalently Yours
View ReviewAmbivalently Yours' pink, cutesy drawings lead the way for feminist resistance, and unexpectedly sharp-tongued slogans.
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