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Creative Economy of the Greater Capital Region

What does the future hold for the creative economy of the greater Capital Region?

Aired 07/27/2016 | Rating NR

AHA! A House for Arts

Creative Economy of the Greater Capital Region

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What does the future hold for the creative economy of the greater Capital Region?

What does the creative economy of the greater Capital Region look like and what does the future hold? These are some of the questions that key stakeholders in our local creative economy discussed at a networking event at WMHT.

Aired 07/27/2016 | Rating NR

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Support provided by M&T Bank, the Leo Cox Beach Philanthropic Foundation, and is also provided by contributors to the WMHT Venture Fund including Chet and Karen Opalka, Robert & Doris...

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Creative Economy of the Greater Capital Region

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What does the future hold for the creative economy of the greater Capital Region? (9m 15s)

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Photographer Connie Frisbee Houde

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