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Moira and baby Alice.

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Sole Party Day 4 Good in a fight? She's alright. She can't decide which gun to use so she carries around at least 3. She'll try picking a couple enemies off with her sniper rifle, but inevitably she'll miss most of them. Sometimes she'll fire wildly into the midst of them with her explosive pistol but mostly she loves using her Railway Rifle. It's so fun. She saves some psychojet for tricky situations, and worst case she can patch up any injuries with a stimpak and a bandage.

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Sole Party Day 3

(I don’t have any good screenshots of them together.)

Moira is closest with Deacon (of course), Nick, and Piper, but she'll also spend time with Preston, Hancock, and even MacCready, who Deacon says is "a whiny merc asshole". Nick and Moira really bonded immediately after they met, partly because they both had pre-war memories. She loves helping him with his cases.

 After the Institute was destroyed, Deacon disappeared from Moira's life because he was struggling with his feelings for her. Now, they're a team again after they admitted their mutual feelings. Deacon loves teaching Shaun how to play baseball and pick locks.

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I had the pleasure of commissioning art of my sole survivor from @domirine and I love the results!!! Moira looks amazing and badass and I highly recommend commissioning domirine!

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'You need to be doing something that you love and feel really passionate about’

Young girl with Olympic themed glasses at Freeword exhibition opening.

Photo Credit : Frances Baker and Ros Barnett

During the Freeword’s opening exhibition, Politics and the Olympics I caught up with Moira Sinclair, Executive Director of Arts Council England to find out about her thoughts on young people and the future of the arts.

Moira Sinclair became Executive Director of Arts Council England, London in March 2008, where she is responsible for the support and development of the arts throughout the capital, overseeing a portfolio of over 250 regularly funded organisations, which includes many of the national companies such as the Royal Opera House and the National Theatre.

Q.  Part of your job requires engaging young people; with youth unemployment having reached a high recently, how difficult will it be in future to do that?

A.  I think it’s going to be a challenge – it’s a challenge on a number of fronts, firstly talking to young people whose parents are very anxious about them coming into arts and the creative sector because they don’t know what the employment situation will be.

All I can do is refer back to my own situation when I tried to get into the Arts in the 1980’s and we were in the middle of a recession and it was really hard.

You need to be doing something that you love and feel really passionate about.

The Arts Council is going help fund apprentices and internships and some job creation to make sure we don’t loose this generation of young artists and young professionals.

But it is going to be a tough time.

In explaining to parents particularly that the arts sector is not just about what they know – it’s not just about being on stage or being a pop performer – there’s a whole range of careers that sit underneath that and if you study the arts you have transferable skills. You can learn about finance, you can learn about managing teams, you can learn about hitting deadlines really quickly and all of that is really valuable when you go into your career so even if you study art at GCSE through to A level until University, you don’t know how that’s going to translate into your future career options. Careers that we though were once safe are no longer safe and actually the Arts are a great starting point for a whole range of other things that happen.

Q. Do you think the Olympics will act as an opportunity to create change within families and young people?

A. I think it has done in certain circumstances, we are very proud of the work we’ve done around death and disable artists and I think that’s one of the legacy pieces that will come through that the way that these artists are seen and understood will completely change post Olympics games and we are funding the most tremendous amount of work.

 If you are looking specifically in east London and the opportunities that are longer term gains. What I hope is that you raise the aspirations of people especially young people in east London and their families to say we can grow. The Olympics gives us a feeling of what could be achieved- we have real ambition for our young people and we want them to do better than we did.

My family background is that my father was born in Stepney and he came from a generation that wanted their kids to do really well and the Olympics should be another opportunity for parents to want their children to do really well.

Q. You were sat on the cultural board before the Olympics was announced. Perhaps you could tell us about your previous job and what it entailed.

A. Well I’ve been involved with the planning for the Olympics since I joined the Arts Council and before that I worked in East London. I worked for St. Barts and the London NHS trust so I know the communities around Whitechapel and that surrounding area pretty well and as I say my history going back a long way is Stepney and East London. I don’t think means personally I have a real experience of what it means to be an East Londoner today but I have a sense of what you can achieve and why east London gives you resilience. It gives you the ability to really think about working with different communities and different cultural groups and it gives you the springboard to hopefully something exciting for your futures.

Q. The younger people who are harder to reach who there is funding for– how do you think the message of opportunity can be brought forward and how they can grasp it.

A.  Well I think you as peers have a role to play I saying there’s something here for everybody.  I think there’s a sense of them not missing what’s passing by their doorsteps and if they don’t engage – it’s kind of happening anyway. There’s the Hackney Weekend, Urban Classics going on at Waltham forest, there’s a whole series of events going on at Hackney Empire, Rich Mix is doing a set of interesting programmes – it doesn’t cost a lot. I always say to young people if you don’t get engaged now who are you going to blame at the end of this because its not like the opportunities are not there. If you don’t take them up the person you are going to blame at the end of this is you not the people around you. Although there has been some frustration about the pace of the events and the communication of these events its now becoming clearer and clearer what these opportunities are – a lot of them are free – a lot of the require you to use your bus pass and move form one place to another which I know is terrifying for some young people but London has the enormous richness and you as young people aren’t prevented from accessing it. Get out there and do it! You are luckier than any other young person in the country – go and do it.