Ecostage

Ecostage is a volunteer-run grassroots initiative and website that provides a framework, tools and resources for embedding practice-based ecological thinking at all stages of our creative processes and scales of production.

We would like to thank the generous crowdfunders that helped us achieve many of our objectives: hiring a web developer, securing a domain name and local green hosting, creating the first stage of our new website and launching at the People's Summit in Glasgow during COP26. Since then, as a direct result of this crowdfunding campaign, our work raising awareness about ecological practices in the performing arts has involved us in many local and international conversations. Highlights include hosting a workshop at the World Stage Design 2023 festival in Canada, speaking at National Theatre (UK)'s Making Theatre Green event and a talk at the Prague Quadrennial 2023. We have been busy populating the website with resources, case studies etc, and collecting stories from creatives for the Global Voices video archive.

We're relaunching this crowdfunding campaign to work with a web developer to make the site more user-friendly, host a wider range of resources, extend our outreach and continue to build a diverse community of practitioners. These will include an education pack, a set of free, easy-to-use guides to the principles to read online, download and apply to practice, a space for community news and updates, and a new home for the Global Voices video archive project. 

We are appealing to audience members, production teams and arts lovers to please give what you can, £5 or more will help us with this next phase. Please add a comment on the crowdfunder page and share our campaign on social media to build momentum. Together we can make change happen.

Thank you for your continued support. 

With gratitude,



The Ecostage Team

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Find Ecostage online:

Website: ecostage.online

Facebook: ecostage.online

Twitter: @ecostage_online

Instagram: @ecostage.online

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Read on to find out more about us and what we plan to do.

We see our initiative as part of a broader movement towards social and environmental justice in the performing arts sector that recognises accountability for the Global North’s impact on the climate crisis.

The site currently offers: 

The seven Ecostage Principles, designed to bring together creativity, sustainability, Nature connection, well-being and social activism. 

Practical guiding principles, a diverse and inspiring library of case studies, our Ecostage Pledge and access to an online, global community.

A community that anyone can join and the opportunity to pledge to the Seven Ecostage Principles to help generate collective momentum for sector-wide transformation

Meet the team:

Ecostage is run by volunteers and led by a creative team of eco-designers, based in England, Scotland and Wales, who share a passion for enabling transformation: Andrea Carr, Paul Burgess, Mona Kastell and Ruth Stringer.

The initiative draws from the diverse experiences of the team in creative practice, from our peers, research and academia, and wider ecological movements.

As we have progressed, Hannah Myers, Laura Sedgwick and Serena Treppiedi joined to develop the website content and social media.

Your spheres of influence are greater than you think!

Our mission is to embed ecological thinking at the heart of creative practice, inspire and deliver change, and foster ecological regeneration. The initiative draws on, amongst other things, ecology, models of sustainability, well-being practices, imagination, traditional and local knowledge, permaculture, ecoscenography and social activism.

Donations and Rewards

Please note that we are no longer offering rewards.