ashdenizen: August 2008

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other news:

Kieran Lynn wins the Nick Darke Award for his play Wild Fish

The Man Who Planted Trees wins 2012 Award for Sustainable Production at the Edinburgh Fringe

'Mediating Change ' panels on culture and climate change now podcasts online. PDF of document available here.

Sustainable Abilities online resource supporting arts working with climate change is launched

Julie's Bicycle reports on carbon impacts of touring & launches theatre plan - here

Canadian Theatre Review focuses on 'Theatre in an Age of Eco-Crisis'

festivals, events, seminars and talks:

The Study Sessions: Ecosophy Reading Group - 6 February - 3 April

Burning Ice #6 - When Animals Look Back, Kaaitheater Festival - 25-29 March

Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology - 26 March

conferences and symposia:

ASLE-UKI Symposium: Literature and Sustainability - 15 March 2013

Unruly Creatures - 23 April, 2013

reading material:

The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson

Performance Research and Research in Drama Education have ecology-themed issues

Readings in Performance Ecology by Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May

The Oil Road by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

Beautiful Trouble. A Toolbox for Revolution by Andrew Boyd and David Oswald Mitchell

Dark Mountain 3 edited by Paul Kingsnorth, Dougald Hine and Adrienne Odasso

new productions:

In the Beginning Was the End - 28 January - 30 March

Above Me the Wide Blue Sky - 28 February - 28 March

The Low Road 21 March - 11 May

AD2050 Touring Spring 2013

Tate à Tate audio tour downloads

opportunities and calls for proposals:

Environmental Art Festival Scotland ideas wanted - deadline 22 March, 2013

Escalator Retreat: Tracing the Tacit - call for proposals - deadline 25 March, 2013

Call for papers: ASLE-UKI 2013 Biennial Conference, deadline 31 March 2013

Upload photos and/or send a bottle of seawater - deadline 15 December 2013 for exhibit in March 2014

Nick Darke Award 2013 submissions until 29 April 2013

exhibitions:

Museum of Water - 12-16 March

Ecologies of Value 26 January - 7 April 2013

Collaborative Effects 26 January - 7 April, 2013

Aquatopia 20 July - 22 September 2013

our pick of podcasts, videos and essays - latest additions:

Wendell Berry : "It All Turns on Affection"

Sensory Worlds keynote speech David Abram, podcast

RANE lectures - Paul Kingsnorth

Interviews with 21 authors on sustainability

TJDemos: Gardens Beyond Eden

TJ Demos: Art After Nature, the post-natural condition

other news:

Arts Council England embeds environmental sustainability into major funding agreements

Emergence: the document! Downloadable document featuring 20 talks on sustainability and the arts.

Script for The Last Cuckoo available as a free e-book

Ashden Directory interview:

Steve Waters and The Contingency Plan

Ashden Directory report:
How to green your theatre

Ashden Directory DVD:
Six Ways to look at climate change and theatre

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