Such a bold and beautiful chat with Director, Producer and Artist Jordi. M Carter on how culture and the industry shapes us. How we are working to find our identity and placement, how we can be in service to art and the artists.  Topics Breakdown:  When was the most euphoric or happiest you were in your job? Walk away Lessons learnt from the following: Young Vic Associates , Theatre Peckham Young and Boundless and how did opportunities in those spaces come to be?  What about theatre and the arts excited you to be working in this industry ?  Black Performance lab- Spirituality, culture, heritage work and facilitating that to non-black creatives/ Transparent conversations around programming, better script work or craft work from directors, writer to actors and do you voice that?  What your DYCP is about and finding on it ? And what is DYCP why it’s so competitive now and also a great opportunity for UK creatives ?  Challenges and joys of decolonising work in theatre and creating your own space.  Rapid Response Questions:  A tip on being financial savvy? Go back to any role or project what would it be and why? And if you were asked to do a part 2/ expansion of it- input  A great thing about being an artist in today’s social, cultural and economical and a challenging thing about it?  Getting into the role- auditioning or when you have booked the job? And how to let go or sepearate yourself from it? A thing you would like someone to take away with them having met you for a brief second or known you for a long time? Your Favourite thing about yourself either as a creative or person and something you feel is a challenge and are working on? A thing you would like to impart somebody but you never got told ? Words to your mirror self today? 3 things the creative culture could do with and or without? 3 artists really admire their journey or would suggest in checking out their work? What the Chai- 30 second rant about anything and everything however you must start or end your rant with the phrase ”What the Chai?” Joyfulness- What’s one thing that makes Jordi joyful and whats one thing he does for others that makes them feel joyful.  Notes: Artists/ organisations mentioned in the episode are: Ntozake Shange, Lanre Malaolu, Benedict Lombe .  To subscribe to Patreon and become a Patron/ supporter of Chai with Rai.  Social: Myself: https://www.instagram.com/chaiwithrai_/ & https://twitter.com/chaiwithrai_ & https://www.tiktok.com/@chaiwithrai Guest : https://www.instagram.com/jordimcarter/  Links: Myself: https://www.raimuitfum.com/chaiwithraihomepage & https://linktr.ee/chaiwithrai_  Guest: https://salamander-sprout-59c2.squarespace.com/bio & https://creatorsprogram.youngvic.org/member/11771  Hope you all enjoyed it and Thank you for tuning in. To Subscribe, share, follow my work and everything else is listed above.