Exploring Sustainability in Creative Practice

Theatre is a process of reinvention, making and remaking. How do we consider the resources that go into bringing something to the stage? What is our responsibility to materials and energy? How do we create efficient spaces that house performance? How do we talk about this, both as artists and in our art? These questions are the focus for the Sustainability Programme at World Stage Design 2013. Join designers, architects, researchers and others who are focused on the intersection of sustainability and performance as we explore the future of our field as it relates to one of most vital issues of today.

You can view the full programme and book online for some events here.  More events will be added throughout the summer, so keep checking the website.

The People, Profit, Planet programme is supported by the Waterloo Foundation.

Who should attend?

These workshops and presentations are for anyone interested in considering the issues of sustainability within their work. Curious about how reused and eco-materials impact design and construction? Or the future of new energy efficient lighting technology? Intrigued by new work that explores issues of social justice and the environment? Interested in tools and best practices to monitor the carbon footprint of your facility or productions? Perplexed by how these tie together? Join us for a cross section of programming that highlights performances, place and interconnectedness in the wider world.

Sustainability Offerings at WSD2103

Thurs, Sept 5

•  Who’s Afraid? (Performance)

Fri, Sept 6

• Who’s Afraid? (Performance)

Sun, Sept 8

• The Willow Theatre  (Sustainable Theatre Competition Winner Presentation)

Mon, Sept 9

• The Future of Tungsten – White Light LTD & The Environment 
• Environmental Management and Life-Cycle-Analysis for Theatre
• Sustainable Theatre Ecology for Festivals, Conferences and Mass Arts Gatherings

Tues, Sept 10

• New Ideas Need Old Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and the Performing Art Facilities
• Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Challenge with the Arcola Theatre

Wed, Sept 11

• Fringe 2012 Sustainable Fringe Production Award: The Man Who Planted Trees
• Making The Man Who Planted Trees
• Yon Light is Not Daylight, I Know It: A Sustainability Study on Lighting in Seattle
• What’s so Sustainable about World Stage Design? WSD and the Environment

Thurs, Sept 12

• The Cutting Edge of EcoDesign and Sustainable Production with Julie’s Bicycle
• Aesthetics of Ecological Design and Eco-scenography

Fri, Sept 13

• Emergence presents: Resilience in the Face of Challenge Creu Cymru
• Emergence presents: Doin’ Dirt Time by Suzi Gablik
• Emergence presents: World Café – A Sustainable Enquiry 
• Emergence presents: Walking to the Summit, a Film by Peter Telfer & Dan Gifford
• Trans-Plantable Living Room, Edible Community Performance (2 Shows)

Sat, Sept 14

• Designing Sustainably for Broadway with Donyale Werle
• Trans-Plantable Living Room, Edible Community Performance (2 Shows)
• Sustainable Lighting for the Theatre

People, Profit, Planet – group leader
Ian Garrett - Assistant Professor, York University, Canada