A collective of international artists from Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA, are working with green-fingered Cardiff residents this month to create a beautifully designed edible landscape to hold their performance, which unearths the current climate of gardening, at the World Stage Design Festival 2013 and as part of Collisions 2013. The collective behind Trans-Plantable Living Room are Green Stage, Plantable and The Living Stage.
Trans-Plantable Living Room will be planted, potted and pruned in a series of free community workshops run by the Green Stage and collaborators, including gardening experts, set designers and theatre makers.
 The project has been supported by Artists Project Earth (www.apeuk.org) and Our Food (www.ourfood.org.uk). Performances Date: Friday 13th and Saturday 14th September Time: 13:30 and 18:30 each day. Venue: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Admission: Free Ticket Booking: http://www.wsd2013.com/whats-on/tanja-beerplantable-trans-plantable/ +44 (0)29 2039 1391 Date: Saturday 21st September Time: 13:00 and 15:00 Venue: Central School of Speech & Drama Admission: Free Ticket Booking: https://transplantable.eventbrite.co.uk Workshops to be held August 2013 at Riverside Community Gardens, Western Avenue, Cardiff, from 10am – 4pm each day.
 Wednesday 28th Planting and building Friday 30th Planting and building
Saturday 31st Planting and performance. Admission is free, just email greenstageuk@gmail.com to book your place. For more information about the workshops visit: www.facebook.com/groups/trans-plantable The Transplantable Living Room Collaborators 
A collective of international practitioners, from Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA, have come together for the first time to realise this unique project. Rosie Leach and Lisa Woynarski are Green Stage. Founded in 2010 the company creates responsible theatre with roots in it's community and the potential to re-imagine our relationship with our changing environment. Green stage have produced performances and led workshops in such places as the Union Street Urban Orchard, Spitalfields City Farm and Regent’s Park, London.
 Rosie Leach is a community theatre maker, researcher and gardener based in mid-Wales. As community engagement coordinator for Transplantable Rosie has carried out interviews with gardeners and coordinated workshops. This year she has worked as a promoter for the Woodland Pavilion stage in Machynlleth and as a performing campaigner with This is Rubbish and Oxfam. Meanwhile Rosie has worked as a researcher on the Common Cause project at the Public Interest Research Centre, exploring the role of values in social change, as well as the relationship between art and values. Last year Rosie gardened and led volunteer days as co-founder of Green Isle Growers cooperative.
 Lisa Woynarski is a performance maker and researcher. She creates site-specific theatre, especially in urban green spaces. In 2009 she completed an MA in Theatre Directing at Royal Holloway, London and the following year worked with Arcola Theatre as an Energy and Sustainability Intern on their innovative Arcola Energy project. Lisa is currently a PhD candidate and visiting lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, her research centres around the development and articulation of an ecological performance aesthetic. Bronwyn Preece, Moe Beitiks and Lisa Woynarski are Plantable, who will devise and perform The Transplantable Living Room, bringing the garden's stories to life. 

 Bronwyn Preece lives completely off-the-grid on an island off the west coast of Canada. Her passion for expression marries art with activism, melding ecological, social and political engagement with physical theatre and writing: focusing on outdoor site-specific and community performance, interrogating the dichotomies between culture and 'nature,' self and 'environment, seeking ways to embody and overcome these binary constructs. Bronwyn is an improvisational eARTist and author, who holds an MA and BFA (with Distinction) in Applied Theatre from the University of Victoria, and is starting a PhD in September. She is the author of Gulf Islands Alphabet and the forthcoming Off-the-Grid Kid and In the Spirit of Homebirth. Please visit: www.bronwynpreece.com Meghan Moe Beitiks recently completed her MFA in Performance at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Her performance work has seen her jogging with plants, flinging mushroom spores over fences and breathing rhythms into air. She has presented work in California, Chicago, Brooklyn, Latvia and Russia. Her Work "Clean-Up," a collaboration with photographer Lia Walker, won First Prize at the juried exhibition "Beyond Landscape," curated by the Women's Environmental Art Association. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Theatre Arts to Latvia and is a recipient of the Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists. 
 Sam Holt is the project's growing co-ordinator based at The Riverside Community Gardens. Riverside Community Gardens is a project that provides a place where people can learn how to grow food in a sociable and supportive atmosphere, running two volunteer days per week. Garden Manager Sam Holt is sustainable agriculture mentor for Renew Wales; Horticultural and Animal Husbandry trainer for Grow the Future project at the National Botanical Gardens of Wales and founder of Grow your own Adventure, working with primary schools in Cardiff. Sam will coordinate volunteers in growing plants for the Transplantable Living Room. Tanja Beer is a leader in ecological design practice and the originator of The Living Stage – an eco-scenographic concept that combines stage design, permaculture and community engagement to create a recyclable, biodegradable and edible performance space. She has more than 12 years professional experience, creating over 50 designs for a variety of theatre companies and festivals in Australia, including Sydney Opera House and Melbourne International Arts Festival. Tanja teaches Design Research and Climate Change at the University of Melbourne where is currently a PhD candidate investigating "The Paradigm and Practice of Ecological Design in the Performing Arts".
 Produced and Promoted by Sarah Jane Leigh and Mawgaine Tarrant-Cornish The project has also been kindly supported by Katie Jones of the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, Michele Fitzsimmons of Edible Landscaping , People's Collection Wales, Polly Reichelt and the volunteers at Adamsdown Environment Action group, Jason Horn of Vegalive Aquaponics, Rebecca Clarke of Green City, Mackintosh Community Garden, Fairwater Community Garden and Rabab Ghazoul (our documentary maker). Connect with The Transplantable Living Room
 Website: http://www.greenstagetheatre.co.uk/wp/transplantable-living-room Blog: www.transplantablelivingroom.wordpress.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/trans-plantable Twitter: #ediblestage |
| web site: www.facebook.com/groups/trans-plantable |
| e-mail: greenstageuk@gmail.com |
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