Crystal Field, the artistic director of Theater for the New City, is thrilled. Under Field’s direction, TNC has been a pioneer in the environmental movement for over 15 years, and she remembers when environmental issues were taboo. “When we wrote street-theater songs about organic food and rejecting genetically modified foods
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“I wasn’t green, but I’m organized,” says Wicked Company Manager Susan Sampliner. ”I’m a manager.” When Sampliner signed on to the Stephen Schwartz musical in 2003, little did she know that environmental thinking would become an integral part of her work in the arts. But the term ‘carbon footprint’, alongside terms like ‘places’ http://vimeo.com/user1428
I went to Manchester to visit Futuresonic yesterday and joined in Amy Balkin’s artwork Reading the IPCC’s Fourt Assessment on Climate Change outside the Centre for the Urban Built Environment. Afterwards I spoke to Amy Balkin about her work there:
Later today I’ll be putting up our own review of Steve Waters’ new double-bill of plays about climate change The Contingency Plan, but in the meantime take theatre critic and environmental blogger’s Robert Butler of the Ashden Directory’s word forf it. These plays, he says, are “terrific”. If there’s one I’ve just posted an interview that Caleb Klaces did with Leo Murray for on the main RSA Arts & Ecology website. Murray did the clever little viral video Wake Up Freak Out – Then Get a Grip which has been doing the rounds on the net. Art Artist Amy Balkin is looking for volunteers to help her at Futuresonic in May for a piece about climate change. For details see here. From Live Design Online We asked readers what they’re doing to be green, whether in design, manufacturing, or just life in general. Here’s what Monty McWilliams at Apollo Design Technology had to say: “Apollo has obviously gone green in a big way by switching our gobo production process from chemical etching to clean laser technology. Please Theatre and the Environment Panel (And an excerpt of a work in progress) Martin E. Segal Theatre Center The CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016-4309 April 23rd, 2009, 6:30 pm Join us on the evening after Earth Day to explore what theatre artists and production staff are doing to meet the This is my blatant call to artists to use the Fourth Plinth – particularly with respect to bringing fresh ways of exploring social issues in what you could argue is the country’s most central space of debate – Trafalgar Square. I’m not at all sure I want to see myself |
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