Stages forum – Two days on theatre and sustainability with leading artists and researchers

The researcher Natasja Börjeson together with mask designers Thea Holmberg and Frida Ottosson at Dramaten.

Performances, panel discussions, performance lectures and openlabs - welcome to two days on sustainability issues in the arts. What can theater learn from science? And what can researchers learn from the theatre?

STAGES (Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift) is an international collaborative project to shed light on and change how theaters work with sustainability. During STAGES FORUM, some of Sweden's leading performing artists and researchers gather to discuss everything from chemicals in make-up to overall questions about freedom in academia and art.

Welcome! 

The event is free, book your tickets here. 

Read more about Dramaten and Stockholm University here. 

Programme 

7 October 15:00 Lilla scenen: Performance lecture: Clouds, by set and costume designer Anna Heymowska. Free with ticket. 

7 & 8 October 19:00 Målar salen: Performance Jérôme Bel, A monologue with text, videos, choreographies by and about Jérôme Bel, performed by David Book. The performance is in Swedish. (Tickets 100 SEK) 

8 October 14:00 Dramatenbaren: Openlab Circularity of plastics. In this Openlab, science and theatre come together and discuss plastic in the performing arts – and possible alternatives. In English. Free with ticket. 

8 October 17:00 Dramatenbaren: Openlab: Chemical risks in hair and makeup. A conversation between science and performing arts about the risks of cosmetics and the possibilites to be sustainable without compromising the artistic expression. In English. Free with ticket. 

8 October 14:30 Lilla Scenen: Artist talk: 77 Messages to the future – Storytelling on the front lines of the climate crisis. In English. Free with ticket. 

8 October 16:00 Lilla Scenen: Panel talk: Freedom in academia and performing arts. This panel will discuss how sustainability research and the performing arts can work together to find new ways of producing knowledge to transform the theatre and the way we act and think about art and the environment. In English. Free with ticket. 

8 October 13:00 Målarsalen: Panel talk: Cooperation between academia and performing arts. This panel will discuss how sustainability research and the performing arts can work together to find new ways of producing knowledge to transform the theatre and the way we act and think about art and the environment. In English. Free with ticket.