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    • Lego-like toy figure sailing through a blue sky with a cohort of birds, looking for a place to land.
      Library / Where to land? - Publication and roadmap
      On 5 and 6 October 2022, the Where to land Forum brought together 130+ European performing arts professionals at the Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, with the aim to engage into a new series of measures for the performing arts sector that would tackle the climate emergency.
    • Imagining and Realising Climate Resilient Futures: The Power of Arts, Culture and Heritage to Accelerate Climate Action
      Library / Imagining and Realising Climate Resilient Futures: The Power of Arts, Culture and Heritage to Accelerate Climate Action
      Imagining and Realising Climate Resilient Futures: The Power of Arts, Culture and Heritage to Accelerate Climate Action is a manifesto that provides key messages on culture and climate change aimed at the 2022 United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) and beyond.
    • Environmental Sustainability in Contemporary Dance: Emerging Issues, Practices and Recommendations
      Library / Environmental Sustainability in Contemporary Dance: Emerging Issues, Practices and Recommendations
      The research publication Environmental Sustainability in Contemporary Dance: Emerging Issues, Practises and Recommendations provides the context, references and examples of where and how dance intersects with environmental sustainability, and which set of actions can lead to effective action.
    • Shaking the Current handbook covers, featuring illustrations of circus people joining forces to overcome obstacles.
      Library / Shaking the Current Guides on Eco-responsibility and Ethics
      Shaking the Current is a new series of digital publications made by Circostrada in collaboration with a broad network of thinkers, writers, researchers, illustrators, and photographers. 
    • Repenser la mobilité Culturelle –Trois témoignages au coeur des évolutions professionnelles actuelles
      Library / Repenser la mobilité Culturelle –Trois témoignages au coeur des évolutions professionnelles actuelles
      Dans le cadre du programme PARI! / Parcours d’Accompagnement et de Réflexion sur l’International (coordonné par On the Move avec le soutien du ministère de la Culture et de l’Institut français), On the Move a coordonné une session interne de travail sur la thématique de ‘Repenser la mobilité culturelle’, le 17 décembre 2021.
    • Passons au vert – Faire évoluer ses pratiques professionnelles à l'ère de la crise climatique
      Library / Passons au vert – Faire évoluer ses pratiques professionnelles à l'ère de la crise climatique
      Ce document contient quelques pistes et recommandations, pour la plupart assez faciles à expérimenter, afin de promouvoir des actions durables et adaptées aux secteurs artistiques et culturels.
    • Cover for GALA funding guide. Abstract composition of irregular shapes in yellow, black and green.
      Library / GALA Funding Guide for Arts and Culture Projects Related to Environmental Sustainability
      The GALA Funding and Resources Guide – Second edition is the updated edition of the guide first produced in 2015 within the scope of the EU funded project, Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA).
    • A silhouette of a person talking outdoors on a phone. They are blurry and indistinct. Layered onto the photo, a Jackson Pollock riot of orange and yellow paint - a firestorm.
      Library / Status and Working Conditions for Artists, Cultural and Creative Professionals
      The Status and Working Conditions for Artists, Cultural and Creative Professionals report is the result of a brainstorming meeting organised by Voices of Culture on 27-28 April 2021. It was presented to the European Commission in a Dialogue Meeting on 29 June 2021. Among chapters on the legal status of artists, their financial situations (encompassing fair pay, collective bargaining, intellectual property, etc.), and research and lifelong learning, there is also a chapter dedicated to mobility. 
    • Page of a SHIFT fact sheet - packed with text and info.
      Library / SHIFT Fact Sheets on Green Certification and Carbon Calculators
      The SHIFT Fact Sheets on Green Certification and Carbon Calculators have been created by ELIA, a globally connected network for higher arts education, as output for the environmental sustainability strand of the SHIFT – Shared Initiatives for Training project, which focuses on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13: Climate Action.
    • An icon of a wide, orange eye, the pupil replaced by the Earth, on the cover of the SHIFT Environmental Sustainability and the Arts Annotated Bibliography.
      Library / SHIFT Environmental Sustainability and the Arts Annotated Bibliography
      The SHIFT Environmental Sustainability and the Arts Annotated Bibliography serves cultural networks and their members by providing key resources, literature, and inspiring examples for the development of environmentally sustainable practices. The bibliography is meant as a supporting tool for cultural organisations and professionals from all arts disciplines and cultural fields.
    • Illustration in deep colours - blue, green, yellow, orange - showing a woman in a kind of cosmic resource space, surrounded by floating tools and signs.
      Library / Season for Change Toolkit
      Season for Change is a UK-wide programme of cultural responses celebrating the environment and inspiring urgent action on climate change. The Season for Change toolkit is a collection of online resources for individuals and organisations who want to join together and urge for a just and sustainable future through the arts and culture.
    • Still from Culture of Mobility in the Time of Climate Change video. Shows the title of the session projected onto a screen.
      Library / Culture of Mobility in the Time of Climate Change
      What is the impact of the international exchange in culture on the climate of our planet? How does it influence today’s cities and how can we measure it? How can public institutions give a boost to sustainable mobility within their funding programs?
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