| January 5th, 2012 | April 30 – May 1, 2012
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A blended conference dedicated to providing tangible, practical strategies to implementing greener theater practices, ensuring theaters remain a vital part of our community.
Early bird discount through December 31 Discounts for members of MTA, TCG, and CSPA Register now Sponsor the SIT
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| October 22nd, 2011 | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA - May 31-June 3, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS
Ecology is at the heart of burgeoning creativity and interdisciplinary scholarship across the arts and humanities. This Symposium, together with the concurrent EMOS Playwrights’ Festival, invites artists, scholars and activists to share their work, ideas, and passions with one another and
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| April 8th, 2011 | Usually, when I’m at a conference, and everyone is standing in a circle and talking about what inspires them, the participants are barefoot. With dreadlocks. Also, someone is making a giant pot of beans in the next room. This was not that conference. This was the [read more]
| October 4th, 2010 | At the University of Oregon’s Miller Theatre Complex, May 24-June 3, 2012
CALL FOR SCRIPTS
First place Award: $1,000 and workshop production
Second place Award: $500 and workshop production
Honorable mentions: public staged reading
The Guidelines for Playwrights below describe the focus of the Festival. Please read. The Deadline for Submissions is July 1, 2011.
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| October 5th, 2009 | We sign up for 10:10
The Ashden Directory has signed up for 10:10, the collective campaign to reduce carbon emissions by 10% by the end of 2010.
Devised by the team behind Age of Stupid, 10:10 is
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| October 1st, 2009 | Theresa J. May, founder and artistic director of Earth Matters on Stage, and Wendy Arons, director of the Performance and Ecology Public Art Initiative have issued a call for papers for a jointly edited publication, Essays in Performance and Ecology to be published in 2011.
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| August 10th, 2009 |
We don’t have time to do environmental at that’s not functional.
– Brent Bucknum
In working on a Climate Clock for the San Jose Initiative, designer Brent Bucknam would often get into theoretical debates about the nature of art. His project partner, Brian Howe of greenmeme, would
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| June 21st, 2009 |
“Remember, if someone you don’t know very well is trying to get you to build a bomb, just say no!”
So speak the puppets of the Earth First! Roadshow.
At the recent Earth Matters On Stage EcoDrama symposium, PhD candidate Sarah Standing read a paper analyzing Earth First!
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| June 14th, 2009 |
It’s been more than a week since the final days of this year’s Earth Matters On Stage EcoDrama Symposium. I returned from Oregon to be immediately eaten alive by my other life: just coming up for air now and able to digest some of
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| June 6th, 2009 | The folks over at The Ashden Directory participated in this year’s Earth Matters on Stage at the University of Oregon from afar — an act borne of the desire to contribute to the conference/symposium without flying across the globe to do so.
Here is a DVD they produced in order to introduce their session.
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Welcome to the CSPA Quarterly 7 is now available
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Sustainability in Theater
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