UK Live Performance Production Declares Climate & Biodiversity Emergency Petition
28 April 2020
LIVE PERFORMANCE PRODUCTION DECLARES is a public declaration of our planet’s environmental crises and a commitment from everyone working in the presentation of live performance, operating a place of entertainment or supplying productions to take positive action in response to climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.
UK Live Performance Production Declares Climate & Biodiversity Emergency
A global petition uniting all strands of the Live Performance Production industry …
LIVE PERFORMANCE PRODUCTION DECLARES is a public declaration of our planet’s environmental crises and a commitment from everyone working in the presentation of live performance, operating a place of entertainment or supplying productions to take positive action in response to climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.
The crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss are two of the most serious issues of our time. Live Performance has been branded the ‘eco-vandal of the arts’ with lavish sets, global tours and energy consuming venues. Sets are scrapped after tours which rack-up hotel nights and transport miles. Audiences travel for hours to see stars who fly across continents. As one of the sectors that contributes to art-forms with some of the greatest social and political influence, Live Performance Production must lead in promoting the transformation to a circular economic model by demonstrating positive measures in its own practice.
For everyone working in the presentation of live performance, operating a place of entertainment or supplying productions, meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth’s ecological boundaries will demand a paradigm shift in our behaviour. Together with our creative partners, performers, patrons and clients, we shall need to run our buildings, create our performances, source and manage our resources in order to serve our communities as indivisible elements of a larger, constantly regenerating and self-sustaining system.
The research, technology and solutions exist for us to begin the transformation to a circular model now, but there must be a collective will. Recognising this, we are committing to strengthen our working practices and redesign our business activities, operational processes, use of resources, organisational policy and overall governance in order to create and present live performance in a way that has a more positive impact on the world around us.