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What is ecoart? Presentation by Mary Jo Aagerstoun

May 1, 2014ecoartscotlandMary Jo Aagerstoun, presentation

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If youâ€™ve ever wondered what ecoart is, this presentation might help.Â It positions ecoart in relation to other environmental and nature based practices, social practices and working relations with ecologists and engineers.

Eco art and transdisciplinarity from Mary Jo Aagerstoun

Thanks to MJ of Ecoart South Florida for sharing this really interesting presentation on ecoart and interdisciplinarity.Â The text of David Haleyâ€˜s thatâ€™s referenced is available here.

ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy makers. It includes ecoartscotland papers, a mix of discussions of works by artists and critical theoretical texts, and serves as a curatorial platform.
It has been established byÂ Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate withÂ On The Edge Research,Â Grayâ€™s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University. Fremantle is a member of a number of international networks of artists, curators and others focused on art and ecology.
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Investigating the Aesthetics of Ecological Design and Eco-scenography with Dr Wallace Heim and Tanja Beer at WSD2013

August 26, 2013CSPA Convergence, WSDAesthetics, Audience, beer, Boundaries, Dr Beer, Ecological Design, Ecological Principles, Environment, Existing Design, Focus, Holistic Approach, Incorporate, Material Effects, New Ways, Paradigm, Philosophical Perspective, presentation, Scenography, Sensibilities, Stage Design, Sustainable Design, Tanja, Willow

Thurs 12 Sept 16.30 – 18.00

The Willow Theatre

What are the aesthetics of sustainable design? New ways are needed of appreciating ecologically valid design that can incorporate the artistic dimensions with the material effects. This presentation will explore the application of ecological design in the Performing Arts as it creates new sensibilities, new dramaturgies and new forms of experience throughout a range of theatre productions. These aesthetics expand on existing design critiques and offer ways to consider the relations between the content of what is performed to the ecological and artistic dimensions of stage design. Starting with a philosophical perspective, this session will talk through examples with focus on the emerging paradigm of â€˜eco-scenographyâ€™ â€“ a movement that seeks to integrate ecological principles into all stages of scenographic thinking and production. Taking a holistic approach to materials and resources, this approach asks â€œcan we create designs that enrich our environment and community, as well as our audience?â€

The presentation includes a live and interactive showing of Tanja Beerâ€™s â€œSTRUNGâ€, an eco-scenographic investigation that merges the boundaries between performer and designer, installation and costume, site and material.

Open to all.

Price: Â£6

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Key contributors

Dr Wallace Heim -Â http://www.wallaceheim.com

Tanja Beer -Â http://www.tanjabeer.com/

White Light & The Environment with Bryan Raven at WSD2013

August 17, 2013CSPA Convergence, news, WSD9 Sept, Amp, Answer Session, Buy Tickets, Discover, Electricity, Environment, Guest Panelists, Light Bulb, Lighting Suppliers, Lot, presentation, Raven, Sept 11, Simon Gibson, Stage Lighting, Tungsten Light

Mon 9 Sept 11.30 – 13.00

Simon Gibson studio

White Light is one the UKâ€™s leading lighting suppliers and as such, their customers use a lot of electricity. Â This presentation will try and discover what the real impact of stage lighting is and whether the tungsten light bulb should be banned.

The presentation will be followed by a question & answer session with guest panelists to answer some of the questions raised.

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View theÂ White Light Green guide

Jame Bedell’s Greener Lighting Design in the Real World

June 16, 2012Broadway Green Alliance, newsAdvocate, Bedell, Broadway, Design Priorities, Green Alliance, Jame, Lighting Design, Lighting Designer, Lighting Designers, presentation, Real World, sustainability

Check out this presentation by lighting designer James Bedell. He originally gave this presentation at an event for the Broadway Green Alliance exploring Greener Lighting Practices in the theater. As a sustainability advocate, James encourages lighting designers to integrate sustainability into their design priorities whenever working on a project.

Environmental Justice League Presentation June 16th in Los Angeles

June 14, 2012AnnouncementsAngeles City, Art Center, City Council District, Climate, English Spanish, Environmental Justice, Group Range, Justice League, Los Angeles City Council, Magic Bus, Outdoor Amphitheater, Performance Skills, presentation, Rehearsals, Saturday June, Saturdays, Street Los Angeles, Theatre Project, William Grant, Works In Progress

The Environmental Justice League is a community theatre project housed in the Los Angeles City Council District 10. For 8 weeks, they have met on Saturdays to develop their writing and performance skills to create an original theater piece on environmental justice. The ethnically diverse members of the group range from 20 to 90 years old and Â they conduct their rehearsals in English, Spanish and Korean.

They invite all to come watch the sharing of their works in progress. Come see as they transform an outdoor amphitheater into a magic bus that will take you on a ride through the present and future of climate, food, transit and environmentalÂ justice.

The performance will be at 5:30 PM, Saturday June 16th, 2012.

The location for the performance is the William Grant Still Art Center at 2520 West View Street, Los Angeles, CA 90016.Â

Green Sundays start at Arcola Theatre

March 9, 2009Arcola, Ashden DirectoryArcola Theatre, Climate Change, Creative Industry, Daily Bread, Dalston, Environment, Food Chain, Food Travel, friends of the earth, Launch, London, Music Games, Open Mic, Partner, People, Politics, presentation, Short Films, Speakers, Umbrella

Arcola EnergyÂ will hostÂ Green SundaysÂ on the first Sunday of each month, starting with a launch on 1 March. The Green Sundays are free events, and the public is welcome to drop in toÂ Arcola TheatreÂ throughout the day from 1:30 – 7:30 pm.

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The Green Sundays programme will feature music, games, films, speakers and readings based loosely on an issue under the climate change umbrella, such as food, travel, energy or politics.

Green Sundays are intended to demonstrate how a creative industry, such as theatre, can provide a space to discuss the environment and how people can work together to tackle climate change.

The March launch theme was food – growing, making, enjoying and sustaining food. The day included meals, short films and a screening of ‘Our Daily Bread’, a reading fromÂ The Hungry Cyclist: Pedalling the Americas in Search of the Perfect MealÂ by the author Tom Kevill-Davies, an open mic session and presentation of the Food Chain Campaign byÂ Friends of the Earth,

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Arcola’s partner for Green Sundays isÂ Be The Change.

www.arcolatheatre.comÂ
www.arcolaenergy.comÂ

a: 27 Arcola StÂ
London, E8 2DJÂ
Nearest station- Dalston Kingsland

Go to the AshdenÂ Directory

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

October 16, 2008Announcements, Research2009, call, conference, CSPA Convergence, data, Earth, EcoDrama, matters, on, presentation, Research, Stage

The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CPSA) in partnership with EARTH MATTERS ON STAGE: Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and Symposium on Ecology & Theatre at the University of Oregon, Eugene is asking for presentations from the national arts community focused on building ecologically and economically sustainable models in the arts. Â Â The EMOS Festival and Symposium takes place May 21-31, 2009.

The CSPA is a start-up arts-service organization focused on researching, developing and implementing change to increase the ecological and economic sustainability of the arts in the United States. The CSPA will be hosting a series of focused sessions within the larger symposium to deal with practical change and repeatable models.

While the content and format of the presentations is open to the creativity of presenters, preference will be given to presentations that focus on critical analysis, scientific data and documentation as the basis for support of a project’s relationship to issues of sustainability. We seek shareable and repeatable models for active change in arts practice.

Based on the proposals received, presenters may be grouped into topical sessions and may also be asked to participate in roundtable and/or panel discussions to be able to best compare and contrast existing and proposed models of sustainable change, especially as it may highlight the balance of the ecology and economy in contemporary arts practice.

Possible topics include presentations on the impact or future impact of LEED certified arts facilities, company greening initiatives, the creation of efficiency standards for the arts, government initiatives, production methodology, education of theater artists, individual projects created with ecology in mind, re-use programs and any practical documentation of positive ecological sustainable change.

While the CSPA’s session at the symposium will focus on practice and the practical application of change, we encourage all presenters to also submit to the general call from The Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and Symposium on Ecology and Performance. They seek “creative and innovative proposals for workshops, round-tables, panels, working sessions, installations, or participatory community gatherings that explore, examine, challenge, articulate, or nourish the possibilities of theatrical and performative responses to the environmental crisis in particular, and our ecological situatedness in general.” Â Â See the EMOS Call for Proposals at: www.uoregon.edu/~ecodrama or email ecodrama@uoregon.edu.

Please send a one-page proposal and/or abstract by January 1, 2009 to:

Earth Matters Symposium 2009
The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

(attention Ian Garrett)

c/o LA Stage Alliance

644 S. Figueroa St.

Los Angeles, CA 90017

Or you may email your materials to conferences@sustainablepractice.org

Please feel free to direct any questions to the CSPA via email at conferences@sustainablepractice.org