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Internships: valuable work experience or glorified volunteering? 

Before you go chasing an internship hoping for on-the-job training, there are many factors to consider.

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Does passion really spring eternal?

What happens when the passion runs dry in your creative project, The Big Idea's Verity Johnson asks?

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5 tips for pitching to the media

Rather than taking a blanket approach, making each of your pitches count results in a better chance at media coverage.

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Flourishing in the arts is about meaning, mastery and mattering

Committing ourselves to the path of flourishing may sound like an impossible ask – but it's not.

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Is your creative block really a log jam?

Verity Johnson wonders if your creative block is due to too much inspiration, not a lack of it.

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5 end of financial year fundraising tips

What are the secrets of fundraising at tax time?

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Exploring the potentials of hybrid work

A breadth of research shows that hybrid work arrangements should take into account lessons from COVID rather than a blanket…

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Arts podcasts we’ve escaped to in 2021

After another big year of ups and downs, we can find refuge and entertainment in arts podcasts from 2021.

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Why the Great Resignation is an opportunity, not a loss

The aura around an arts job is fading, the sector needs to take the hint.

It’s OK if you have a little cry in lockdown. You’re grieving

Neeraja Sanmuhanathan writes about disenfranchised grief, described as a loss not 'openly acknowledged, socially validated, or publicly mourned'.

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