Wye Valley River Festival 2016 | Page 5

“ I have been engaged in the arts throughout my professional life, as a practitioner, producer, creator, commissioner, curator, educator and latterly as a strategist and policy maker. I strive for artistic quality, alongside an excellent process that engages the widest possible audience. Challenging where appropriate, filling a need where necessary but always looking for the wonderful. Using the arts, and the social and economic wealth they engender, to help create sustainable and prosperous communities. ” PhillipPa Haynes Festival Director s s plo hing Outdoor arts reaches audiences that other art “ doesn't I am inspired by creating theatre in unusual settings that engage ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Landscape demands an appropriate response whilst providing inspiring settings in which to connect people with the place and each other. I believe at its best it can connect, inform and inspire. Richard Headon comedy is just a funny way of being serious The human population of the planet relies on 0.03% of the world’s fresh water to survive. ”