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Eco-Solutions and the Entertainment Industry

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**Remember to RSVP at the link below to secure your seat**

One day, FREE workshop on sustainable approaches for creating an environmentally responsible entertainment industry on set and off.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

– Entertainment Industry Professionals
– Sustainability Consultants and trade professionals
– Those interested in creating an environmentally responsible entertainment industry
– Those seeking practical resources, methods, and action plans
– Those wanting to network with thought leaders

TOPICS

  • Implementing Initiatives – Producer’s Guild of America’s Green Best Practices and Resources: RACHEL JOY, Co-Chair, PGA Green West
  • Redefining Trash: From Disposability to Responsibility: KRIS BARBERG, Executive Director, EcoSet
  • Case Study – Sustainability at All Stages of Production: DIANA POKORNY, Executive Producer (Valentine’s Day, Horrible Bosses)
  • Influencing Change: The Role We Play in Social and Environmental Accountability: MIKE SLAVICH, Director of Sustainability, Warner Bros. Entertainment
  • Moderator: LAUREN SELMAN, Founder, Reel Green Media & Director of Production, Ecovations

AGENDA

1:00 PM – Check-in, Networking, Resource Booths, and Hors d’Oervres
1:30 PM – Presentations & Panel Discussion
3:00 PM – Break-Out Sessions: Goal Setting with industry professionals practicing green solutions
3:30 PM – Talk Back: Session report on highlights and present for panel discussion
4:00 PM – Meet & Greet

DATE, TIME, & LOCATION

Saturday, October 27, 2012
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM (1:00 PM Check-In)

Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
Hope Conference Center
501 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91505

Parking is available at the rear of the hospital, accessible from 501 S. Buena Vista Street entrance.

RSVP

Tickets are FREE and open to professionals across Los Angeles. Space is VERY LIMITED, so reservations are highly suggested. To RSVP, visitwww.teambusinessburbank.com and/or call Susie at 818.238.5198

Details

This isn’t your typical panel, but more of a brainstorm, interactive workshop designed for the guys and gals above and below the line. This one day workshop is a FREE opportunity to learn eco-solutions for various trades, management settings, and all stages of production. There will be networking opportunities and breakout sessions with Industry Trade Professionals. This event is ideal for anyone in the industry or looking for sustainable solutions.

MORE INFORMATION

If you have any questions or would like more information please contact admin@burbankgreenalliance.org. View the flyer here http://j.mp/EcoFly

View the tweetvite http://tweetvite.com/event/EcoEnt
#Eco-Solutions

EVENT BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Burbank Green Alliance and City of Burbank Community Development/Team Business, with support from Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Producers Guild of America Green, Eco Set Consulting

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Event Reminder LA Stage Alliance and Arts:Earth Partnership

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LA STAGE Alliance, Arts:Earth Partnership, and partners have several new services and features that can help you improve and manage your space, venue or facility, and help members of the Los Angeles community who are eager to use your space find you!

Join them for a presentation on the growth of SpaceFinderLA.org and Arts:Earth Partnership’s green business certification program!
CLICK HERE TO RSVP – It’s Free, but space is Limited!

Tuesday, October 16
9:30 AM – 12 NOON
@ Groundlings Theatre & School
7307 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90046
For Directions and Parking, please click here!

Terence McFarland of LA STAGE Alliance will talk about the inception of SpacefinderLA.org in Los Angeles, the growth the service has experienced in the last year, explain the history of the inception of Arts:Earth Partnership and how they are transforming the cultural facilities of our region.

Adam Meltzer and Justin Yoffe of AEP will share details about how your organization can benefit by becoming a part of AEP’s expanding Green Business Certification program exclusively for the cultural sector – with 38 cultural facility members in the greater Los Angeles area already and 18 certified, AEP is leading the way in greening the cultural sector. Expanding missions and funding opportunities through the greening of your spaces will also be discussed.

Lisa Niedermeyer of Fractured Atlas will be visiting from New York to share the exciting new features available on SpaceFinderLA – learn how to maximize your space’s listing with new features like Share My Calendar, allowing SpaceFinder users to search for venues based on availability. (I need a meeting space on Saturday morning!)

SpaceFinderLA will now also include the ability to search for film and visual arts related spaces – as the second largest directory of it’s kind in the country, SpaceFinderLA continues to add spaces on a daily basis, and to increase web traffic and searches by people who are looking for your space!

This event is supported by the LA County Arts Commission and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

Just click on the link below and register. It’s free.

CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION

After you click on the link, click through where it says “Presentation”

Earthrise – Trashing Lebanon (performance)

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A threare group aims to use powerful images of everyday garbage, humour and solid facts to examine Lebanese attitudes towards consumption, and prompt them to consider where their trash ends up. Zeina Aboul-Hosn takes a seat in the final performance.

More on the Theatre Communications Group Website here: http://www.tcgcircle.org/2012/08/detrashing-lebanon/

via earthrise – Trashing Lebanon – YouTube.

Summer 2012 Report: Hibernation and Ranger Tales

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News from the LA Urban Rangers:

You haven’t heard from us in a while, as the Los Angeles Urban Rangers have been in relative hibernation since our Engagement Party residency at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) last summer. Huddled together in the den, we’ve been busy whittling a new video about Public Access 101: Downtown L.A., expanding our virtual ranger station, reflecting on our active past, and imagining trails into the future.

We want to announce to you, our steadfast cohort, that we’ve decided to enter into a phase of temporary dormancy (i.e. you won’t see us out and about, at least in uniform, in the coming months), partly due to long-distance migrations and other exciting metamorphoses among our rangers. Rest assured, our spirit of exploration runs strong and we will keep you posted of any and all adventures ahead.

In the meantime, we’re eager to share several new tales about the Rangers that have appeared in recent months:

  • KCET collected over 30 stories from hikers on our L.A. River Ramble last August, which can be found on Departures. If you have any field notes of your own about experiences on the L.A. River, please let us know!
  • Amelia Foster reflected on our Critical Campout last September in the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of Public Art Review
  • Meredith Drake Reitan wrote a short piece about our Malibu safaris in David C. Sloane’s new book, Planning Los Angeles
  • Bill Kelley’s recent article for KCET’s Artbound is a thoughtful reflection on the topography and artistic climate in which we Rangers continue to explore.
  • Longer “external guides” about the Los Angeles Urban Rangers are expected soon and we will keep you posted.

As always, we enjoy hearing your stories of urban trail exploration! We’ll add your field notes to our Ranger logs.

Your Faithful Stewards,

The Los Angeles Urban Rangers

laurbanrangers.org

via Summer 2012 Report: Hibernation and Ranger Tales.

Green Pedestrian Crossing in China Creates Leaves from Footprints | Colossal

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Jody Xiong of DDB China in conjunction with the China Environmental Protection Foundation created this wonderful outdoor campaign to create a subtle visual reminder of the environmental benefits of walking versus driving.

via Green Pedestrian Crossing in China Creates Leaves from Footprints | Colossal.

 

Ten Billion – review | Stage | The Guardian

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From the Guardian review of Ten Billion:

Stephen Emmott, an acclaimed scientist, stands in a re-creation of his cluttered Cambridge office and delivers, under Katie Mitchell’s astute direction, an illustrated 60-minute talk on the consequences of over-population. He tells us that we are facing “an unprecedented planetary emergency” and, under his calm exterior, you sense a concealed fury at our failure to address the crisis.

via Ten Billion – review | Stage | The Guardian.

Prix Pictet | The global award in photography and sustainability

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The exhibition of work by the artists shortlisted for Prix Pictet Power will be at the Saatchi Gallery, London from 10 – 28 October 2012. On 9 October there will be an Awards Ceremony with Kofi Annan, Honorary President of the Prix Pictet, at which the winner of the award will be announced.

via Prix Pictet | The global award in photography and sustainability.

Trybooking | Greening Our Performance – Production

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Join us for the fourth workshop in the 2012 Greening Our Performance series as we tackle sustainable production. How do we incorporate sustainability into production? Is it possible to assess our carbon footprint and what is Green Design?

Facilitated by Angharad Wynne-Jones (Tipping Point Australia and Artshouse), this sessions will involve a number of practical presentations and panel discussions by some of the industry’s leading sustainable practitioners.

Afternoon tea will be provided and we invite you to join us for post event drinks at the Curve Bar afterwards.

DATE:  Friday 7th September.
TIME:  1pm to 5pm
VENUE: ANZ Pavillion, Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC.
CONTACT DETAILS: Angela Pamic. angelapamic@gmail.com

via Trybooking | Greening Our Performance – Production.

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Launch of The Theatres Trust People’s Choice Award 2012

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The Theatres Trust is pleased to announced at the ABTT Theatre Show 2012 that entries are open for The Theatres Trust’s third annual People’s Choice Award.

Entertainment industry manufacturers and suppliers are invited to enter one of their products for the People’s Choice Award. Products need to be making a difference to theatres sustainability, either through design, manufacture or operation.

Selection takes place at PLASA 2012 running from 09 – 12 September at Earls Court, London, where shortlisted products are displayed on The Theatres Trust’s stand and visitors to the show cast their vote for the People’s Choice Award.

Visitors to stands at both the ABTT Theatre Show 2012 and PLASA 2012 can also find information on the Trust’s European Regional Development Fund-backed ‘Ecovenue’sustainability project, which has been improving the sustainability of 48 London performing arts venues.

At PLASA 2012, after three days of visitor voting, the award will be presented to the winner on The Theatres Trust’s stand at a reception at 1700 on Tuesday 11 September. The presentation of the Award will mark the culmination of PLASA’s sustainability series of related Education Programme events that day.

In 2011 those shortlisted included Core Lighting, ETC, Martin Professional, Philips, ROBE and Robert Juliat. Last year PLASA visitors voted Global Design Solutions’ArcSystem the overall winner.  Matt Lloyd, of Global Design Solutions, which also took the 2010 prize, said “The People’s Choice Award is so important as it’s voted for by people in the industry – the people who actually use the equipment. It’s great for public relations, and a morale booster for the company.”

PLASA Chief Executive Officer & Director of Events, Matthew Griffiths, said “The Theatres Trust People’s Choice Award provides a chance for people in the industry to support the commitment shown by manufacturers to issues of sustainability in theatre and live entertainment. An award that is voted for by the theatre community carries real value to the companies dedicated to making a sustainable difference.”

Tim Atkinson, leading on delivery of the Ecovenue project, said “It was a closely fought competition last year. The enthusiasm of the visitors that voted demonstrated that improved product sustainability is high in the mind of users, buyers and manufacturers. I look forward to a competition just as close this year, with entries from a range of companies spanning the entertainment industry.”

Manufacturers or suppliers who wish to enter may pick up an entry form from The Theatres Trust stand at the ABTT Theatre Show 2012, or visit www.theatrestrust.org.uk

Diego Stocco – Music from Nature

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To celebrate Earth Day 2012 Burt’s Bees asked Diego Stocco to create a video performance in the style of my Music from a Tree.

To expand the concept he also included as “instruments” some of the ingredients used in their products, like honey, almonds, rice, and coconuts; also bees had a musical role in this piece.

He performed the whole composition by playing these natural elements, no synthesizers, samplers or additional sounds have been used.

Here’s a gallery on Behance with more info and pics: behance.net/gallery/Music-from-Nature-Burts-Bees-Earth-Day-2012/3698325