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Speaker 1: The new program is called Artists and Government and that's

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Speaker 1: pretty much exactly what it is. Artists are paired up

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Speaker 1: with city departments. It's a learning experience for them and

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Speaker 1: a way to inspire new creative ideas.

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Speaker 2: Bringing that creative prectice, that creative perspective into city work

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Speaker 2: will help city staff learn about new ways of doing

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Speaker 2: their regular job.

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Speaker 1: That's Claudia Zara Zua, the Arts and Cultural Planning director

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Speaker 1: for Cambridge's Community Development Department.

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Speaker 2: So, for example, we're going to be working with the

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Speaker 2: public Health department, so bringing in a creative perspective into

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Speaker 2: the work they do.

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Speaker 1: That creative perspective could harness innovation and help the public

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Speaker 1: health department communicate better and demystify what they do.

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Speaker 2: It could be embedding music into the public health events

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Speaker 2: like vaccine clinics.

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Speaker 1: Artists and Artists teams can apply for grants to support

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Speaker 1: the year long, possibly longer collaboration in Cambridge. I'm a

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