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Insights from Green Production Lab at 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space

Environmental

Exploring the challenges and opportunities for reducing the environmental impacts of outdoor festivals, events, and touring productions

Building on the success of the first Green Production Lab online event, this 3-day residential training and development Lab hosted at 101 Outdoor Arts in November 2021 brought together 15 outdoor production professionals to explore leadership in relationship to environmental work, how to build sustainability practice into the heart of outdoor arts work, and promote sharing and re-use across festival networks.

Read an overview of the Green Production Lab programme here.

About the programme

This opportunity was designed for production management professionals working across the Outdoor Arts sector who are committed to making sustainable changes to their events and organisations.

The programme included practical and informative workshops covering key topics in sustainability practice and coaching and leadership skills, and also offered space for peer-to-peer discussion and relationship building through informal activities.

Facilitated by:

Bettina Linstrum – Director, Arts Agenda
Mark Denbigh – Head of Production and Programme, Norfolk and Norwich Festival

With contributions from guest Speakers and Workshop hosts:

Teresa Moore – Director, A Greener Festival
Ward Erhart – Director, Event Engineers, technical consultancy and event services for Oerol Festival
Chris Church – Director, Community Environment Associates
Martin Lines – Director, Wyrd Designz

Hosted at 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space

Meet the participants

Aileen Ging – Production Manager, Wild Rumpus
Anya Fox – Independent Production Manager, Inside Out Festival Dorset and various projects including Oxford City Council events
Benjamin Turner – Independent Production Manager, Sideshow Productions
Beth Piggott – Producer, ArtReach
Dan Lake – Production Manager, Brighton Festival and Same Sky
Lucy Marriott – ArtWorks South Yorkshire
Isla Telford – Co-Director, Urban Wilderness
James Burgess – Independent Production Manager, Out There Arts, Norfolk and Norwich Festival and various projects
Jude Wright – Freelance Producer and Director, Bent Architect Theatre Company
Loz Samuels – Artistic Director, Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts
Matt Evans – Festivals Production Manager, Birmingham Hippodrome
Natalie Chan – General Manager, Creative Youth and the International Youth Arts Festival
Nathan Jackson – Head of Production, Walk the Plank
Pablo Cattermole – Production Manager, Emergency Exit Arts
Paula Birtwistle – Independent Production Manager and Green Champion for Culture Weston, currently working with Theatre Orchard and Extraordinary Bodies