Published on 20 July 2024
Feature in the international theatre journal The Theatre Times, following the ETC TGB launch during the Festival d'Avignon.
The European Theatre Convention (ETC) in collaboration with Renew Culture officially launched in July 2024 the ETC Theatre Green Book (ETC TGB). The sixty-nine-page, freely available document brimming with images, graphs, and tables aims to offer a clear, step-by-step, and undaunting roadmap to live arts institutions in their journey towards achieving carbon emission neutrality. For the sixty-three publicly-funded European member theatres of the ETC, this goal is currently set for 2030.
The ETC initiative extends and adapts the ideas and methods contained by the UK-focused 2020 Theatre Green Book to the institutional diversity of theatres across European countries. The ETC TGB offers time- and cost-saving solutions for theatres willing to embark on the journey towards sustainability as it eliminates the need to devise methodologies themselves and/or to hire external experts. For example, the ETC TGB provides ready-made tools such as the Production Calculator that help to quantify a production’s level of sustainability. As opposed to separate theatres coming up with their own plans, the ETC TGB reunites European theatres towards a common goal, building support networks that rev up enthusiasm and significantly increase the participant theatres’ chances to achieve the green goals.
A strength of the ETC TGB is the flexibility it offers theatres...keep reading on The Theatre Times
