Voicebox: Kickstart your career

We chat to Jess Johnson who achieved her Arts Award 10 years back and is now pursuing her dream to be a novelist, to celebrate Arts Award's 15th birthday. 

Arts Award has been supporting the development of creativity and leadership skills for all young people for 15 years. Arts Award has championed creativity, nurtured talent and offered insights into the arts world, together with a taste of creative careers. Across the UK there are over 4,000 centres and an impressive 563,973 awards achieved. That's a LOT of Gold, Silver, Bronze, Explore and Discover Arts Awards over the years!

Tom Spence did his Arts Awards in the early days! He tells us about developing as a composer and his work with Skimstone Arts in Newcastle to celebrate Arts Award 15th birthday. 

Singer-songwriter Marsela guides us through this process during our final Artist Workshop in the series funded by the Arts Council England. 

The talented Marsela with be delivering an exclusive performance for Voice magazine on Instagram and demonstrating how to take a cover song and make it your own. This is the final session in our Artist Workshop series funded by the Arts Council England. 

Watch former Trinity College London student, Lola Warman, perform the drums live on Instagram and demonstrate how to play for different genres. This is the penultimate session in our Artist Workshop series funded by the Arts Council England. 

Bhavesh Jadva was one of the founder editors of Voice, when doing his Arts Award way back when.  He tells us what happened next…

In times like these, who doesn’t love a good laugh? Voice caught up with hilarious comedian and writer, Archie Maddocks, about what he has been up to lately, and how he has weathered the Covid-19 storm, as part of the Artist Workshop with Voice series, funded by Arts Council England.

£18 million will be allocated over the next 12 months to help cultural and creative practitioners develop their creative practice.

Voice caught up with opera singer, and violinist Joanne Roughton-Arnold for her advice on how to sing, and her journey to opera, as part of the Artist Workshop with Voice series, funded by Arts Council England.

Join award-winning stand-up comedian and writer Archie Maddox for this Voice special workshop on how to be a comedian. Sign-up to more free skills share workshops in the Artist Workshops with Voice series.

How did the first lot of A-level results go so horribly wrong and now that the grades have been revised, is the problem finally solved?