Future Festivals Meetup 2 – Holland Festival

As a follow-up to last year’s successful Future Festivals Meetup, the Holland Festival will organise a meetup for field professionals to discuss questions around sustainability. Because together, festivals have more and better ideas than on their own. This edition will be about sustainability at the Dutch National Opera & Ballet and more.

As a festival, we aim to not only make art that is about sustainability but to really do something, too. How might festivals be organised in a more sustainable manner? Organisations from the widest range of performing arts festivals are invited to have a dialogue: theatre festivals in theatres, pop festivals in nature areas, hybrid dance festivals. These are organisations that ordinarily barely get around to sharing their experience regarding sustainable organising, or the lack thereof.

We wish to highlight one case study in particular this time: sustainability at the Dutch National Opera & Ballet (NO&B) in Amsterdam. NO&B has had an official ‘Sustainability Project Leader’ in the person of Julie Fuchs for some time now. Together with Bob Brandsen, Technical & Production Director, she will talk about what exactly her role involves and what changes, big and small, they have made, or plan to, with respect to sustainability. What works, what does not, and how do you get everyone in your organisation on board? What are some insights that might benefit all of us, irrespective of scale? And is it harder, or rather easier for larger organisations to become more sustainable? Romy and Gable Roelofsen, commissioned by NO&B to make an opera version of Anouk Nuyens’ The Shell Trial, will talk about how this works in practice for them as makers. In keeping with the theme of their piece, they aim to be forward-thinking not just artistically, but also where it comes to sustainability.

Lastly, Holland Festival programmer Katinka Enkhuizen will talk about the sustainably produced theatre piece Jérôme Bel. It is the second of its kind that the Holland Festival will present as part of the ‘Sustainable Theatre’ project in collaboration with Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (Switzerland). We hope this, too, will give food for thought.

The meetup will be moderated by Rob Van Wegen, sustainability coordinator for Eurosonic Noorderslag.

Programme

De Balie:

15:00-15:30 Doors open (Café)
15:30-17:30 Programme (Salon)
17:30-18:00 Drinks (Café)
18:15-19:30 Dinner (vegan) at De Balie (supplementary charge 15 euros)

Frascati:

20:30 Performance Jérôme Bel

This meetup is invite-only. Did you not receive an invitation but wish to attend? Please contact Inge Jongerman via [email protected].

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