Workshop One: Co-Creation

Friday 7 November - 9:30 - 11:30 CET (calculate your time zone)

This workshop introduces the concept of ‘co-creation’ as the first stage of the eco-creativity framework. ‘Co-creation’ acknowledges the essential collaborative phases of performance making that are aligned with more-than-human possibilities. Embracing place-specific contexts and possibilities, co-creation invites artists and producers to access local knowledge and insights, opening up new avenues for eco-creative exploration. The workshop acknowledges that much of our resourcefulness comes from being receptive to what is locally available in the places in which we find ourselves. It draws on the notion of ‘possibility thinking’ or ‘eco-creative dreaming’ while responding to real sustainability challenges. Participants will consider how they can apply principles of co-creation to uncover social and ecological potential to a current or future project.

Workshop Two: Celebration

Friday 14 November - 10:00 - 11:30 CET (calculate your time zone)

This workshop introduces the concept of ‘celebration’ as the second stage of the eco-creativity framework. ‘Celebration’ embraces the ‘stage’ as a platform to bring people together to showcase ecological ideas and practices. Activating ‘celebration’ in performance making encourages processes of ‘gathering’ to observe, respect and perform ecological practices in real time and place—linking our longstanding cultural practices (rituals, ceremonies, rites and traditions) with sustainability. ‘Celebration’ is the ‘blooming’ from which new opportunities for making and co-creation can arise. This workshop will invite participants to consider celebration in current or future performance planning and to think about innovation and transformation to generate new aesthetics and impulses.

Workshop Three: Circulation

Friday 21 November - 10:00 - 11:30 CET (calculate your time zone)

This workshop introduces the concept of ‘circulation’ as the final stage of the eco-creativity framework. Just as nature embraces waste as a valuable resource, ‘circulation’ considers the ‘afterlife’ of materials and ideas and reimagines them for distribution into the wider community. ‘Circulation’ is a crucial element of eco-creativity and contributes to understanding, ideas, materials and experiences beyond performance making and encourages positive legacy beyond the work itself. In the eco-creative framework, circulation becomes a form of contribution, which involves seeking out opportunities—ways of sharing, collaborating, opening up and engaging with the world’s potential. Workshop participants will explore the possibilities using their own current or future practices as examples. This workshop will also ask participants to reflect on the key take aways from the 3Cs eco-creativity series.

First Wrap Up Session

Friday 28 November - 11:00 - 12:00 CET (calculate your time zone)

This wrap up session is open to all IETM members regardless if they have participated in the workshops. We aim to accommodate the schedule of IETM members from various locations worldwide, particularly members located in different parts of Europe, Africa and Asia. 
More details will be available soon.

Second Wrap Up Session

Friday 5 December - 20:00 - 21:00 CET (calculate your time zone)

This wrap up session is open to all IETM members regardless if they have participated in the workshops. We aim to accommodate the schedule of IETM members from various locations worldwide, particularly members located in different parts of North and South America. 
More details will be available soon.