Voicebox: Schools on Voice
All you need to know about what schools are doing to get their students through their Awards and a look at what the students themselves are creating!
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15 January 2016
Make art not war: theatre of social and political change
What if, instead of using life as a design for art, we could use art as a design for life?
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11 December 2015
Gold Inspiration Podcast
Want to go for Gold? This podcast will certainly help!
Hello, podcast lovers! It has been a long time but we are back once more, and this time we are talking about how to achieve Gold Arts Award.
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10 November 2015
What goes on at...Shakespeare School's Festival
This year, we're running a review writing competition with Shakespeare School's Festival. You can review any SSF performance, just upload it to Voice and add it to the 'Shakespeare School's Festival' Voicebox to enter. We chatted to SSF's Venue Director Iain Jones to find out more about the festival.
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29 October 2015
Backstage with...BBC Ten Pieces
Ten Pieces is a huge scale project that aims to support teachers to deliver the music curriculum. After watching 10 Pieces II, we chatted to Jennifer Redmond, Assistant Producer at BBC Ten Pieces about making classical music appealing to all ages.
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28 September 2015
I don't go to school? A vlog by Agi K
We've featured Agi on Voice before, she has completed all of her Arts Award levels (by the age of 11!) and is taught from home. Who better to call on, as we come to the close of creative education month.
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28 September 2015
Want my job?...with Garth Jennings
Garth Jennings has worked in both film and publishing, directing such classics as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and signing a three book deal with Macmillan Children's books. This weekend, he could be found at Bath Children's Literature Festival...
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27 September 2015
Classic Stories with Kate Saunders and Holly Webb
Should classic books be sacred? And, if you do choose to revamp or serialise a classic, how should you go about it?
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27 September 2015
Bath Picks 2015: Martyn Ford, David Solomons and Sibéal Pounder
This weekend, Bath Children's Literature Festival presented their three top new writers — welcome to the stage Martyn Ford, David Solomons and Sibéal Pounder.
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26 September 2015
Judith Kerr at Bath Children’s Literature Festival
Witnessing the brilliant Judith Kerr in conversation at Bath Children's Literature Festival, it's great find the renowned author is still at such a creative highpoint.
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25 September 2015
What goes on at...Brighton University Saturday Club
The National Art & Design Saturday Club offers young people aged 14–16 the chance to study art and design every Saturday morning at their local college or university for free. We caught up with Brighton Uni's Joanna Tolley to find out more...
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22 September 2015
What goes on at...Bath Children's Literature Festival
Bath Children's Literature Festival is a week-long festival that kicks off this weekend. John and Gill McLay founded the festival in 2006, and have returned this year as Artistic Directors. Voice caught up with them to find out more...
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15 September 2015
Want my job?...with Esther Burns
Esther Burns (Estie B) is a British artist, who created a film for ROH Bridge, about the status of art in UK schools and wider life.
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14 September 2015
Can young people fully understand the importance of arts in our current system?
Arts education is not effective in demonstrating the value of the arts to young people.
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14 September 2015
Minecraft as an art
Could the block style sandbox game stimulate creativity and allow children to easily create individual utopias?
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9 September 2015
Backstage with...Susan M Coles
Susan M Coles is a passionate advocate for art, craft and design education in the UK (and beyond).
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1 September 2015
What’s the role of film education at a young age?
Media literacy gives us so much. It's unquantifiable how much I've learnt, not from school, but from watching film and television.
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1 September 2015
How Schools View Careers in the Arts
This is a topic that is very close to my heart and the opinions I have formed come mainly from my own experiences in attempting to gain acceptance and help from my school in regards to the career path I have chosen to follow.
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25 August 2015
How to write a review of an event
You'll get a lot of people telling you that writing a review is easy, but the simple fact of the matter is that if you've never done it before, it definitely isn't going to be. We'll all have done some textual analysis in school for English but after that exam, it escaped our memories quicker than, well… you can remember.