Sustainable Visual Arts Morning Coffee 5.12.2024
We organise Sustainable Visual Arts Morning Coffee meetings on the first Thursday of every month from 9-10 am at Zoom. You are more than welcome to join us, even if you are not a member of the Sustainable Visual Arts Network.
Anyone interested in sustainability issues in the visual arts is welcome to attend the meetings.
This year’s last morning coffee meeting will feature Rogério Nuno Costa who introduces European STAGES project.
STAGES (Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift) is an ambitious sustainable theatre experiment to re-imagine how the cultural sector interacts with the concept of sustainability. From 2022-2025, 14 influential theatre and academic organisations, including a European theatre network, will collaborate and tour urgent new performances on the climate crisis. What makes STAGES unique is that no people or items will move as part of the tour, even as it travels to stages around Europe and as far afield as Taiwan.
In addition, each partner venue will use lessons from ‘Doughnut Economics’ to analyse and transform their buildings and working practices – and experiment with new ways of making theatre alongside scientists and audiences.
Rogério Nuno Costa is Helsinki-based performance artist, theatre director, writer, researcher, pedagogue and curator from Portugal. His para-artistic work is of a hybrid and cross-disciplinary nature, exploring and problematising the fields of performing arts and literature at their intersections with philosophy, art theory, communication sciences and documentation practices. Following an invitation by Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Portugal), he joined the project STAGES in 2023, operating as artist/researcher within the segment “Germinations”.
We will send a link to Zoom to those who register in advance via mail.
You are warmly welcome!
The Sustainable Visual Arts Network is a peer-to-peer network that aims to support and strengthen the competence of communities and organisations in the visual arts field on issues related to the sustainability transition. The network shares information on sustainability through network meetings and vihreataide.fi website. IHME Helsinki is the chair organization of the network during 2024.