Creating Sustainable Spaces and Communities
Melbourne may have the first Greens MP, but Sydney has long been a home of environmental innovation, particularly in the arts and cultural se ctors.

In 2009, SAMAG held its first ‘Greening the Arts’ seminar, a dynamic event which put the energy-saving-spotlight on arts organisations working to reduce their carbon emissions and impact on the environment generally.  It was intended to be a unique event,  but we soon realised just how engaged the arts sector is with environmental concerns, and that we'd need a sequel...'Greening the Arts - Part 2'.

Where 'Part 1' focussed on the changes arts organisations could make to green their workplaces, the sequel will look outward, at sustainable projects from the City of Sydney and how environmental issues are being answered by artists and communities in creative ways.

Appropriately, this SAMAG event will be held at the Surry Hills Library - A sustainable building of the City of Sydney.  

Join us to find out just how creativ ely green Sydney can be.

SPEAKERS

Samantha Graham is a consultant with Stormlight Consulting ( a partnership with her husband John Talbott) and has been designing and facilitating sustainability and cultural transformation workshops for 15 years, both in Australia and Scotland for not-for-profits, corporate and government clients. Her current interest is in the power of bringing diverse groups together to enable uncommon dialogues that lead to new, unanticipated ways of doing things (“whole systems” change). Sam has a Masters degree in Human Ecology and a PhD in Sustainability from a UK Management School, focusing on Transformative Learning Experiences and was a key speaker at SAMAG's first Greening the Arts seminar in April 2009.

Ilana Kaplin Acting Cultural Development Manager | City of Sydney
Ilana is passionate about arts and culture and  has worked at a number of film festivals, community and arts organisations.  She is currently at the City of Sydney managing Cultural Development which includes cultural projects, collaborations, partnerships and the grants and sponsorship programs. 

Anna Davis is a Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. She is Co-Curator of the MCA’s current, environmentally themed exhibition In the Balance: Art for a Changing World, in which she worked with local and international artists on a range of gallery-based and off-site projects. Anna is also an artist and holds a PhD in Fine Arts. Her solo and collaborative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in Vocal Thoughts at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA) and Face to Face: Portraiture in Digital Age, which is currently on tour throughout Asia.

Lucas Ihlein is a Sydney based artist who often works collaboratively with groups such as Big Fag Press, SquatSpace, Teaching and Learning Cinema and NUCA. In recent years Lucas has been working on a series of "blogging as art" projects. The use of blogging as a method of artmaking enables Lucas to follow a process closely annotating experiences as they unfold discovering learning  as it happens. One such key project which Lucas is currently conducting ( between July and November 2010) is an environmental audit for the MCA's current exhibition "In the Balance- Art for a Changing World".

RSVP
Please register to Janelle Prescott at info@samag.org or (02) 8250 5722 (message only).

FREE ENTRY for 2010 SAMAG Members / $10 for non-members / $5 for students

Please pay at the door - cash or cheque only.

Membership
Half yearly membership are now available visit our membership page or email info@samag.org.

To become a member simply download the membership form, fill it in and bring it – along with payment – to the seminar. We will issue you with a membership card and receipt on the spot. Please note SAMAG is unable to process credit card or EFTPOS payments; cash or cheque only please.

Contact: Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group Email info@samag.org T  (02) 8250 5722  W www.samag.org P  PO Box 18, Leichhardt 2040