Green Arts Action: Sustainability & Print Workshop with Seacourt

Let’s talk about the problem with print. It’s a traditionally wasteful and unsustainable sector, but theaters, galleries, museums, musicians and artists alike rely on print to market our work.

Join Green Arts Oxfordshire Network and award winning B Corp printer Seacourt to explore sustainable printing solutions for all things arts and culture, from outdoor banners to exhibition materials.

Local to Oxford, Seacourt is a pioneering printing company that puts the planet first. In this free workshop, they’ll share their sustainability journey – inventing Planet Positive Printing, proving zero waste to landfill is possible and becoming the highest scoring B Corp printer in the world.

Discuss the barriers to sustainable marketing that you encounter with other Oxfordshire based arts and culture groups, and lead the transition to Planet Positive Printing.

About Seacourt:

Putting the print in zero-carbon footprint, Seacourt delivers award-winning commercial printing without the water, carbon and waste.

The Angry Garden – Film Screening

The Angry Garden Film Competition called for people to make a short film (between 1 and 15 minutes) about the climate emergency over the Summer.

The presentation evening will feature the six short-listed films and the announcement of the winner. There will also be a short talk by the composer, discussing his inspiration for the piece.

The Angry Garden for choir and orchestra was first performed in 2002 and recorded in 2019 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the City of London Choir, conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton.

Women Against the Bomb – Community Screening

Come and join us watching this brilliant new documentary about Greenham Common by Sonia Gonzalez (AndanaFilms, 2021; 58 minutes). The inspirational story of the first all-female peace camp is told from the inside by the women who were there.

The event is free of charge; donations are welcome.
The screening will take place at Lock29 Event Space, Castle Quay, Banbury. Stay with us for an informal discussion afterwards in the Lock29 bar.

The Ants and the Grasshopper – Community Screening

Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real.

Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide to schisms of race, class, and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognize, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.

We are proud to be screening this powerful documentary on Thursday 29 September as part of the Oxfordshire Great Big Green Week. Come along to The Phoenix to spread awareness through the power of cinema.

We The Power – Community Screening

The future of energy is community owned. Green Arts Oxfordshire Network are very excited to partner with newly community owned cinema The Ultimate Picture Palace for a screening of We The Power.

We the Power follows friends, families, and visionaries as they break down legislative barriers and take power back from big energy companies to put in the hands of locals. Beforehand, we’ll also be showing a short film about two artists in London currently working to turn their street into a power station. There will be a panel discussion exploring community owned energy local to Oxfordshire afterwards, hosted by Green Arts Oxfordshire Network with Youth Empowered and Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust.

This event has been supported by WeSET, the Tandem Collective and the Climate Coalition.