Green Theater Choices Toolkit

Mo`olelo’s Green Theater Choices Toolkit is completed!

Click here to read about it.

more greening news

Scenic Designer David F. Weiner and Artistic Director Seema Sueko will be speaking — via skype — at the LDI Green Day Conference on Thursday, November 19 in Orlando, Florida. They’ll share the lastest versions of Mo`olelo’s Green Theater Choices Scorecards. You can read about the conference here: http://www.ldishow.com/LDI09/Public/Content.aspx?ID=1009691

You can download the latest Green Theater Choices Scorecards here: http://www.tcg.org/pdfs/events/fallforum/Scorecards_for_TCG_Fall_Forum.pdf

greening mo`olelo new york style

Mo`olelo’s Artistic Director, Seema Sueko, is heading to New York this weekend to participate in TCG’s (Theatre Communication Group’s) Fall Forum! She’ll be speaking at a breakout session called “The Green Opportunity” at 2:30 PM on Saturday, Nov 7, where she’ll talk about Mo`olelo’s greening initiative and share the latest versions of the Green Theater Choices Toolkit and Scorecards. Her co-panelists are Charlie Deull of Clark Transfer and Broadway Green Alliance, Seth Greenleaf of GFour Productions, and Susan Medak of Berkeley Repertory Theatre. They are all doing amazing working in greening the theater industry. If you’ll be in New York, come to the Fall Forum. Details and info here: http://tcg.org/events/fallforum/2009/index.cfm

The Land that Never Melts

Chantal writes:

I’m back in Iqaluit after visiting Pangnirtung and Auyuittuq (The Land That Never Melts) National Park. We saw a dozen of glaciers (all retreating unfortunately) and even witnessed one on them lose great chunks of ice and rocks that came tumbling down the side of the mountain with a great roar. On the picture, you can see our tent not far from Mount Thor.

inuksuk

Chantal writes:

We were supposed to fly to Pangnirtung today but our flight got canceled. So we spent another day in Iqaluit and went for a walk along the Sylvia Grinnell River where we encountered several inuksuk (which are cairns used to indicate directions and/or other things):

We also watched a young Inuit boy pull arctic char out of the river without even having to bait them. They are going back to the ocean for spawning (the opposite of salmon which goes upriver for spawning) and are particularly easy to catch at this time of year.

notes from Iqaluit

Chantal tells us she visited Nordreg, a maritime surveillance organization in the town of Iqaluit today. Here are some images she sent back:

The Town of Iqaluit

 

A Stop Sign in Inuktitut

 

Here she is with Jean-Pierre Lehnert, the Officer in charge at Nordreg. He gave Chantal a tour and discussed ship traffic in the arctic and the Northwest Passage.

chantal has arrived

As we wrote in Monday’s blog, playwright Chantal Bilodeau began her jouney to the Canadian arctic archipelago to conduct research for her script. She arrived safely and sent this photo:

green theater choices toolkit draft 2

Last year, Mo`olelo received the TCG/MetLife Think it, Do it Grant to work with Environmental Consultants Brown & Wilmanns to develop a Green Theater Choices Toolkit. We have now completed draft 2. You can download the toolkit here: http://aha.tcg.org/2009/08/green-feedback.html. Please check it out and post your comments and feedback on the Think it, Do it blog.

Thank you!

Mo`olelo Newsletter 6

Mo`olelo’s latest semi-annual Newsletter is up on our website. This current issue includes articles about Good Boys, our education program Mo`olelo Bridges, an interview with Board Member Freda Statom, and news about our grants and greening initiative. You can read the Newsletter here.

green update

Back in the fall 2008, Mo`olelo received an “A-ha Think it! Do it!” grant from TCG/MetLife to research and develop a green theater choices toolkit. We have a prototype of the toolkit up on the TCG Think it, Do it Blog.  The project isn’t finalized yet, but this provides a bit of a sneak peek into the work.