Yearly Archives: 2016

Opportunity: Events & Communications Officer, Creative Carbon Scotland

Creative Carbon Scotland, Open Calls

This post comes from Creative Carbon Scotland

Our friends at Creative Carbon Scotland are currently looking for an individual to fill the role of Events & Communications Officer, and to help achieve their aim of connecting the arts and culture with sustainability to build a sustainable Scotland.  This is a great opportunity to join a small, informal, forward-thinking team to make real change in the world.

Job Details

Salary: £8,800 (ie £22,000 pro rata 0.4FTE) + up to 3% of salary in pension contributions matching employee’s contributions

Hours: Part time – 0.4 FTE. This means a 15 hour week with a degree of flexibility on both sides, as some evening and weekend work may be required and busy periods may call for extra hours, with time taken off in lieu during quieter periods.

Flexible working and Job Sharing Creative Carbon Scotland welcomes proposals for flexible working or job-share, subject to the needs of the role being satisfactorily fulfilled.

Holidays: 8 days plus 4 public holidays to be taken at times agreed with the Producer.

Place of work: Based at Waverley Court, East Market Street, Edinburgh, but home working and hot-desking may also be necessary. Travel throughout Scotland required.

Contract and notice period: This is a fixed term post until 31 March 2017, with continuation possible subject to funding and the needs of CCS. A probationary period of 2 months will apply, following successful completion of which the full fixed term contract will be confirmed.

Secondments Creative Carbon Scotland is very willing to consider a secondment for this role where this will embed carbon reduction knowledge and work within the cultural sector.

Equipment: A laptop and mobile phone will be provided if required.

For more information and how to apply, please download a copy of the Job Application Pack.

Closing Date: Midnight, 25th May.

The post Opportunity: Events & Communications Officer, Creative Carbon Scotland appeared first on Creative Carbon Scotland.

———-

Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

Powered by WPeMatico

CCS Blog: April Green Tease Reflections

Creative Carbon Scotland

This post comes from Creative Carbon Scotland

This month we met the spring season with our April Green Tease events in Glasgow and Edinburgh, welcoming a range of people from across the arts and different areas of sustainability to find points of connection between their interests and practices.

Glasgow

Our Glasgow event took place in the temporary lab of the Soil City project, run by artists and food activists, Open Jar Collective. Initiated during Glasgow International Visual Arts Festival, Soil City is intended as a long term research project, bringing together different communities to ‘reimagine the city as if soil matters’.

In an introductory tour around the lab we were shown the multi-layered map of green and brownfield sites visited during the three weeks of GI, and soil and plant samples taken from around the city. Alex Wilde, member of Open Jar Collective, explained their motivation for exploring the state of soil in the city, as an under-appreciated resource but something which we are all rely upon and are intrinsically connected to.

She described the layered nature of Soil City programme encompassing site visits, soil testing (contributing to OPAL citizen science project), walking and bike tours, public talks and workshops, and an online archive Field Notes, designed to capture the range of perspectives and ways of thinking about soil which emerged over the three weeks.

In between homemade soup, cakes, cups of tea and some hands on soil testing, the Green Tease gathering held a passionate discussion soil. It seemed that everybody has a story to tell or question to ask about how we understand, use and look after the soil in our neighbourhoods and city. See Katy Gordon’s account of the discussion here.

We also spoke about what Open Jar saw their roles as artists to be in raising questions about urban relationships with soil. Clem Sandison suggested that the bespoke bright yellow bicycles, designed and made by the collective, were symbolic of their artistic approach, offering an usual and intriguing starting point for conversation, that you may not come across in a typical citizen science project. She also talked about the importance of creating new civic spaces for discussion, bringing together diverse perspectives and encouraging learning, exemplified through the Soil City lab.

gorbals8

Over the course of the event we discussed the importance of finding new ways of valuing soil, as well as green spaces and brownfield sites in cities, beyond their potential for economic development. It became clear that Open Jar Collective see part of their role as offering a different set of values based on the connections between communities and urban ecologies.

We look forward to seeing how the Soil City project unfolds over the coming months!

Edinburgh

Our Edinburgh Green Tease for April took place in the back room of Woodland Creatures on Leith Walk on Tuesday 26th. A ‘Green Tease Get Together’, the event was very informal, with lots of ideas exchange, connections, and spirited discussion. We used question cards on tables to prompt wide ranging conversations: on everything from the last time someone asked attendees about sustainability, to what they need to achieve their own arts and sustainability ambitions! With attendees from across the arts and sustainability spectrum, and lots of new faces, it was great to get to know all our green-teasers over these drink and nibbles!

Cg_cjmUWIAAgi-1

 

Our next Green Tease will take place on Monday 23rd May with artists Jo Hodges and Robbie Coleman. Find out more and sign up here.

The post Blog: April Green Tease Reflections appeared first on Creative Carbon Scotland.

———-

Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

Powered by WPeMatico

Call for the Stories of the Anthropocene Festival, Stockholm 27-29 October 2016

Open Calls

A state of shock is something that happens to us not only when something bad happens. It’s what happens to us when we lose our narrative, when we lose our story, when we become disoriented. – Naomi Klein

The KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, in collaboration with the Rachel Carson Center and the Nelson Institute Center for Culture, History, and Environment at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is currently seeking submissions for the Stories of the Anthropocene Festival (SAF), which will take place on 27-29 October 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.
We invite scholars, artists, writers, filmmakers, and activists to propose a single story that can represent or encapsulate the Anthropocene. We welcome stories from all possible angles and scales, rejecting any pre-constituted division or hierarchy separating between fiction and non-fiction, local and global, scientific and, academic and popular.
Deeply rooted in the storytelling tradition of the humanities, SAF seeks to reclaim the power of narratives to shape and understand the world beyond the dualities of possible/impossible, material/immaterial, real/imaginary.

The Anthropocene has developed a dual career, firstly as a geological term and secondly as a cultural term. It is an open question whether geologists will find the precise stratum where the Anthropocene began, and if the geological community will agree on the Anthropocene as a new epoch in Earth history. In many fields of the humanities and social sciences and in the public mind, however, the Anthropocene is already an established concept that continues to gain momentum in newspapers, museums, and other public arenas.

As environmental humanities scholars, we believe that the Anthropocene is composed of layers of stories as well as CO2 emissions or atomic fallout. The Anthropocene is essentially a narrative about the interventions of humans on a planetary scale; it is a story written into the rocks and into the atmosphere. The Anthropocene has the ambition to overcome the dichotomized narratives of human societies versus nature, proposing a narrative embodied in the Earth.

In November 2014, a group of scholars and artists convened at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for the Anthropocene slam: A Cabinet of Curiosities. In a playful and creative way, presenters introduced objects that they felt embodied the Anthropocene. The Slam was then translated firstly into an exhibition, the Anthropocene Cabinet of Curiosities, on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, and then into an edited volume.

SAF builds on the experience and energy of the Slam. SAF challenges participants to exit their comfort zone and embrace an imaginative and inventive mode with the ambition to engage with a wide audience.
At SAF, participants will have 30 minutes to narrate or tell their story to the public in any format, including (but not limited to) video, dance, song, or theater. The audience will select their favorite stories, and these will be curated into an online platform, the Anthropocene Library. Please see below for submission guidelines.

To Apply:
Abstracts should include the source of the story, the format of the presentation, how the story fits with the theme of SAF, and any technical or other support you may need. There are two methods by which you can submit an abstract:

  1. Written abstract – please provide a 250-word abstract with the above information.
  2. Video abstract – please send us a link to a max. 3-minute long video including the above information.

Along with your abstract, please also provide a max. 250-word accompanying biography, including your contact details.

Send all submissions with the title ‘SAF submission’ to ehlab@abe.kth.se by Wednesday the 15th of June. If you have any questions, please contact ehlab@abe.kth.se. The results of the selection will be communicated by July 15th.

A limited amount of funding is available to cover partially travel costs for participants. Please make sure to include a request for funds in your application if needed.

CLIMARTE Poster Project forum

news

Are images worth a thousand words?

As part of the CLIMARTE Poster Project 2016 come and join a lively and engaging discussion on the importance of images in conveying complex ideas and feelings, and also in creating engagement and empathy with difficult and challenging issues, such as climate change.

Date and time: Tuesday 17 May 2016, 6pm
Venue: LAB-14, 700 Swanston St, Carlton 3053

Register here: http://www.carltonconnect.com.au/climarte-poster-project-forum/

Speakers include:

  • Dr Peter Christoff, Associate Professor, School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
  • Belinda Smith, Deputy News Editor, COSMOS Magazine
  • Gabrielle De Vietri, A Centre for Everything, and CLIMARTE Poster Project artist.
  • Dr Kate Daw, Head of Painting, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, and CLIMARTE Poster Project artist.

CLIMARTE has commissioned eleven artists to design posters that engage the community on climate change action and convey the strength, optimism and urgency we need to move to a clean renewable energy future.

Artists: Angela Brennan, Chris Bond, Jon Campbell, Kate Daw, Katherine Hattam, Siri Hayes, Martin King, Gabrielle de Vietri & Will Foster, Thornton Walker, Miles Howard-Wilks.

During April-May hundreds of posters will be printed and displayed on poster sites around Melbourne.

The CLIMARTE Poster Project is supported by the City of Melbourne 2016 arts grants program, the Purves Environmental Fund, The University of Melbourne Carlton Connect Initiative, and Plakkit.

Image courtesy of Kate Daw.

Elemental – an arts and ecology reader

news

9780993219207-251x355Gaia Project is a publishing and curatorial initiative which operates at the intersection of Art and Ecology – or indeed, in that poetic space where Art becomes Ecology, and where Ecology becomes Art.

Elemental is an ‘introductory reader’, comprising a unique collection of essays by some of the world’s leading artists, activists, curators and writers currently working in the expansive, interdisciplinary field of arts and ecology. The book presents critical reflections, and philosophies on a variety of eco-art practices and methodologies.

Subjects areas include: New Materialism, socially-engaged ecosystem restoration, the legal ‘Rights of Nature’, and ecology in theatre and performance art.

The symbiotic environmental, social and economic crises of our era (Climate Change being one significant symptom) have now emerged as a poignant and critically relevant presence throughout culture globally. It is therefore timely and vital that these essays of vision, hope and solidarity are being published.

See more at: http://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/elemental-an-arts-and-ecology-reader-gaia-project/

The Re:NEW Festival: a month-long celebration of Creative Reuse, Sustainability, and Transformation happening September 9–October 9, 2016.

Open Calls

As Pittsburgh experiences a resurgence and addresses continuous, equitable improvement, we present the Re:NEW Festival, a collaborative, brand new endeavor, bringing together the city’s diverse and forward-thinking arts and culture, creative industries, and sustainable technologies.

Festival visitors will witness the North American premiere of Drap-Art, the International Festival of Recycling Art, held annually in Barcelona. This premiere in the PPG Wintergarden will set the stage for diverse programs all month long: exhibits in alternative venues, music showcases, eco-tours, markets featuring upcycled goods, hands-on workshops, education, films, performances, and environmental exhibits.

The Re:NEW Festival is a collaborative effort of a multi-sector group of civic leaders instrumental in the city’s resurgence: Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Sustainable Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Resources Council, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, VisitPITTSBURGH, and the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.

Get Involved

Re:NEW Festival programming includes art exhibitions, markets of artwork and goods made of upcycled materials, workshops, performances, talks and tours, vendor markets, and satellite programs at diverse organizations around the city. Artists may apply to exhibit work or be a market vendor, organizations may apply to present programming or may become a festival sponsor, and the festival is looking for volunteers.

In addition to these opportunities, organizations and artists have the option to submit a community event for possible inclusion on the Re:NEW Festival calendar of events.

Apply

The Re:NEW Festival seeks submissions from artists, performers, craftspeople and organizations that explore the themes of creative reuse, transformation and sustainability in thoughtful, engaging, and diverse ways. We have two Calls for Artists and one Call for Organizations, and a Market Vendor Application.

Artists & Performers
Organizations
Vendors

Submit a Community Event

If you or your organization has an event, workshop, lecture, educational program, or other activity occurring September 9 – October 9, 2016 that incorporates themes of creative reuse, sustainability, or transformation, you can submit your event for possible inclusion on the Re:NEW Festival calendar of events. Note that all event submissions are subject to staff review.

SUBMIT AN EVENT

Chicago Green Theatre Alliance Meeting + Happy Hour

news

RSVP Today!

Chicago Green Theatre Alliance Meeting + Happy Hour
Monday, May 16, 6:30-8 P.M.

Writers Theatre, 325 Tudor Ct. in Glencoe

Join us for the the next meeting of the Chicago Green Theatre Alliance at the brand new Writers Theatre space in Glencoe! We’ll get a special tour of their new green theatre, the committees will meet, we’ll gather as a full group to hear guest presenter Dot Coyle from Coyle&Herr, and report out on projects, and hang out for a happy hour after the meeting before catching the train back to the city! Read the Agenda.

Click Here to RSVP.

Follow us on Twitter @ChiGreenTheatre and use the hashtag #chigreentheatre to share your greening efforts!

2nd Annual Chicago Green Theatre Alliance E-Waste and Textile Drive

Thursday, May 26

Steppenwolf Garage Theatre and Parking Lot, 1624 N. Halsted

E-Waste Drive (In the Parking Lot)
10AM – 3PM
Time to clean out all that old electronic stuff if the back hall closet.
Download and share the E-Waste Drive Flyer at your theatre

Textile Drive (In the Garage Theatre)
9AM – Noon (Textile Drop Off)
12 – 4PM (Costume Exchange)
We’re coming together to recycle costumes and textiles, allowing large theatres to cull their costume inventory and affording smaller companies the opportunity to bulk up their stock at no cost!

Download and share the Textile Drive flyer at your theatre

Please RSVP and let us know if you’re planning on dropping off or exchanging items!

 

OPEN CALL ‘Feeding the Insatiable’ a conference and creative summit on Arts and Energy – EXTENDED DEADLINE

Open Calls

Call for proposals ‘Feeding the Insatiable’ a conference and creative summit EXTENDED DEADLINE

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS 22.00 GMT Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Schumacher College, RegenSW and the art.earth network invite you to submit a proposal for participation to the forthcoming summit Feeding the Insatiable to be held November 9-11, 2016 at Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK.  This event is aimed at academics, artists, engineers, policy-makers, and anyone with an interest in renewable energy. More detailed information can be found at feedingtheinsatiable.info.

Although we received many excellent proposals for the original deadline on May 8, we have learnt that the word had not spread quite as far and wide as we’d thought. We have decided to extend the deadline to give everyone a chance to put their ideas forward.

Scope

A focus on all manner of energy generation through creative intervention and invention and new approaches to scientific enquiry including the quirky, the impossible, the micro and the personal.  Encouraging debate – practical, philosophical, metaphysical, and theoretical – bringing creative minds from many disciplines to bear on these pressing issues.

We explore ways in which creative makers and enquirers –– artists, scientists, philosophers, theorists and others –– can increasingly play a part in moving rather than cajoling, inspiring rather than scaring, succouring rather than scourging. The impassioned voice has an essential role to play in shifting the inert and entrenched thinking about how we live in the world, how we consume its resources and how we subvert and circumvent monolithic thinking. The danger lies not in those with abrasively negative views (as panic leads to stridency bordering on the absurd and numbers inevitably dwindle to irrelevancy under the growing weight of evidence), but those who have no views at all.

Topics of interest

Not intended to be proscriptive or prescriptive, this list of topics suggests the areas we are likely to explore. However we are open to all relevant ideas, from the philosophical to the most practical and pragmatic.

  • visioning change
  • imaginative and invented narratives and technologies
  • micro-generation and body-derived energy
  • plant and other organic power generators
  • transformational potential of art
  • beyond communication
  • energy and metaphor
  • message and instrumentalisation
  • slow art, process
  • non-literal big data visualisation
  • the artist and the engineer
  • envisioning the profound
  • aesthetics of art/science
  • using imagination for social change
  • emotion / science
  • sensible / actual
  • new ways of seeing
  • new ways of knowing
  • evolving meaning
  • celebrating authenticity and ethos
  • energy in the animal world
  • exploring chasms between artists and industry
  • energy futures and questions of design
  • ethnographics, big data, climate change, understanding

The deadline for submission is 22.00 GMT on Wednesday May 18, 2016.

We are requesting 250-word abstracts or outlines, which must be submitted through the event website at http://feedingtheinsatiable.info/take-part/

We are unable to accept any submissions after the deadline.

For more detailed information please visit www.feedingtheinsatiable.info

Alice White Exhibition at the ZSL London Zoo Aquarium

news

ZSL London Zoo Aquarium from April 29th until July 30th, little fish2016

Alice White is a professional Oil Painter, born and bred in London. Her solo show, entitled ‘A New Wave’ documented her year’s residency as Artist for Animals at ZSL London Zoo. Her ongoing project, entitled ‘A New Wave: Art and Conservation Science’, seeks to translate the valuable work undertaken by those dedicated to the field of marine conservation science into easily accessible, visual forms which are designed toeducate and inspire the public.

Recent group shows include the RSMA Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. She has also exhibited at the Music Room in Mayfair, Kingly Court in Carnaby Street, and the Affordable Art Fair in New York and London.

Creative Research: alicewhiteartblog.blogspot.co.uk
Portfolio: www.alicewhiteart.com

Opportunity: Summer Festivals Production Assistant

Creative Carbon Scotland, Open Calls

This post comes from Creative Carbon Scotland

Please note: this opportunity is only open to current undergraduates, Masters students, or recent graduates (2 years) of the University of Edinburgh. The application must be completed through their online careers portal and the closing date for applications is 10am on Friday 13th May.

We are currently offering a paid summer internship position to help develop and implement an industry-focussed programme of work to improve the environmental sustainability of the arts and cultural festivals in Edinburgh. Helping to deliver the Edinburgh Fringe Sustainable Practice Award and ceremony, the Fringe Participants Programme environmental sustainability events, Green Teases and the Green Arts Initiative, this is a unique opportunity to make real change in a dynamic and exciting environment!

This opportunity partners with the Center for Sustainable Practice in the arts, Festivals Edinburgh, and the 12 Edinburgh Festivals, including the summer festivals:

  • Edinburgh International Film Festival
  • Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  • Edinburgh Art Festival
  • Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
  • Edinburgh International Festival
  • Edinburgh Festival Fringe
  • Edinburgh International Book Festival
  • Edinburgh Mela

Job Details

Job Title: Creative Carbon Scotland Santander Internship – Summer Festivals Production Assistant

Hours: 35 hours per week with a degree of flexibility on both sides, as evening and weekend work will be required during the Summer Festivals and busy periods may call for extra hours, with time taken off in lieu during quieter periods. Likely to take the form of 35 h p/w over July and August, with 3 days p/w over June and September.

Salary: £1,099 per month (£7.85/hour).

Holidays: 5 days plus 1 public holiday to be taken at times agreed with the Projects & Festivals Environmental Sustainability Officer

Place of work: Nominally based at Waverley Court, East Market Street, Edinburgh, but working from home and remotely will be required.

Contract and notice period: This is a fixed term contract from 13 June until 9 September 2016.

For more information and how to apply, please go through the University of Edinburgh’s online careers portal. The closing date for applications is 10am on Friday 13th May.

The post Opportunity: Summer Festivals Production Assistant appeared first on Creative Carbon Scotland.

———-

Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

Powered by WPeMatico