Environmental Action: Green Riders & Artist Donut Toolkit

In this webinar we'll hear from Lorna Rees about the work that she's done, supported by Without Walls, in developing Green Riders for outdoor artists. A Green Rider should sit alongside your Technical Rider and it can detail the things you need from a festival or presenting venue/host organisations to ensure that you can deliver your work in the most environmentally-friendly way possible. Alongside Lorna, we'll hear from Paula Birtwistle, Green Champion of Super Culture, about how festivals can work with artists to implement their Green Riders.

Following on from Lorna, we'll have a discussion with Andrew Lansley, developer of the OAUK Donut Advisory Toolkit, about what elements might feed into the development of a version of the toolkit designed for touring artists. This is a chance for you to feed directly into the key areas that the toolkit will focus on.

This webinar is available for free to OAUK Members. It is £10 for freelance non-members and £20 for non-member organisations. Please note that this is per employee.

The session will be available via Zoom, with a link emailed out the day before the session.

If you have any access requirements in order to join the session, please outline them when you book your ticket. The session will have BSL made available if required.

Lorna Rees is the Artistic Director of Gobbledegook Theatre, a multidisciplinary art practice that makes innovative, national, and international touring work for the outdoors. She collaborates with a variety of talented artists, musicians and scientists with work frequently inspired by Earth Sciences. Lorna is also an activist, making interventions under the title of ‘Disruption and Joy’. Lorna is Co-Chair of OutdoorArtsUK, Associate Artist for Inside Out Dorset, and Artist Ambassador for Change Festival.

Andrew Lansley is Senior Academic at the University of Gloucestershire, Innovation Manager for Cheltenham Festivals, and coordinator for the Cheltenham Culture Board. He has worked for almost 30 years in cross sector roles including: events; academia; politics; broadcast and innovation. Leading on research and project delivery within creative ecosystems, event sustainability, artist accessibility, mental health, and the future of cultural placemaking, he now runs a neurodivergent consultancy that specialises in intersectional, regenerative projects around the UK and beyond. He is also a trustee for Youth Music and Global Local and in his spare time performs as double bassist with Thrill Collins.

Paula Birtwistle has worked in the live events industry for over 25 years. Following years of work in sound engineering and lighting design she now combines her technical and logistical knowledge as a creative producer and production manager. A more recent journey with activism and social justice led to finding ways to bring these two passions together and move into sustainable production management in more meaningful sectors, especially in outdoor arts and community settings. She now produces her own light art work and lighting festival GLOW which has sustainability at its heart. She currently works as Green Champion for Super Culture and has previously worked with Diverse City, she was the 2023 WW artist sustainability advisor and sits on the Without Walls Environmental Responsibility Action Group.