The PlanetShifter.com Interview with Ian Garrett, Executive Director: The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, Los Angeles | www.planetshifter.com

Where are you? In the present? In the future? See my lament for clues:
Things only happen here to make what happens next.
Is LinkedIn a viable artistic community in your opinion? How would you improve it?
I don’t think so, and I don’t think i wish it to be. I don’t know if LinkedIn represents a community [...]

Code Green

A Comparative Look at Worldwide Cultural Policies for Green Events
by Sam Goldblatt
as published in the CSPA Quaterly/Fall 2009
In the Fall of 2008, London and New York, the two greatest theatre cities of the western world, simultaneously announced campaigns for reducing the negative environmental impacts of the respective theatre industries in the West End and [...]

CSPA Quarterly

The second edition of the CSPA Quarterly is close to publication! It will be available by the end of the month. The second issue focuses on international eco-policy; policy’s effect on the arts, and arts’ effect on policy. Events and installations from COP15 will be featured, including the CO2 Cube, the Seven Meters installations leading [...]

Land Art Internet Coma

Thanksgiving long past, and holiday feasts ahead, but I’m already stuffed, thank you, with this years’ steady eco-art diet of Land Art adventures and COP15 coverage. It’s hard not to feel overwhelmed with art-nerd-glee. There is such a thing as an information coma, I swear.
The art-and-landscape dishes started churning out of the Nevada Museum [...]

#COP15 Political Wrap Up

It is now December 19th, the day after COP15 was intended to end. It didn’t though. It went well on into the the night. I stayed up watching the live feed until a recess was called around 4 a.m. However, I was able to get the idea.
We’re not there… yet?
That is perhaps one of the [...]

CSPA December 09 Newsletter

On Friday we both head to Copenhagen for the New Life Copenhagen Festival, the arts festival surrounding COP15, which began on Monday. During our stay in Europe, we’ll also be checking in on Future Arcola and a project for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. December will be a very exciting, if not a bit chilly, month. [...]

Video Chat in Artistic Endeavors

It goes without saying that the travel associated with our artist endeavors is not the most sustainable. I’ve been to so many conferences this last year, mostly traveling by plane. Next week I’m off to Europe where I’ll be staying in Copenhagen for COP15 and Wooloo.org’s New Life Festival, but I’m also headed to London [...]

Community Supported Theater

A model we’ve been discussing for a while at the CSPA in regards to our producing partnerships, it’s exciting to see the idea of modeling a theater on a community agriculture model. Makes sense to us since we started trying to make it so that community wasn’t a dirty word in theater anymore.
To catch you [...]

CSPA Quarterly Available!

We are pleased to announce the first edition of the CSPA Quarterly! This edition of The Quarterly explores sustainable arts practices in performance, visual art & installation, green touring, and eco-policy. Articles include ‘Code Green: A Comparative Look at Worldwide Cultural Policies for Green Events,’ by Sam Goldblatt. This edition’s featured artist is Dianna Cohen, a [...]

CSPA October 09 Newsletter

Newsletter #3 is here! The quarterly is on its way out the door as well. Weve got a couple of very important events coming up as well and I hope youll join us for them. For those in technical theater, were helping Showman Fabricators with their Green Day 2009 at this years LDI conference in [...]

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