Monthly Archives: February 2025

Celebrating Climate Theatre in NYC!

Announcements, CCTA, news

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 with the climate crisis. And cheer as we officially launch our latest anthology of short plays, All Good Things Must Begin, and announce the theme for our CCTA 2025 festival.

Refreshments will be served. Tickets are free but you must RSVP.

Saturday, March 1 · 4 – 5:30 pm EST

Location: Theatre Row

Register here!

The Arts & Climate Initiative is located on the island of Manhattan in New York City, or what is traditionally known as Mannahatta. We acknowledge and pay our respect to the Lenape People who have stewarded this land and these waters through the generations. And we extend our respect to Indigenous People everywhere.

Upcoming Event!

news, Open Calls

Everything We Need is Already Here
Eco-creative strategies for a climate changed future.

A discussion and exchange led by Tanja Beer and Lisa Woynarski
Friday, 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 by the Barnard Office of Sustainability and the Barnard Design Center.

This event will focus on how creativity can be mobilized as an agent of change to support social and ecological justice in a time of crisis. There will be an emphasis on how case studies from theatre and performance can have wider applications in climate justice work, for example how the principles of place-based, circular, and regenerative practice can be applied to theatre making as well as in non-theatrical climate contexts.

Register here!

Q43 is out now!

news, Quarterly

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 land and water where porous states and transcorporeal merging carve out new forms of co-existence.

Entanglements at these watery edges extend from rivers to rock pools, where an oat and an oyster turn tides with their love story and a leap into silt is a dance with the moon; these are places where saturated sands hold memories that rise with the waves and a tender embrace dissolves into salt.

Come and join us at the water’s edge.

To purchase individual print & digital issues, check out MagCloud.

Quarterlies are print-on-demand, and come with free digital downloads, or you can purchase digital downloads separately.

A new course is out!

Department of Utopian Arts and Letters, news

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 art of bodily movement through space and time creating meaning) and “daemon” (a background computational process).

Students will consider the histories and processes of creative production and technological development, and ultimately investigate the performative consequences of embodiment by computational agents through robots, avatars, games, software, customer service platforms and social media.

Click here to join!

Open Call!

news, Open Calls

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 become a part of the Awaji Art Circus family. You can watch about Awaji Art Circus experience here:

Work content: Perform as a cast member in an original theatre production, as well as at several local schools and in other related sub-events

When:

For 2025: Sep 15 (Mon) – Oct 28 (Tue), 2025　

For 2026: Sep 14 (Mon) – Oct 27 (Tue), 2026

Where: Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Who: All circus and other performing physical disciplines EXCEPT FOR fire-related performances. For AERIAL ARTISTS, please apply ONLY if you can do full independent floor act in addition to the aerial performance.

How to apply: Please check conditions on website and apply via the Online Application Form

Applications deadline: March 14 (Fri) 11:00 PM JST, 2025

They’re excited to welcome all of your amazing applications and hope to see you on Awaji Island!

CONTACT INFORMATION: 

Awaji Art Circus Executive Committee
E-mail: 4awajiartcircus@gmail.com

Upcoming Event!

Department of Utopian Arts and Letters, news

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. Sourayan Mookerjea on how speculative futures can help build just, sustainable, and healthy futures for the whole planet, and how we can start practicing it today.

Speculative futures is an envisioning process and design approach that brings together arts, social sciences, and humanities’ perspectives to address complex societal issues by inviting people to visualize new and potential futures. Increasingly, speculative futures is used to create solutions for the climate and biodiversity crises as well as the entangled injustices and inequities faced by communities.

Register here!

Speakers

Dr. Kimberly Skye Richards PhD.

Dr. Sourayan Mookerjea PhD

Moderator

Dr. Jackie Seidel

We look forward to seeing you there!

New Publishing Tool!

Creative Green Tools, news

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 Tool?

The “Publishing” footprint tool is a new addition to CG Tools designed to simplify the process of estimating the carbon footprint of book runs.

What can it measure?

The Publishing Tool tracks:

  • Production materials (paper, cover stock)
  • Transportation emissions (from production to distribution)

It also supports the input of custom emissions data received from a lifecycle footprint analysis (LCA), to keep everything in one place.

How does it support your publishing goals?

With the Publishing Tool, users can:

  • Compare the carbon footprint of different scenarios associated with your choices of materials, and different types of transportation for production and distribution.
  • Explore other footprinting options within the CG Tools to test the impact of your book tours and office operations.

How was the tool developed?

The new publishing footprint option in the CG Tools is a simplified version of the life cycle analysis (LCA) found in The Book Carbon Footprint Calculator 1.0, a detailed lifecycle analysis tool created through a collaboration between New Society Publishers and ECW Press.

The CSPA acknowledges the invaluable contributions of Jen Knoch from ECW Press and EJ Hurst from New Society Publishers, who have supported the development of this new tool as part of our advisory committee since January 2024. Their expertise and guidance have helped shape the Publishing Tool into a user-friendly resource that stays true to its core purpose of tracking, while also making it more accessible for publishers.

Ready to get started?

You’ll need basic information like:

  1. Book size and paper details
  2. Transportation distances and methods

Starting February 3rd, you can access the publishing tool in 3 steps:

  1. Create or log in to your CG Tools account.
  2. Create a new project.
  3. Select “Publishing” as the area you want to track.

Access the tools here!