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Opportunity: Events & Communications Officer, Creative Carbon Scotland

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Our friends at Artistic Carbon Scotland are currently looking for an individual to fill the role of Events & Communications Officer, and to help achieve their aim of connecting the arts and culture with sustainability to build a sustainable Scotland.  This is a great opportunity to bring together a small, informal, forward-thinking team to brand real change in the world.

Task Details

Salary: £8,800 (ie £22,000 pro rata 0.4FTE) + up to three% of bacon in pension contributions matching employee’southward contributions

Hours: Part time â€" 0.4 FTE. This ways a fifteen hour week with a degree of flexibility on both sides, as some evening and weekend piece of work may be required and decorated periods may call for extra hours, with time taken off in lieu during quieter periods.

Flexible working and Job Sharing Artistic Carbon Scotland welcomes proposals for flexible working or chore-share, subject to the needs of the function being satisfactorily fulfilled.

Holidays: viii days plus four public holidays to be taken at times agreed with the Producer.

Place of work: Based at Waverley Court, E Market Street, Edinburgh, simply home working and hot-desking may also exist necessary. Travel throughout Scotland required.

Contract and notice catamenia: This is a fixed term post until 31 March 2017, with continuation possible subject to funding and the needs of CCS. A probationary menstruation of ii months will apply, following successful completion of which the full fixed term contract will be confirmed.

Secondments Creative Carbon Scotland is very willing to consider a secondment for this role where this will embed carbon reduction knowledge and work within the cultural sector.

Equipment: A laptop and mobile phone volition be provided if required.

For more information and how to apply, please download a copy of theÂJob Awarding Pack.

Closing Engagement: Midnight, 25th May.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the centre of a sustainable Scotland. Nosotros believe cultural and creative organisations take a significant influencing ability to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Gimmicky Fine art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more than sustainably.

Nosotros are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various fundamental areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advancement for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the outset pace towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes almost climate alter through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Get to Creative Carbon Scotland

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CCS Blog: April Green Tease Reflections

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This month we met the spring season with our Apr Dark-green Tease events in Glasgow and Edinburgh, welcoming a range of people from beyond the arts and different areas of sustainability to find points of connection between their interests and practices.

Glasgow

Our Glasgow effect took identify in the temporary lab of the Soil Urban center projection, run past artists and food activists, Open up Jar Collective. Initiated during Glasgow International Visual Arts Festival, Soil City is intended as a long term inquiry project, bringing together dissimilar communities to ‘reimagine the city as if soil matters’.

In an introductory tour around the lab nosotros were shown the multi-layered map of green and brownfield sites visited during the three weeks of GI, and soil and institute samples taken from effectually the metropolis. Alex Wilde, member of Open Jar Collective, explained their motivation for exploring the state of soil in the urban center, every bit an under-appreciated resource but something which nosotros are all rely upon and are intrinsically connected to.

She described the layered nature of Soil Metropolis program encompassing site visits, soil testing (contributing to OPAL citizen science projection), walking and bike tours, public talks and workshops, and an online archive Field Notes, designed to capture the range of perspectives and ways of thinking almost soil which emerged over the iii weeks.

In between bootleg soup, cakes, cups of tea and some easily on soil testing, the Green Tease gathering held a passionate give-and-take soil. It seemed that everybody has a story to tell or question to ask about how we understand, use and look after the soil in our neighbourhoods and city. Meet Katy Gordon’due south business relationship of the discussion hither.

We as well spoke almost what Open Jar saw their roles every bit artists to be in raising questions almost urban relationships with soil. Clem Sandison suggested that the bespoke bright xanthous bicycles, designed and fabricated by the collective, were symbolic of their artistic approach, offering an usual and intriguing starting point for conversation, that you may non come up across in a typical citizen science project. She too talked virtually the importance of creating new civic spaces for discussion, bringing together various perspectives and encouraging learning, exemplified through the Soil City lab.

Over the course of the outcome we discussed the importance of finding new ways of valuing soil, as well every bit green spaces and brownfield sites in cities, beyond their potential for economic evolution. It became clear that Open Jar Commonage meet part of their part every bit offering a different set of values based on the connections betwixt communities and urban ecologies.

We look forward to seeing how the Soil City project unfolds over the coming months!

Edinburgh

Our Edinburgh Green Tease for April took place in the back room of Woodland Creatures on Leith Walk on Tuesday 26th. A ‘Green Tease Become Together’, the outcome was very informal, with lots of ideas commutation, connections, and spirited discussion. We used question cards on tables to prompt wide ranging conversations: on everything from the last time someone asked attendees most sustainability, to what they need to accomplish their own arts and sustainability ambitions! With attendees from across the arts and sustainability spectrum, and lots of new faces, it was great to get to know all our green-teasers over these drink and nibbles!

Our next Green Tease volition have identify on Mon 23rd May with artists Jo Hodges and Robbie Coleman. Discover out more and sign upwards hither.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and artistic organisations accept a significant influencing power to assist shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Gimmicky Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

Nosotros are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural alter and advocacy for sustainable do in the arts.

Our piece of work with cultural organisations is the showtime step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes nigh climate alter through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’southward emotions, values and ideas.

Get to Creative Carbon Scotland

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Call for the Stories of the Anthropocene Festival, Stockholm 27-29 Oct 2016

A state of shock is something that happens to u.s. not simply when something bad happens. It'south what happens to us when we lose our narrative, when nosotros lose our story, when we become disoriented. – Naomi Klein

TheÂKTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, in collaboration with theÂRachel Carson CenterÂandÂthe Nelson Establish Center for Culture, History, and EnvironmentÂat the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is currently seeking submissions for the Stories of the Anthropocene Festival (SAF), which will take place on 27-29 October 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.
We invite scholars, artists, writers, filmmakers, and activists to propose a single story that tin represent or encapsulate the Anthropocene. We welcome stories from all possible angles and scales, rejecting any pre-constituted division or hierarchy separating between fiction and non-fiction, local and global, scientific and, academic and pop.
Deeply rooted in the storytelling tradition of the humanities, SAF seeks to reclaim the ability of narratives to shape and understand the earth across the dualities of possible/impossible, material/immaterial, real/imaginary.

The Anthropocene has developed a dual career, firstly as a geological term and secondly as a cultural term. Information technology is an open question whether geologists will find the precise stratum where the Anthropocene began, and if the geological community will agree on the Anthropocene as a new epoch in Earth history. In many fields of the humanities and social sciences and in the public mind, however, the Anthropocene is already an established concept that continues to gain momentum in newspapers, museums, and other public arenas.

As environmental humanities scholars, nosotros believe that the Anthropocene is composed of layers of stories equally well as CO2 emissions or atomic fallout. The Anthropocene is essentially a narrative nigh the interventions of humans on a planetary scale; information technology is a story written into the rocks and into the temper. The Anthropocene has the ambition to overcome the dichotomized narratives of human societies versus nature, proposing a narrative embodied in the Earth.

In November 2014, a group of scholars and artists convened at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for theÂAnthropocene slam: A Cabinet of Curiosities. In a playful and artistic way, presenters introduced objects that they felt embodied the Anthropocene. The Slam was and then translated firstly into an exhibition, the Anthropocene Chiffonier of Curiosities, on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, and then into an edited volume.

SAF builds on the experience and energy of the Slam. SAF challenges participants to exit their comfort zone and embrace an imaginative and inventive mode with the appetite to engage with a wide audience.
At SAF, participants will take thirty minutes to narrate or tell their story to the public in whatsoever format, including (but non express to) video, dance, song, or theater. The audition will select their favorite stories, and these volition be curated into an online platform, the Anthropocene Library. Delight see below for submission guidelines.

To Employ:
Abstracts should include the source of the story, the format of the presentation, how the story fits with the theme of SAF, and any technical or other support you lot may need. There are two methods by which you can submit an abstract:

1. Written abstract â€" delight provide a 250-give-and-take abstruse with the above information.
2. Video abstract â€" delight send us a link to a max. iii-minute long video including the to a higher place data.

Forth with your abstract, please also provide a max. 250-word accompanying biography, including your contact details.

Send all submissions with the title ‘SAF submission’ to ehlab@abe.kth.se by Wednesday the 15th of June . If you have any questions, please contact ehlab@abe.kth.se. The results of the choice will exist communicated by July 15th .

A limited amount of funding is available to encompass partially travel costs for participants. Please make sure to include a request for funds in your application if needed.

CLIMARTE Poster Project forum

Are images worth a thousand words?

As part of the CLIMARTE Affiche Projection 2016 come and join a lively and engaging give-and-take on the importance of images in conveying circuitous ideas and feelings, and also in creating date and empathy with difficult and challenging bug, such as climatic change.

Date and time: Tuesday 17 May 2016, 6pm
Venue: LAB-14, 700 Swanston St, Carlton 3053

Register here: http://www.carltonconnect.com.au/climarte-poster-project-forum/

Speakers include:

• Dr Peter Christoff, Associate Professor, School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
• Belinda Smith, Deputy News Editor, Cosmos Magazine
• Gabrielle De Vietri, A Eye for Everything, and CLIMARTE Poster Project artist.
• Dr Kate Daw, Head of Painting, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, and CLIMARTE Poster Project creative person.

CLIMARTE has commissioned eleven artists to design posters that engage the community on climate change action and convey the strength, optimism and urgency we need to move to a clean renewable energy future.

Artists: Angela Brennan, Chris Bond, Jon Campbell, Kate Daw, Katherine Hattam, Siri Hayes, Martin Male monarch, Gabrielle de Vietri & Will Foster, Thornton Walker, Miles Howard-Wilks.

During April-May hundreds of posters will exist printed and displayed on poster sites around Melbourne.

The CLIMARTE Affiche Project is supported by the City of Melbourne 2016 arts grants programme, the Purves Environmental Fund, The University of Melbourne Carlton Connect Initiative, and Plakkit.

Image courtesy of Kate Daw.

Elemental – an arts and ecology reader

Gaia Project is a publishing and curatorial initiative which operates at the intersection of Art and Environmental â€" or indeed, in that poetic infinite where Fine art becomes Ecology, and where Ecology becomes Art.

Elemental is an ‘introductory reader’, comprising a unique collection of essays by some of the world’s leading artists, activists, curators and writers currently working in the expansive, interdisciplinary field of arts and ecology. The book presents critical reflections, and philosophies on a multifariousness of eco-art practices and methodologies.

Subjects areas include: New Materialism, socially-engaged ecosystem restoration, the legal ‘Rights of Nature’, and ecology in theatre and performance art.

The symbiotic ecology, social and economic crises of our era (Climate Alter being one significant symptom) take now emerged every bit a poignant and critically relevant presence throughout culture globally. It is therefore timely and vital that these essays of vision, promise and solidarity are being published.

See more at: http://world wide web.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/elemental-an-arts-and-ecology-reader-gaia-project/

The Re:NEW Festival: a month-long celebration of Creative Reuse, Sustainability, and Transformation happening September 9â€"Oct nine, 2016.

Every bit Pittsburgh experiences a resurgence and addresses continuous, equitable improvement, we present the Re:NEW Festival, a collaborative, brand new endeavour, bringing together the city’southward diverse and frontwards-thinking arts and culture, artistic industries, and sustainable technologies.

Festival visitors will witness the North American premiere of Drap-Art, the International Festival of Recycling Fine art, held annually in Barcelona. This premiere in the PPG Wintergarden will fix the phase for various programs all calendar month long: exhibits in alternative venues, music showcases, eco-tours, markets featuring upcycled appurtenances, hands-on workshops, didactics, films, performances, and environmental exhibits.

The Re:NEW Festival is a collaborative effort of a multi-sector group of civic leaders instrumental in the city’due south resurgence: Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Sustainable Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Resources Council, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, VisitPITTSBURGH, and the Allegheny Conference on Customs Development.

Get Involved

Re:NEW Festival programming includes art exhibitions, markets of artwork and goods made of upcycled materials, workshops, performances, talks and tours, vendor markets, and satellite programs at diverse organizations effectually the metropolis. Artists may employ to exhibit work or exist a market vendor, organizations may apply to present programming or may become a festival sponsor, and the festival is looking for volunteers.

In improver to these opportunities, organizations and artists have the option to submit a community event for possible inclusion on the Re:NEW Festival calendar of events.

Apply

The Re:NEW Festival seeks submissions from artists, performers, craftspeople and organizations that explore the themes of creative reuse, transformation and sustainability in thoughtful, engaging, and various means. We have two Calls for Artists and one Call for Organizations, and a Market Vendor Application.

Artists & Performers
Organizations
Vendors

Submit a Customs Consequence

If you lot or your organization has an issue, workshop, lecture, educational program, or other activity occurring September 9 â€" Oct nine, 2016 that incorporates themes of creative reuse, sustainability, or transformation, yous can submit your consequence for possible inclusion on the Re:NEW Festival agenda of events. Note that all effect submissions are subject to staff review.

SUBMIT AN Outcome

Chicago Green Theatre Alliance Meeting + Happy Hr

RSVP Today!

Chicago Light-green Theatre Alliance Coming together + Happy Hour
Monday, May sixteen, 6:30-8 P.M.

Writers Theatre, 325 Tudor Ct. in Glencoe

Join us for the the next meeting of the Chicago Green Theatre Alliance at the brand new Writers Theatre space in Glencoe! Nosotros'll go a special tour of their new dark-green theatre, the committees volition run into, we'll gather every bit a full group to hear guest presenter Dot Coyle from Coyle&Herr, and written report out on projects, and hang out for a happy 60 minutes after the coming together before catching the train back to the city! Read the Calendar.

Click Here to RSVP.

Follow us on Twitter @ChiGreenTheatre and utilize the hashtag #chigreentheatre to share your greening efforts!

2d Annual Chicago Dark-green Theatre Alliance Eastward-Waste and Material Bulldoze

Thursday, May 26

Steppenwolf Garage Theatre and Parking Lot, 1624 N. Halsted

E-Waste Drive (In the Parking Lot)
10AM – 3PM
Fourth dimension to clean out all that old electronic stuff if the back hall closet.
Download and share the Due east-Waste Drive Flyer at your theatre

Textile Drive (In the Garage Theatre)
9AM – Noon (Textile Drop Off)
12 – 4PM (Costume Substitution)
We’re coming together to recycle costumes and textiles, allowing large theatres to cull their costume inventory and affording smaller companies the opportunity to bulk up their stock at no price!

Download and share the Textile Bulldoze flyer at your theatre

Please RSVP and allow us know if you lot're planning on dropping off or exchanging items!

Open up Telephone call ‘Feeding the Insatiable’ a conference and creative tiptop on Arts and Free energy – EXTENDED DEADLINE

Call for proposals ‘Feeding the Insatiable’ a conference and creative pinnacle EXTENDED DEADLINE

Borderline FOR PROPOSALS 22.00 GMT Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Schumacher College, RegenSW and the art.earth network invite y'all to submit a proposal for participation to the forthcoming summitÂFeeding the Insatiable to be held November 9-11, 2016 at Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK.  This outcome is aimed at academics, artists, engineers, policy-makers, and anyone with an involvement in renewable energy. More than detailed information tin can be plant at feedingtheinsatiable.info.

Although we received many excellent proposals for the original borderline on May eight, we have learnt that the word had not spread quite as far and wide as we’d thought. Nosotros take decided to extend the deadline to give everyone a chance to put their ideas forward.

Telescopic

A focus on all way of energy generation through artistic intervention and invention and new approaches to scientific research including the quirky, the impossible, the micro and the personal.  Encouraging contend – practical, philosophical, metaphysical, and theoretical – bringing creative minds from many disciplines to conduct on these pressing problems.

Nosotros explore ways in which creative makers and enquirers â€"â€" artists, scientists, philosophers, theorists and others â€"â€" tin can increasingly play a function in moving rather than cajoling, inspiring rather than scaring, succouring rather than scourging. The impassioned voice has an essential role to play in shifting the inert and entrenched thinking about how nosotros alive in the world, how we eat its resources and how we subvert and circumvent monolithic thinking. The danger lies not in those with abrasively negative views (as panic leads to stridency bordering on the cool and numbers inevitably dwindle to irrelevancy under the growing weight of prove), just those who take no views at all.

Topics of interest

Non intended to be proscriptive or prescriptive, this list of topics suggests the areas we are likely to explore. Even so we are open to all relevant ideas, from the philosophical to the most practical and pragmatic.

• visioning alter
• imaginative and invented narratives and technologies
• micro-generation and trunk-derived free energy
• plant and other organic power generators
• transformational potential of art
• beyond communication
• free energy and metaphor
• message and instrumentalisation
• slow art, process
• not-literal big data visualisation
• the artist and the engineer
• envisioning the profound
• aesthetics of art/science
• using imagination for social change
• emotion / science
• sensible / actual
• new ways of seeing
• new means of knowing
• evolving meaning
• celebrating actuality and ethos
• energy in the animal world
• exploring chasms between artists and industry
• energy futures and questions of design
• ethnographics, big information, climate change, agreement

The borderline for submission is 22.00 GMT on Wed May xviii, 2016 .

We are requesting 250-word abstracts or outlines, which must exist submitted through the consequence website at http://feedingtheinsatiable.info/accept-part/

Nosotros are unable to accept whatsoever submissions after the deadline.

For more detailed information delight visit world wide web.feedingtheinsatiable.info

Alice White Exhibition at the ZSL London Zoo Aquarium

ZSL London Zoo Aquarium from April 29th until July 30th, 2016

Alice White is a professional person Oil Painter, born and bred in London. Her solo show, entitled 'A New Wave' documented her year's residency as Artist for Animals at ZSL London Zoo. Her ongoing project, entitled 'A New Wave: Art and Conservation Science', seeks to translate the valuable work undertaken by those defended to the field of marine conservation scientific discipline into easily attainable, visual forms which are designed toeducate and inspire the public.

Recent group shows include the RSMA Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. She has also exhibited at the Music Room in Mayfair, Kingly Court in Carnaby Street, and the Affordable Art Fair in New York and London.

Creative Research: alicewhiteartblog.blogspot.co.britain
Portfolio: www.alicewhiteart.com

Opportunity: Summer Festivals Product Banana

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Please note: this opportunity is only open to current undergraduates, Masters students, or recent graduates (ii years) of the Academy of Edinburgh. The awarding must be completed through their online careers portalÂand the endmost date for applications is 10am on Friday 13th May.

Nosotros are currently offering a paid summer internship position to help develop and implement an industry-focussed plan of work to improve the environmental sustainability of the arts and cultural festivals in Edinburgh. Helping to deliver the Edinburgh Fringe Sustainable Practice Award and anniversary, the Fringe Participants Program environmental sustainability events, Green Teases and the Green Arts Initiative, this is a unique opportunity to make real modify in a dynamic and exciting environment!

This opportunity partners with the Eye for Sustainable Exercise in the arts, Festivals Edinburgh, and the 12 Edinburgh Festivals, including the summer festivals:

• Edinburgh International Pic Festival
• Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
• Edinburgh Fine art Festival
• Purple Edinburgh Military Tattoo
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• Edinburgh International Book Festival
• Edinburgh Mela

Job Details

Chore Championship: Creative Carbon Scotland Santander Internship â€" Summertime Festivals Production Assistant

Hours: 35 hours per week with a caste of flexibility on both sides, as evening and weekend piece of work will be required during the Summertime Festivals and decorated periods may call for extra hours, with time taken off in lieu during quieter periods. Likely to take the form of 35 h p/w over July and August, with three days p/westward over June and September.

Bacon: £one,099 per month (£7.85/hour).

Holidays: 5 days plus one public holiday to be taken at times agreed with the Projects & Festivals Ecology Sustainability Officer

Identify of piece of work: Nominally based at Waverley Courtroom, Eastward Market Street, Edinburgh, but working from home and remotely will be required.

Contract and notice menstruum: This is a stock-still term contract from thirteen June until 9 September 2016.

For more data and how to apply, delight go through the University of Edinburgh’s online careers portal. The closing appointment for applications is 10am on Friday 13th May.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put civilisation at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and artistic organisations have a significant influencing ability to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Gimmicky Art Network to support over 30 arts organisations to operate more than sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations beyond Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider alter. Cultural organisations tin can influence public behaviour and attitudes most climatic change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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