What’s happening?
Updates on projects and events from the Ecostage Community, and news from the wider world of sustainability in the performing arts. If you are part of the Ecostage Community, let us know if there’s something we should share here.
Stepping Into the Landscape: an Ecostage Lab
We’re hosting our first official Ecostage Lab in Bethnal Green, London! It’s our chance to invite you into a space to explore and share together. Alongside our own team, we [...]
The Big Freelancer Survey 2025
Freelancers Make Theatre Work have been doing brilliant and necessary work for several years now, not least their Big Freelancer Survey, which provides a detailed report of freelance experience over [...]
we made it THRU.
Introducing the latest venture that our team member, Kira is taking on: THRU. Alongside her PhD studies, Kira has started a Substack publication as a place to share all the [...]
SBTD launches new Materials Guide
The Society of British Theatre Designers Sustainable Design Working Group is launching its much-anticipated Guide to Sustainable Materials for Theatre Design on Zoom, 23rd July at 5pm, and we'd love [...]
Restage is mapping re-use hubs
Restage is a great new initiative that helps the screen and stage sectors decarbonise and meet the requirements of the Theatre Green Book and Albert by championing the skills, spaces, [...]
Attending Blackpool’s Sustainable Business Network
Last week was the first ever Sustainable Business Network hosted by Blackpool Council, and our team member, Kira, was able to attend to represent the arts sector. The half-day [...]
Thailand: Climate Dramaturgy lab report and a new toolkit
A report has been published on the Climate Dramaturgy lab we co-ran earlier this year with BIPAM, the Thai Theatre Foundation and climate dramaturg Zoë Svendsen, and which our co-director Paul [...]
Join us at the SBTD to talk about exciting next steps for Ecostage
We've always had a close relationship with the Society of British Theatre Designers, especially the SBTD's Sustainable Design Working Group, so it's really nice to be invited to present an [...]
Makers and Designers Assemble!
We're delighted to be one of the partner organisations for Makers and Designers Assemble at the National Theatre’s Duffield Studio, 6pm-9pm, 30th September. This is a chance for set, costume, [...]
Introducing Kira Curtis
If you've noticed our social media improve massively recently, it's down to one person: our latest team member, Kira Curtis. Based up north, Kira is a theatre researcher and maker [...]
Ecostage goes to Thailand for Caring, Practicing, Crafting: Climate Dramaturgy in Performing Arts
Ecostage co-director Paul Burgess is of two key UK facilitators for this 5-day workshop from BIPAM on creating climate-conscious performing arts projects: Caring, Practicing, Crafting: Climate Dramaturgy in Performing Arts. [...]
Online Event: Reframing Film, TV, Art and Music
We're excited to share with you details of this event from our friends at the Environmental Thinking Institute: Online Event: Reframing Film, TV, Art and Music When: Tuesday 19 March [...]
Ruth Stringer at Future Generations Climate Convention
We're thrilled to tell you that Ecostage co-director Ruth Stringer will be a panelist at USW’s climate convention event this Thursday, 29th Feb, at The Atrium, Cardiff. A full day [...]
Creative Nature Workshops in Havering
Dysbiosis: Creative Nature Workshops Thanks to Creative Community Support awarded to us by Rainham Change Makers as part of the Havering Changing project, Daedalus Theatre Company's latest community programme is [...]
Social Media Volunteer Needed
We're looking for a volunteer with social media skills and a passion for the performing arts and ecology to grow our social media profile across multiple platforms. Ecostage is [...]
A Case Studies Reflection: The Ecostage team takes a moment to discuss the value and challenges of sharing their work
We've been talking about why case studies matter, the different challenges we face as busy practitioners and how to support the Ecostage community in sharing their work, experience and [...]
Sustainable Theatre: Theory, Context, Practice – Iphigenia Taxopoulou
We're excited to talk you about Sustainable Theatre: Theory, Context, Practice by Iphigenia Taxopoulou, which was published earlier this year under Bloomsbury's Methuen Drama imprint. Covering around three decades [...]
Global Voices: call for videos
What is the Global Voices project? In 2021, Ecostage and the Society of British Theatre Designers put out a call to people in the performing arts to share videos that reflect [...]
Callout: A Guide to Sustainable Materials for Theatre
The SBTD Sustainable Design Working Group is producing a guidebook to sustainable materials for use in theatre design. They want to collate together a series of fact files that outline [...]
New UK Carbon Literacy Training opportunities
Our sister organisation, The Society of British Theatre Designers, is rolling out its now one-day Carbon Literacy Training course, specifically tailored to the needs of theatre designers and their [...]
Let’s take over the UK!
Ecostage, in collaboration with the Society of British Theatre Designers’ sustainability working group, is running a 'takeover' of Hello Stranger, the UK professional exhibition at PQ, Hall 11, Holešovice [...]
Ecostage at PQ Ecoscenography Day
Ecostage has been part of a fantastic day at the Prague Quadrennial dedicated to Ecoscenography and hosted by leading ecoscenographer Tanja Beer and Marianne Lavoie of Écoscéno. Three of [...]
Ecostage at the Prague Quadrennial
Ecostage travels to the Prague Quadrennial PQ23 June 8-18th. For those that don’t know, Prague hosts an exciting and vibrant festival and welcomes a global community of design and performance [...]
