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Adelaide Festival is certified carbon neutral
As an iconic event for our community, we want Adelaide Festival to be an exemplar of environmental responsibility and know that we can make a vital and significant contribution to a future that we want our children to inherit.
We are committed to reducing our impact on the environment and we are proud to become the first major arts festival in Australia to be certified carbon neutral.
We will consistently measure and reduce our impacts on the environment, while offsetting the remaining carbon emissions involved in presenting our arts festival.
We are working with our staff, artists, suppliers, crew, volunteers, donors, sponsors and audience to ensure that sustainability is a key focus in everything we do.
The Festival is proud to be a part of a city that is leading the transition to a low carbon economy, and feels it is important to be part of the community leading climate change action to help our environment and our economy. This year, we are proud to be a Carbon Neutral Adelaide ambassador and are committed to our community’s shared aspiration to make the City of Adelaide one of the world’s first carbon neutral cities.
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What can you do to support our sustainability?
We've created the graphic below to describe some of the ways our audience members and supporters can help the Adelaide Festival to be more sustainable.
Latest news
AF22: Climate Crisis & the Arts
Climate Crisis & the Arts is a new one-day event in the 2022 Adelaide Festival, featuring conversations with leading voices from the arts and sciences. This event will take place at the Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden on Friday 11 March, 2022.
Read about Climate Crisis & the Arts
Announcing the AF22 Green Guide
In 2022, Adelaide Festival teamed up with Green Music Australia to create the Adelaide Festival Green Guide. This guide will be distributed to artists, contractors and new staff to assist them in understanding the Festival's commitment to emission reductions, carbon neutrality and climate action.
BYOBottle campaign
Adelaide Festival is aiming to reduce plastic waste across operations. We're encouraging artists, contractors and staff to help us by taking part in the BYOBottle campaign and drinking from reusable bottles for our 2022 events.
AF tree planting excursion
Adelaide Festival staff members participated in a tree planting project at Wirilda Conservation Retreat in November 2021. Read the update here.
Climate Crisis and the Arts: Videos, Podcasts + Resources
We recorded podcasts and video for each of the sessions in our 2022 Climate Crisis and the Arts event, as well as the short video below which includes footage from the event and interviews with some of the speakers.
The opening address for Climate Crisis and the Arts is available to watch as a video on YouTube here or as a podcast on Spotify here. Please see links to the podcasts and videos and a series of resources related to each of the other sessions below.
Watch or listen to the session
Watch the session on YouTube here or listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
Resources:
- Common Ground
- Join the regeneration at 2040
What can I do?
Watch Regenerating Australia as part of the national cinema tour and bring your family, friends, and ideas!
Creative Responses to the Climate Crisis
Watch or listen to the session
Watch the session on YouTube here or listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
Resources:
- Eco Creative
- The Unbound Collective
- David Finnigan’s New Rules
Watch or listen to the session
Watch the session on YouTube here or listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
Resources:
What Can I do?
Complete Complicité's survey.
Is it possible to party with the planet?
Watch or listen to the session
Watch the session on YouTube here or listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
Resources:
- Green Music Australia
- Adelaide Festival Green Guide
- The BACK tours' Greening page
WHAT CAN I DO?
- Artist? Sign the Music Scene Climate Change Declaration.
- Punter? BYO Bottle to all festivals, gigs, outdoors adventures, venues.
Watch or listen to the session
Watch the session on YouTube here or listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
Resources:
- Jess Scully’s Glimpses of UTOPIA
- SEED mob
WHAT CAN I DO?
Climate Action Now: Order your FREE sign today!
Replace the Waste: Towards Net Zero Festivals & Events
Watch or listen to the session
Watch the session on YouTube here or listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
Resources:
- Sustainability guidelines and resources from Green Industries SA.
WHAT CAN I DO?
Jump on the Replace the Waste challenge.
Watch or listen to the session
Watch the session on YouTube here or listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
Resources:
- Check out Market Forces and Heaps Better Podcast
WHAT CAN I DO?
Check your Super and Bank. If they are investing in coal, oil and gas, get in touch asking them to stop, or divest to an ethical fund supporting solutions for a better future.
Untangling: Breaking up with fossil fuels
Watch or listen to the session
Watch the session on YouTube here or listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
Resources:
- Maps of Gratitude
- Full Circle podcast interview with Alex Kelly and Scott Ludlam
- Australian Democracy Network: State capture report
- Filmmakers and the Andrew Forrest film fund
- Tim Winton at Perth Writers Fest
- Overland article about the Arts and fossil fuels
- Arts Wash by Mel Evans
- Green Agenda: the art of greenwashing
WHAT CAN I DO?
Find out where your money is going and aim to partner with and support companies doing right for people and planet.
Watch or listen to the session
Watch the session on YouTube here or listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
Resources:
- New action plan to support the City of Adelaide's Carbon Neutral aspirations
- Carbon neutral wine from Hither & Yon
- ASBN building sustainable and regenerative cities
WHAT CAN I DO?
Plant Trees with Reforest.
Resources for Arts and cultural workers
Julie’s Bicycle - Industry links:
WHAT CAN I DO?
Join one of the industry meet-ups hosted by Arts Front Cultural Gardeners the last Tuesday of each month to discuss sector specific climate action.
Festivals Adelaide:
Actively aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Festivals Adelaide brings the sector together to help advance collective sustainability goals.