Leicester Comedy Festival - Charlotte Laidet

About this episode

Charlotte Laidet discusses the Leicester Comedy Festival and its role in promoting mental health through comedy.

“ The mission is to educate and promote mental health through the arts, mostly through Comedy and for people to talk about mental health and difficult subjects through comedy ” Latest guest is Charlotte Laidet who is Festivals and Programme Director for Leicester Comedy Festival which is running from the 4th to the 22nd February. We talk about what it takes to put the festival together, why Leicester has an important place in the festival calendar and the other work that Big Difference Company who run the festival do around promoting health and well being using Comedy and promoting Comedy as an art form. Website: https://www.comedy-festival.co.uk/ Big Difference Company: https://bigdifferencecompany.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leicscomedyfest/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@leicscomedyfest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LeicsComedyFest Kids Festival and other links: https://t-sml.mtrbio.com/public/smartlink/leicscomedyfest Find More about ‘Making Creativity Pay’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Beyond_the_Pod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingcreativitypay/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danjbarnett/ Making Creativity Pay Newsletter…

People in this episode

Host: Dan Barnett

Guest: Charlotte Laidet

Topics covered

• mental health
• comedy
• arts
• Leicester Comedy Festival
• well-being
• festival organization

Keywords

• Leicester Comedy Festival
• Charlotte Laidet
• mental health
• comedy
• Big Difference Company
• arts
• well-being

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Leicester Comedy Festival, Big Difference Company, Making Creativity Pay, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

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