IETM Green School
The IETM Green School offers all IETM members inspiration, practical and progressive knowledge, and ideas for addressing the green transition in the performing arts sector.
After a successful 2023 programme, the IETM Green School 2025 has brought to IETM members:
- Inspiration on art and activism, artistic disobedience and eco-creativity
- Dialogue and critical exploration of our art and aesthetics in times of climate crisis, mounting inequalities and climate injustice
- Tools to empower artists and cultural professionals to take action on the climate and ecological crisis in their communities
We asked: How can we make a meaningful breakthrough on the path of unlearning, undoing and disrupting how we produce work in a green way?
On Wednesday 17 September at 13:00 - 14:00 CEST (calculate your time zone), we kicked off this new edition with an inspiring keynote by Kumi Naidoo, South African human rights and environmental justice activist, and current President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Following Kumi´s keynote:
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In November: 'Exploring Eco-Creativity: rethinking performing arts practices for a climate changed future' led by award-winning ecological designer and community artist Dr Tanja Beer, who has presented her pioneering methodology of eco-scenography and eco-creativity exploring her three C’s: Co-creation, Celebration and Circulation.
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From January 2026: 'Disobedient Art in Climate Justice: Rehearsing Climate Justice Amid “Green” Contradictions' led by Frida and David Limaverde from FOSSIL FREE CULTURE NL (FFCNL), a collective of artists, activists and researchers which engages in Strategic Artistic Disobedience to build a Fossil Free Future that is feminist, anti-racist, intergenerational, diverse, queer and decolonial.
Disclaimer: All sessions of the 2025 IETM Green School are open to all IETM members prior to registration, free of charge. If you didn't attend any session, all IETM members can find the recording on the IETM dedicated forum.