What is Green E.Th.I.Cs?
Green E.Th.I.Cs, is a social community and artistic project that takes the performing arts as a basis for building thinking focused on civic engagement and sensitivity to climate change.
In the period 3 –5 April 2023, it has been an exciting 3 days spent with the 18 European partners of the Green E.Th.I.Cs project. The objective to raise awareness among European citizens about environmental sustainability brings together theater companies, universities and research centers, large cultural policies, social entities, and public institutions.
The first public conference on the Green E.Th.I.Cs project, cultural initiatives and artistic formats that will raise European citizens’ awareness of environmental sustainability by 2026, took place on 4 April at the Royal Cavallerizza in the Aula Magna of the University of Turin.
The Social Community Theatre Centre officially presented the European project Green Ethics – Green Experience through Theatre Inspiring Communities, through which two Italian and Piemontese best practices will be brought to Europe, the interactive Goose Board Game developed by SCT Centre together with Polo del ‘900 and the bicycle theatre designed by the Cultural Association Mulino ad Arte.
Partners were introduced to both the Goose Board Game and the GEG Live Game and were involved in the process of creating some of the fields of the game. In mixed groups, the partners developed a short artistic creation for the content of the GEG to demonstrate the working steps of the coming months. The premiere in Bulgaria is expected in the autumn of 2024.
After working on the draft Green Protocol, which aims to contrast CO2 emissions during and after the project through a set of guidelines and concrete tools to be adopted by all partners for project management activities and all project events, and discussing the need for a green manager, the last day was dedicated to the bicycle theatre, designed by the Cultural Association Mulino ad Arte from Piossasco. What better way to experience the bicycle theatre than to participate in it yourself? All the artistic partners, including FECE, performed a short artistic piece for the audience in Piossasco. The hosts presented a part of “𝘔𝘪 𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰 𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦”.
Main goals:
GREEN SHIFT OF THE CULTURAL FIELD: making sustainability a main issue for both communities and professionals working with culture, fostering a green shift and providing them with technological infrastructures, protocols, knowledge and expertise to promote CO2 reduction actively throughout the power of culture.
CULTURAL GREEN ENGAGEMENT OF THE AUDIENCES: emotionally engage the audience in artistic processes while enhancing critical thinking and providing accessible scientific information about climate change.
Partners: Social Community Theatre Centre, ZID Theater, Teatr Brama, Compagnia Il Melarancio, Népkör Magyar Művelődési Központ, Narodna biblioteka “Njegoš”, Knjaževac, ASTA – Teatro e Outras Artes, Residui Teatro, omma studio theater, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης / Technical University of Crete, Universidade de Évora, Polo del ‘900, Mulino ad Arte, Pro Progressione, Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Culture and Education, Zinātnes un inovāciju parks / Science and innovation park, Caprifolens Voltigeklubb
Green E.TH.I.Cs is a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
