Global Voices
A collaboration between Ecostage and the Society of British Theatre Designers to collect and showcase films from performing arts practitioners made in response to the climate crisis.
The Global Voices Archive launched at COP26 at CCA Glasgow as part of the People’s Summit for Climate Justice, and was also shown in the Eco-lounge at World Stage Design 2022 in Calgary. It’s an ongoing project, with a growing online archive of films, drawn from a wide variety of arts practitioners around the world. The archive is available to be shown at exhibitions and events.
The archive includes entries from a wide range of people, including poets, designers, social activists, academics and filmmakers, who are grappling with the effects of the climate crisis on their creative practices and communities, and how the socio-political and economic landscape is changing.
It’s an ongoing open call – if you have something to add, we’d love to hear from you!
Needs More Work Productions – Tomorrow
Needs More Work Productions is proud to present Tomorrow, exploring climate justice through a collection of site-specific short plays as part of the international Climate Change Theater [...]
Alison Neighbour – Inter/Tidal
https://youtu.be/FeWipDY-OSw Exploring intertidal space with young people on the Indian island of Sagar - part of a Wales Arts International funded project by artist Alison Neighbour, in collaboration with Kolkata [...]
Alison Neighbour – The (Future) Wales Coast Path
https://youtu.be/KGkBnYL1WBo Documentary of an year long creative community exploration of the Gwent Levels and the Indian Sundarbans, considering the shifting relationship between land and sea, and how we might adapt [...]
XR Families – Letters to our Children
https://youtu.be/8mrzX9AN0hc "None of us deserve to have our future stolen" This moving short film 'shows parents' confessions of fear and hope to their children as climate crisis intensifies'. Letters to [...]
Alison Neighbour – Beacons
https://player.vimeo.com/video/674363323 Part Quest, part Performance, Beacons took place across a whole month in Folkestone in 2021, inviting audiences to seek out adventures and new encounters, before culminating in a co-built display [...]
Helen Storey – A Dress for Our Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6yKDk6-fvQ https://vimeo.com/333542241 Helen Storey MBE, RDI is Professor of Fashion and Science at London College of Fashion, artist, researcher and Artist in Residence at Za'atari refugee camp, Jordan. ‘Art, fashion, [...]
Andrea Carr – Stuck by HOAX
https://youtu.be/j-_b9-uOMwY Andrea Carr is an artist, eco-scenographer, facilitator and Ecostage co-founder. The design for ’stuck’ tells the story of ecological collapse through a subterranean landscape sculpted from abandoned festival camping [...]
David Shearing – The Weather Café
https://vimeo.com/167404702 David Shearing’s work operates as a hybrid between fine art and performance practices. The Weather Café is an immersive café installation that responds to the changing weather of the city. [...]
Ceschi + Lane – Holt
https://youtu.be/Mrx2YJgu15s Artist and performance collective specialising in body base sculpture & costume. They have been collaborating as Brave New Worlds since 2013. Valentina Ceschi is an Italian interdisciplinary artist / [...]
Metta Theatre – Three Songs from HouseFire the Musical
https://youtu.be/eefm0SuhZ7M https://youtu.be/Ds2jg98jfE8 https://youtu.be/BLmpbsqSd9o Official music videos from: HouseFire | AN ECO ROCK MUSICAL Listen to the album on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3dTdYzi And other streaming platforms: I want you to act as [...]
Francesc Serra Vila – Let’s Go Out For A Walk?
https://youtu.be/g-2AbVuWnvI https://vimeo.com/573327296 LET'S GO OUT FOR A WALK? is a project specifically designed for elderly people; their local stories from childhood to the present, are eventually transformed in a performative [...]
Helen Storey – LOVECOATS Project with the TIGER girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr_fXZQy_Zs Working alongside the refugees, Professor Helen Storey's Dress For Our Time projects continue to evolve at Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan. Helen Storey MBE, RDI is Professor of Fashion [...]
Tanya Beer – The Living Stage NYC
https://youtu.be/GE7iBYyLI08 Dr Tanja Beer is an ecological designer, community artist and Senior Lecturer in Design at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. The Living Stage The Living Stage [...]
Jennifer Leach – The Graveyard
https://youtu.be/xC6BPrxNJno Go small! I keep hearing this message. It struck me forcibly one day as I chanced upon a small village graveyard, with the sleepy atmosphere of peace that pervades [...]
HandMade Theatre – Creating WilderNests: Sustainable Theatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdCtkSJNyo Sustainability at HandMade Theatre HandMade Theatre use live performances and creative therapy approaches to bring experiences of wonder and joy to children and communities across the UK. We perform at [...]
Paul Burgess – Apples and Snakes: Plot 17
https://youtu.be/dSBkbokfCv8 PLOT17: A hip-hop garden block party written and performed by Kenny Baraka for audiences aged 7+ Four pieces of woodEight nailsAnd a hammerSome compostA hand full of seedsAnd some [...]
Maya Ramsay – Call To Prayer
https://youtu.be/0xl876zNSWk Maya Ramsay is an artist who works with historically and politically important sites, employing a variety of processes to capture visual histories that would otherwise be lost or unseen. mayaramsay.co.uk
Jennifer Leach and Andrea Carr – Standing Tall
https://youtu.be/Nhqgotemkk8 Standing Tall is a creative response to the loss of over 112 trees in one of Reading’s few green lungs. A collaboration between artist, filmmaker and artistic director of Outrider Anthems. [...]
Francesc Serra Vila – Recall
https://vimeo.com/429563695 RECALL is a testimony of the confined lives we lived in during the lockdown, with memories and hopes travelling from the past to the future, and from one corner [...]
Simon Daw – Unknown Forest
https://vimeo.com/612816120 A bird sings a beautiful song in the forest to attract his companion who still hasn’t arrived from her long journey. Venture into the unknown and help solve the [...]
Chrys Salt – Skookum Jim and the American Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfytJJB5iB8&t=2s Chrys Salt, MBE is a poet with roots deeply planted in the theatre. She is Artistic Director of The Bakehouse Community Arts and the BIG LIT Festival based in Scotland. [...]
Pamella Villanova – Out of Where
https://youtu.be/hm-hxn_8AQg Pamela Villanova: Out of Where Pamella Villanova is a Brazilian actress, performance and filmmaker. She introduces an excerpt from her film Out of Where, which engages us in a [...]
Isa Suarez – Paths Through Utopias
https://vimeo.com/18815492 Isa Suarez is an award-winning composer who has scored a wide range of films for Television and Independent Film. 'Paths through Utopias’: a feature film directed by Isabelle Fremeaux, [...]
Student engagement with Fair Trade at Arts University Bournemouth
https://youtu.be/Zpdta9vWzkU A wonderful outdoor installation piece in collaboration with Fairtrade with the students at AUB earlier this year 2022. Students used the Theatre Green book throughout the project and the [...]
Isa Suarez – And While London Burns
https://soundcloud.com/platformlondon-1/sets/and-while-london-burns?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fplatformlondon-1%252Fsets%252Fand-while-london-burns Isa Suarez is an award-winning composer who has scored a wide range of films for Television and Independent Film. 'And While London Burns': an acclaimed downloadable audio-walk https://platformlondon.org/p-multimedia/and-while-london-burns/ Written [...]
Three Poetry Videos from Cece’s Speakeasy – Call and Response
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhR1w4tjLUQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFzvjJafKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWszFgt3tbY In July 2031… An event took place in a secret location in South East London. It was an act of creative resistance against climate and environmental injustice [...]
Metis Arts – World Factory
https://youtu.be/wXtjw0fRT_k MADE IN CHINA. SOLD IN BRITAIN. WORN BY YOU. From the factory floor to the catwalk, from Shanghai to London, World Factory weaves together stories of people connected by the global [...]
Chrys Salt – Two Climate Change Poems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYgI9nyLXug Chrys Salt, MBE is an award-winning poet with roots deeply planted in the theatre. She is Artistic Director of The Bakehouse Community Arts and the BIG LIT Festival based in [...]
Same Boat Theater – The Day Everyone Decided to Stop
https://youtu.be/11StZUNp9O4 Same Boat Theater: The Day Everyone Decided To Stop by Max Wilkinson directed by Piyush Kumar Same Boat Theater Collective is an environmental justice theater company based in San [...]
Sol Schiller – Aquario
https://youtu.be/lkJ9hZKsaAw Aquario Sol Schiller's poetic film, using footage she shot of contaminated sea in Argentina, connects us with the vital message that we need to reduce our plastic waste to [...]
Oak Tree Productions – The Old Plane Tree
https://youtu.be/9rhdpXC3Imc Oak Tree Productions is an award winning independent film production company based in Glasgow, Scotland. Established in 2000 by filmmaker and actor Paul Darroch, their main aim is to create [...]
Littleweed Music – Two Songs for COP26
https://youtu.be/PQtRUa_Zw44 Two Songs for COP26 Music and musings of independent improvisation musician camillacancantata. Camilla has worked as a theatre musician, musical director and in many community music projects over the [...]
Penny Chivers – Burnt Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fEM6Ee-tyY Penny wishes to acknowledge the Ngunnawal people as the traditional custodians of the land involved in ‘Burnt Out’, the work mentioned in the footage. Burnt Out is an urgent and [...]
