🏡Ecovillages and similar communities are places where people experiment with sustainable living. More often than not, they are home to creatives. Typically, creative visioning is what drives their development in the first place, and they often use art and culture to connect with their neighbours and a wider public. For example, Green Academy Episode 4 features community design researcher Rui Vasques and the Eco Campus of 🌎Live With Earth Association (www.livewithearth.org)🌎 in Portugal. What is your experience of eco-communities as creative spaces? What questions would you like to ask about the topic?
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Green Academy Seminar Series – Episode 4
The Colours of Our Earth: Building an Eco-arts Community from the Ground – with Rui Vasques
The second Green Academy of season 2024–25, with a focus on soil!
A long journey of the Green E.Th.I.Cs Project – Green Experience Through Theatre Inspiring Communities
The partners of the Green E.Th.I.Cs project began this journey together nearly three years ago. During this time, each of us has dedicated countless hours to imagining, writing, rehearsing, and preparing for the final presentations and games. We’ve also worked to spread the message of our project: the urgent need to combat climate change. Each artistic partner of the Green E.Th.I.Cs project is preparing a similar performance based on the same model and with the same goal: raising awareness among different groups of people about climate change through theater and a game like the “Goose Game.” Financed by the European Union, there are eighteen artistic groups from twelve European nations participating in this initiative. Over the next few months, each of these groups begins to present their final performances and games to children and adults, in both indoor and outdoor spaces, across different countries in Europe. In this edition, we’ll be sharing some of these experiences. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
LeCAKE Train – Ending a project with many new beginnings
LeCAKE: Common Art Knowledge Europe was a project supported by Erasmus+ that focused on the role of the cultural sector in the ecological transition. Running for two years, from October 2022 – October 2024, the project united seven cultural organisations and a think tank to build a common base of knowledge, skills and resources. The project had four phases, moving from knowledge-creation towards hands-on, practical models, methods and tools. Máté Tenke, former project manager and head of sustainability team at Pro Progressione share with us his experiences of the project:
TBG Food for Thought: ‘the world must develop sustainably if we are all to survive’
With our flagship project, The Big Green, we are bringing environmentally-engaged artists under one large-scale umbrella initiative and experiment with innovative ways of using art to promote sustainability. But what does it mean for us on a personal level? We asked our partners to write us a few lines about what art and sustainability and their relationship mean to them. Now, let us share the thoughts of Simana Markovska (Interpret Europe):
LIFE Bauhausing Europe – ideas contest – award ceremony
Today was a day of celebration for the Bethlen Téri Színház as we officially announced the results of our LIFE Bauhausing Europe project’s Ideas Contest in Erzsébetváros. A special feature of the competition was that, in addition to the young Hungarian architects, a Spanish team also submitted an entry, and their idea won them third place.
CLICA – exhibition and closing event
Let’s meet at the exhibition and closing event of our Young Climate Campaigners (CLICA) project on 26 September 2024, at Gólya!
TBG Food for Thought: The right to explore nature as “everyman’s right” – shouldn’ it be universal?
With our flagship project, The Big Green, we are bringing environmentally-engaged artists under one large-scale umbrella initiative and experiment with innovative ways of using art to promote sustainability. But what does it mean for us on a personal level? We asked our partners to write us a few lines about what art and sustainability and their relationship mean to them. First, Silja Suntola’s (XAMK) thoughts:
Climate Changer Premiere
As an important step of our Green E.Th.I.Cs project, we will present our Climate Changer performance at ÖrkényKÖZ on 6 June. If you are curious to see how a bicycle participates in our theatre board game, meet us at the ÖrkényKÖZ!
The European Journey of Teatro a Pedali
Green E.Th.I.Cs is not only a great cultural project involving 18 partners from 12 countries to spread consciousness about climate change through art and theatre, but it’s also a guide to living theatre and cultural events in a different way — a GREEN WAY.