Episode 2: Common Wealth
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In the second episode of CulturePlanB, David Jubb talks to Rhiannon White and Evie Manning, Co-Artistic Directors of Common Wealth Theatre. They chat about the importance of making friends as part of the creative process, about the expertise they experience in all the communities they work with, about how youth workers should be appreciated as artists and about the need for transparency and democracy in arts programming and funding. And tons of other stuff....
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