Click here to read about what PLATFORM and Arnolfini are doing this season to help fight climate change.  3 October – 29 November, 2009: discussions, courses, installations and more. www.arnolfini.org.uk
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Actors wanted | The Waste Ed Roadshow
Waste Ed Roadshow, charity creating educatioinal tools for young people, is looknig for two actors for pilot project
We are a registered charity creating exciting educational tools for teaching young people about ecology. Our new project -Â The Waste Ed Roadshow – is looking for two actors – male and female – to perform a 20 minute humourous dialogue about waste and how it effects ourselves and the environment.
Suitable people will be 18-25 years old, lively and confident, have some acting experience, and be genuinely interested in ‘green’ issues.
The performance will be part of up to 5 pilot runs of the roadshow, from end of May through June. Rehearsals will be led by our Project Leader (a professional actress). To keep travel expenses to a minimum, we are looking for volunteers from the West Greater London/Woking/Ascot area.
If you’re interested in getting involved contact us with a bit about yourself, your experience, and a photo if possible.
You can also visit www.waste-ed.org.uk for more information about the roadshow.
RSA sets up Arts for COP15 network
The RSA Arts & Ecology Centre has set up the web-based network, Arts For COP15, for artists and arts professionals who are producing work in the run up to and during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 09.
It is designed as a site to
- publicise arts events that relate to COP15
- Share knowledge and resources with other artists and arts professionals
- discuss how arts strategy around climate and social change can evolve
- research into the range and success of these projects
- use arts to increase the noise around COP15
- encourage artists and arts professionals who are producing work that is about the environment over the next few months to consider using the event as a way of discussing COP15 with their audiences.
For more information, contact Wiliam Shaw, webeditor at the RSA Art & Ecology Centre.
www.arts4cop15.orgwww.rsaartsandecology.org.uk
Theatres Trust announces ECOVENUE project
Theatres Trust announced a new three-year programme, called ECOVENUE, to provide environmental advice and assessments to 48 small scale theatres in London. The announcement was made on 14 September, the first anniversary of the Mayor of London’s Green Theatre Initiative.
The programme will be funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and will receive £450,000 over three years.
After the Mayor’s Theatre Plan was announced last year, many large-scale theatres signed up to reduce their carbon emissions by 65% by 2025, but the smaller theatres did not have the budget to participate. With this grant, smaller venues will be able to apply for help to address environmental issues associated with climate change, and to reduce their energy use and to achieve Display Energy Certificates (DECs).
The Trust will be inviting theatres to apply, and details will be advertised in the coming months.
For more information, contact Suzanne McDougall
suzanne.mcdougall@theatrestrust.org.uk
What is Arts for COP15?
Here’s some information that is being sent out to explain the aims of Arts For COP15.
Please pass it around if you can.
You may not be involved in anything that’s directly relevant, but maybe someone on your networks is.
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Arts for COP15 is a web-based network of artists and arts professionals who are producing work in the run up to and during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 09.
It is a place to:
- Publicise arts events that relate to COP15 both on the site, and through the networks of other artists and organisations
- Avoid duplicating work where possible
- Share knowledge and resources with other artists and arts professionals
- Discuss how arts strategy around climate and social change can evolve
- Discuss how effective we are in passing messages on to our audiences
- Research into the range and success of these projects
- Find COP15-related material to pass on to audiences
- Use arts to increase the noise around COP15
- Encourage artists and arts professionals who are producing work that is about the environment over the next few months to consider using the event as a way of discussing COP15 with their audiences
Please go to www.arts4cop15.org and create your own profile.
If you would like to find out more about Arts For COP15 please emailwilliam.shaw@rsa.org.uk. Arts For COP15 is an open network created by the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre. The RSA Arts & Ecology Centre is an RSA initiative in partnership with Arts Council England.
For further information about the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre go to:www.rsaartsandecology.org.uk.
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Whiteread, Lambie, Blake et al rethink the WWF collecting box
Pandamonium: the simple panda-shaped collecting unit rewrought.
Charity Bears for WWF by Rachel Whiteread 2009
Sweet Bamboo by Jim Lambie 2009
You can’t hate nature by Mark Titchner 2009
World Wrestling Federation by Peter Blake 2009
www.wwf.org.uk/pandamonium
Go to RSA Arts & Ecology
The Great Fen Project
I write this as we set off for a meeting in Peterborough which is, wonderfully, interested in the connection between the arts and environmental issues. I had a brilliant taster with respect to the Fens in an extraordinary concert at King’s College, Cambridge in their stunning chapel. This was in support of the Great Fen Project – “the most important conservation project in the UK for 100 years†– www.greatfen.org.uk With Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, the music soaring upwards as the dusk light spread through the building, it seemed anything is possible!
Green Sundays at Arcola: 3 May, all welcome!
Come and join us anytime between 3pm and 7pm for May’s Green Sunday at Arcola Theatre.
It’s free to attend and everyone is welcome. This month we are looking at urban regeneration – from the Olympics to roof gardens. With special film screenings, lively debate, Kabula dancing and the chance to picnic near the Olympic site, it’s not to be missed!
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Anna Beech
Sustainability Projects Manager
Arcola Theatre
27 Arcola Street
London E8 2DJ
anna@arcolatheatre.com
www.arcolatheatre.com
www.arcolaenergy.com
www.greensundays.org.uk
Devoted and Disgruntled (about theatre) Northeast – 30 – 31 March
The Empty Space and Improbable Theatre are hosting Devoted and Disgruntled North East an Open Space event to consider ‘What are we going to do about theatre?’, at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle.
Open Space is a form of meeting in which participants determine the discussion sessions. Questions on theatre’s relation to environmentalism would be possible to offer to the group. The event will be facilitated by Phelim McDermott.
This is the first Devoted and Disgruntled to be held outside London.
www.theemptyspace.org.ukÂ
www.improbable.co.uk