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24 October 2024
Kick Some Class: Here's what we learned
Over the last two months, we've spoken to amazing working class creatives, including Bridgerton's Claudia Jessie and CHERUB author Robert Muchamore, for our Kick Some Class series about social class in the arts. Here, we reflect on the series.
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23 October 2024
My class convenience store: What class means to me
Social class is a little bit like a supermarket, isn't it? Stick with me on this one.
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22 October 2024
Kick Some Class: Neil Griffiths explains Arts Emergency's vital work
Arts Emergency is a national charity helping to broaden access to culture careers via mentoring. CEO and co-founder Neil Griffiths spoke to Voice about his organisation's complex mission.
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18 October 2024
Kick Some Class: Jasmine Padgett on Newcastle arts space Cobalt Studios
Cobalt Studios is an arts and music venue in Newcastle, trying to make culture accessible to all. Digital and marketing manager Jasmine Padgett chats to Voice about how they help working class voices to be heard.
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27 September 2024
Kick Some Class: Clare Povey tells us about her working class author prize
Clare Povey is a children's author and also the person behind the Writers & Artists Working Class Writers prize, holding the ladder for working class people to get their stories published and on to bookshelves.
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24 September 2024
Kick Some Class: Robert Muchamore explains his journey to the CHERUB books
Robert Muchamore rose to fame in the noughties for writing the gritty child spy series CHERUB and he now pens a new spin on Robin Hood. He tells Voice how his working class background informed his approach as an author.
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13 September 2024
Kick Some Class: Ali Rashley on how Television Workshop helps working class kids
Ali Rashley is the executive artistic director at Television Workshop in Nottingham, which has a 40-year history of bringing amazing working class talent into the TV and film industry. She explains the challenges she has to face.
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12 September 2024
Kick Some Class: Dr Teresa Crew explains what class actually means in 2024
Dr Teresa Crew from Bangor University is an expert on the difficult topic of social class. So she was just the sort of clever person we wanted to speak to ahead of our Kick Some Class series.
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17 June 2022
The next step: students facing the class divide in graduate job market
Arts and humanities degrees garner lower salaries, how are recent working-class graduates coping?
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25 April 2022
How the Working Class Creatives Database are tackling class inequality in art
Class inequality means that pursuing a career can be difficult for working-class artists. The Working Class Creatives Database is working to remove barriers, however.
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30 June 2020
Interview with 1990's Chris, New Creative
“I know a lot more gay Davids who speak like the Queen, than I do gay Daves who speak like Barbara Windsor”
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18 October 2018 – 19 October 2018
Brenda's Got a Baby- stage@leeds 18th/19th of October 2018
Fresh from Edinburgh Fringe 2018, Brenda's Got a Baby is returning to stage@leeds for two nights. Brenda's Got a Baby is a brand new 4 star verbatim play about young working class women and their access to opportunity.