Green Stages 2025

Green Stages 2025: Making Theatre in the Climate Transition

Started in 2024, 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 is an annual symposium that brings together industry stakeholders (theatre professionals, SEPs, representatives from theatre institutions and arts managers) to discuss sustainability challenges and collaborate on solutions. The gathering aims to empower the Singapore theatre community to embrace sustainability, driving positive change and innovation in the industry.

Through shared learning and collaborative discussions, 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 2025 aims to assess current practices, identify challenges and begin the process of mapping out a sustainable future for Singapore's theatre landscape. It also serves as field-research for the co-creation of a Singapore edition of the Theatre Green Book — documenting best practices and resources for creating sustainable theatre for a local context.

Ang Xiao Ting updating on the progress of Singapore Theatre Green Book

Shridar Mani sharing about experiences with using pre-exisitng props and furniture for their show

Video Note from guest speakers, Paddy Dillion & Lisa Burger, Renew Culture UK,

Green Stages Symposium

📆17 November 2025
⌚6:00pm to 7:15pm (dinner) | 7:15pm to 10:00pm (Sharing & Work Session)
📍 Arts Resource Hub @ 42 Waterloo Street

This annual symposium serves as field research for co-creating a Singapore edition of the Theatre Green Book, documenting best practices for sustainable theatre in our local context. Connect with peers and contribute to shaping the future of environmentally conscious theatre production through expert-led discussions and knowledge exchange.

Observers joined in to listen in on sharings and discussions between speakers and invited participants.

Lecture Series by Louis Yu (HK)

- part of Green Stages 2025

📆18 Sep 2025
⌚1:30pm - 6:00pm
📍 Practice Space, The Theatre Practice, 54 Waterloo Street ↗ (opens in new tab)

A lecture sharing by a seasoned arts administrator that contextualises why sustainability is a movement crucial in changing the way we approach artmaking, and the repercussions it can have on an industry and also society. This also allowed for cross cultural understanding between Hong Kong and Singapore.

#1: HOW CITIES CULTURE?《城市如何文化》

What is culture? When we talk about a city’s culture, what do we mean?

This lecture proposes a new way of looking at culture, revealing how it manifests in various aspects of city life. Through four dimensions — beliefs and values, everyday lifestyles, art and creativity, and memory and tradition — it establishes a framework for observing and analysing a city’s culture, highlighting the role each person plays in shaping it.

#2 CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY IN CITIES《文化永續城市》

In an era of climate change, where each year is the hottest on record, typhoons strike in December, ocean resources are depleted, glaciers vanish, virgin forests are razed, and species face extinction, the question arises: what role does culture play?

As the world sets “Sustainable Development Goals,” have we considered culture’s contribution? How can culture help cities achieve sustainability? This lecture proposes three actions— advocacy, practice, and conservation — to enable everyone to use culture as a pathway toward sustainable development.

𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 2025 edition is developed and presented by Arts Resource Hub (ARH) in collaboration with The Theatre Practice. ARH supports communities of practice for independent arts practitioners through expert-led peer learning dialogues that encourage knowledge exchange.