We are delighted to welcome Laura Sedgwick to our winter webinar programme, where she will lead a session on sustainable touring. Laura is the producer for Theatre Green Book, an international initiative that supports the theatre and performance arts industry to work towards a greener future.
Theatre Green Book is an international initiative, originally started in the UK, which provides free-to-use resources to the theatre sector through: tools, trackers, guidance, and a shared language for the theatre and performing arts industry to practically make changes to work towards a greener future.
Theatre Green Book is divided into three areas: Productions, Operations and Buildings, and offers tools for planning and change-making in each area, along with free training webinars, videos on how to get started and opportunity for organisations of all sizes to sign up and self-certify their progress. This allows organisations to track their step-by-step progress through Basic, Intermediate and Advance, and celebrate milestones and achievements with colleagues, co-producers and audiences.
A key element of Theatre Green Book is the recognition that all roles involved in the making of a production have a key part to play. One of the sector’s many strengths is how it works together, both between organisations but especially between its workers. With freelancers making up 70% of the UK theatre sector they play a critical role moving between organisations, taking their expertise with them. This strength has been vital to the development of Theatre Green Book: larger organisations can share their resources, while smaller organisations and individuals offer nimble and innovative practices.
One key area of this sharing has been in the Theatre Green Book toolkits, where sector-specific companies have been able to come together into working groups, for example the recent rural touring toolkit, and the long-standing Outdoor/site-specific and Urban Arts Festivals toolkits. These toolkits are a reflection that both the theatre/performing arts sector, and sustainable guidance is always changing and adapting. We encourage performance makers of all genres, scales and styles to get in touch with any case studies or sustainability practices to continue this sharing!
To find out more about Theatre Green Book, visit theatregreenbook.com
Webinar: Theatre Green Book
Join us for an introduction and discussion on sustainable touring and outdoor live performance with Laura Sedgwick | Thursday 27 November