Green Arts Initiative Annual Report 2018 #GreenArts The creative community is going green Climate change, and the wider impact human society has on the environment on which we depend, is the biggest challenge we face. Increased rainfall, rising sea levels, heatwaves and more numerous extreme weather events impact our health, our food and water supplies, our energy demands, our economy, and all our lifestyles. The Green Arts Initiative is a community of over 200 cultural organisations in Scotland, committed to reducing their environmental impact and making a positive contribution to a better, environmentally sustainable, society. The community works in innovative and diverse ways duction to address the challenges that face the arts and cultural sector in carbon emissions reduction, whilst exploring the creative, conceptual and behaviour change mechanisms the arts can bring to a topic as broad as climate change. The Green Arts community is facilitated by Creative Carbon Scotland through a variety of activities and events: connecting Green Champions, new and existing knowledge, #GreenArts enthusiasm, resources and shared learning across Scotland. @CCScotland Intro www.greenartsinitiative.co.uk Members are involved in Our Members a wide range of art forms: The Green Arts Initiative is an open-access community, free to join and participate in, Agency 6% open to professional, amateur and community cultural organisations across Community all art forms. Arts 8% Visual Arts 15% Dance 6% 220 62% Festival 14% Theatre 22% As of Spring 2019: 62% of our members There are 220 are Creative Scotland members in total. Regularly Funded Organisations. Film 6% Music 10% Members exist in 24 of Scotland’s 32 Heritage 2% local authorities (those local authorities not yet represented are: Clackmannanshire, Literature 3% East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, Physical Theatre 1% Midlothian, North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Shetland Islands, West Dunbartonshire) Multi-form 6% Storytelling 2% Green Arts Initiative Annual Report 2018 #GreenArts | 02 How Our Community is Climate change is a complex problem Tackling Climate Change with systemic causes and solutions Making changes in their oces, venues and studios We are completing a series We re-rendered our B-listed We undertook a full review of capital works that aim to building in lime to stop water of energy usage with current reduce the environmental ingress and damp lighting systems across impact of our building and penetration, thereby gallery, facilities and oces bring it up to PassivHaus reducing our heating costs, and calculated the cost of standards. Agile City with support and research replacing them with low from Historic Environment energy alternatives and Scotland. Pier Arts Centre potential savings over 3 years. Street Level Photoworks 64% of our members are directly 64% reducing their energy consumption and its associated impacts We got the ‘reclamation Our season brochures are As part of our man’ to talk to our students now printed on FSC #greenwheelstouring about waste and introduced approved paper and printed initiative, our company a waste bin into our using vegetable inks. In members are oered items workshop. We then hosted addition, all the carbon from a tour ‘green kit’ that an eco-week and displayed emissions generated in encourages them to think a Fairtrade Exhibition printing will be oset by about waste prevention highlighting the use of planting broadleaved trees in measures whilst on the road. ethical stones in jewellery a local community woodland This includes a reusable making. City of Glasgow resulting in the print coee cup, water bottle, College Craft & Design becoming completely carbon food carrier, quick-dry towel, balanced. Beacon Arts Centre shopping bag and a spork. A recycling system is set up in the van. Catherine Wheels We've switched all our event Theatre Company catering to be vegetarian (over 500 lunches annually), and issued all sta with a re-useable cup for hot drinks. Federation of Scottish Theatre 79% of our members are tackling the problem of waste 79% and material consumption We meet regularly with fellow building users as tenants in the We turned o our oce 'Grindlay Green Team' and have begun using 'Ecobricks' to reduce water over the Christmas and water usable in toilet cisterns. We are also looking to source New Year period to protect branded water bottles for performers and sta, to reduce the against leaks and burst pipes. temptation of using single use plastic water bottles. Plan B Creative Lung-Ha Theatre Company 20% of our members are reducing 1 in 5 their water consumption Green Arts Initiative Annual Report 2018 #GreenArts | 03 Addressing climate change in their programmes, performances, activities & events We appointed a Green We commissioned and We’re piloting a land-travel Ambassador at Board level presented ‘Arctic Oil’, a new residency and research and now include a Green production, which contained cooperation with a new Strategy Update at every themes and issues network of partners in board meeting. Paragon Music surrounding environmental Scotland and Finland sustainability. Traverse (North AiR: Expanding Theatre Entanglements) to question the role of artists' residency We held two internal annual in a time of climate events that focus entirely on breakdown. Scottish our environmental activities Sculpture Workshop and policy to ensure all sta are informed, involved and We co-commissioned (with committed. Glasgow Music in Peebles) composer Theatre Royal and Kings Esther Swift to write a piece For our manipulate Visual of music about the impact of Theatre Festival 2019 we will climate change and flooding not produce printed events' on the Peebles community. programmes, instead using This year we toured Scotland The piece was premiered displays or QR codes which with Friends of the Earth by the Brodick Quartet, and can be scanned by audience Scotland and Stop Climate was performed alongside a members for event Chaos Scotland to present 7 video created by Tom Swift. information. As a result, we practical workshops and films The piece was well-received are able to oer more back- screenings exploring climate within Peebles and has ground commentary, context change and the Scottish subsequently been and images at no additional Governments new Climate performed on BBC Radio. cost. Puppet Animation Bill which is currently being Enterprise Music Scotland Scotland drafted. Take One Action Engaging others through their audiences, artists, sta & suppliers We included a 'Green Policy' We began to implement a We updated our in all our tour packs which zero-tolerance policy for Environmental Policy and are shared with venues domestic flights for sta, and published it online, following before an artist arrives to dug deeply into our travel and consultation with the whole perform or install a work. The emissions data, conducting sta team which proposed policy includes action points an in-depth comparison of that environmental concerns such as providing locally coach vs train travel for the should be as embedded in sourced organic food with seven cities we visit most our work as our commitment minimal disposable packaging frequently (Glasgow, to Equality, Diversity and and accommodation booked Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inclusion. We’ve since updated close to the venue to Dumfries, Inverness, Perth our form for prospective promote walking. Cryptic and Dundee). Taking the time partners to include a question to make these calculations about how the proposed oered good evidence for us project takes into to continue prioritising trains consideration our We held more video meetings over coaches wherever environmental policy. Glasgow to reduce travel, and possible. Scottish Ensemble Women’s Library scheduled in-person meetings to optimise time and travel needs. North East Arts Touring 59% of our members are monitoring, measuring and reducing sta travel- related emissions. Green Arts Initiative Annual Report 2018 #GreenArts | 04 We put artists coming on We had musicians going on We encourage all sta residency in touch prior to an "Eco Tour" of Arran by members and artists to take arrival and encouraged them bike, where we also co-hosted public transport or cycle or to share transport. Scottish a beach clean and workshop walk, providing them with a Sculpture Workshop that saw children creating voucher from Stagecoach to instruments out of what they take the bus. This has worked found. Enterprise Music very well and has encouraged Scotland more people to use public 32% transport rather than driving. Starcatchers 32% of our members are reducing the travel-related emissions of their artists and performers. We operate bus tours for We held a roadshow to We monitored our audience's Spring Fling Open Studios limit audience travel to our travel to our theatre with to make the event more workshops: two facilitators monthly surveys which we accessible and reduce carbon travel so participants can use to look at where our emissions. Upland Arts stay local. Arts & Business audience are coming from, Development CIC Scotland and to inform how we advertise the bus, train and underground services on our 13% website at point of sale. Citizens Theatre 13% are working on the travel emissions of their wider audiences What help they need to take things further Members have exciting ideas of upcoming plans On Energy On Waste On Travel On Wider Engagement Fundraising for new Replacing single-use Hosting a social media sound systems with information pamphlets campaign around Implementing a increased