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, and prop makers, designers, and other interested practitioners to discuss how to work together to design and build for the [...]
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 of exhibitors, panels, networking and arts events around sustainability in the arts - awesome stuff! She’ll be on a panel [...]
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 now live. This programme of workshops in Rainham and Wennington will be a fun chance for people living in the [...]
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 information about sustainable materials and how they may be used in theatre.They would like each contributor to research and produce [...]
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 based company Ranan. Artists working on Sagar are Prarthana Hazra, Amlan Chaudhuri, Vikram Iyengar, Debashree Bhattacharya, and Kunal Chakraborty. Film [...]
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 as sea levels rise. The (Future) Wales Coast path was created by artist Alison Neighbour, with support from producer Elen [...]
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 of light and sound that could only work if the audience played their part. The story of eco-system interdependence was [...]
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, science, design, climate, migration and wonder - Helen Storey's Dress for Our Time installation has travelled from St Pancras to [...]
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 equipment. Nature is represented as petrified and flowing forms, we do not know whether it is present, past or future. [...]
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. Inside, the shifting environment evolves as the wind blows, the rain falls and a thick cloud rolls underneath in an [...]
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 / performer and Kate Lane is a British interdisciplinary artist/ scenographer. Together they design and make work that sits somewhere between [...]
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 you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is. [...]
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 and visual outcome different in every city. www.fserravila.com/ Shown here: A short trailer of LET'S GO OUT FOR A WALK? [...]
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 and Science at London College of Fashion, artist, researcher and Artist in Residence at Za'atari refugee camp, Jordan.
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 combines stage design, permaculture and community engagement to create a recyclable, biodegradable and edible performance space. Part theatre and part [...]
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 festivals, theatres and community spaces and deliver bespoke projects for people who need more support, happiness and confidence in their [...]
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 waterA playlist and some speakers all you need to get you startedthen by the time that you finished you’ll know [...]
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. Jennifer Leach and eco-scenographer and Outrider Anthems associate, Andrea Carr. In April 2022, Reading Borough Council granted planning permission – [...]
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 journey to explore the concept that nothing is ever really 'away'.
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 film then featured as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. The film is introduced by Adele Keeley, Senior Lecturer BA Performance Design [...]
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 textile industry. Riffing on our awareness of mass production and vulture capitalism, Zoë Svendsen and Simon Daw invite you to [...]
