Voicebox: Kickstart your career
What's the best pathway into the arts and media - a creative apprenticeship or a university course? How do I build my experience and contacts, and survive as a young professional? This Voicebox offers ideas about developing your creative career, providing you with insights and opinions from both professionals and peers.
We also have a careers section dedicated to helping you find inspiration on taking that next step!
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15 March 2018 – 24 March 2018
Crafts Council Young People's Workshop @ The William Morris Gallery
Aged 16 – 25 and interested in craft and making?
We’d like to invite you to help plan and deliver our next Young People’s workshop, which will be part of our Hey Clay! festival in a few weeks’ time. This is a great opportunity to build your experience and gain lots of transferable skills. It’s fantastic for CV building, and if anyone is working towards Arts Award the workshop can be used for arts leadership/arts skill share units in your portfolio.
Hey Clay! is our nationwide free festival of ceramics. Studios, art centres and galleries all open their doors for the weekend to run free, hands on clay workshops for the public throughout the UK. The festival runs from the 23rd to the 25th of March, and is part of the Get Creative festival.
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9 March 2018
How volunteering helped me get a career in the arts
I started volunteering when I was 19 - which is 12 years ago - and I believe it's what sparked the start of my career in the arts. Find out more about how volunteering can help spark kick-start your career!
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7 March 2018
National Apprenticeship Week is the perfect time to plan your next step!
Many organisations announce new apprenticeship schemes to mark the 11th annual celebration.
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26 January 2018
What goes on at Time & Tide Museum, Creative Collisions project
We talk to the team at Time & Tide Museum about their Arts and Design Arts Award projects through Creative Collisions.
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24 January 2018
Top Resolutions to help get you in to an arts career
Is 2018 your year to start an art career? Here are a few resolutions to help you get there, and some links to more resources too.
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16 January 2018
“Don’t panic" - What to do after a creative apprenticeship
Curious Minds gather advice from professionals on where to go after you’ve finished your apprenticeship
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18 December 2017
Student, explorer and activist; Meet Georgie Campbell
From food poisoning in South East Asia to volunteering in a migrant camp - we could all learn a thing or two from ambitious student Georgie Campbell.
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14 October 2017
A student Q&A with Katie Pix
Going to university can be a stressful time, and the kind folk at John Lewis have pulled together three influencers – and former students - to answer some of the most frequently asked questions!
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14 October 2017
A student Q&A with Poppy Deyes
Going to university can be a stressful time, and the kind folk at John Lewis have pulled together three influencers – and former students - to answer some of the most frequently asked questions!
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14 October 2017
A student Q&A with Tom Honeyands
Going to university can be a stressful time, and the kind folk at John Lewis have pulled together three influencers – and former students - to answer some of the most frequently asked questions!
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10 October 2017
How to research work placements and training opportunities
A career in the arts is challenging, hard work and really rewarding. Work placements and training opportunities are a great way to test out your desired career, meet people in the industry and develop your skills and experience.
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18 September 2017
Apprenticeships - Why bother?
University is great. Three years of all-nighters, existential crises, ever-looming deadlined, never-ending stress and excessive drinking. Survive that and you come out with a degree and thousands upon thousands of pounds of debt. Compelling, right?
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14 September 2017
University isn't the only way
It is around this time that a number of you will be told to begin your UCAS applications, even if it isn't what you want to do. Don't feel that university is the be all or end all though - there are other options!
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21 August 2017
College is making my writing worse
Being repeatedly told what makes a good piece of writing by school and college has left my writing lifeless. How do i fix this?
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18 May 2017
Getting into the arts with or without a university degree?
Having completed my undergraduate degree in History and my postgraduate degree in Art History I am evidently a big advocate for going to university.
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24 April 2017
I love my art – do I need to go to university?
Choosing between university and the world of work is hard, what are the pros and cons?
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30 September 2015
Creativity vs Education: What have we learnt this month, class?
This month we have discussed the current state of creative education in the UK and it has proved itself to be rather lacking. From interviews with leading demonstrators to creative utopias, here is the best from September.
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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.