STAGING SUSTAINABILITY
Arts Community Culture Environment
About the Conference
April 20-22 2011
York University
Toronto, Canada
How can we produce art that reflects, celebrates, critiques and advances the cultural life of our community without contributing to the destruction of the setting that inspires these artistic endeavours?
The goal of the Staging Sustainability conference is to create an opportunity for artists and those who support the arts in a myriad of ways – from scholars, critics, producers and designers to policy-makers, industry and government – to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the issues and challenges associated with the creation of environmentally sustainable arts practice and performance.
To borrow a phrase from the art critic, author, curator and environmentalist John Grande, we want to foster discussions that will “engage the borderline between art and what is perhaps the most pressing global concern in the new millennium – the quality and sustainability of the environment.”
The conference will consider how the arts engage questions of sustainability from a dual vantage point: cultural and ecological. Thus, the conference encourages an approach to sustainability that encompasses aspects of subjectivity with respect to community and identity.
Staging Sustainability is produced and presented by the Faculty of Fine Arts, York University with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Program
The Staging Sustainability conference will feature keynote presentations, roundtables, workshops and panels, framed by performances and exhibitions
Confirmed presenters include:
David Buckland, Founder and Director, Cape Farewell
Chris Coleman, Artistic Director, Portland Center Stage, Oregon
Ian Garrett, Executive Director, The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, Los Angeles
Theresa May, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Oregon; Artistic Director, Earth Matters on Stage/Ecodrama Playwrights Festival
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Industry participants include:
Erikson Pro/ Martin Canada
Rose Brand and Brightline | Technically Yours
Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC)
MDG
Robert Juliat
AC Lighting
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