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Exciting volunteer opportunity at Edinburgh MELA

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Are you interested in the green side of festivals? Want to see world-class music and dance whilst making a difference? Then this opportunity is for you!

The Edinburgh MELA (Sat 29th & Sun 30th August 2015) – Scotland’s biggest and best festival of world music and dance – is actively seeking volunteers for their Green Team. Your role will be helping with the recycling at the MELA by encouraging festival-goers to recycle properly and by being on hand to answer any eco-questions that they might have.

As a volunteer you will receive:

  • A full day of volunteer training
  • A hot and tasty meal per shift (plus refreshments from the hospitality area)
  • Free tickets for the entire festival
  • A limited edition MELA t-shirt
  • A reference (upon request) once you’ve successfully completed your volunteer post.

Applications are now open so be sure to get yours in!

Click here for more information on how to apply.

Deadline for applications: Early August 2015

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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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Going Green: Good for Screen

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This June Creative Carbon Scotland hosted the event ‘Going Green: Good for the Screen’ at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to tackle such questions. Ben Twist, director of CCS, along with guest-speakers Aaron Matthews, Industry Sustainability Manager at BAFTA, and Mairi Claire Bowser, from ethical set-management company Drèsd, discussed the environmental challenges facing the industries and the tools and resources that are being developed or which need to be developed for these to be overcome.

Environmental challenges facing the film industry include:

  • How to transport all necessary people and equipment to and from location
  • How to power film sets, including equipment, catering facilities, and caravans
  • What to do with sets and props after production.

With limited budgets (especially in television), speed is of the essence and cost and convenience are the name of the game. Transport is done as easily as possible, regardless of emissions; sets and props are often discarded into landfill (as storing costs are so high); power is provided by fossil-fuel generators. Environmental concerns get left by the wayside.

Fortunately, this is starting to change. Aaron Matthews has been working on the development and uptake of Albert, a free carbon-calculating tool tailored to film and screen productions. Used at the pre-production stage, it takes only 20 minutes to complete and clearly identifies major sources of emissions, and hence key areas for carbon reduction.

The four major UK production companies (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky) were involved in its development, which required a level of openness and data-sharing not usually seen between rival organisations: a refreshing example of the common good being placed above personal interest. They’re also ensuring its uptake: the use of Albert is now a compulsory stage in pre-production at Sky, and will soon be at the BBC also. This will hopefully achieve the aim of normalising sustainability concerns and integrating them into standard practice.

Whilst the knowledge provided by Albert is necessary for effective action to be taken, it is not sufficient. It’s important that productions are supported and facilitated in greening their activities. To this end, Mairi Claire Bowser argued for the creation of a central sustainability hub in Scotland. This would be THE go-to place for questions regarding material resource reuse, energy and carbon management, water stewardship, etc.

It could also provide training to bring productions up to speed on sustainability issues, as well as facilities such as low-energy set and prop storage, and the centre for creative re-purposing and innovative recycling. This will save lots of material from landfill, whilst also preventing further resource exploitation when the sets and props have to be remade. Such a base would have social and economic benefits too as smaller productions, such as student and indie films, could benefit from the greater resources available to larger productions. The wealth could be shared.

Collaboration and communication are key if a central sustainability hub is to be created, and at the moment it is very much at the ideas stage. However, as we have seen with Albert, such collaboration is possible provided there are enough people with the will to make a difference. And such people are certainly around, as positive changes are beginning to be seen across the industry. A few example include:

  • BAFTA is switching to 100% renewable energy
  • Shepperton Studios are trialling set-repurposing
  • Ealing Studios are installing plumbed water to sets, allowing water bottles to be easily refilled.

The film and screen industries have a long way to go, but tools such as Albert and a Central Sustainability Hub have the potential to make a big difference. As do members of the audience, which included filmmakers, students, and members of Screen Academy Scotland and Creative Scotland who we hope found the talk enlightening and thought-provoking.

For more information about resource to improve sustainability in the film and television industries please click here.

To find our more about green festival initiatives follow our summer #GreenFests blog!

Image: Vancouver Film School, Creative Commons License

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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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June Green Tease Reflections

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Glasgow 

Performance artist and director of the UNFIX Festival Paul Michael Henry led the discussion in Glasgow.

UNFIX (10-12th July) is a festival of performance and ecology, involving live performance, dance, film, installations, workshops and debates. It understands ecology to be broader than the environmental sense in which it is normally taken, and instead considers it to be the many ways in which we are interdependent on each other, our surroundings, our bodies and psyches. Ecology is an environmental concept, but it is also a political, economic, and cultural concept that affects our mental and physical beings.

Indeed, UNFIX conceives of individuals, with their mental and physical beings, as microcosms of the whole. We are the Earth; by protecting the Earth we are protecting ourselves. To this end, Paul led us through various exercises exploring our sense of self and its relation to the physical surroundings. A particularly interesting one involved turning out the lights and moving at a constant pace out of our chairs, onto the floor, and across into the seat to our right over the course of five minutes. This made us exceedingly aware of where we were relative to each other and our surroundings, as well as exploring our sense of time – surprisingly not many made it into next seat before the end!

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Art as a Language

We also discussed the idea of art as a language. The same topics can be discussed in multiple different languages and are hence conceived of in a multitude of ways. Each language reflects a different approach. The same can be said of the different arts. Each artist will approach a topic in a different way, in their own language so to speak, and art can therefore act as a catalyst for discussion, debate, and the formation of new ideas and perspectives. We intend Green Tease events to help facilitate such discussion, to provide a network in which a wide range of approaches and ways of thinking about climate change and sustainability in artistic practice are supported.

Edinburgh Green Tease

ArtCOP was the main topic of discussion at Edinburgh’s Green Tease, where Assembly Rooms and Church Hill Theatre Green Champion John-Paul Valentine led the discussion. Also present at the event were John-Paul’s colleague Will, the curator of Gayfields Creative Spaces John Ennis, several members of the Creative Carbon Scotland team (including director Ben Twist, project developer Gemma Lawrence, and blogger Kitty Dutton) and artists Alice Cooper, Katrina Martin, Venus Grelin, Hannah Imlach, Caroline Malcolm, Jaimie MacDonald and Mairi Claire Bowser who work in multiple disciplines including design, upcycling, and visual art.

In particular we were focusing on the ArtCOP Schools Art Competition, in which children and young people will be encouraged to creatively engage with topics in sustainability and the United Nations climate change discussions, happening at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris this December. The variety of expertise and experience in the room fuelled the development of the project as we discussed both conceptual issues, such as the theme and nature of the competition, and practical issues, such as how and where the work is to be displayed. A veritable ‘Community of Practice’ in action.

It was decided that, rather than a competition, it would be better as a Schools Art Project culminating in an exhibition of the work created throughout. This works better with the government’s Curriculum of Excellence as well as logistically.

We also decided that an appropriate theme was circular economies i.e. those which aim to keep resources in use for as long as possible by reusing, recycling, and rejuvenating products and materials (as opposed to the traditional linear system of produce, consume, and dispose).*

Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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The slogan ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ captures the essence of circular economic principles, whilst also providing various nuclei around which schools could base artistic projects. We were informed by Alice, who is from Australia, that they also include the instruction ‘Refuse’, to encourage people to consume only what they need. Sustainable consumption is not just about being responsible when consuming, but about questioning the need to consume in the first place. We felt that this added an interesting perspective for schools to engage with; one that is often lacking in the UK dialogue.

*For a quick and accessible explanation of the need for a circular economy and the principles upon which it’s based, see Annie Leonard’s excellent short documentary titled ‘The Story of Stuff’ (watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM).

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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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Only one month left to apply for the 2015 Fringe Sustainable Practice Award!

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Are you participating in this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe? Have you taken any actions to ensure that your show is sustainable – in content, production, or both? Then be sure to apply for the prestigious Fringe Sustainable Practice Award, presented by Creative Carbon Scotland and the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts.

This award celebrates the commitment of productions to sustainability principles, following a triple bottom line conception of sustainability which considers the environmental, social and financial sustainability of a project or entity. This may include productions that are engaging their audience with green issues, taking responsibility for their environmental impacts, or investigating how the arts can contribute to the growth and development of a sustainable world.

We’re inviting all Fringe productions — whether they’ve just started thinking about recycling, taking on the hard questions about a just society, or they’ve been bike-powering venues for years — to apply for this high-profile award, and to tell us the new ideas that they have and new ways that they are engaging with sustainability.

Previous winners include:

  • ‘A Comedy of Errors’ from The Handlebards – Shakespeare’s classic performed by a troupe of cycling thespians showcasing exemplary sustainable set-design and touring methods.
  • ‘How to Occupy an Oil Rig’ by Daniel Bye and Company – a playful and provocative show about how to protest and demonstrate effectively.
  • ‘The Man Who Planted Trees’ adapted from Jean Giorno’s story by Ailie Cohen – a funny and moving puppet show about a shepherd who transforms an area of wasteland into a majestic forest by planting one seed at a time
  • ‘Allotment’ from Nutshell Productions – taking place on an actual functioning allotment, this drama explored the relationship between working out life and working with the land
  • ‘The Pantry Shelf’ by Team M&M – a comedic satire on commercialism and the food industry

Shortlisted acts will be published in The List at the start of the festival and promoted online by Creative Carbon Scotland and the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts. The winner will be announced in an awards ceremony at Fringe Central on 28th August and will receive a special feature and coverage in the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts’ Quarterly Magazine.

Applications are open so be sure to get yours in!

Apply here

Deadline for applications: Friday, 24th July 2015

 

Image: Flickr Creative Commons/Angelina Lealuez

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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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Opportunity: Craft the Fringe Sustainable Practice Award

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This opportunity comes from Creative Carbon Scotland and the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, and relates to the Fringe Sustainable Practice Award: an award celebrating sustainability in the Edinburgh Fringe since 2010. The application deadline is the 6th July 2015 at 12:00.

An opportunity for an artist interested in sustainability to craft the award presented to the winner of the 2015 Fringe Sustainable Practice Award, an official Edinburgh Fringe Award.

The Fringe Sustainable Practice Award:

Applications are now open for the 2015 Fringe Sustainable Practice Award, celebrating the sustainable shows on the Edinburgh Fringe. This project, a partnership between Creative Carbon Scotland and the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, with media partner The List, rewards shows which engage their audiences with sustainability, taking responsibility for their environmental, social and economic impacts by thinking big about how the arts can help to grow a sustainable world. Applications are open until July 24th, with a shortlist announced in The List at the beginning of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the winner announced in a ceremony at Fringe Central on August 28th.

We’re inviting all Fringe productions — whether they’ve just started thinking about recycling, take on the hard questions about a just society, or they’ve been bike-powering venues for years — to apply for this high-profile award, and to tell us the new ideas and new ways they have for engaging with sustainability.

The award piece brief:

Application deadline: 06/07/2015

Award piece completion deadline: 24/08/2015 (the artist must be available that week to engrave the winners details on the award in time for the ceremony on 28/08/2015)

The crafted award will be presented to the winner of the Fringe Sustainable Practice Award at the ceremony at Fringe Central on Friday 28th August at 16:00.

The media employed and the final award piece is to be developed by the artist, taking into account the ideas and aspirations of the Fringe Sustainable Practice Award. Suggested media would include reclaimed or recycled goods, or the use of new initiative sustainable materials.

The following engravings will be required on the piece:

  • Edinburgh Fringe Sustainable Practice Award title and logo
  • Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts logo
  • The List logo
  • Creative Carbon Scotland logo
  • the name of the award winner(s) with the title of their production, and the producer and location of the production (if required)

The deadline for award piece applications is Monday 6 July 2015 at 12:00. Please send your completed Artist Application Form to: ellie.tonks@creativecarbonscotland.com

 

The award piece is to be finished by Monday 24 August 2015. Due to the short time frame between the winner selection (24 August) and the awards ceremony (28 August) the artist must be available the week of the 24 August to engrave the winners details onto the piece for its presentation at the ceremony.

The successful artist will receive a fee of £250, to include any materials used in the award and time put into its creation. The artist will be featured and credited on the Creative Carbon website, and will receive an invitation to the awards ceremony in August.

For further information on the Fringe Sustainable Practice Award check out the Creative Carbon Scotland webpage.

 

 

Image: “Tools” by Janet Chan/Flickr Creative Commons

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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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UNFIX Festival

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Glasgow-based UNFIX festival has launched its programme, delivering a rich blend of events curated around the themes of ecology and climate change, rooted within a very physical sense of living. This year’s festival will take hold of The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow, delivering live performance, dance, film, installation, workshop and debate by Scottish and international artists.

In its first year, the capacity of this festival is profound, as much of the programming digs acutely into the most challenging issues of our times–issues that expand beyond human scale to an often intangible extent. By bringing a human sense and bodily physicality to such vast issues, UNFIX festival holds the capacity to reintroduce a sense of feeling into the way that we think about and act upon climate change.

The festival will broadly interpret ecology to include the contexts of imagination and culture, politics and economics, soul and mental health, and environment. At CCS, we are continually working to widen our perceptions of sustainability, acknowledging the complex web that culture rests upon.

We are very excited to announce our upcoming Green Tease event “Performance and Ecology” with Paul Michael Henry of UNFIX Festival. During this gathering, we will be discussing UNFIX festival and the inspiration for this year’s programme. Paul will share his interests in personal identity and ‘selfing’ which has shaped this year’s festival programme. We will discuss how feeling, physicality and language all interact within the larger context of climate change and ecology, and how culture is so deeply embedded within it all.

We will also discuss the potential of UNFIX to engage with the context of ArtCOP Scotland, bringing in the influential partners, emerging talent and attuned audience that the festival attracts. We will also consider how prominent venues, such as CCA Glasgow, can help build the impact and influence of ArtCOP Scotland.

Following June’s Green Tease gathering, CCS will also be participating in UNFIX festival, with the facilitation of a discussion on what roles individual artists can play in contributing to a more sustainable Scotland. This discussion will include an inclusive round-up of reflections from past and current projects, like the Mull Artist Residency and our ever-developing Green Tease network and events programme, ultimately leading into the ideas surrounding ArtCOP Scotland and the urgency we feel to respond locally and tangibly to the upcoming COP21 climate negotiations in Paris this December.

Come along to our June Green Tease event to learn more about these developing strands of work, and be sure to get involved with UNFIX festival, taking place at CCA Glasgow from 10th-12th July 2015.

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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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May Green Tease Reflections

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A range of opportunities and ideas of how to contribute to ArtCOP Scotland were discussed including:

  • Green Tease members contributing to Edinburgh Palette’s ‘Re-see It’ exhibition
  • Considering how the UN Sustainable Development goals (explored on our Mull Residency) fit into artistic practices
  • Exploring themes of climate change adaptation and resilience
  • Using social media to as a means of building the ArtCOP community

We’re want to hear your ideas and support artists and organisations to be part of the ArtCOP Scotland project! Read more about the project and how you can get involved here. 

First of all, what is ArtCOP Scotland?

ArtCOP Scotland responds to the UN Conference of Parties (COP21) taking place in Paris this winter (30th November – 12th December) at which crucial negotiations will seek to achieve global carbon emissions reductions, aiming to keep global warming below 2C and slowing the effects of climate change. We see this event as a great opportunity to explore what roles the arts can play in addressing climate change and building a more sustainable society and want to encourage grassroots, local-level activities and events which respond to the Paris to this question.

Edinburgh Green Tease

Last Monday we gathered at Edinburgh Palette artists’ studios to hear from jewellery designer, and member of the building’s Green Team Jaimie MacDonald and musician-composer Niroshini Thambar who is a studio holder at Edinburgh Palette and attended our 2015 Mull Residency.

‘Re-see It’ exhibition and ArtCOP Scotland

We heard about the Swap Shop initiative set up on the ground floor of the 6-storey office block-turned studios, which enable studio holders to re-use or upcycle unwanted materials. As part of this there is a ‘Re-see It’ exhibition every year which invites residents to submit works made from Swap Shop and other upcycled materials.

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Edinburgh Palette Swap Shop

Jaimie announced that this year they would like to invite the Green Tease network to submit works alongside studio holders as part of ArtCOP Scotland, and that they’re keen to make use of other spaces in the building for events and film screenings around the time of the COP21 meetings.

So Green Tease members–get your thinking caps on about how you can contribute to ‘Re-see It’!

Mull Residency Reflections

We then heard from Niroshini who provided us with a very personal account of her experiences and reflections on this year’s Mull Artist Residency 2015. Niroshini spoke passionately about her motivations to develop an artistic practice which is socially and environmentally engaged, partly stemming from her studies at the Centre for Human Ecology with influential thinkers such as Alastair McIntosh. For Niroshini, the Mull Residency provided the time and tech-free space to reconnect to these motivations and situate them more firmly in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Niorshini and Jaimie’s talks sparked connections around the room including with John Ennis, Creative Director of Gayfield Creative Spaces, who expressed a strong interest in making Gayfield a hub for ArtCOP Edinburgh. Watch this space…

Glasgow Green Tease

On Tuesday we travelled through Trongate 103 for a session with choreographer/director Melanie Kloetzel and writer/visual artist Penny Anderson. Around the table we were joined by artists as well as representatives from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the CCA and Sustainable Glasgow.

Climate change and site adaptive performance

We first heard from Melanie, who talked about the performance project ‘Room’ which she has developed during her year-long sabbatical in Glasgow from Calgary, Canada. We learned about her interest in ‘site specific’ and ‘site adaptive’ performance as a powerful means of exploring the theme of climate change adaptation.

Melanie spoke about the differences between climate change mitigation which address the root causes by reducing carbon emissions and adaptation which seeks new solutions to the risks posed by climatic changes. Through ‘Room’ she explores the tensions between the lack of individual agency we often experience in relation to climate change and the the language of environmental management and control that exists within adaptation debates.

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Melanie Kloetzel performing ‘Room’

Social media and sustainability

Building on April’s ArtCOP Scotland launch, Penny concluded our discussion with some provocations on what role social media could play in the ArtCOP project. She talked about her interest in the individual’s capacity to outsource questions and build communities through channels such as Twitter. Through examples of Steve Messam’s Paper Bridge project where he sourced an entire artwork through a social media appeal for paper, we discussed how we can inspire a similar online ArtCOP Scotland movement.

So what’s next?

From the range of ideas discussed during last month’s events there’s clearly a strong interest in making ArtCOP Scotland happen!

With a number of proposals already coming in for activities across Scotland in November and December, our next step is to start building connections and facilitating partnerships. We’re also in the process of producing a ‘Setting the Challenge’ document which will provide activity suggestions for different groups.

In the meantime, we’re always on the lookout for exciting proposals for future Green Tease events. Check out our new Green Tease DIY Handbook which enables you to use the Green Tease model to explore the links between arts and sustainability.

And our June Edinburgh and Glasgow June Green Tease plans are now live so sign up here!

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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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Opportunity: Call for contributors on arts and environment research

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This opportunity comes from IETM international network for contemporary performing arts, and relates to the larger ArtCOP21 movement that Creative Carbon Scotland will be engaging with through the facilitation of ArtCOP Scotland. Share your own practice with IETM to represent the work being done within arts and environment in your locality!

Have you developed projects and practices embedding environmental sustainability in its content and/or in the connection with the audience and local communities? Is ‘environmental sustainability’ the topic of a single project of yours, or is it part of a long-term strategy, also as regards your touring policy, stage materials and building etc.? Does tackling environmental sustainability entail any challenges in looking for support and funding?

We’re looking forward to hearing from you about how the arts can embrace environmental sustainability and bring a change in individuals and society. We’re also interested to hear about the challenges and the possible ‘failures’ you experienced, and the lessons you learned.

This new edition of IETM’s Fresh Perspectives series is developed in collaboration with COAL, the multidisciplinary Coalition for art and sustainable development set up in France in 2008 by professionals in contemporary art, sustainable development and research. This publication will be presented during ArtCOP21 in Paris, in the frame of the International Conference on Climate Change COP21.

To participate in this project, please complete the questionnaire found here through the Fresh Perspectives Call for contributors by 15th June 2015.

Image: Mona Sfeir ‘The Recycling Labyrinth’ (site-specific installation from 8,000 plastic bottles, placed near UN building in Geneva (2011) via Playing Futures/Flickr Creative Commons

 

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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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Opportunity: Methilhill Community Garden Residency

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Opportunity expires: 29 June 2015

An opportunity for an artist interested in the environment, issues around food and with experience in working with young people. The residency will be based at the Methilhill Community Garden in Fife during the autumn of 2015 and is based on 10 days work. It is a Fife Contemporary Art & Craft (FCA&C) mini- residency and will be managed by FCA&C with project partners Common Good Food (CGF) and Methilhill Community Children’s Initiative (MCCI).

Artist Fee £2,000 plus travel expenses up to £250.

Materials budget £1,750.

Artist’s Brief

The aim is to create innovative work with the Great Outdoors Youth Group – a group of (up to 25) primary aged children based in Methilhill Community Garden and the Young Volunteers (aged 10-15). Marking the Scottish Year of Food and Drink, the project should engage in some way with the theme of food. The focus, media employed and outcome of the project is to be developed by the artist, taking into account the ideas, needs and aspirations of the group.

A detailed project plan will be established early on by the artist in consultation with the participants, volunteers, initiative staff,  FCA&C and CGF. The process and outcome of the project should contribute to the priorities listed below and enrich the experience of the children involved.

As well as working on site in the garden, the possibility of visiting other locations and including other groups of people can be considered.

The project should be well documented throughout (particularly if it is largely process based) to contribute to project evaluation and share and profile the work involved.

The artist will liaise with FCA&C throughout the project and meet twice with the project management group: after the first session to establish the project plan and towards the end of the project to review. The artist should contribute to project evaluation through a short written report.

Background

Methilhill Community Garden is run by the Methilhill Community Children’s Initiative as an outdoor play and learning space. They run a wide range of groups and clubs for local children and young people and are passionate advocates for the many benefits of spending time in nature, particularly for children. The space is a continual work in progress, a vibrant jumble of play, growing and other useful areas, which change and grow in response to the needs and enthusiasms of the participants.

MCCI  have an imaginative approach to their work, incorporating lots of opportunities for involvement with the arts, including frequent cultural events, the most recent of which celebrated Cinco di Maio, with Ramadan coming up soon. They are very keen to be able to cook food on site and are in the process of building a clay oven. They’re also fundraising for a small building, which would provide a hygienic kitchen space for the children to learn more about cooking. Shirley is keen that the children should be able to experience the cycle from growing, to harvesting, to cooking to composting food.

Although MCCI now employ several members of staff, the project also relies a great deal on voluntary support. This includes ‘young volunteers’ aged 10-15, and who play a vital role in supporting the work of the initiative, as well as gaining valuable confidence, skills and experience themselves.

Recent suggestions from participants on what they’d like to do more of included: tie dye; batik; salsa dancing; music; drama.

Priorities for MCCI are:

  • Giving local children a safe place to play and learn outside.
  • Building children’s confidence, resilience and life skills.
  • Giving children a direct experience of nature, with an understanding of the give and take between humans and the natural world.
  • Including as wide a range of people as possible in using and caring for the garden.

www.mcci-clubs.co.uk/communitygarden

Fife Contemporary Art & Craft

FCA&C nurtures the creation, understanding and appreciation of high quality contemporary craft and visual art with international significance; free from the restrictions of a venue we work with partners to create enjoyable and meaningful experiences for all. Our work across Fife includes exhibition and educational activities for the public, a range of support and opportunities for artists and the promotion and retail of high quality craft.

www.fcac.co.uk

Common Good Food

Common Good Food is a new organisation that is a practical advocate of food sovereignty in Scotland. We believe that everyone has “the right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and the right to define their own food and agriculture systems”. Our work aims to support communities across the country to take control of the food system by running practical programmes: teaching skills, creating resources, and celebrating the culture of good food in Scotland.

www.commongoodfood.org

Artist Spec

  • High quality innovative artistic practice.
  • Experience and enthusiasm for working with young people and developing ideas in collaboration with communities.
  • Interest in the environment / current food issues
  • Ablity to manage several aspects of the project including: project delivery, working group engagement, community engagement, consulting with and reporting to project management, project documentation, presentation of work.
  • Willing and able to travel to Methilhill for the duration of the project (this will probably involve travelling by car, as public transport locally is minimal).

 Responsibilities of the artist

  • Delivering a high quality and innovative visual art or craft experience to the group.
  • Collaboration and communication with participants, volunteers, MCCI, FCA&C and CGF.
  • Reporting to the management group as outlined in the brief.

Recording/sharing the experience of the project.

How to apply

Please email your application to diana.sykes@fcac.co.uk.  This should contain a brief outline of your approach to the artist’s brief (noting relevant experience), your current CV, and 6 images of your own work.  Please email text as Word docs or pdfs and images as .jpgs (up to 3MB in total).

Deadline is Monday 29 June 2015 at 12 noon
Interviews at Methilhill Community Garden will be on Saturday 4 July

Full details including artist’s brief can be found on FCA&C’s website –http://www.fcac.co.uk/opportunity/methilhill-community-garden-residency/.

For further information, please contact diana.sykes@fcac.co.uk (Diana Sykes), or call 01334 474610, or visithttp://www.fcac.co.uk/opportunity/methilhill-community-garden-residency/

Image: Flickr Creative Commons/Qtea

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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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Job Opportunity with Creative Carbon Scotland: Strategic General Manager

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Creative Carbon Scotland – a charity initiated by Festivals Edinburgh and founder members the Federation of Scottish Theatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network – is a partnership of arts organisations working to help shape a sustainable Scotland.

We believe that the arts have an essential role to play in addressing the problem of climate change and building a sustainable society.

Accordingly, our vision is of a cultural sector that is fully engaged in creating a sustainable Scotland through the work it makes and presents, through the way it operates and through its communication with the wider public.

Our mission is therefore to:

  • Engage the sector in actively promoting environmental sustainability and addressing climate change
  • Help the sector take a lead in shaping an environmentally sustainable Scotland
  • Help the sector run itself as environmentally sustainably as possible

Over the last year there has been an enormous increase in interest in our work and we now need an experienced manager and administrator to help us fulfil our strategic aims and provide strong leadership for the sector. This will be a part-time role on an employed or a freelance basis and is currently funded until 31 March 2016; we intend that this be extended subject to funding and agreement on both sides.

Please download the Job Description and Person Specification for more information. 

Please send the following to apply for this position:

Applications are due via email to ben.twist@creativecarbonscotland.com by midnight on Sunday 28 June 2015. Interviews will ideally be held on Wednesday 8 July, with allowance made for candidates’ holiday commitments.

Image: ‘Mosiac” by Billie Ward/Flickr Creative Commons

 

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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.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

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