My guest on the podcast this week is CEO of Brighton Fringe Julian Caddy.  A creative and entrepreneurial cultural leader, working for 25 years across the UK and worldwide. He is passionate about widening access to the arts for both artists and audiences. He leads the central administration and management of England’s largest annual arts festival (750 events in 130 venues, with 380,000 attendances in 2022).

This is a truly fascinating episode and an insight into the struggles the events industry have faced since the pandemic but especially Brighton Fringe and even more so now. Julian also shares his clear passion and love for the arts and why Fringe as a platform is something that as a society and a community we need in our city.

'Nothing can really replace the transient joy that you experience, of sitting down, or standing up. You know, beer in hand, or not, and watching the lights go up'

When listening to this episode, allow yourself to think back to lockdown when there was a time when we wondered if we would ever be at another gig, comedy show, live performance, theatre experience and how much that was missed. As the above quote says nothing can replace that experience and its is so important that we support the arts and events industry as much as possible as we don't always realise what we have got until its gone. This is such a powerful, insightful episode from a truly inspirational CEO.

Everyone has a story to tell... Happy Listening 🎧

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/D-Aj59wtl9I

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