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In the nation-state’s dream of a harmonious and developed future, migrant workers are often deemed objects that should be selected carefully and in service of the “host” nation only.

In the context of settler-colonialism, that imagined host nation is but an existential negation of the colonized nation(s) with migrants’ labour being used to fuel the engine of colonial extraction and expansion.

Against this backdrop, this course digs into the notions of migrant workers’ future, futurity, and futurism through the lens of performance exploring the possibility of emancipatory anticolonial and queer migrant workers’ futures.

Who might you be, my friend? Have you taken a migration journey? Are you a migrant? Have you migrated mainly to find jobs, for freedom, survival, fun, or  to escape endless struggles? Or is all of that true? Are you a migrant student, a refugee, a migrant teaching assistant, a migrant researcher, a seasonal migrant farmworker, or a caregiver? Are you native to your land taking care of it and considered a migrant worker on your  ancestral land by an illegitimate settler colonial state. Or a settler trying to navigate your way between the sense of guilt, responsibility, and (god forbid) denial? You could be none of these or a mixture of a few. Whoever you are, take this journey with us and all whose work is cited or presented in this course.

Upcoming event!

Join our upcoming event with Bullfrog Power!

Empowering Sustainability in the Arts: Bullfrog Power & Decarbonization Strategies

This webinar will explore how Bullfrog Power’s carbon offsets and green energy solutions can help different arts and creative cultural organizations reduce their environmental footprint and contribute to a more sustainable future. This presentation will focus on a brief history of Bullfrog Power, decarbonization solutions (RECs/RTCs, and carbon offsets), and then dive into a more in-depth breakdown of carbon offsets (what they are, best practices, and how they can help your organizations). Q&A included*

This webinar will be delivered in English, with bilingual (EN/FR) presentation materials, and French translation support as needed.

Date and time: Friday, March 21st, 1pm ETRegister here: https://shorturl.at/9l8LL

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Renforcer la durabilité dans les arts : la puissance et les compensations carbone de Bullfrog

Ce webinaire explorera comment les crédits carbone et les solutions d’énergie verte de Bullfrog Power peuvent aider différents organismes artistiques et culturels à réduire leur empreinte environnementale et à contribuer à un avenir plus durable. La présentation débutera par un bref historique de Bullfrog Power, puis abordera les solutions de décarbonisation (CER/RTC et compensations carbone) et enfin plongera dans une ventilation plus approfondie des compensations carbone (ce qu’elles sont, les meilleures pratiques et comment elles peuvent aider vos organisations). Une période de questions et réponses est également prévue.

Ce webinaire se déroulera en anglais, avec des documents de présentation bilingues (anglais/français) et une traduction en français si nécessaire.

Date et heure : vendredi 21 mars, 13h ET

Inscrivez-vous ici : https://shorturl.at/9l8LL

Open Call!

2025 Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants

The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) provides grants of up to $20,000 to environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.

The AWAW EAG supports environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement.

  • Projects should not only point at problems, but aim to engage an environmental issue at some scale.
  • Proposals should illustrate thorough consideration of a project’s ecological and social ethics.
  • Projects that explore interdependence, relationships, and systems through Indigenous and ancestral practices are encouraged to apply.

Applications are now open, and will close on Tuesday, April 15!⁠

Applicants Notified: August 2025


Info Session: Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants

March 12 | 2:00 PM – March 12 | 3:00 PM


For more information visit:  https://www.nyfa.org/awaw/

All questions should be directed to AWAW@nyfa.org

Start your application here!

Open Call for Lumiere 2025!

Pitch your BRILLIANT idea for Lumiere 2025


This is your chance to become a #LumiereDurham artist in 2025!

BRILLIANT offers anyone (aged 18+ and living in the UK) the chance to be part of the bold and ambitious programme for Lumiere 2025, exhibiting alongside internationally renowned artists. 

You don’t need to be an artist or have any previous experience to apply, just a BRILLIANT idea.
 
The national commissioning scheme aims to encourage creativity across the UK as well as highlight brilliant ideas from people living in or originally from North East England. 

Submission deadline: Sunday 23 March 2025, 23:59 GMT

BRILLIANT artists receive: 

  • A fee of up to £1,000 
  • Support from an Artichoke Producer and Production Manager to realise their BRILLIANT idea 
  • Production / materials / fabrication / installation costs up to £7,000 
  • Artichoke will pay for the costs of event management and security associated with your installation 
  • Bespoke professional development, including ongoing mentoring and advice after Lumiere 
  • An international platform to exhibit your artwork. Lumiere is attended by hundreds of thousands of people and receives significant coverage from local, national and international media 
  • Introduction to appropriate networks to support future exhibitions and showings of your artwork

For more information and to apply, visit www.Lumiere-Festival.com/Brilliant-2025

Celebrating Climate Theatre in NYC!

Join the Arts & Climate Initiative and the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts for an afternoon celebration of climate theatre in NYC. 

See readings of a few short plays. Hear from a panel of previous participants in our Climate Change Theatre Action festival (CCTA). Learn about theatre artists and organization in NYC engaging with the climate crisis. And cheer as we officially launch our latest anthology of short plays, All Good Things Must Begin, and announce the theme for our CCTA 2025 festival.

Refreshments will be served. Tickets are free but you must RSVP.

Saturday, March 1 · 4 – 5:30 pm EST

Location: Theatre Row

The Arts & Climate Initiative is located on the island of Manhattan in New York City, or what is traditionally known as Mannahatta. We acknowledge and pay our respect to the Lenape People who have stewarded this land and these waters through the generations. And we extend our respect to Indigenous People everywhere.

Fifteen European cultural networks SHIFT Culture eco-certificate

A year out from beginning the pilot SHIFT Culture eco-certificate with European cultural networks, our friends at Creative Carbon Scotland (CCS) together with their auditing partners, Netherlands-based, Green Leisure Group (GLG), are delighted to announce that 15 networks have achieved certification with a further network working towards it.

From CCS:

Participating networks have worked to implement the SHIFT eco-guidelines for cultural networks that were developed during the original SHIFT project. Each network has implemented the mandatory guidelines in their own network organisation, participated in peer audits with their fellow participants and attended a combined development workshop in Brussels. Finally, GLG has used the guidelines to audit each network, which assured the credibility and integrity of the certification process. The initial project was a collaboration between nine cultural network organisations, supported by CCS and in conjunction with GLG.

The guidelines implemented were developed and designed specifically for network organisations, which tend to be small in size but large in terms of influence and with most of their environmental impact stemming from travel. The buddy and peer audit system has connected networks with each other around climate action.

Delivering the eco-certificate in this pilot phase is and will continue to be a learning experience for all. Many participating organisations are stretched for capacity, but the eco-guidelines provide a clear framework for effective climate action that each organisation can build from. We’ve also learned about how networks working further afield are often working up close with issues of climate justice, which is a challenge we continue to think through together.

‘We’re proud to have supported all the SHIFT Culture networks in implementing the eco-guidelines they designed and in their journeys to eco-certification. They’ve met the challenge with all the hard work they’ve put into the process. It’s inspiring to see the practical steps forward they’ve taken and their support for each other along the way.’

Caro Overy, CCS Green Arts Manager

In 2024, we look forward to supporting the existing networks to implement optional guidelines from the framework and meet together again to review and strengthen the guidelines according to ongoing participant experience. We are also keen to bring more network organisations on board. Interested European organisations can contact Caro Overy – caro.overy@creativecarbonscotland.com – for more information.

Congratulations to the first group of SHIFT eco-certified cultural network organisations:

Read more about SHIFT Culture.

The post Fifteen European cultural networks achieve eco-certification appeared first on Creative Carbon Scotland.

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Sustainability in Lighting Design

Join Ian Garrett as he explores environmental sustainability in lighting design. This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the principles and techniques involved in creating efficient and sustainable lighting designs. We will discuss the types of lighting, the potential impacts of lighting on the environment, and the importance of energy efficiency. We will also provide practical advice on how to reduce energy costs and improve the environmental performance of lighting without compromising artistic integrity.

Joignez-vous à Ian Garrett alors qu’il explore la durabilité environnementale dans la conception d’éclairage. Cet atelier permettra aux participants de comprendre les principes et les techniques impliqués dans la création de conceptions d’éclairage efficaces et durables. Nous discuterons des types d’éclairage, des impacts potentiels de l’éclairage sur l’environnement et de l’importance de l’efficacité énergétique. Nous fournirons également des conseils pratiques sur la façon de réduire les coûts énergétiques et d’améliorer la performance environnementale de l’éclairage sans compromettre l’intégrité artistique.

There will be live English to French translation throughout.

La traduction simultanée de l’anglais vers le français sera disponible tout au long de l’événement.

Require any accessibility accommodations? Email gift@sustainablepractice.org before March 22nd, 2023 and we will be happy to accommodate you!

Il nous fera plaisir de vous offrir un soutien supplémentaire sur demande pour assurer l’accessibilité de l’événement. N’hésitez pas à contacter gift@sustainablepractice.org à cet effet avant le 22 mars 2023.

This event is made possible by the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Cet événement est rendu possible grâce à l’appui de Patrimoine Canada et du Conseil des arts du Canada.

Critical Stages/Scènes critiques: On Theatre and Ecology at Critical Junctions featuring many CSPA Contributors online now!

The initiative for this Special Issue of Critical Stages / Scènes critiques arises from our shared and sustained interest in the interdisciplinary, and, indeed, transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities that we have always perceived as a particularly compelling and dynamic site within which to formulate and locate our work. It is difficult to conceptualise how this might not be the case for socially-engaged scholarship and active citizenship, as the world is experiencing a climate crisis of extraordinary, and, indeed, dramatic – in all possible senses of the word – scale and iteration.

Vicky Angelaki and Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Editors for The IATC journal/Revue de l’AICT – December/Décembre 2022: Issue No 26

The latest edition of Critical Stages / Scènes critiques explores the intersection of ecology and theatre. Within this edition, you’ll find contributions from CSPA Staff and many friends of the CSPA!

Table of Contents of this Edition

Editorial Note: Transforming (Im)Possibilities to Realities / Note éditoriale : Transformer les (im)possibilités en réalités
Savas Patsalidis, Editor-in-Chief

Special Topic

On Theatre and Ecology at Critical Junctions

Guest Editors: Vicky Angelaki and Elizabeth Sakellaridou (Greece)

Essays

Editor: Yana Meerzon (Canada)

National Reports

Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)

Interviews

Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)

Performance Reviews

Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)

Book Reviews

Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)

Plays

Editor: Critical Stages/Scènes critiques

Focus: Ukraine

Editor: Critical Stages/Scènes critiques


CSPA Related Contributions

Global Networked Ecoscneography: Creating Sustainable Worlds for Theatre Though International Collaboration.
  • CSPA Director Ian Garrett is co-author with collaborators Tessa Rixon and Tanja Beer
By Tessa Rixon*Ian Garrett**Tanja Beer***

“Mundane” Performance: Theatre Outdoors and Earthly Pleasures
  • Rising CSPA Quarterly Editor Evelyn O’Malley is co-author with collaborators Cathy turner and Giselle Garcia on
by Evelyn O’Malley*Cathy Turner**Giselle Garcia***

Ecodramaturgy and the Genesis of the EMOS Ecodrama Festival
  • Friend of the CSPA, Theresa J. May
Theresa May*

Town Hall
  • Friend of the CSPA and Co-founder of the Climate Change Theatre Action Caridad Svich
Caridad Svich*

About the Editors

*Vicky Angelaki is Professor in English Literature at Mid Sweden University (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences). She was previously based in the United Kingdom, where she held full-time, permanent roles at Birmingham City University; University of Birmingham; University of Reading. Major publications include the monographs Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire (2022); Theatre & Environment (2019); Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis (2017); The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange (2012) and the edited collection Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground (2013; 2016). She co-edits the series Adaptation in Theatre and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, with Kara Reilly). She is currently completing the research project Performing Interspaces: Social Fluidities in Contemporary Theatre, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Sweden). The project will result in an Open Access monograph, contracted with Palgrave Macmillan/Springer. 

**Elizabeth Sakellaridou is Professor Emerita of Theatre Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has taught and lectured widely on contemporary theatre in various academic institutions in Greece, elsewhere in Europe, and in the USA. She has published on contemporary British and European theatre, classical and modern Greek theatre, performance theory, cultural and gender studies, and, more recently, the hybrid space of performance phenomenology. Her publications include Pinter’s Female PortraitsContemporary Women’s Theatre (in Greek); Theatre, Aesthetics, Politics (in Greek); and numerous articles and chapters published in international journals and collected volumes respectively. She is also a critic, dramaturg and translator of dramatic works from English into Greek and vice versa.

Climate Anxiety to Climate Action with and through the Arts – Webinars with CSPA Director Ian Garrett

Tuesdays June 30th and July 7th 7:00-8:30 pm Mountain – log on at 6:45 pm

Presented by the Boulder County Arts Alliance in collaboration with EcoArts Connections and the Arbor Institute.

For more information and registration for webinar links:

https://www.bouldercountyarts.org/workshops/business-of-arts

Webinar information:

Tuesday, June 30th, 7:00-8:30 pm – Sustainability and the Arts for the Uninitiated

For arts makers, administrators, curators, producers, presenters, funders, policy makers, and others, this webinar will provide a forum for recognizing the individual realities of cultural workers and help to dispel myths, assuage fears, and contextualize how to start thinking about eco-positive change across all aspects of the arts.

Read more https://www.bouldercountyarts.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=202

Tuesday, July 7th, 7:00-8:30 pm – Building a Critical Community of Sustainable Arts Practitioners

For cultural workers and others interested in gaining a broad view of sustainable initiatives in the cultural sector internationally through the lens of the Boulder community. It will begin to establish our shared value system, as well as connect you to available tools, resources, and ways to build the networks of support we need to integrate the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and other principles into our work, together.

Read more: https://www.bouldercountyarts.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=203

Read more about Ian Garrett

Climate Change Theatre Action 2019 is Just around the Corner!

WE’RE DOING IT AGAIN!

Climate Change Theatre Action 2019 is just around the corner. Once again, we’re bringing 50 new climate change plays by 50 international playwrights into the world. We’re lighting the way and imagining together how to create the just and sustainable future we all deserve.

To get the project underway, we need to raise $15,000 by December 13th – our most ambitious campaign yet! – so we can commission our playwrights. We would love for you to become part of this amazing community of changemakers. Can you chip in $10, $25, $50 or more? Every contribution level gets you some cool perks that we have lovingly put together for you as an expression of our gratitude.

This is an all-or-nothing deal: either we reach or goal, or we get no money at all. Please contribute generously and help us spread the word by sharing this campaign with your networks. Are you with us?

I'M WITH YOU