Arts and Sustainability
What do we support?
We continue to promote awareness of the developing field of environmental art, and in particular
drama, through our sister website
The Ashden Directory of Environment and Performance.
Within this category, the Trust is working with arts organisations to help them cut their carbon
footprints, and to prepare their public for the implementation of measures which will improve
sustainability. We also help organisations which, through the medium of literature and the arts, draw
attention to environmental issues.
What kind of projects have we funded?
A grant towards raising awareness about global warming by bringing
together artists, scientists and communicators to stimulate the production
of art founded in scientific research.
A grant towards a drama-training and performance programme for homeless
people and young people at risk to combat and overcome problems linked to
homelessness.
Chief Executives Project
A grant to bring together chief executives from major arts organisations, across a series
of events, to discuss how they can work together towards achieving more sustainable working
practices.
The Ashden Trust has provided two grants to the Open University. The first is to part-fund
a Ph.D studentship, working on the cultural response to climate change. The second is towards
employment costs to manage a programme of recorded discussions between academics and artists
on the subject of climate change and the arts, which are available as podcasts
here.
A grant to expand Tipping Point’s work bringing artists and scientists together at a series of
conferences that encourages collaborative engagement between artists and scientists around the subject
of climate change.
