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Voicebox: Kickstart your career

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!

  • Interview Where are they now? with Tarryne Wills: Arts Award 15th birthday
    7 September 2020

    Where are they now? with Tarryne Wills: Arts Award 15th birthday

    by Nici West Voice Team

    We catch up with Tarryne Wills, Bronze Award Award achiever and now TV Production Coordinator to celebrate Arts Award 15th birthday. 

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  • Event How to Conceptualise a Shoot with Louis Femi Adebowale: Artist Workshop series with Voice
    22 October 2020

    How to Conceptualise a Shoot with Louis Femi Adebowale: Artist Workshop series with Voice

    by Nici West Voice Team

    Find out how to conceptualise a shoot and ensure that your end product matches the commissioner's vision with freelance video editor and photographer Louis Femi Adebowale. Sign-up to more free skills share workshops in the Artist Workshops with Voice series.

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  • Event How to Sing with Joanne Roughton-Arnold: Artist Workshops with Voice magazine
    17 September 2020

    How to Sing with Joanne Roughton-Arnold: Artist Workshops with Voice magazine

    by Nici West Voice Team

    Test out your opera singing skills with professional singer Joanne Roughton-Arnold, a lyric coloratura soprano with a flair for contemporary music and a range of over three octaves. Explore more free skills share workshops in the Artist Workshops with Voice series.

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  • Event Dance with Project X: Artist Workshop series with Voice
    8 October 2020

    Dance with Project X: Artist Workshop series with Voice

    by Nici West Voice Team

    Twist and turn, lengthen and strengthen, flex and float and wave your body with multi-disciplinary Project X, an organisation who platform dance of the African and Caribbean Diaspora. Sign-up to more free skills share workshops in the Artist Workshops with Voice series.

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  • Event Graffiti art with Sinna One: Artist Workshop with Voice Series
    24 September 2020

    Graffiti art with Sinna One: Artist Workshop with Voice Series

    by Nici West Voice Team

    Explore the art of graffiti with a LIVE demonstration from artist and illustrator Sinna One. Sign-up to more free skills share workshops in the Artist Workshops with Voice series.

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  • Event Aiding our planet through art with Marisa Rehana Mann: Artist workshop with Voice series
    10 September 2020

    Aiding our planet through art with Marisa Rehana Mann: Artist workshop with Voice series

    by Nici West Voice Team

    Work towards aiding our planet through art with artist Marisa Rehana Mann. Much of Marisa's art practise focuses on the environment, images of endangered creatures in their natural habitat to act as an emblem for helping to preserve that area. Sign-up to more free skills share workshops in the Artist Workshops with Voice series.

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  • How-to Guide How to approach a character with Akash Prasad
    4 August 2020

    How to approach a character with Akash Prasad

    by Saskia Calliste Voice Team

    Voice caught up with actor, writer and producer Akash Prasad about how he approaches a character and his latest short film 'Built To Be', as part of the Artist Workshop with Voice series, funded by Arts Council England.

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  • How-to Guide How to get into the film industry and get funded by writer, director and choreographer Margo Roe
    30 July 2020

    How to get into the film industry and get funded by writer, director and choreographer Margo Roe

    by Nici West Voice Team

    Voice caught up with writer, director and choreographer Margo Roe about how to enter the film industry, what it's like being at Edinburgh Fringe festival and where to begin when creating your own choreography for film. Margo Roe is a writer, director and choreographer from the Midlands, UK. 

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  • Blog Matt Windle, Birmingham Young Poet Laureate (2007-08) & Birmingham Poet Laureate (2016-18)
    29 July 2020

    Matt Windle, Birmingham Young Poet Laureate (2007-08) & Birmingham Poet Laureate (2016-18)

    by Iona Mandal

    Interview (over email due to social distancing) with former Birmingham Poet Laureate and boxer Matt Windle (The Poet with Punch) on his experiences and involvement in the poetry 'industry'. Published here with full permission from Matt. 

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  • Review Studio 2 - John Charles Exhibition
    29 July 2020

    Studio 2 - John Charles Exhibition

    by Danni Skelding

    John Charles exhibition and latest commission reveal

    Held at studio 2 Liverpool

    Written by Danni Skelding 

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  • Review John Charles - Exhibition Review
    27 July 2020

    John Charles - Exhibition Review

    by Danni Skelding

    Review of John Charles solo exhibition 

    Written by Danni Skelding 

    26.07.20

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  • Event Creating Art with Molly Macleod: Artist workshops with Voice
    3 September 2020

    Creating Art with Molly Macleod: Artist workshops with Voice

    by Nici West Voice Team

    Learn about graphic scores and turning sounds in to images with multidisciplinary artist Molly Macleod. Explore more free skills share workshops in the Artist Workshops with Voice series.

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  • Blog Do Arts Subjects in Schools Matter?
    8 July 2020

    Do Arts Subjects in Schools Matter?

    by Emily McKie

    For a long time we have been fed the narrative that arts subjects don't belong in schools. So I decided to dig a little bit deeper. Why do people feel this way about these subjects? And is there any substantial evidence to support their views?

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  • Event Approaching character from actor Akash Prasad: Artist workshops with Voice
    30 July 2020

    Approaching character from actor Akash Prasad: Artist workshops with Voice

    by Nici West Voice Team

    Get an introduction to how to approach building character from actor, producer and writer Akash Prasad. Explore more free skills share workshops in the Artist Workshops with Voice series.

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  • Blog Celebrating 15 years of Arts Award
    26 June 2020

    Celebrating 15 years of Arts Award

    by Nici West Voice Team

    2020 marks the 15th year since Arts Award launched! Can you believe Arts Award has been helping young people achieve their artistic desires for 15 years?! Let's find out what others are doing to celebrate. 

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  • Event Introduction to poetry with Theresa Lola: Artist workshops with Voice
    16 July 2020

    Introduction to poetry with Theresa Lola: Artist workshops with Voice

    by Nici West Voice Team

    Get an introduction to writing poetry with Young People’s Laureate for London Theresa Lola. Explore more free skills share workshops in the Artist Workshops with Voice series.

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  • Event Choreographing for film with Margo Roe: Artist Workshops with Voice
    9 July 2020

    Choreographing for film with Margo Roe: Artist Workshops with Voice

    by Nici West Voice Team

    Writer/ Director/ Choreographer Margo Roe explores how to create choreography for the camera and how to bridge the gap between narrative and movement. Explore more free skills share workshops in the Artist Workshops with Voice series.

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  • News LOOKOUT: Creative Careers podcast
    10 June 2020

    LOOKOUT: Creative Careers podcast

    by Voice Magazine

    New six-part series invites experts from across the creative industries to inspire young people

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