The Sustainable Production Toolkit: Sustainable Practices post-COVID
Our industry faces severe social and economic impacts of Covid-19. Theatre makers are also engaged in reckoning with systemic racism. Alongside the global pandemic and the legacy of white supremacy looms another destabilizing reality: climate change. These three crises are not a coincidence: they are deeply interconnected. Their confluence at this moment demands that we re-examine our “business as usual” and embrace new responsibilities — and opportunities — as we look forward.
The Sustainable Production Toolkit is a comprehensive guide, with concrete tools and best practices for prioritizing the intertwined needs for greater environmental, human, and financial sustainability in our industry. Modules include how to frame and facilitate these conversations with your colleagues; how to budget for reduced emissions from scenery, costumes and props; how to approach transitioning to LED lighting; air travel; and development opportunities.
Time: 7 p.m. EDT, Oct 12th, 2020
Price: FREE to members, $15 to non-members
Presenters: Sandra Goldmark is a set designer, teacher, and entrepreneur whose work focuses on circular economy solutions to overconsumption and climate change. She is a Professor and Director of Sustainability at Barnard College, and the author of the upcoming book Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet.
Edward T. Morris is a set and projection designer and sustainability advocate. Along with Elizabeth Mak, Lauren Gaston, Sandra Goldmark and Michael Banta he co-authored the Sustainable Production Toolkit. He teaches design and dramaturgy at The New School and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local #829. He lectures on sustainable design and organizes panel discussions on many subjects for Wingspace Theatrical Design.
Lauren Gaston is a costume designer, illustrator, and entrepreneur. Her design work has been featured by The Juilliard School and most recently by Time Lapse Dance in NYC. Along with Michael Banta, Sandra Goldmark, Elizabeth Mak and Edward T. Morris she is a co-author of The Sustainable Production Toolkit. In exploring approaches to circular design and production, she has co-hosted panels on sustainability in theatre with fellow designer Megan Quarles at FABSCRAP and The Theatre Communications Group. She is currently a member of The Creative Entrepreneur Project at The Actors Fund.
Michael Banta is Production Manager, Barnard College, Department of Theatre.