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Puppet master: Hannah Proops (left) teaching a student
School lead arts network
A nationwide arts network, named TuneUp Arts, has been launched by King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS), Birmingham, giving schools a virtual platform to boost creativity. The launch follows the
success of the school’s star- studded, online gathering, TuneUp Tuesday, a free one- day event designed to celebrate the arts and their impact on young people’s mental health and well-being. TuneUp Tuesday brought
together more than 110,000 young people from all over the UK, featuring scores of virtual performances from top companies including Shakespeare's Globe, the Young Vic and the RSC. Leading industry
professionals offered careers advice and led arts activities, among them prima ballerina Dame Darcey Bussell, multi- award winning musical director of ‘Hamilton’ and ‘The Greatest Showman’ Alex Lacamoire, playwright and screenwriter James Graham, the world's top solo percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, comedian Greg Davies and rising musical theatre star Georgina Castle. The event is the brainchild
of KEHS’s new principal, violinist Kirsty von Malaisé, and the school’s director of drama, Hannah Proops, a theatre director and former professional puppeteer Kirsty, a former prizewinner
in the BBC’s ‘Young Musician of the Year’ contest, said: “We decided to launch TuneUp to affirm the power of the art and to uplift us all by bringing us together.”
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Law firm Pinsent Masons – which has an office in Birmingham city centre - has revealed plans to launch a new office in Amsterdam. The firm has recruited
technology, media and telecom (TMT), data privacy and digital lawyer Wouter Seinen as head of Amsterdam, as it develops its technology, science and industry (TS&I) services in the Netherlands. Richard Foley, senior partner at
Pinsent Masons, said: “With a quarter of our top 250 clients operating in the Netherlands this is an important strategic market for Pinsent Masons and I’m delighted to be starting the process by which we will quickly build out a meaningful capability in Amsterdam. “As a leading lawyer in his field, Wouter will play a vital role in
enhancing our technology, science and industry capabilities and connecting those capabilities across our UK and European platform in particular.” Wouter has advised a number of
high-profile global businesses including Unilever, Netflix, Google, Twitter,
Booking.com, Chanel, American Express Global Business Travel and Wolters Kluwer. He said: “I am looking forward to
contributing to this strategically important office launch for Pinsent Masons. The firm’s reputation as a leading multinational law firm with outstanding capabilities across technology, IP, data and privacy will enable me to develop my practice and enhance the firm's position as a trailblazer in innovation of legal services.”
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Pinsent Masons expand to Amsterdam
Richard Foley: Netherlands is key market for Pinsent Masons
HS2 launch dedicated job site
A new jobs site, which will advertise an estimated 20,000 job vacancies, has been launched by HS2. The new digital platform, which is hosted on the
HS2 website, offers those looking for work or a change of career, the opportunity to search the very latest vacancies with HS2’s construction partners and station contractors delivering the London to Birmingham section of the railway. HS2 Ltd's new jobs board been developed as part of a job brokerage partnership model, which
brings together local authorities, enterprise partnerships, charities and employment support services along the 140-mile route of the first phase of the new railway. Kate Myers, HS2 Ltd’s head of skills,
employment and education, said: “HS2 has a crucial role to play in the UK’s economic recovery and fightback from Covid-19. We are creating and sustaining thousands of jobs in the UK starting right now, when people need them most.”
Graduate baker rises to the top
A University College Birmingham graduate – who is a protégé of royal wedding cake maker Fiona Cairns – has earned a top accolade at the baking industry’s version of the Oscars. Katie Garrett, who graduated
with a first class Bakery and Patisserie Technology bachelor’s degree last summer, won the British Baker ‘Rising Star Award’ at the virtual Baking Industry Awards. Katie completed her Level 2
Bakery course and Level 3 apprenticeship at University College Birmingham, before progressing onto the foundation
degree and then obtaining her bachelors degree, also teaching the university’s Young Bakers Academy for 14 to-15-year-olds. After graduating, she quickly clinched a
Katie Garrett: Top honour for rising star
new product development role with Leicestershire-based Fiona Cairns, who made the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding cake and their children’s christening cakes. She said: “This means a great
deal, not just for me, but for the people who helped me along the way. I also want to inspire other young people to develop their passion and creativity in baking.” Samantha Dowle, assistant dean of
the University’s Birmingham College of Food (Bakery and Patisserie), said: “I am pleased she has now achieved the Rising Star award as she has always shone brightly.”
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