Workshops on sustainable touring 20.4.2023 during Oh My Puppets! -festival
Aura of Puppets hosts a seminar on sustainable touring practices on Thursday 20 April 2023 at the Oh My Puppets! mini festival for contemporary Puppetry in Helsinki.
The seminar is also a kick-off event for an EU-funded project IMPULSE! – New Focus on Puppetry and Visual Theatre
The two-part seminar takes place in The Performance Arts Centre – Eskus (Kaasutehtaankatu 1/33) next to the festival venue Cirko in Suvilahti and is divided in to two workshops that can be attended also online.
The first part of the event is directed for Artists and the other part for presenters and producers.
The workshops are conducted by a sustainability expert Carolina Ortega.
Sustainable touring workshops (1,5h each).
Artists’ perspective on touring 14:00–15:30 EET
Introduction to Sustainability Lab project and it’s Toolbox
The Sustainability Lab aims is to increase literacy around sustainability in the performing arts, specifically with regards to touring, and to provide practical tips that help you to reduce the environmental impact of touring.
The Toolbox breaks down recommendations to practical tips. It covers various areas of impact and addresses various target groups
Green riders, calculators, and other aspects of touring that cannot be measured directly
Residencies and working possibilities while on tour
Discussion around touring practices and challenges (30min)
Perspective for producers, presenters and venues 15:30-17:00 EET
Introduction to Sustainability Lab project and it’s Toolbox
The project aim is to increase literacy around sustainability in the performing arts, specifically with regards to touring, and to provide practical tips that help you to reduce the environmental impact of touring.
The responsibilities and possibilities or venues
Discussion around touring practices, ideas and challenges (30min)
Attending the event
The workshops are free of charge and open for all artists working in perforative arts, theatre, puppetry or elsewhere. We also encourage festival presenters, producers and venues to attend the workshop.
As the venue has limited space, we encourage everyone to fill out the attendance form by 19 April 2023 here. There will be coffee and small snacks served as well.
Sign up for the seminar here
About our guest
CAROLINA ORTEGA is a Venezuelan performance maker and curator. She studied Theatre direction and dramaturgy ’MA Text & Performance’ at RADA (London) and Documentary and Biographic Theatre Direction and Dramaturgy at Universität der Künste Berlin.
She worked as curator for CASA Latin American Theatre Festival between 2009-12 and Curating Producer at the Bush Theatre in 2012 (London). She was co-artistic director of FLIGHT OF THE ESCALES between 2013-2018 and since then, runs her own theatre company, TUCAN RIOT.
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