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6 March 2017
La La Land review - dare to read an unpopular opinion
La La Land represents the toils of the Hollywood underdogs, a film primed for all the successes it gained and almost gained. Unfortunately, for everything that astonishes about this film, it still just didn't grip.
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1 March 2017
Case study: Jayden Blacklock, Gold achiever
Jayden has been involved with drama at the Customs House for approximately three-and-a-half years and is now a Senior Drama Facilitator and Practitioner.
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10 February 2017
Laraib, Myda, Abigail and Georgia, Silver achievers from South Square Centre, Bradford
Four Silver Arts Award achievers from the South Square Centre in Bradford answered some questions about their time doing their Silvers together.
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6 February 2017 – 6 April 2017
Design the Manchester International Festival's 2017 tote bag
The MIF brand is innovative and direct. It is simple yet elegant, understated yet accessible.
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30 January 2017
Michael Baillon, Random Acts Midlands filmmaker
From Random Acts Midlands, Michael Baillon gives the audience his personal reflection on the story of a dragon named Rawry, through a short animation.
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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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19 January 2017
Sarah Worcester, Random Acts Midlands filmmaker
From Random Acts Midlands, Sarah Worcester's astonishing animation, Oblivion, strikes a chord with the visuals alone.
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19 January 2017
Ben Norris, Random Acts Midlands filmmaker
From Random Acts Midlands, Ben Norris's Send Her Victorious was one of the most daring films made as part of the 2017 cohort for, as we've learnt, some of the most essential reasons for today.
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18 January 2017
Emma Powell, Random Acts Midlands filmmaker
From Random Acts Midlands, we caught up with Co-Producer, Emma Powell about hers and Dale Cullis's visual iteration of the 'glass ceiling' that is faced by women in the workplace.
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17 January 2017
What goes on at...the Oska Bright Film Festival?
We caught up with Becky Bruzas, the Festival Director of the Oska Bright Film Festival 2017 in Brighton. Oska Bright is run by Carousel Arts, a leading disability-led arts organisation.
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11 January 2017
BAFTAs 2017: list of nominations
Unsurprisingly, La La Land leads the nominations with 11, but invites diversity scepticism for surprisingly few nominations for Moonlight, Fences, Hidden Figures and American Honey.
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11 January 2017
Caldonia Walton, Random Acts Filmmaker
From Random Acts Midlands, dancer, Caldonia Walton's Everyday Choreography is a joyful poem about the choreography of our everyday movements. We asked about her exploration of dance on screen.
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9 January 2017
Golden Globes 2017: list of winners
In a new Golden Globes record, La La Land won seven awards from seven nominations - the most awarded film in the ceremony's history.
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5 January 2017
The Good Immigrant, ed. Nikesh Shukla
As 2016 went along, immigration became a hotter and hotter topic in the UK. For Read A New Book Month I took on The Good Immigrant.
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30 December 2016
Films to look forward to in 2017
Take a look at just some of the massive films that we're going to get lost in in 2017.
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29 December 2016
Television to look forward to in 2017
Have a look at the television programmes that will act as our greatest sources of solace in 2017.
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20 December 2016
Detritus by Dion Kitson | FIRST ACTS
From Random Acts Midlands, Dion Kitson has made a brilliant poem about the alluring yet worrying detritus of Dudley.
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.