Rhiannon White

Rhiannon is co-founder/ co-director of Common Wealth an award winning theatre company that makes site specific performance. Her mission is steeped in her values of being working class and creating a space where people are reminded that the arts are for them. She has worked extensively with National Theatre Wales, she has also collaborated and made work for National Theatre, Sherman Cymru, Chapter Arts Centre, BBC, Southbank Centre, Bread and Goose. A Clore fellow and Creative Wales Award Winner; Rhiannon recently joined the panel for the Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society.

Fireworks nights

“There feels like a massive push towards ‘diversifying’ the arts. It makes me feel uncomfortable when at the centre of that push we find mainly white, middle class people.”

By Rhiannon White

/ 17 Jan 2018

The future of civil society is dependent on space

It’s hard to cross the threshold of a place that doesn’t feel like it’s for you.

By Rhiannon White

/ 12 Aug 2017

I am a safe space

I am a safe space - I am human I am alive and so are you I am consciousness and matter My body feels, my body feels you I am

By Rhiannon White

/ 25 Jul 2017

Transform and rebuild the left

White group: results of first iteration WE ARE LEARNING HOW TO DEAL WITH THE QUESTION OF ‘THE NEXT DAY’ OR WHEN WE GET POWER. THE WAY TO DO IT IS

By Luis Martín, Noam Titelman, Andreas Karitzis, Rhiannon White and Emma Avilés

/ 17 Jul 2017

Creating safe and inclusive spaces in society

Silver group: results of first iteration Create an autonomous, bottom up inclusive space to promote networks of differences and commonalities. Silver group: results of second iteration Civil society can renew

By Aya Haidar and Rhiannon White

/ 17 Jul 2017