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Starting out somewhere new

, September 20, 2011 — Culture

In the latest update from the DCMS Jerwood Creative Bursaries Scheme, Anna Bergström gets a taste of what her fellow graduates have experienced at a special event at the Manchester International Festival.

‘Let’s put on a show right here, in the barn’

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John David Penrose is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare

I‘ve heard it said that anyone who believes that ‘you can’t take it with you’ has obviously never packed a car for a family camping holiday. In the same vein, the person who said ‘you can’t be too careful’ has clearly never tried to put on a fund raiser in a community hall or organise…

Six months in my dream job

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, September 5, 2011 — Culture

Works for DCMS Jerwood Creative Bursaries Scheme

Meeting famous artists, installing seven-tonne spheres and producing collaborations between opera companies and prisons – it’s been all in a day’s work for Andrea Rowbotham since joining the DCMS Jerwood Creative Bursaries Scheme. Here, she gives us the lowdown on her first six months on a placement with the Dartington Hall Trust.

Britain’s got dinosaurs

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, August 25, 2011 — Culture

John David Penrose is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare

There was a story in the papers at the end of last month reporting that Lewis Hamilton wanted the national anthem to be longer. He’d just won the German Grand Prix and felt that his time on the podium could have done with being prolonged, on the basis that – as he said – “When…