CSPA Convergence

MOVING ARTS – MOVING GREEN

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MOVING ARTS – MOVING GREEN

The Green Mini-Expo 
 FREE 
The Ford Theatres
December 7th, 2009 1pm-7pm 
 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. EastHollywood, CA 90068  
 Stop by any time during the day for fun,great informationand delicious food provided by Large Marge Sustainables! http://www.largemargesustainables.com

Inspired by the strong environmental themes within Song of Extinction, Moving Arts has begun “Moving Green” by taking steps toward becoming a more eco-friendly company. The Green Mini-Expo is a way to celebrate these changes, as well as connecting audiences with local Green organizations and businesses that provide access to emerging green issues and eco-friendly lifestyle techniques.

Among the vendors participating in the Mini-Expo will be:

The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
All Shades of Green
Jenneration Fix
Earth Resource Foundation
Large Marge Sustainables
and Smart Car!

Audience members are also welcome to participate in a free panel discussion with a diverse group of local, green professionals.  Among the panel participants will be Ian Garrett from The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, Jessica Aldridge, Zero Waste Event Coordinator/Consultant and Natalie Freidberg of All Shades of Green.

GREEN MINI-EXPO SCHEDULE 1pm-7pm  Expo Open to Public3pm-4:30pm  Matinee Performance of Song of Extinction 5pm Moving Green – Panel Discussion on How to Live a Greener Life (45 minutes)7pm Song of Extinction Pay-What-You-Can-Performance for more information e-mail: info@movingarts.org  

If you haven’t seen the show the critics are calling… 

“Exquisite”  Stage Scene LA 
“Gorgeous” LA Weekly   
“Lyrcial”  Los Angeles Times
“Perfection”  Curtain Up
“Captivating”  LA Taco 
You only have two weekends left!    

byEM LEWIS CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

Sustentable ’08: 11/28 until 12/2 at the Buenos Aires Botanical Garden

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Original by Paula Alvarado, Buenos Aires on 11.26.08 for Treehugger

From November 28 until December 2 the Buenos Aires Botanical Garden will host Sustentable ’08, the first edition of an annual festival entirely dedicated to sustainable design.

The event will present over 100 environmentally and socially responsible objects created by Argentinean designers, and will offer a set of conferences and workshops for both professionals and general audiences, all with free entry.

Find out about the designers and the program of conferences in the extended.

The event 

Even though there have been some events on sustainable design before (see our coverage of Design Connection and the green section at Puro Diseno fair), this one comes with in a time of many projects and people that are revolving around the subject of sustainability in Argentina.

Much undeveloped than in the States or Europe, it seems 2009 will be the year green finally jumps to a larger audience than the small group of us that have been quietly watching this grow.

The organizers of the event, Ana Lisa Alperovich and Rodrigo Valdivielso, are hoping this will be a conversation starter for many designers that are not involved in the subject and for the audience in general, which is why they have opened the event to everyone with free entry.

The designers

The products that will be presented in the exhibition cover different categories and are a good representation of the actual state of ecodesign in Argentina.

There will be different kinds of products for the home like the Nuke efficient and non contaminant stove, Tribalia’s knitted rugs and accessories, Arqom’s furniture, andMinima Huella’s glasses from bottles and cardboard benches.

Arqom’s Nativo bench.

In clothing and accessories the festival will feature 12-Na garments with reinvented clothes, Indarra’s solar jacket and sustainable fabrics pieces, Manto’s traditional weavings made modern, recycled fibers Cargabags, advertising banners bags by Baumm, tires accessories by Neumatica, repurposed tights bags by Mestiza, andbonded leather bags by Gruba.

Cargabags.

There will be jewelry by Silvina Romero and Tota Reciclados; and toys byVacavaliente and Maminas.

The conferences and workshops

The entire program of conferences for the festival can be found online at theSustentable website.

All presentations and workshops are free of charge and no need for inscription, just show up at the right time and you’re done. There are talks about bioclimatic architecture, solar cooking, visual pollution, clean energies, organic gardening, sustainable textiles, local resources, organic eating and solar collectors, among others.

Some interesting people that will offer the talks are El Viaje de Odiseo and their anti-plastic-bags campaign, Miki Friedenbach, and the fellows from Xcruza studio and their solar cooker.

The workshops include one about advertising banners reuse by Baumm, another about discarded textiles design by Silvina Romero, another about composting and organic gardening, and one more about PET bottles reuse.

Remember, it’s all happening this weekend, from November 28 to December 2, from 11 am to 7 pm, at the Buenos Aires Botanical Garden (good opportunity to visit this beautiful green space located in Santa Fe Av. 3951; subway line D, Plaza Italia Station). Free parking for bikes is offered at the entry.

(Disclaimer: this writer voluntarily contributed with the organization of this event).

Sustentable ’08

SEEDS Festival: Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance, + Science

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SEEDS Festival
Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance, + Science
June 14 – 28th 2009
Earthdance · Plainfield, Massachusetts
www.earthdance.net/seeds
http://seedsfestival.ning.com
SPREADING SEEDS: DEADLINE December 20th

SEEDS Festival will benefit from projects beyond the scope of our curatorial imagination. We invite you to propose and participate in the following projects: Single Workshops (Green/Body/Local & CI as a Social Experiment), Interdisciplinary Residencies, Presentations, Panel Discussions, Performances, Videos & Films, Archiving, and more! Our website lists the complete descriptions and downloadable application forms.  www.earthdance.net/seeds.

SEEDS Festival (Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance, + Science) is a unique interdisciplinary summer festival dedicated to arts and ecology. The two weeks will feature workshops, collaborative design projects, panel discussions, live performances, films, and interdisciplinary investigations.  This year’s format: Week One: A week of workshops, and a two-track weekend of eco-soma-regional research, & social experiments into CI. Week Two: Interdisciplinary investigations.
This year, the Festival will focus on potentiality – in this year of potential political change & community organizing, we invite this phenomenon into our interdisciplinary investigations.

SEEDS Festival 2009 Curatorial Team: Margit Galanter, Melinda Buckwalter, and Olive Bieringa

SEEDS Team: Curators, Earthdance Staff, & Programming Committee.

Earthdance is an artist-run residential retreat center and an international arts organization. Through a broad spectrum of activities and programs, Earthdance cultivates the art of improvisation, dance, collaboration, and ecological understanding. Located in Pioneer Valley, Western Massachusetts, Earthdance features two beautiful dance studios, farmhouse, comfortable dorm accommodations, delicious cuisine, wood-stove sauna, spring-fed swimming quarry, and 100 acres of outdoor bounty.

USGBC Greenbuild News and LEED Update

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If you’re in Boston right now, you might be at, or should check out Greenbuild, the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) annual conference. The USGBC was grown out of the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) and are best known for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Standard.   :

From the Greenbuild Webpage:

Boston – the historic cradle of the American Revolution, home to innovations that have far-reaching impact and the perfect place to celebrate Greenbuild 2008’s theme of “Revolutionary Green: Innovations for Global Sustainability.” Join us at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Boston November 19-21, 2008.

Buildings play a critical role in protecting and improving our environment and the health of the people who occupy them. USGBC’s Greenbuild conference and expo is an unparalleled opportunity to connect with other green building peers, industry experts, and influential leaders as they share insights on the green building movement and its diverse specialties.

As we’ve learned from EcoGeek, one of the things on the table at Greenbuild is that the USGBC has announced an update for the LEED standard, LEED 2009:

“LEED 2009 will also incorporate highly anticipated regional credits, extra points that have been identified as priorities within a project’s given environmental zone. LEED has also undergone a scientifically grounded re-weighting of credits, changing allocation of points among LEED credits to reflect climate change and energy efficiency as urgent priorities. This will be one of the most significant changes to the rating system, and will increase the importance of green building as a means of contributing immediate and measurable solutions toward energy independence, climate change mitigation, and other global priorities.”

But if you don’t have the chance to get to Boston for Greenbuild you don’t have to miss the master’s speaker series. These sessions will be simulcast from the expo on greenbuild365.org. Here is the line up:

  • Van Jones, Wednesday, 2-3:30 p.m. President and Founder, Green For All
  • Leith Sharp, Wednesday, 2-3:30 p.m. Director, Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI)
  • Stefan Behnisch, Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m. Principal, Behnisch Architekten
  • Majora Carter, Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m. President, Majora Carter Group, LLC
  • Richard Moe, Thursday, 8-9:30 a.m. President, National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Paul Anastas, Thursday , 4-5:30 p.m. Director for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University
  • Nancy C. Floyd, Thursday, 4-5:30 p.m. Founder and Managing Director, Nth Power, LLC
  • Bill McKibben, Friday, 9-10 a.m. Environmentalist and author
  • Howard Frumkin, Friday, 9-10 a.m. Director, The National Center for Environmental Health, CDC
  • Greener Good: USGBC Chapters present local green jobs and social equality initiatives, Thursday, 10-11:30 a.m.
  • Closing keynote address, Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Featuring E.O. Wilson, University Research Professor emeritus and honorary Curator of entomology at the Museum of comparative Zoology at Harvard University; and Janine Benyus, the author of “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”; moderated by NPR’s Kevin Klose.
Of course, if you’re like us at the CSPA — a non-profit, arts service organization for sustainability — all these conferences may make your head spin. Between the cost and the impact of that travel I tend to agree with David over at The Good Human:
“Let’s all get together and pick ONE city each year to host any and all green festivals. Want to be truly green and support the message of these festivals?”

2008 Environmental Youth Conference

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GET YOUR GREEN ON at the 2008 Environmental Youth Conference December 13, 2008, Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Los Angeles Convention Center — South Hall. Be part of the largest youth environmental event in the west! All Los Angeles residents ages 12 to 21 are invited to this green education event for the youth and by the youth. Come with your school, faith organization, or neighborhood group, and learn all about environmentalism through tree plantings, green jobs, and buying eco-friendly. For more information, visit www.milliontreesla.org.

Updated Information for ‘Moving Arts, Moving Green’ Expo

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As part of the Talk Back Series for our current production, “Song of Extinction,” Moving Arts will be hosting a greening expo on December the 7th.   The expo will begin at 2pm on Edison Plaza at the Ford Theatres and will run until the start of the pay-what-you-can performance at 7pm.  (see schedule below)  This is an opportunity for local green businesses and green organizations to educate and inform our audiences in attendence about their services.  Additionally, a Green Business Insert will be included in the program for all of the four weekend performances.  At 5pm, there will also be a free panel discussion with various local spokespeople on how to live a greener life.  (Speakers T.B.D)

When: Sun, Dec 7, 2008 
Where: The Ford Theatres, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Los Angeles, CA 90068

If you would like to participate as a presenter:

Schedule
1pm Table Set-Up
2pm Expo open to public
3pm – 4:30 Matinee Performance of “Song of Extinction”
5pm Moving Green – A Discussion on How to Live A Greener Life
7pm “Song of Extinction” — Pay-what-you-can Performance

Costs
Expo Tables, $100 (with 1/4 page Green Business Insert Ad included)
$75 if you confirm before November 26th.
Green Business Insert Ads:
$50 Full page Ad
$20 Quarter Page Ad
$10 Business Card Ad
$5 Line Ad

Ecodrama Playwrights Festival & Symposium Update

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The Ecodrama Playwrights Festival & Symposium On Theatre and Ecology is now closed to play submissions, and have reissued their call for proposals for the symposium. The CSPA sesions are also still open, and are linked at the top of the column on the right. We hope that you’ll apply to one or both and foresee some overlap and sharing in the final symposium. We, the CSPA, will be concentrated on the more scientific research side of the symposium, but are very excited to see everything everyone has to offer!

The Revised Call:

May 21~ 31, 2009 ~ University of Oregon

Ecology is at the heart of burgeoning creativity and interdisciplinary scholarship across the arts and humanities. This Festival, together with a concurrent Symposium, invites artists, scholars and activists to share their work, ideas, and passions with one another and with the larger community.  

CALL FOR PROPOSALS for Artist Workshops and Scholarly Papers.  FEB. 1 2009 DEADLINE

We welcome creative and innovative proposals for workshops, round-tables, panels, papers, working sessions, installations, or participatory community gatherings that explore, examine, challenge, articulate, or nourish the possibilities of theatrical or performance responses to the environmental crisis in particular, and our ecological relationship in general.

The form and format is wide-open and we will schedule and shape the Symposium around the types of proposals received and selected. We especially encourage artists who have performance work they would like to present to develop a workshop in which they present all or part of their work, and then use it as the basis for involving others in exploration. We encourage proposals that go beyond a recitation of ideas or positions, and instead bring presenters and participants together as they engage the driving question of how theatre has or might function as part of our reciprocal relationship with ecological communities.

Possible topics include: 

  •  land and body in performance;
  •  representations of bioregionalism; 
  •  eco-literacy and performance;
  •  representation of/and environmental justice; 
  •  green theatre production; sustainable theatre;
  •  design and technology developments towards green practice;
  •  old cultural narratives/new stories;
  • indigenous performance; 
  •  community-based performance/ecological communities; 
  •  sensing place/staging place; 
  •  the ecologies of theatrical form and/or space; 
  •  animal representation; 
  •  application of ecocriticism to plays, performance and culture.

    Send a one-page proposal and/or abstract by 1 February, 2009 to: 

    Earth Matters Symposium 2009, Theresa May, Director, 

    Theater Arts, VIL 216, University of Oregon
    Eugene, OR 97403. 

    Please include: type of session & title; time-length (60 min; 90 min; 2+ hours; half-day); bio or cv. 

    We encourage proposals that include more than one presenter; however, single person proposals are accepted and will be combined with others as themes and formats allow.