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28 January 2017
Ashlee Brown, Arts Award Activist and Actor
Ashlee Brown, our North West Activist is applying to high-end drama schools following the completion of her Arts Award.
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27 January 2017
Becky Demmen, Freelance Creative and Visual Artist & Gold Achiever
In an ever-changing world, accessibility within the arts can be neglected. To make this area fruitful for all, regardless of ability, is paramount.
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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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23 November 2016
National Youth Theatre presents 'Pigeon English'
The National Youth Theatre have celebrated their 60th anniversary this year and so we were definitely looking forward to watching 'Pigeon English', based upon Gbolahan Obisesan's adaptation of the Man Booker shortlisted novel by Stephen Kelman.
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18 November 2016
Case Study: Kitty Casey, Silver Achiever
Kitty completed her Silver Arts Award by learning the art of opera singing! Here's how her experience went.
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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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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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14 June 2016
Gold EXPO special: Vicki Taylor
Vicki, after finishing her Gold, became an Arts Award Advisor at all five levels for Work in Progress Arts and strives to improve inclusion for all young people within the arts.
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31 May 2016
How to…persuade your school to run Arts Award
No matter what size your school is, making the decision to introduce them to Arts Award is not something you should take lightly.
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10 March 2016
What goes on at...The Core at Corby Cube
The Core at Corby Cube are a Northamptonshire-based theatre space, who run a wide variety of community and youth-led projects. They are also an Arts Award Good Practice Centre for 2015-16.
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1 February 2016
The impact of change from Kids in Museums
By offering a variety of tools, materials and workshops to museum professionals, Kids in Museums have been able to implement change for young visitors nationally.
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27 December 2015
The best game of the decade is: Angry Birds
This December we asked you to vote for your top arts since Arts Award launched in 2005! Today, we're revealing Angry Birds as the winner of the Gaming category. Here are the highs (and lows) of Angry Birds' existence to date.
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3 December 2015
Case Study: DJ and Nicole from Corali Dance Company
DJ and Nicole are both dancers with Corali Dance Company, a UK company who focus on performers with learning disabilities, pairing them with collaborators from the wider dance world, offering career development and training opportunities. Here we meet two of their dancers who have completed Arts Award, at Bronze and Silver.
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23 November 2015
Top tip 8: Is that my reflection?
Tip: Make a plan, keep a diary, review on video, think. It's what Arts Award's about (as well as art). Enjoy watching Dom working out his strengths and weaknesses!
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23 November 2015
Top tip 6: My beautiful portfolio
This is where you show off your wonderful work so get it going it from the off. Document everything as you go – or you'll miss out best bits! Your portfolio may come in handy for college or job interviews, so make sure you're proud! Take a look at Tom's Gold portfolio or Dan's Gold Blog or Corina's Bronze work experience blog.
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23 November 2015
Top tip 4: Remember the backstage boys (and girls)
Check out the guys behind the art – techies, curators, website designers, marketeers…interesting work. Kolby thought so too – read his Gold opinion piece.
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23 November 2015
Top tip 3: Artists are wonderful
Find them, talk to them, work with them - get inspired across the arts. Great place to start is reading Voice interviews …and you'll find some artists already love Arts Award, check poet Holly McNIsh