How to make your tour greener

A new toolkit will help performing arts companies reduce the environmental impact of their tours.

From booking flights for artists to shipping sets across the country, performing arts touring is a complicated business – and one with a sizeable carbon footprint.

‘Everyone is so stretched at the moment, so we’ve written the Toolkit to be very deliberately practical,’ she said.

‘The great thing about touring is that it is the simplest bit to work out the emissions for,’ Seymour explained. ‘Because it’s easy to know how many kilometres you travelled by air, by coach, what you did by freight and so on.’

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts