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Are Audiences Killing Culture?

From Sage Gateshead, Matthew Sweet with a debate asking if the arts are leading or following public taste. With Godfrey Worsdale, Sarah Kent, Wolfgang Weileder and Helen Marriage.

In a bid to reach new audiences, theatre is increasingly moving off the stage and the visual arts are coming out of the gallery, but is this a welcome trend? Matthew Sweet chairs the Free Thinking panel: BALTIC Curator Godfrey Worsdale, critic Sarah Kent, artist Wolfgang Weileder and Helen Marriage, director of Artichoke, the arts company responsible for a puppet elephant parading through London and Durham's Lumiere street light festival.

Producer: Fiona McLean

Image Credit: 'The Sultan's Elephant' by Royal de Luxe, produced in London in 2006 by Artichoke. Photo copyright Sophie Laslett.

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45 minutes

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Image Credit: 'The Sultan's Elephant' by Royal de Luxe, produced in London in 2006 by Artichoke. Photo copyright Sophie Laslett.

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  • Tue 12 Nov 2013 22:00
  • Tue 2 Sep 2014 22:00

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