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Green Touring: Transforming Cross-border Collaboration
July 10 @ 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Panel Discussion and Workshop
How can we dream differently about touring in a time of climate crisis? Join Julie’s Bicycle, in futurum, and cultural practitioners from the UK, Danish and Norwegian arts sectors for a panel discussion and workshop as they discuss sustainable approaches to mobility, cultural exchange and global touring. Explore the possibilities of alternative touring models and how the arts can lead the way in reducing environmental impact while staying globally connected.
Panel Discussion
3-4pm at The Social – Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester, M3 4JQ
Speakers Dr Victor Fung, Pavilion Dance South West (UK), Olga Regitze (Denmark), Maiken Garder (Norway) will share learnings with Farah Ahmed and Becky Hazlewood, JB – reflecting on their participation in the International Touring and Environmental Responsibility programme. They share how they’ve experimented with touring models; deepened relationships and built new audiences through sustainable touring practices, exploring transformative, and equitable models for international touring.
The panel discussion is part of Manchester International Festival and no booking is required. will be recorded and made available on Julie’s Bicycle website Resource Hub.
There will be a British Sign Language interpreter at this event.
Workshop
4:15 – 5:45pm, The Board Room at The Social – Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester, M3 4JQ
To delve deeper into themes explored in the Green Touring panel discussion taking place earlier in the day, JB and in futurum host an in-depth sustainable touring workshop featuring interactive exercises and stories from across the creative sector. The session offers practical principles to re-design and plan international artistic collaborations that support regeneration and justice, as well as how to use your influence to build deeper change, and take your first steps towards this vision.
Speaker Biographies
Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh is a Danish scenographer and costume designer working across scales and spatial formats – including galleries, stages, and public spaces. She holds a master in scenography from The Norwegian Theatre Academy and a bachelor in design culture from The Southern University of Denmark. Her artistic and philosophical practice investigates the agency of things, questioning the signs and systems of meaning that humans assign to inanimate objects.
Dr. Victor Fung is the Artistic Director and Joint CEO of Pavilion Dance South West in Bournemouth. As a cultural enabler and award-winning dance artist, Victor has worked in the arts and cultural sector internationally across four continents. His experience in curation, choreography, research, education, coaching and performance has led him to his mission of empowering marginalised voices and creating positive impact together with communities. Victor is the Chair of One Dance UK, the national support organisation for dance. He is a Clore Fellow, RSA Fellow, and School for Social Entrepreneurs Fellow.
Maiken Garder is Managing Director and producer for Elle Sofe Company. Garder sees the strength and potential in art created on the periphery, outside of large cities. Her background is within performing arts; as producer and project manager at Davvi and also contrinuting to the development of the Dansenett Norge touring network. Garder holds a strong international network within performing arts and her experience in collaborations across boarders has highlighted how diversity within the arts can create a common ground for understanding and collaboration.
Facilitator Biographies
Frederik Larsen, in futurum. Frederik has worked with responsible business for more than 15 years. In his work he advises companies, organisations and institutions on change processes, ecology, and climate justice. He holds a PhD in organizational anthropology from the Copenhagen Business School. As an advisor he works by addressing the conditions for change through queer and anti-racist practices to create paths to thriving futures. Over the last six years he has developed tools for change used in leadership, the cultural sector, tourism, fashion, food, tech and design.
Becky Hazlewood joined Julie’s Bicycle in July 2019 as an Environmental Sustainability Project Manager and works across our Creative Green, Arts Council England and Environmental Touring and Responsibility programmes. Becky has worked in the sustainability and environmental sector for many years and has experience in areas such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, biodiversity and green spaces, sustainable procurement, circular economy, wellbeing initiatives and organisational change.
Farah Ahmed is an organiser, facilitator, creative producer and curator, working to build powerful movements for climate justice. They were formally the Climate Justice Lead at Julie’s Bicycle, and co-founded Our Diaspora Futures collective. They are interested in how we can imagine and practice decolonial, ancestral, and anti-capitalist ways of being. She believes in building a cultural movement for climate justice which is accessible, radical, well informed, and grounded in deep care for the human and more-than-human world. Farah is a trustee of Platform and is on multiple advisory boards focusing on grassroots-led collective action for climate justice.
