Environmental Sustainability & the EU Cultural Policies • DAY 2 • European Theatre Forum

The second day of the 'European Theatre Forum 2020: European Performing Arts in Focus" addressed the urgent topic of climate change and environmental sustainability, and the role the sector can and must play towards a fair green transition. Young voices were heard and their words lead into two focussed sessions, looking at sustainability from the perspectives of policy making, science and culture, but also through the lens of best practices from the theatre and performing arts sector. 1. Introduction & Prelude “Ihr habt keinen Plan! / You have no plan!” • Thomas Engel, Managing Director, ITI Germany, Berlin/Germany • Introduction: Stefan Fischer-Fels, Artistic Director Junges Schauspiel / Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Assitej International, Düsseldorf/Germany • Tara Runze, Activist, Fridays for Future, Düsseldorf/Germany • Dario Vecchi, Activist, Fridays for Future, Düsseldorf/Germany • Lynn Takeo Musiol, Dramaturg at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf/Germany 2. SESSION 1: Culture & Environmental Sustainability: Perspectives of Policy-Making, Science & Research, Cultural System-Change, Cross-Sectoral Synergies • Alison Tickell, Director, Julie’s Bicycle, UK • Dr Sebastian Brünger, Research Associate, Federal Cultural Foundation, Halle / Germany • Christos Carras, Executive Director, Onassis Stegi, Athens/Greece • Moderator: Jan Jaap Knol, Director, Boekman Foundation, Amsterdam/Netherlands 3. SESSION 2: Embedding environmental sustainability in the theatre & performing arts sector • Benjamin Verdonck, Artist and Theatre Maker, Associate Artist of Toneelhuis, Antwerp / Belgium • Natalie Driemeyer, Dramaturg and Festival Curator, Berlin / Germany • Ben Twist, Director of Creative Carbon Scotland, Edinburgh/United Kingdom • Eva Johansone, “Art. Climate. Transition” Project Coordinator, Culture Journalist New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Riga / Latvia • Moderator: Iphigenia Taxopoulou, General Secretary mitos21, Thessaloniki / Greece 4. Concluding Discussion • MEP Laurence Farreng (FR — Renew) • MEP Niklas Nienaß (DE - Greens) • Moderators: Anita Debaere & Silke Lalvani, Pearle*- Live Performance Europe **** This session was live streamed on 12 November 2020. The sign language interpretation of this webinar has been produced live; this is not an edited translation. ***** The “European Theatre Forum 2020: European Performing Arts in Focus” is an international platform for vision, discourse, exchange, networking and policymaking to strategically strengthen the structurally highly fragmented European theatre and performing arts sector. The “European Theatre Forum 2020: European Performing Arts in Focus” was organised in the frame of the German EU Council Presidency and in cooperation with the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media and the European Commission. It offered, for the first time, a European representation for the entire sector as one of Europe’s major art forms, within and outside Europe. In focus: Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the performing arts and perspectives for the sector. More about the 'European Theatre Forum 2020: European Performing Arts in Focus' on www.europeantheatreforum.eu. *****