Liverpool arts organisations take up climate change challenge
Organisations including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Bluecoat, Tate Liverpool and NML, gather this week to explore new ways of tackling climate change issues in some of the Liverpool city region’s most high profile arts venues.
The key event will feature environmental experts and encourage the arts and culture organisations to play a bigger role in tackling climate change issues in their own buildings – and beyond.
The Tipping Point workshop tomorrow ( Wednesday 25th February) is staged by the Liverpool Arts and Regeneration Consortium (LARC) and Liverpool City Council and will feature contributions from Ken Livingstone’s former climate change advisor and a London organisation bidding to become the world’s first carbon neutral theatre.
LARC member Alastair Upton, of the Bluecoat, said: “Arts and cultural organisations have a major contribution to make in helping tackle climate change.
“This event is about showing how we, as galleries, touring companies, theatres, concert halls and museums can help take the lead in reducing our own carbon emissions and in influencing our own audiences, partners and suppliers to take up the challenge.”
A total of 20 arts and cultural organisations from across the Liverpool city region will join the day-long workshop, led on behalf of LARC and Liverpool City Council by Tipping Point, a national organisation dedicated to finding creative ways of tackling climate change issues.
Liverpool City Council’s Executive Member for the Environment, Councillor Berni Turner, said: “We want as many people as possible to get involved in the Year of the Environment and it’s fantastic news that so many arts and cultural organisations are getting together to talk about the important issue of climate change.
“This year is all about working together to see what more we can do to make our region a sustainable community.”
Participants attending the event will share their own ideas for reducing carbon emissions and listen to experts before exploring practical suggestions for improving the carbon impact of their own organisations.
The Tipping Point workshop is a contribution to Liverpool’s Year of the Environment and will be attended by the city council’s Culture Executive Member, Councillor Gary Millar (TBC).
