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21 October 2015
An open letter to photography
To my camera: I like it best when we are as one. My eye against yours.
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19 October 2015
Are wooden instruments potentially a biohazard?
The destruction of a musician's wooden instruments at the hands of US customs, on the grounds that they are agricultural products and thus pose a biological hazard to native species, poses a grave question to musicians the world over: is there any justification on which an instrument that forms a key part to someone's livelihood can be destroyed because of what it is made of?
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19 October 2015
Being an Apprentice – 1 Month later…
Just over one month after I joined Unit Twenty Three as an apprentice, and so far it's gone pretty well!
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18 October 2015
An open letter to the gaming industry
It's not me, it's you. I want more from this relationship, I want to start seeing women, and diversity, and I think I should be treated with respect.
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13 October 2015
Why we need to bring the Lush ‘Go Naked’ advert back
Cosmetic company Lush's new adverts have been labelled pornographic and banned in Australia, but body positive campaigns like this are exactly what we need.
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12 October 2015
Get Gold with Arts Award's 10th Birthday
I'm taking a slightly new slant this month. Partly because I've been terrible over the summer and ashamedly got out of the habit of my regular blogging. But I hope that this blog becomes a useful resource for our exciting new Gold Hub - a dedicated collection of resources and support on Voice to help you complete your Gold Arts Award - so I'm going to improve the regularity.
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9 October 2015
An Open Letter To Modern Hip Hop
My opinion on the current state of Hip Hop today.
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8 October 2015
BBC Music’s Ten Pieces Secondary Film Screening in Salford
The 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
This 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
A 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
To 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
Bath 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
Yesterday 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
A 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”
These 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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30 September 2015
Review: The BBC's Lady Chatterly's Lover
The 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
Danny 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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29 September 2015
Desi Rascals: The debate about how ‘desi’ it actually is
My family and I have been watching the acclaimed Sky Living, scripted reality series Desi Rascals.