Case Studies – Sustainable Operations

The Albany team discuss their aims and process behind making a community garden, and how they use the grown produce in their cafe.

Read about how Shakespeare North used the Sustainability in the Arts board game to create a staff-driven Environmental Strategy.

Having been heavily involved in the development of the Theatre Green Book since its inception, NTS been hitting Intermediate standard on 70% of its Productions since 2022. Now they have been working on bringing their Operations and Building up to the same standard.

See here for an interview between Supercool Director, Katie and the Audience Insight Manager at CFT, Caroline Aston about communicating the sustainable work being done by the theatre.

A brief explanation from the National Theatre about the difficulties and solutions for recycling soft plastic.

Q&A with Oli Savage from Greenhouse Theatre, a zero-waste theatre, now focusing on education and community building whilst looking for a new home.

Gran Teatre del Liceu, the opera house of Barcelona, are leaders in sustainable theatre, having pioneered the practice of measuring recycling and reuse in productions.

The Lyric Theatre in Belfast have been making changes to their scenic construction workshops, building, and operations.

Examples of what waste audits can look like, and give guidance on how to change behaviour

Nottingham Playhouse have a brilliant page on their website on their Environmental work. The page is being constantly updated, but has some great ideas and graphics on how they are communicating their work with audiences.

Northern Stage have begun the process of phasing out single-use plastic cups and replacing them with multi-use ones.

Five cultural venues have been working together  with You.Smart.Thing for four months as part of Indigo’s new Act Green travel pilot project to encourage audiences to travel more sustainably to events.