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In September CCS co-hosted a one day workshop with choreographers, Claire Pencak and Saffy Setohy, and writer/researcher Wallace Heim. One month on, we collectively reflect on learning points for further development.

The initial aim of the workshop was to explore how choreographic practices might contribute to environmental movements and sustainability. We organised the day through a series of exercises, creating a number of in-roads into the subject:

• Initial discussion of the terms sustainability and choreography
• A movement session led by Saffy and Claire in the North Kelvin Meadow: a contested community green space in North/West Glasgow
• Group discussion shaped by propositions by Wallace
• A short choreographic score-writing exercise

Movement Session

Claire described how the use of the session outside in the North Kelvin Meadow brought the group into more familiar territory as movement practitioners.

Group discussions

We held short group discussions in response to four key propositions set by Wallace to consider the ways in which choreographic practices specifically operate and how they intersect with questions of sustainability.

Propositions:

Questions about the body: how do ideas about sustainability affect or change perceptions and ideas about the human body, the body in motion, and the body as inter-related with the living and non-living others, inter-related with ideas, technologies, and human social systems. How do practices do this, without proposing a pre-cultural, isolated or essential view of the human body.

Questions about sense: how do we ‘sense’ sustainability, sense being both with the senses, and to make sense of something, to make it make sense collectively. What is touched, what are the surfaces of our relations? How can we make sense of that experience? How does this relate to choreographic practice?

Questions about friction: sustainability isn’t a smoothly managed plan, or something that only exists for the comfort and endurance of humans. There are fragmentations, gaps, frustrations, imbalances of power and justice, conflicts. How can choreographic practices work with these tensions? Or hold the tensions that arise?

Questions about how to ‘place’ the human in relation to a world of other beings and entities which are not simply there to be perceived, but themselves have agencies, motivations and force? How might these placings relate to sustainability?

Initial responses to Wallace’s provocations included:

• The body can be used as a proxy for sustainability, as a system with finite capacities. Conversely, dance offers plenty of examples of non-sustainable practice, it can be about ‘pushing the body to its limit’ which creates a particular aesthetic.
• The employment of multiple senses within choreographic practices have the potential to ‘embody’ and bring to the fore of our perception the often abstract or distant seeming realities of sustainability and climate change;
• The forms of cooperative leadership that are used within choreographic work could be applied to and explored within other, non-arts contexts.

Wallace provided some further reflections on the movement session and following group discussions:

As a side note, see Chris Fremantle’s recent blog on Tim Ingold’s lecture ‘The Sustainability of Everything’ for further consideration of how the arts are ideally placed to work with the complexity of questions concerning sustainability.

Score-writing exercise

We gave the last part of the day over to making individual scores that in some way reflected on some of the themes and thinking over the day. Claire highlighted the value of the score in the way it suggests ways to proceed:

Sadly there wasn’t time to try out the scores, that will be for future development.

Saffy provided some final reflections on the day:

Thank you to everyone who participated in the workshop and to the Work Room for supporting the event. If you would like to get involved in our continued work in this area please email Gemma.lawrence@creativecarbonscotland.com.

Find out more about our regular events connecting arts and sustainability on our Green Tease page.

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In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Cultural shift has featured at two very different but equally interesting conferences over the last couple of weeks: our own Green Arts Initiative Conference, 51 Shades of Green, and the Sustainable Scotland Network conference Pathways to 2030: public sector climate action.

Nearly 100 Green Champions from all sorts of cultural organisations, individual artists and workers in the sector from relevant organisations crammed into the Pearce Institute in Govan for 51 Shades of Green… where the focus was very much on shared learning.

…generally, people working in the arts didn’t come into the business to address climate change…

Generally, people working in the arts didn’t come into the business to address climate change. For most of them it is only a part, and often quite a small part, of their job.

At Creative Carbon Scotland we aim to make connections between these people, who are usually dealing with similar questions and may well be the only ones in their organisation thinking about them. Most of our speakers were therefore people working on the front line, sharing in quite short talks their challenges and how they’ve overcome them.

Stallholders included the GAI sponsor and Scotland’s greenest and carbon neutral printer, PR Print, who have been our print suppliers for a couple of years now (even their delivery is carbon neutral!), Changeworks and Plan Bee to name a few.

We also had some carefully targeted longer presentations. In one of these, Kenneth Fowler, the Director of Communications and senior environmental lead at Creative Scotland (a core strategic and funding body for the arts in Scotland and a ‘non-departmental public body’ with responsibilities under the Climate Change Act) talked about how Creative Scotland is approaching its obligations to reduce carbon emissions.

As well as working to reduce its own environmental impact, Creative Scotland distributes the vast majority of its funds to arts, screen and creative industry organisations and will expect those seeking support in the next Regular Funding round (for 2018-21) to continue to demonstrate how they are reducing their own carbon emissions. Mandatory reporting of carbon emissions by Regular Funded Organisations started from 2015/16 and Kenneth congratulated the sector for rising to this challenge.

Creative Scotland Regular Funding and the Environment Connecting Theme

He also indicated that Regular Funding applicants will be asked to show how they are using their influencing power to help shape a more sustainable, lower carbon society, using the role of the arts to go beyond operational improvements to influencing wider society.

He argued that we need to ‘increase the volume of what we’re communicating’, which I took to mean both making it louder and increasing the amount. This is reflected in the guidance for applicants which Creative Scotland has published since the conference. Creative Scotland will look for:

1. Any systems in place to measure your carbon emissions, any policies or plans for environmental sustainability including reducing your emissions.
2. A Board or staff member who has responsibility for or actively champions environmental issues within the organisation and that there is a clear structure to address any issues.
3. Any opportunities where you are taking the opportunity to influence others with whom you engage[1]

We think Creative Scotland is to be congratulated for this approach: it’s very engaged and advanced thinking for a public body not directly involved in environmental sustainability. It’s also why we Creative Carbon Scotland (it’s sometimes confusing!) set ourselves up, and it’s what we work on day by day.

We already provide support for the first of the three areas and argue strongly that organisations should have a Green Champion at the highest level. And we have been developing our support for those organisations using both their communications and the work they produce, present, promote or distribute to influence wider society.

We’ll be running seminars looking at this area in more detail between now and February to help Regular Funding applicants think imaginatively about what they can do – keep an eye on the website and look out for our newsletters (if you don’t yet receive them, you can sign up at the foot of our home page).

And if you want some more ideas before then, take a look at an earlier blog and a summary of an event we ran during the Edinburgh Fringe, Changing the Culture. Or feel free to drop me a line on ben.twist@creativecarbonscotland.com.

Sustainable Scotland Network Conference

Meanwhile, and connectedly, we were asked to run a parallel session at the SSN’s Pathways to 2030 conference on Cultural Shift: working with the arts for mitigation and adaptation.

…we tried something new, inviting the climate change- rather than arts-focused participants to identify a ‘wicked problem’ they were facing in their work, and then to think about how artists’ skills, practices or knowledge might help address it…

We tried something new, inviting the climate change- rather than arts-focused participants to identify a ‘wicked problem’ they were facing in their work, and then to think about how artists’ skills, practices or knowledge might help address it.

Artists (and this can include a wide range of people working in a wide range of areas including screen and the creative industries) have different ways of doing things and are allowed to think in different ways: one important aspect of their work is that making things up is part of the job description, whereas most people would get sacked for it! But when we are facing a climate challenged-world with impossible to reconcile issues, maybe imagining and inventing a different future is a useful skill.

We were thrilled to be asked to explore this at the SSN conference, where culture and the arts hasn’t previously played a prominent role. The very interactive session went well and we are following it up with at least two of the participants. You can download the slides for the session here, and we’d be happy to talk about it with anyone who’s interested.

Cultural Shift

What these two conferences highlight is how our work at CCS is increasingly bringing together the two worlds of climate change and culture, not just in operational matters and carbon management, which remains important and a core part of what we do, but also in terms of inspiring and instigating a cultural shift.

We have actual and potential projects in the pipeline with partners as varied as the RSPB, SNIFFER, people working on blockchain technologies, local authorities and of course arts and cultural organisations. Creative Scotland’s inclusion of the influencing role in the Regular Funding application process and our invitation to contribute to the SSN conference demonstrate how this area of work is becoming mainstream. It’s what we’ve been arguing for for a couple of years now, so we’re very glad to see it.

[1] Regular Funding 2018-21 Appendix 3: Connecting Themes Guidance

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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CCS Director Ben Twist invites people working on climate change and sustainability to think about how the arts can help them deliver their aims.

Over the summer Creative Carbon Scotland focused more than we have in the past on talking to people and organisations working on climate change and sustainability about the role of the arts in their field (as opposed talking to people in the arts about climate change).

We’ve been doing a lot of thinking (and I’ve covered some of this in one of my other blogs) about the particular role of the arts in working on carbon reduction and adaptation to a new society. My part of this has been to do a number of talks to various groups, from anevent at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation during the Edinburgh Festivals to aTEDx talk at Heriot Watt University.

I’ve refined my talk over the summer and the structure now goes something like this:

1. We’re facing a major social change: either we achieve the carbon reduction targets implicit within the Paris Agreement – in which case our relationship with energy and fossil fuels will have to change radically – or we don’t achieve them – in which case issues such as migration, changing food supplies, resource related conflicts and so on will bring about major social change (as they are already).
2. The Mexico City Declaration by UNESCO provides a useful definition of culture in a broad sense as effectively the way we live in the world.
3. Using that definition, climate change is as much a cultural issue as a scientific or technical one: it is a function of our culture, our way of living in the world, which is a culture of consumption. We dig up resources, use them and throw them away, and this latter stage is a major cause of climate change. In order to avert more climate change, we need to shift to a culture of stewardship.
4. This would have useful implications not only for environmental sustainability and climate change but also social sustainability (climate justice but also equalities more broadly) and economic sustainability (perhaps abandoning the search for endless economic growth and following up some of the principles of Tim Jackson’sProsperity Without Growth, for example).
5. So how do we achieve this cultural shift?
6. Culture in a narrower sense – what we generally call the arts, but this includes design, film and media, museums and heritage etc – is the expression of culture in the wider sense used above. Art has often been said to ‘hold a mirror up to society’. But it is also therefore a way of understanding, interrogating and changing the wider culture.
7. The German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote, ‘Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it’!
8. Working with the arts is therefore a useful way to work on achieving the cultural shift.
9. There is often an assumption that the role of the arts in areas such as these is to communicate complex ideas more effectively and particularly to engage the wider public emotionally rather than factually. This is indeed a useful role of the arts, but they can do much more. I have a slide which provides a (non-exhaustive) list of ways in which the arts work.
10. What Art Does, Some examples:

    

I think there are interesting ways in which artists can contribute to addressing climate change through making artistic work – CCS is involved for instance in a project led by the RSPB on developing awareness of the importance of the peat bogs in the Flow country as carbon sinks.

And there are also ways in which artists can use their skills, knowledge and ways of thinking in non-artistic projects and settings. After one talk, someone who has been attending the meetings of the Local Advisory Committee of the European Climate Change Adaptation Conference in 2017 came up to me. ‘I realise that’s what you’ve been doing at the meetings,’ she said. ‘You’ve used your role as an artist to make us think about and discuss things we wouldn’t have discussed otherwise.’

This was encouraging, as that’s what I do, although I hadn’t really thought of it as such in that particular situation. And in a way, that’s the point: I was being a member of a group and using the skills I have as a (former) theatre director, just as others in the group use their skills as academics, project managers etc.

This is all part of a strand of our work at CCS called Culture/SHIFT: the artistic and conceptual work that we do alongside, and inextricably linked to, our more practical and technical work supporting cultural organisations to reduce their carbon emissions. There’s more information about this here.

We’re always interested in more people working on climate change and sustainability attending our Green Teases and other events – following our most recent Arts & Sustainability Residency we’re thinking about reserving places for non-artists next year.

Our message must be getting through: we’ve been asked to run a session on this subject at the SSN Conference on 1 November. We’ll run through some of the ways in which we think the arts can support climate change and sustainability work and help participants to think about how this could be useful in their work. Sign up now!

Image: Ed Hawkins:Spiralling global temperatures from 1850-2016 

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Puppet Animation Scotland and Creative Carbon Scotland are looking for organisational or individual partners to join them in a research project to understand the realities of travel by artists to and from and Scotland and to explore ways of reducing the associated carbon emissions.

This is a valuable opportunity for those planning to apply for Regular Funding from Creative Scotland, contributing to the Environment Connecting Theme.

The project will consider travel planned for 2017/18:

• November/December 2016 – gather information about planned international travel (overseas artists coming to Scotland; Scottish artists travelling abroad): journeys, related carbon emissions, reasons for travel
• December/January 2017 – develop action plans for each company or individual that aim to reduce the total travel, the carbon emissions related to the travel or the carbon intensity of the travel (by increasing the artistic activity related to the travel)
• February 2017 onwards – companies implement the action plans
• April 2018 onwards – we review the results and report

Creative Carbon Scotland will lead the project which will involve meeting as a group at the beginning and occasionally during the year, plus individual work for each company supported by CCS. CCS will write and publish interim and final reports.

For more information, please contact Fiona MacLennan onfiona.maclennan@creativecarbonscotland.com

If you’d like to take part please let Fiona know by 31 October 2016. The first meeting will take place on 17 November.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Eight Scotland-based artists selected for artist residency exploring connections between arts and sustainability.

This Friday, Creative Carbon Scotland (CCS) will welcome eight Scotland-based artists from a variety of disciplines to Cove Park on the Rosneath Peninsula, for a weekend exploring and reflecting upon humanity’s impact on the planet and the role of the arts in transitioning to a more environmentally sustainable society.

Over 100 artists from across Scotland applied to be a part of this residency, which will equip artists with opportunities to think about the role of cultural practices, learn from one another and develop their own work in relation to environmental sustainability. Artists are not expected to produce new work during the short residency, but rather use the experience as a springboard for future development in relation to residency themes and wider social change.

Working in partnership with Cove Park, Creative Carbon Scotland’s third annual artist residency will focus on the Anthropocene, a period of geological time which places humanity at the centre of the recent global environmental changes.

On choosing the topic of the Anthropocene, CCS Director, Ben Twist, said: “The Anthropocene marks a significant shift in how we understand humanity’s role and responsibility in relation to issues such as climate change. Exploring this topic during the residency offers an important opportunity for Scotland’s artists to consider how their practices could contribute to a wider cultural movement towards a low-carbon future.”

Co-facilitating the artist residency will be Jan Bebbington, Professor of Accounting and Sustainable Development, St Andrews Sustainability Institute, and Lex ter Braak, Director, Van Eyck Institute, Maastricht, Netherlands. Joining the facilitation team, Jan Bebbington said: “I am excited to share time and conversations with this talented group of creative people and I am sure my understandings of the Anthropocene will change and deepen from the engagement. Residencies are wonderful settings in which to create shared understanding across disciplines and practice settings.”

Catrin Kemp, Assistant Director of Cove Park, said: “We are hugely excited to be welcoming CCS and those selected for this multidisciplinary Arts & Sustainability residency to Cove Park. This group will be the first to take over the entire 50-acre site since the opening of our brand new £1.4m Artists Centre. Cove Park offers artists from across the world a unique space to develop their ideas, and we hope that this residency will spark fresh creative thinking around how the major themes related to the Anthropocene might be communicated to audiences.”

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Notes to editors

For more information please contact Gemma Lawrence at: gemma.lawrence@creativecarbonscotland. com T: 0131 529 7909

This year’s arts and sustainability residency is funded by Creative Scotland and kindly supported by the Dr David Summers Charitable Trust and is run in partnership with Cove Park.

The full list of artists who will be attending Creative Carbon Scotland and Cove Park’s Arts and Sustainability Residency 2016 are as follows:

Reem Alkayyem

• Reem Alkayyem is a Syrian born and educated architect. She has practiced architecture for 15 years in her home country and has MScs from the University of Edinburgh in Architectural Project Mangagement (2012) and Advanced Sustainable Design (2016). She aims to enhance and disseminate the knowledge of sustainability to include the social and cultural aspects in addition to environmental. She is additionally keen to contribute to the reconstruction of her country and to educate future architects on sound and sustainable bases.

Kathyrn Beckett

• Kathy describes her creative practice as ‘in exploration of ecocentric approaches’, seeing that her responsibility and passion as an artist is to help serve a more beautiful life sustaining world. She works across a range of mediums, with people and nature at the core of her activity and, public engagement as a vehicle of expression. She has been contracted as a project artist concerned with environmental sustainability for a range of organisations, including the Glasgow School of Art, Creative Carbon Scotland and North Light Arts.

Simon Gall

• Simon Gall is a musician, composer, educator based in Aberdeenshire. He has toured (and continues to tour) internationally, recording with a number of artists including well-known world music band Salsa Celtica, Cuban band Son al Son and more recently contemporary Scottish folk duo Clype.

Alex Mackay

• Alex Mackay is a sound artist, composer and performer based in Glasgow, making work across media including sound/music, image and performance for a wide range of contexts, including recorded media, installation, live performance as well as collaborative work in the fields of visual art, dance and film.

Victoria MacKenzie

• Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer working on her first novel, Brantwood, about the life of art critic and social reformer John Ruskin, as well as a short fiction collection, Creaturely, which explores our connections with other species.

Michael Stumpf

• Michael Stumpf (born in Mannheim/ Germany) is a visual artist that works primarily in sculpture. In addition to his own practice he currently is a member of the artist group Poster Club. Recent exhibitions include: New Wheat New Mud New Machine (with Posterclub) Cooper Gallery, Dundee; Objects Converse on a Matter of Mutual Concern, Art Across the City, Swansea; This Song Belongs to those Who Sing It, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art; In Other Words, Lewis Glucksmann Gallery, Cork; New Alchemy /Contemporary Art after Beuys, Landesmuseum, Münster.

Samuel Tongue

• A hybrid of lyric and language poetry, Samuel’s practice is inter-medial and parasitic, living within, feeding from, and provoking a variety of artistic forms. Poems are search patterns, part of a meshwork of ideas and concepts, rooted in an incorrigibly plural world.

Jenna Watt

• Jenna Watt is a multi award winning Scottish theatre maker, her latest work; Faslane, written in part at Cove Park, received a 2016 Scotsman Fringe First Award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

Funded by Creative Scotland and the City of Edinburgh Council, Creative Carbon Scotland has been working since 2011 to embed environmental sustainability within the arts and cultural sector in Scotland and connect the arts with the environmental sustainability sector. The arts and sustainability residency has been running since 2014 and has already engaged artists in topics of future climate change scenarios and the post-2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The 2014 and 2015residencies were held on the Isle of Mull in partnership with Comar.

Founded in 1999 by Peter and Eileen Jacobs, Cove Park is funded by Creative Scotland, by trusts and foundations and by the generosity of individuals. Their contributions are made on the premise that the vitality of the arts today, and the contribution they make to society, is based on the ability of artists to make new work on an ongoing basis.

Photo credit: Ruth Clark

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is pleased to announce the selected artists forThinking through the Anthropocene: Arts & Sustainability Residency. 

Running for its third consecutive year, the residency provides eight Scotland-based artists and creative practitioners with the time, space and interdisciplinary input to explore how their work relates to the Anthropocene and environmental sustainability.

In alphabetical order, those selected to participate in this year’s residency are:

Reem Alkayyem

Reem Alkayyem is a Syrian born and educated architect. She has practiced architecture for 15 years in her home country and has MScs from the University of Edinburgh in Architectural Project Management (2012) and Advanced Sustainable Design (2016). She aims to enhance and disseminate the knowledge of sustainability to include the social and cultural aspects in addition to environmental. She is additionally keen to contribute to the reconstruction of her country and to educate future architects on sound and sustainable bases.

Kathy Beckett

Kathy describes her creative practice as ‘in exploration of ecocentric approaches’, seeing that her responsibility and passion as an artist is to help serve a more beautiful life sustaining world. She works across a range of mediums, with people and nature at the core of her activity and public engagement as a vehicle of expression. She has been contracted as a project artist concerned with environmental sustainability for a range of organisations, including the Glasgow School of Art, Creative Carbon Scotland and North Light Arts.

Simon Gall

Simon Gall is a musician, composer and educator based in Aberdeenshire. He has toured (and continues to tour) internationally, recording with a number of artists including well-known world music band Salsa Celtica, Cuban band Son al Son and more recently contemporary Scottish folk duo Clype.

Alex Mackay

Alex Mackay is a sound artist, composer and performer based in Glasgow, making work across media including sound/music, image and performance for a wide range of contexts, including recorded media, installation, live performance as well as collaborative work in the fields of visual art, dance and film.  

Victoria MacKenzie

Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer working on her first novel, Brantwood, about the life of art critic and social reformer John Ruskin, as well as a short fiction collection, Creaturely, which explores our connections with other species.

Michael Stumpf

Michael Stumpf (born in Mannheim, Germany) is a visual artist that works primarily in sculpture. In addition to his own practice he is currently a member of the artist group Poster Club. Recent exhibitions include: New Wheat New Mud New Machine (with Poster Club) Cooper Gallery, Dundee; Objects Converse on a Matter of Mutual Concern, Art Across the City, Swansea; This Song Belongs to those Who Sing It, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art; In Other Words, Lewis Glucksmann Gallery, Cork; New Alchemy /Contemporary Art after Beuys, Landesmuseum, Münster.

Samuel Tongue

A hybrid of lyric and language poetry, Samuel’s practice is inter-medial and parasitic, living within, feeding from, and provoking a variety of artistic forms. Poems are search patterns, part of a meshwork of ideas and concepts, rooted in an incorrigibly plural world.

Jenna Watt

Jenna Watt is a multi-award winning Scottish theatre maker, her latest work; Faslane, written in part at Cove Park, received a 2016 Scotsman Fringe First Award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

This year’s arts and sustainability residency run in partnership with Cove Park and is funded by Creative Scotland and kindly supported by the Dr David Summers Charitable Trust.

Keep an eye on our News section for further details on the residency.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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