Upcoming event!
Join our upcoming event with Bullfrog Power! Empowering Sustainability in the Arts: Bullfrog Power & Decarbonization Strategies This webinar will explore how Bullfrog Power’s carbon offsets and green energy solutions can help different arts and creative cultural organizations reduce their environmental footprint and contribute to a more sustainable future. This presentation will focus on a →
Open Call!
2025 Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) provides grants of up to $20,000 to environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories. The AWAW EAG supports environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement. Applications are →
Open Call for Lumiere 2025!
Pitch your BRILLIANT idea for Lumiere 2025 This is your chance to become a #LumiereDurham artist in 2025! BRILLIANT offers anyone (aged 18+ and living in the UK) the chance to be part of the bold and ambitious programme for Lumiere 2025, exhibiting alongside internationally renowned artists. You don’t need to be an artist or have any →
Celebrating Climate Theatre in NYC!
Join the Arts & Climate Initiative and the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts for an afternoon celebration of climate theatre in NYC. See readings of a few short plays. Hear from a panel of previous participants in our Climate Change Theatre Action festival (CCTA). Learn about theatre artists and organization in NYC engaging →
Upcoming Event!
Everything We Need is Already HereEco-creative strategies for a climate changed future. A discussion and exchange led by Tanja Beer and Lisa WoynarskiFriday, February 21, 2025 – 6-7:30 PM, Barnard Design Center Sponsored by the Barnard College Department of Theatre and made possible by the Dasha Amsterdam Epstein fund for visiting scholars and artists. Co-sponsored →
Q43 is out now!
Q43: Intertidal Encounters GUEST EDITOR: Sarah Blisset Intertidal Encounters ask: what are the stories cast up by intertidal being/s and how do they come to matter? The Intertidal Encounters issue explores embodied ways of being with the ebb and flow of tides and shorelines. Intertidal Encounters invite us to enter worlds at the confluence of →
A new course is out!
Choreodaemonics by Laurel Lawson & Sydney Skybetter Choreodaemonics seeks to explore the creative opportunities and political risks of creative production through emerging technologies of AI, robotics and virtual presence. Most urgently, “Choreodaemonics” examines the ideological, technological and aesthetic collisions wherever humans meet with emerging computational systems. The phrase “choreodaemonics” is a contraction of “choreography” (the →
Open Call!
Awaji Art Circus is calling performing artists from around the globe for both 2025 and 2026 years! Are you interested in performing in Japan? Do you want to expand your network and gain an unforgettable experience? Are you interested in regional revitalization through arts? They invite you to share your amazing performing arts talents and →
Upcoming Event!
We warmly invite you to this special event, where Kimberly Skye Richards will be sharing about The Department of Utopian Arts and Letters. Speculative Futures: new ways of thinking about energy, culture and climate change Date & Time: Feb 12, 2025 02:00 PM Join for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Kimberly Skye Richards and Dr. →
New Publishing Tool!
We are excited to share that the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA), with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and guidance from New Society Publishers and ECW Press, has launched a new feature in the Creative Green Tools Canada (CG Tools)— the Publishing Tool. What is the new Publishing →
Find all our Fireside Chats on Mighty Networks!
The Fireside Chats emerged from a desire to learn from Indigenous voices. These chats have been created in partnership with our friends at @naheyawin and the support of our amazing guests. Each chat stems from the shared excitement and passion of all of us to engage in meaningful conversations around sustainable practice that both inspire →
Call for participants!
Are you interested in exploring how the arts and culture sector can respond to climate-related disasters and be resilient in the long term? Thanks to the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, we’re inviting Canadian arts and culture organizations of all kinds to help us develop a climate adaptation and disaster risk →
Open Call!
As we enter the fourth year of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the European Marine Board (EMB) is looking for two new artists/groups of artists for the 2025 – 2026 edition of their ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ artist-in-residence programme. The EMBracing the Ocean programme provides euro grants for creative individuals/groups from a →
Holiday Closure Notice
Nous sommes fermés pour le temps des fêtes! Holiday Closure Notice: The CSPA will be closed on Monday, December 23rd, 2024 – January 3rd, 2025. Reopening on January 4th, 2025. Avis de fermeture pour les fêtes: Le CSPA sera fermé lundi 23 décembre jusqu’au 3 janvier 2025. Réouverture le lundi 4 janvier 2025. As the →
Open Call!
Apply for Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies Proposals due on February 24th, 2025 Open to artists of all disciplines who have demonstrated an established dialogue with environmental and cultural issues. The climate crisis is an urgent global concern. Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies at A Studio in the Woods →
Submissions to the CSPA Quarterly Q46
About the CSPA Quarterly publication: The CSPA Quarterly is a publication meant to give a longer format and deeper space to explore and reflect the myriad ways in which sustainability in the arts is discussed, approached and practiced. The publication features reviews, interviews, features, artist pages, essays, reflections and photos. It is a snapshot of →
A new course is out!
Immigration & Mobility developed by Taiwo Afolabi with the support of Olusola John. Immigration & Mobility focuses on roots and routes, and the realities of immigration, including the processes we have to go through to arrive at a place. The course considers what it means to leave, what pieces go with us, and what it →
A New Anthology Now Available!
‘All Good Things Must Begin: Short Plays Imagining the Future’ The Arts & Climate Initiative, in partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, just released their most recent anthology, All Good Things Must Begin: Short Plays Imagining the Future, edited by Chantal Bilodeau. Originally commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2023 – →
We are back!
Dear Friends and Supporters, We’ve been able to resolve our situation and we are in the process of restoring our services. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused and deeply appreciate your understanding. You can always help us by advocating for the support of the Creative Green Tools with your funders. If →
Slow Touring Project – Transforming the Touring Sector: A Learning Series (ONLINE)
Register for the Slow Touring Project! Slow Touring Project presents Transforming the Touring Sector: A Learning Series The workshops will take place on zoom, once a month from October – March. First free workshop: Radical Hospitality – Monday, Oct 28 – 1-3pm How can presenters and their communities be the best possible hosts to artists →