Research & Publications
The CSPA Quarterly is published seasonally, and features both established and rising artists, reviews, interviews, academic essays, reflections, event highlights, and spotlights on creative projects in theater, visual art, digital media, dance, film, and music to reflect the different ways in which sustainability in the arts is discussed, approached & practiced.
Publications featuring a single artist that provide an in-depth look at single artists’ practices and the way they engage with sustainability.
Anthologies
Worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented every two years to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings. These readings originate from the Climate Change Theatre Action program and are also part of our special reports.
Tools & Resources
The tools are a set of carbon calculation and reporting tools that allow organizations in the arts and culture sector to record, measure and understand their impact.
The Department of Utopian Arts and Letters (DUAL)
A project of public dreaming born out of our deepest desires for decolonization, climate justice, and collective liberation. We operate within, across, and beyond official governmental and academic departments to create educational resources for the kinds of joyful futures we want to work toward.
We hire a faculty of diverse community-expert artists, who are agents of imagination and unlearning. Faculty collaborates with our librarians to develop open-source curricula for their utopian ideas, contributing to a repository of valuable resources, including a design workbook, videos (public lectures) and a full course on Mighty Networks.
The Climate Change Theatre Action uses theater to bring communities together and and encourage them to take local and global action on climate by providing tools free of charge, guidance on how to produce events, marketing support, and a model that encourages leadership and self-determination. We make it easy for everyone to engage with an art form they may not be familiar with, and we empower them to harness their creative potential and put it in service of the greater good.
The CSPA works with an international group of partners to monitor developments in new measuring, certification and documentation tools in addition to developing industry specific methodologies for integrating sustainable practice into art making.
Events
Fireside Chats
Hosted by the CSPA in collaboration with Naheyawin. Once every other month, we gather to learn more about Indigenous ways of looking at socio-environmental issues.
We organize convening that gather industry leaders, educators, Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, students and the general public to share ideas and celebrate innovations in the sector.
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Starting in 2014, the CSPA has replaced its Amazon.com Bookstore with an annual book selection to build your library. Each year the CSPA will select a handful of books we we feel are essential reading. When someone subscribes to the CSPA, they are able to select one of that year’s book selections, and we will send it to that subscriber to add to their library.
Fringe
The Fringe Sustainable Production Award was designed to reward sustainable practice in the production of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Productions were invited to engage their audiences with sustainability, take responsibility for their environmental impacts, and think big about how the arts can help to grow a sustainable world.
Institute
The CSPA Institute gives artists the tools, knowledge, and inspiration to incorporate sustainable practice into their own as part of their professional training at an established academic institution. Through the CSPA Institute we develop professional workshops and work with institutions of higher learning to build sustainable arts curriculum.
Supports
CSPA Supports was a series of micro-grants available to artists creating work that reflects sustainability (environmental, economic, or cultural). The first grant was awarded early in 2011, with awards ranging between $200 and $2,000. To qualify, the artist must show a history of practicing as a professional artist, and must be a member of the CSPA.
The Knowledge Network
The CSPA’s primary service involves gathering and distributing information related to sustainable art and art-making, from a centralized information network. Thanks to a diverse news partners, new information can be found on our main page almost daily. We distribute weekly and monthly newsletters via e-mail with highlighted news, calls for participation, and upcoming events. We also offer ways to connect to each other and directly to the centre through a variety of social media including facebook and twitter
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