Festival Sustainability Lab is an innovative collaboration between Green Events, Innofest, One Resilient Earth and LiveGreen, accelerating the evolution of the cultural and creative sectors and making them more resilient and fit for the future.

At the heart of the EU-funded project are three digital labs with a focus on experimentation, innovation and development of best practices. Together with organisations, artists, labels, and creatives affiliated with the festival industries across Europe, Festival Sustainability Lab will broadcast best-practices and innovations of technological-logistical and artistic-communicative nature.

You can choose to participate in the masterclass independently at your own pace. However since sustainability is something we cannot achieve on our own, we are organizing a number of online sessions in the winter-spring of 2023. These include:

• Q&A with LiveGreen coaches
• Exercises that will help you analyze your event’s sustainability
• Group discussions of challenging situations and solutions to common problems
• Peer-coaching and collective problem solving

Take the opportunity to give your team support in understanding & applying the good and best practices in sustainable event production, network with industry colleagues in Europe, share your own challenges and successes, and learn more about sustainable event production, communication, and innovation!

For the online workshops, we established a one-time fee of 100 EUR per organization. This fee covers all the workshops and all the members of the organization. To pay the fee, please write to masterclass@livegreen.se to receive further information.

Besides we offer a number of scholarships. In case you currently cannot afford the fee but really want to participate in the workshops, please contact us and describe your situation at masterclass@livegreen.se.

Febuary 1, 2023, 10:00 a.m CET

Climate justice and ecological transformation

Scientists, indigenous people, and activists have been saying it for a while: society is heading toward a warmer, less fair, and more insecure world.

Climate change affects everyone, including the cultural sector. The truth is that culture and events are extra vulnerable in crisis situations. For our own sake, we must speed up the transition, and at the same time build resilience against the consequences of the climate crisis.

During this workshop, we dive into the topics of climate justice and ecological transition. How do we reduce our negative environmental footprint? What is a circular festival? Is it possible to organize a climate-positive event? And how do we tackle the major systemic changes that are required, when our industry is largely based on what is causing our global crises: unsustainable travel and consumption?

March 1, 2023, 10:00 a.m CET

An inclusive and equal festival society

Events reflect society. You can’t wave a magic wand and voila! prejudices, violence, polarization, and health problems disappear.

But we organizers have more power than we think! We can challenge harmful norms and highlight new role models. We can create more equal stages, safer spaces, and accessible areas.

During our second event, we reflect on how injustice that exists in society can manifest at festivals and events, and what we can do to address it — during the festival and beyond. We even have a look and such difficult issues as alcohol culture, sexism, and power structures.

April 12, 10:00 a.m CET

Scope X – the power to influence

You have probably heard of scopes 1, 2, and 3 — common terms that define our direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions. But have you heard of scope X?

The theme for the third workshop is based on this new concept — scope X — which describes the impact that our communication has on audiences, suppliers, partners, and politics. It is long known that festivals and events can unite and engage communities, promote new behaviors, set new trends, and give space to new ideas and solutions. We can create debate and change in society.

What we choose to communicate and who we give space to can have powerful and long-lasting effects on sustainable development. In the same way, it can have serious consequences, if we are not aware of our power and do not take responsibility for it.

May 10, 2023, 10:00 CET

Future-fit and innovative events

What will the festivals and events of the future look like? Together with pioneers and industry leaders, artists and activists, researchers and experts, we have come up with five major trends that affect our industry today and will change the rules of the game tomorrow.

There are no sensible arguments for postponing the transition and sustainability work we all have to do! But in order to make wise decisions, we need to know which future we are moving towards. What will it look like if we continue as usual vs. if we manage to limit the global temperature increase according to scientists’ recommendations? How will things like increased social injustice, polarization, and a climate refugee crisis affect us, people who work with culture and events?

And finally: what can we do today to secure a better future for our industry and our society at large, and how can we finance our efforts?

After the Masterclass, two festival organisations get personal coaching.

Module 1. Ecological sustainability

Module 2. Social sustainability

Module 3. Communication & impact

Module 4. Innovation, economic sustainability & the future

masterclass@livegreen.se

+46 73-442 78 10