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Come and join us anytime between 3pm and 7pm for May’s Green Sunday at Arcola Theatre. It’s free to attend and everyone is welcome. This month we are looking at urban regeneration – from the Olympics to roof gardens. With special film screenings, lively debate, Kabula dancing and the chance to picnic near the Olympic Join us at the launch of Arcola’s Green Sundays, more details at www.arcolaenergy.com. Download full Winter/Spring 2008 Season Brochure Now: http://www.arcolatheatre.com/SHARE/Arcola_Winter_2009.pdf The Water’s Edge 3-28 Feb by Theresa Rebeck A modern Greek tragedy that explodes the American family from within. With Madeleine Potter, Robert Cavanah, Mark Field, Cressida Trew and Kate Let’s face the music and dance… The papers are awash with stories of economic disaster, with images of bankers losing their jobs, empty shelves at Woolworths, and gloom and doom stories about what is still to come… Times are indeed difficult but I believe the challenge we face economically can, and should, benefit the environment, Welcome to the eco-cultural frontier… Launched January 2008, this blog charts the progress of Arcola Energy and greening of the Arts in general. A forum for sharing ideas between those directly involved at Arcola, those working on similar initiatives elsewhere and those who want to know more. You are invited to read and contribute, real-time Dr Ben Todd, Executive Director at Arcola Theatre, proudly collected The Green Award on behalf of Arcola Energy at the Tenth Growing Business Awards ceremony held on the 27th of November. This new Award is made to a company that has made the most significant and measurable changes to its environmental performance in the past The Carbon Trust (www.carbontrust.co.uk) has some excellent information on low energy lighting solutions. See: www.carbontrust.co.uk/publications/publicationdetail?productid=CTV021 Spend some time on the website - there is a huge amount of relevant information. Much of the information requested by the arts sector is already there… There are significant issues with widespread adoption of bio-fuels from energy crops (i.e. growing wood or oil seed specifically to burn it). See for example the Friends of the Earth campiagn (www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/biodiversity/press_for_change/biofuels/index.html). However this does not mean that we cannot make better use of waste materials. Effectively we are considering incineration of selected The second meeting Dalston Creative Futures has been held on Wednesday, 23rd at Arcola. Topic’ for this meeting was the Olympics. Hardian Garrard, the Culture Lead for the 5 Host Boroughs (for the Cultural Olympiad) has given an informal presentation on visions and emerging plans for a major cultural festival in East London (incl. the At PLASA 2008 the Greening London Theatres Plan was finally launched, with all important endorsement from Mayor Boris Johnson. We at Arcola are delighted to see the plan launched and look forward to working with all involved to drive delivery. Full press release below. Download the plan and carbon calculator here: |
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