Autumn training programme
From September 2025 to February 2026, the IETM Green School will give the floor to exceptional voices and projects which we find innovative in nature and very relevant to the diverse and progressive IETM membership. We will ask: How can we make a meaningful breakthrough on the path of unlearning, undoing and disrupting how we produce work in a green way?
Kumi Naidoo - Artivism in Climate Justice
Wednesday 17 September
13:00 - 14:00 CET (calculate your time zone)
As a fifteen year old, Kumi Naidoo became an activist against the South-African apartheid regime, which pushed him into exile. He became the first Global South Executive Director of Greenpeace International (2009-2015) and Secretary-General of Amnesty International (2018-2020). Today, Kumi is the President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty campaign, which is supported by a network of over 3.997 civic organisations world wide. In his keynote, Kumi will explore the dynamic intersections of the arts and activism in climate justice.
Dr Tanja Beer - Exploring Eco-Creativity: rethinking performing arts practices for a climate changed future
Friday 7 November 9:30 - 11:30 CET / Friday 14 November / Friday 21 November
10:00 - 11:30 CET (calculate your time zone)
This workshop hosted by Dr Tanja Beer will explore the role of eco-creativity as integral to rethinking performing arts practices for a climate changed future. Eco-creativity is an emerging concept that encourages practitioners to respond to the climate crisis imaginatively and through artistic innovation. The workshops will apply the 3Cs matrix of eco-creativity – co-creation, celebration and circulation – in performance making, policy and education. Participants will be guided through the 3Cs to re-conceptualise their emerging, current or future projects, practices or processes.
Dr Tanja Beer will also host two 1-hour long wrap up sessions on Friday 28 November at 11:00-12:00 CET and on Friday 5 December 20:00-21:00 CET, summing the key takeaways from the workshops with participants and people who weren’t able to take part to the sessions.
Fossil Free Culture NL (FFCNL) - Disobedient Art in Climate Justice:
Rehearsing Climate Justice Amid “Green” Contradictions
Tuesday 20 January 2026 / Tuesday 10 February 2026 / Tuesday 3 March 2026
13:00 - 15:00 CET (calculate your time zone)
This series of workshops hosted by Frida and David Limaverde is designed to introduce participants to the Disobedient Art School (DAS) — a project developed within Fossil Free Culture NL — and to collectively explore its principles and methodologies. The school is grounded in a set of Epistemic, Relational / Ethical and Organisational principles that are still evolving. Rooted in both artistic practice and activist urgency, DAS functions as a space for critical reflection, shared learning, and the cultivation of disobedient methodologies that challenge dominant structures of knowledge and power.