Green Theatre Collective: Eco-Conscious All The Time!

When Glory Kadigan, founder of Planet Connections, started the Festivity her goal was to have more than just the productions in the show go green.  In fact, her dream is still to see theatres around the country become eco-conscious.

Hal Fickett and the Green Theatre Collective are leading the way!

Hal created GTC as a way to blend his love for the theatre with his curiosity in the green movement.  Green Theatre Collective is one of the countries first eco theatre companies, and seeks to produce sustainable theatre in outdoor environments. Spurred by his desire to create positive change in the environment through art, he hasn't looked back since! 

Green Theatre Collective will be hosting a spring fundraiser Monday, May 23rd from 7-10:30PM in a beautiful loft apartment located in Manhattan at 54 Bleeker Street, Apartment # 5 (corner of Bleeker and Lafayette St.  From 7pm-8pm join them for a cocktail reception with refreshments and home made goodies catered by an amazing GTC friend.  Then from 8pm-9:30pm, enjoy a reading of the stirring play Orange, Hat & Grace written by Gregory S. Moss, which will feature the talent of Cyrilla Baer, Ryan Garbayo and Haley Bond Petersen, and will be directed by Glory Kadigan. Then, stay to learn more about GCT.

There is a suggested donation of 20 dollars for the evening but no one will be turned away.  All proceeds from the fundraiser will go towards our July production of William Shakespeare's play As You Like It. 

A Hoarder Makes Good

I am a hoarder.

There, I've admitted it.

But finally, this past weekend, I was able to put all the beautiful things I've been saving to good use!
On January 29, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity hosted a networking event at a fabulous apartment at The Plaza!  Wow.  It was pretty impressive.  (Even though we don't officially open until June, the PCTF staff is working hard to produce an amazing festival of live performance that's not only green but supports charities around NYC and beyond, to boot!)  We wanted to make sure that our staff bartenders got tipped and hopefully recoup some costs so we decided to put out a few donation signs.  [This might be something done at a fundraiser or networking event hosted by your company or production.]

The requirement?

1.  Must be Plaza-worthy (aka fabulous)
2.  Must be eco-friendly!

I went to my trusty box-of-saved-"trash"-and-other-good-stuff-that-I'll-need-someday to see what I could find.




Currently unused picture frames


                             


Materials from my (rarely used) craft folder!
This includes leftover wrapping paper, the front of a birthday card
and a free postcard that I picked up at Ikea four years ago.



I have way too many paint chips.  Way too many.

Combine all of these elements together and what do you get?

Et voila!

The best part (I think) is that we can use these again at future events!

What do you have in your apartment that could be re-purposed into something else?  Tell us in the comments!