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!
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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):
THE SCHOOL OF ENOUGH – selected artists
We are happy to announce the four selected applications for the School of Enough programme of our TBG partner, Rosendal Theater, which will run from November 2024 until October 2026.
A total of 28 project applications have been received, from 14 different countries. We were impressed by the quality and the relevance of the projects we received and wished we’d have had the means to invite at least twice as many to take part in the programme! We hope to be able to involve the applicants who have not been selected to some of the activities and will be working towards building up our capacities and scope in order to enable this.
Selected artists of The Big Green project yearly theme ‘SOIL’
Soil is one of the most sensitive and large organs on this planet. Disturbed ecosystems as well as disturbed balances are reflected in its deteriorating quality. Polluted soils, deforestation, degraded soil, conflict over resources, and agricultural monoculture: a lot of the climate change processes that are occurring can be linked to soil. At the same time, soil stores more than three times the amount of carbon than there is present in the atmosphere. Wetlands can be more effective carbon sinks than forests and a thriving soil improves the resilience against climate change, biodiversity and water quality.
TBG Food for Thought: ‘For me, to live sustainable means to slow down, look around, appreciate what I have and what surrounds me’
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 Egle Kryzanauskaite’s (zusa) thoughts:
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:
Open call for Artists – The Big Green
Artists based in Hungary are invited to create a new artwork for SOIL, a project under The Big Green initiative, wherein works will be exclusively showcased within their respective countries and collectively presented digitally at the Festival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus in September 2025.
Sustainable Communications: the Art of Collaboration in the Big Green Project
The Big Green is a four-year project that unites environmentally engaged artists under a large-scale umbrella initiative and experiments with innovative ways of using art to promote sustainability.