Arts Go Green

Going to Sustainability event

2007-08-08T07:16:00.000-07:00

Just found out about the South West Participatory Arts Network (why do these orgs always have such long titles?) and a sustainability conference on Friday 17 August in Devon. Check out www.swpan.org.uk for more information - and maybe see you there. I'll be letting everyone know about www.artsgogreen.co.uk of course. If I look a little disheveled it's because me and my partner in crime may be camping overnight. But don't feel sorry for me - I love camping!

And if you're interested, I've just picked up a new client in my marketing capacity (www.secretagentmarketing.com). His name is Peter Buxton and he makes very electic, uplifting music amongst many other things. Check out www.peterbuxton.com

People seem to like it

2007-08-08T07:11:00.000-07:00

www.artsgogreen.co.uk seemed to go down well at the conference. Arts people seemed to be interested in the issues. As I suspected print (ie brochures, posters, flyers, etc) seemed to be the biggest concerns on their impact on the environment.

I've got lots of updates on the site, but there have been a few teething issues, mainly because I'm learning new software to create the site. I also need to swap hosting to somewhere that supports all the stuff it needs, but of course there are difficulties with that too, arghhhhhh!

Why are these things never simple????

Sorry to be yawnsome.

Saving the plant...one typo at a time

2007-07-15T19:10:00.000-07:00

So what was the plan?

Well to introduce myself I'm a freelance marketeer with a freelance PR husband (potentially financial suicide) and a one-year-old child, plus a serious addiction to online-geekfest World of Warcraft. Please don't hold this against me!

I love the arts. Have worked in the business, darh-ling, for nearly 10 years. I also think not killing our planet is a very fine idea.

In the arts we like to think we help people live, rather than exist. Through arts, both as an audience member, a viewer and a participant or creator, we can have access to some really special life-affirming and life-changing moments. Anything which makes that claim has to think about the whole picture. The arts can't claim to enchance lives then help kill the environment we live in by poor work practices.

In my home life I'm pretty eco-friendly. I recycle, try to be energy efficient, support local businesses and get a veg/fruit organic box from a local farmer. I wanted to extend this to my work. So, after lots of research I thought, why not share the knowledge?

So, www.ArtsGoGreen.co.uk was born.

I'm launching the website at the Arts Marketing Association's (www.a-m-a.co.uk) annual conference next week. It's hardly ready but hopefully it's got enough on there to get people excited. I'm doing a 'round table' discussion event about eco-friendly arts. With amusement I noticed that it was described on the conference blurb as an 'emerging' issue. How far we are behind other industries.

Thanks for reading this. Do give your opinion and stick stuff on the forum. Even if it's to say I'm wrong, wrong, wrong! Arts Go Green is about getting more planet-friendly each day, and learning through each other...ahhhhh.