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3rd GO Group Workshop
Festival and Event Sustainability
Hôtel de Ville
Paris, 08 & 09 April 2013
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Greener, smarter, more sustainable – the GO Group credo is becoming more and more
important to the European events industry. Festivals from all over the continent take
part in the process and we really want to see all the others follow. That's why GO Group
set up this interactive, open and communicative workshop format to stimulate exchange,
cooperation and inspiration – between event organizers, suppliers and science.
Now it’s time for the 3rd international GO Group workshop in Paris.
We kindly welcome you to this 2-day seminar at the Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall of the
City of Paris), on April 8 and 9 2013. The workshop is kindly hosted by We Love Green
and supported by Azimuth Productions.
The third GO Group workshop for Sustainable Festivals and Events will focus on
energy & power (day 1) and waste at events (day 2). Presentations, discussion and
case studies from major European festivals will focus on the problems, solutions and
good practice.
GO stands for Green Operations. GO Group and is an independent, pan European and
cross industry think-tank. GO Group meetings are open to stakeholders interested in
actively pushing the Green Agenda. Bucks University, GreenEvents Europe Conference,
Green Music Initiative (GMI) and Yourope (the European Festival Association) founded
GO Group in early 2011 and made it an european institution for sustainable event
management. (For more GO Group info see page 4)
Best regards,
Teresa Moore
Jacob Bilabel
Christof Huber
Marie Sabot
Holger Jan Schmidt
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Program: (subject to change)
The workshop language will be English.
Sun 07 April 2013, 19h
GO Group get together @ La Maroquinerie (see next page for info)
Day 1,
Mon 08 April 2013
Main topic: Energy & Power
10.00 „A welcome to Paris”
10.30 „We Love Green Festival”
11.15 „Rock En Seine“
12.00 lunch
13.30 „Energy Transition Panel“
14.15 „The Power Behind Festivals“
15.00 „Green Music Energy“
15:45 Coffee Break
16:00 group work sessions
17:30 results presentation, Q&A
GO Group dinner
first round-up
case study by Marie Sabot
case study by François Missonier
with Jacob Bilabel & Bruno Rebelle
by Chris Johnson et al.
by Jacob Bilabel
@ Comptoir Général (see next page for info)
Day 2,
Tue 09 April 2013
Main topic: Waste at events
09.00 „The Good, The Bad & The Ugly“
09.45 Les Connexions' approach on wastemgmt
10.30 Coffee Break
10.45 „Camp site waste & Love Your Tent update“
11.15 „Do People Behave Better In A Clean Environment?“
12.00 lunch
13.30 „Siestes Électroniques, Toulouse”
14.00 group work sessions
15:30 results presentation and Good-bye
by Holger Jan Schmidt
by Nicolas Dahan
by Holger Jan Schmidt
by Teresa Moore
case study by Samuel Aubert
speakers: (among others, short info at the end of this doc).
Samuel Aubert, Siestes Électroniques Festival, FRA
Jacob Bilabel, Green Music Initiative, DE
Nicolas Dahan, Les Connexions, FRA
Chris Johnson, Green Festival Alliance / Julie’s Bicycle / Shambala Festival, UK
François Missonier, Rock En Seine Festival
Teresa Moore, Bucks New University, UK
Bruno Rebelle, Transitions, FRA
Marie Sabot, We Love Green Festival, FRA
Holger Jan Schmidt, GreenEvents Europe Conference, DE & Yourope
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Practical information
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with the support of: Azimuth Productions, Paris
Date: From: Mon 08 April 2013, 10:00
To: Tue 09 April 2013, 16:00
Venue: Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall of the City of Paris)
5 rue Lobau Paris 4 – M° Hôtel de Ville.
Pls bring ID/Passport – it's required to get into the city hall
next metro stations:
Hôtel de Ville (M1, M11)
Hotel: many participants stay at the MamaShelter Hotel,
109 Rue de Bagnolet, 75020 Paris, France
single rooms: from 89 € (incl VAT, WiFi), breakfast 15 €
(see map above)
Dinner: there will be a networking dinner on the evening of mon 08 April at the restaurant
“Comptoir Général” | 80 Quai de Jemmapes | 75010 Paris
(food will be covered by Yourope – the European Festival Assoiciation –
thanks a lot! Drinks are on own expenses.)
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Get-together: there will be a casual get-together on the evening of sun 07 april at
“La Maroquinerie” | 23 rue Boyer | 75020 Paris
(This is for everybody travelling to Paris on sunday. This event is on own
expenses.)
Fee:
EUR 200 (+VAT). Fee includes lunch on both days.
Yourope members get a EUR 50 discount for 1 participant.
Members of AIF receive a 10% discount.
For further workshop info please contact
Holger Jan Schmidt
@ GreenEvents Europe
tel: +49-(0)228-20 70 80 4
[email protected]
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Participants (05.04.13)
sirname
Aubert
Balez
Baradeau
Batzen
Bilabel
Bruyelle
Cucheval
Dahan
Dubot
Fleiter
Gaemers
Germain
Hennig-Schmidt
Herberigs
Janssen
Jensen
Johnson
Lindemulder
Löcke
Missonier
Moore
Murray
NN
NN
NN
Nouaille
O'Neill
Pouteaux
Quantin
Rebelle
Rekko
Sabot
Sabot
Schmidt
Schmitt
Schurink
Smeets
Suchochleb
Tanner
van der Geest
van Gogh
Media:
Larimiguière
Berrod
first name
Samuel
Noélie
Stephanie
Bernard
Jacob
Christophe
Christophe
Nicolas
Alice
Sebastian
Jasmijn
Antoine
Heike
Marc
Sierk
Anne
Chris
Carlijn
Christina
François
Teresa
Niek
Eva
Claire
Nicolas
Gregory
Bruno
Kim
Alex
Marie
Holger Jan
Sarah
Paul
Jan
Stepan
Michaela
Irmine
Martijn
affiliation
Siestes Électroniques
Marvellous Island
We Love Green
Azimuth
Green Music Initiative
We Love Green
Paleo Festival
Les Connexions
Free Lance
Electric Hotel
Pinkpop
Hadra Trance Festival
GreenEvents Europe
Stimular
Pinkpop
Northside Festival
Powerful Thinking
ID&T / Mysteryland
Student / NHTV Breda
Rock En Seine
Bucks New University
Pinkpop
City Of Paris
Les Connexions
Ile de France
Printemps de Bourges
AGF / AIF
Ile de France / Envir.
Havas SE
Transitions
Syntens
We Love Green
We Love Green
GreenEvents Europe
Rock En Seine
ZAP
Pinkpop
Rock For People
OASG
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origin
F
Festival
F
Festival
F
Festival
F
Tour / Local Promoter
DE
Initiative
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Festival
CH
Festival
F
Initiative
F
Free Lance
DE
Initiative
NL
Festival
F
Festival
DE
Conference / Initiative
NL
Initiative
NL
Festival
DK
Festival
UK
Festival / Initiative
NL
Festival
DE
Student
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Festival
UK
University
NL
Festival
F
Council
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Initiative
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Council
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Festival
UK
Initiative
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Council
F
Agency
F
Company / Initiative
NL
National Organisation
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Festival
F
Festival
DE
Conference / Initiative
F
Festival
NL
Free Lance
NL
Festival
CZ
Festival
CH
Festival
NL
National Organisation
NL
National Organisation
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Speakers:
Samuel Aubert Siestes Électroniques Festival
Graduated from art history Samuel Aubert is the founder and current
director of the Festival Les Siestes Electroniques (Toulouse/Paris,
France). He is also an expert in cultural affairs management and is
working as such for local authorities. Since 2001, he has participated in
many festivals, international networks and projects on cultural
engineering. He has collaborated hand-in-hand with a large panel of
representatives.
Jacob Bilabel Green Music Initiative
Jacob Bilabel is Founder of the Green Music Initiative, which provides a
platform for the music and entertainment industry to coordinate
projects in the fight against climate change - with the objective to
create demand for innovative and sustainable strategies - both from
the climate and business points of view. Prior to that he worked in the
management of Universal Music Germany. In the following years he set
up MySpace's operations in Germany and became part of the social
media advisory board of the Green Party. In the 2005 elections he was
a personal consultant to Mr. Joschka Fischer, Germany's Foreign
Minister.Today, he is Managing Director of Berlin based think-do-tank
THEMA1 specialised in accelerating the transition to a low-carbon
society. He is a mentor at the Akademie der Künste (University of the Arts) in Berlin and
founding member of the ReDesign Deutschland initiative. Beside that he is board member of
Berlin's Chamber of Commerce for Creative. Jacob Bilabel is also serving as a part of the
German Technical mirror committee for the new ISO 20121 standard for Sustainability in
Event Management.
Nicolas Dahan, Les Connexions, FRA
Les connexions was founded by Nicolas Dahan ten years ago in Alba La
Romaine (next to Montélimar). He's been directing this non-profit
organisation since. Specialised in events waste management, Les
Connexions brings the tools, resources, equipment and knowledge
adapted to each event, in order to make the waste sorting efficient.
Les Connexions are working on different types of events like music
festivals (Rock en Seine, Le Printemps de Bourges etc.) or sports events
like Marathon de Paris, 20Km de Paris et al..
The organisation is also working in partnership with several
municipalities and Cantals in order to make people sensitive to recycling and waste
management. Les Connexions' goal is to appeal to a wide audience: from young children to
adult, from families to professionals, Les Connexions wants to make waste sorting
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Chris Johnson Shambala Festival, Green Festival Alliance, Julie's Bicycle
Chris is co-founder of Shambala Festival, running for over a decade and one of the greenest
events in the UK, and is a Director of Kambe Events Ltd, managing events of up to 80,000
attendance. Shambala Festival has the A Greener Festival Award
International Winner (2011), has been awarded Outstanding for 4
years in a row, was awarded The Most Sustainable Event in the UK
Award 2009 (NOEA, UK), and is the only event ever to achieve 3 stars
with Industry Green (Ig) certification in 2010. Chris is co-founder of
the Green Festival Alliance (UK), an informal alliance of festivals,
suppliers and industry organisations working together to actively
tackle issues and develop innovations. Their focus in 2012 has been
power efficiency and renewable solutions. A regular speaker at events,
sustainability consultant, occasional lecturer and campaigner, Chris has a solid practical
knowledge of how to implement initiatives on the ground, and industry-wide experience of
sustainability at festival's. Chris also works with Julie's Bicycle, the UK's leading
sustainability organisation in the creative industries.
François Missonier, Rock En Seine Festival
His bio and pic to follow soon
The French festival Rock en Seine was born in 2003. Today, Rock en
Seine is one of the biggest festivals in France and among the most
important musical events in Europe. It happens every year on the
last week-end of August, in a wonderful park just outside Paris.
Every year, the festival invites the most exciting pop and rock bands,
from big stars to new talents. Three scenes are arranged in a green
French garden, where the audience can discover the actuality of
rock, power pop, electro, folk and see exhibitions about rock.
Teresa Moore, Bucks New University
Teresa Moore is Head of Department at Buckinghamshire New
University in charge of the University’s Music and Events
Management programmes. After 10 years in commerce she moved
into Higher Education and has taught at several institutions before
joining Bucks New University
Teresa is a founder member of GO Group, having a special interest
in Sustainable Event Management. In 2012 she undertook a new
study on audience attitudes to sustainability at festivals with A
Greener Festival which followed on from the 2008 study. She has
also carried out research with Julie’s Bicycle on “Audience Travel to One off Music Events”
which was published in 2009. Teresa has initiated the development of a series of
conferences and short courses on Sustainable Event Management at Bucks New University.
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She has run the Green Events and Innovations Conference in collaboration with A
Greener Festival and The Association of Independent Festivals since 2008 and
regularly runs workshops and speaks at conferences.
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She is the Research Manager and Board member for the International Centre for Crowd
Management and Security Studies and Chairman of the Association for Crowd Management
Practitioners. She is co-founder and CEO of MC9 Music an independent music business.
Bruno Rebelle, Transitions
He graduated in 1981 from the French National Veterinary School in
Lyon and opened his first vet’s surgery in 1984 in the Plateau du
Vercors, Drôme, France. In the meantime, he founded Vétérinaires
sans frontières (VSF) based in Lyon. He managed this NGO until 1996
and was alsoappointed to hold various mandates in national coalitions
to represent aid and development NGOs.
After 1996 Bruno Rebelle worked for two years as a private
consultant on behalf of international institutions (f.e. EU, International
Fund for Agriculture Development, WWF International, Care), focusing
on development issues and natural resources management. In 1997,
he joined Greenpeace France as Executive Director. He led the
development of the French branch of the international environmental organization, growing
from 18.000 supporters (end of 1997) to 70.000 (end of 2003) and significantly improving
the public profile of the organization in the country.
Bruno Rebelle then joined the Senior Management Team of Greenpeace International in
August 2003 in the position of International Program Director, leading the global program
and coordinating campaigning activities, the communication, and the political work of
Greenpeace all over the world. Bruno Rebelle left Greenpeace International at the end of
2006 and joined the team of Ségolène Royal, Socialist candidates for the Presidential
election, as adviser on environment and sustainable development.
Since September 2007 he set up his own consultancy agency, Transitions offering strategic
advices and engineering support to companies, regional government, city councils, NGOs
and Foundations willing to genuinely engage in sustainable development.
Marie Sabot, We Love Green
Founder of We Love Green Festival, Marie Sabot has an extensive
experience in cultural events management of almost twenty years.
After graduating in Law, she joined the pop rock promoter Garance as
a production assistant to learn the concert business. Then she did the
artistic direction of a new alternative venue called Le Divan du Monde.
Around 2000 she moved into brand events, to be project manager for
several agencies, and started investing unusual locations for
memorable thematic and electronic parties, setting up shows with
performers, light and video. In 2004, she decided to launch We Love
Art, a cultural and entertainment event agency. One of its branch, the eco-conceived We
Love Green Festival is a laboratory for new practices.
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Holger Jan Schmidt, GreenEvents Europe, Yourope
is co-owner of the promoting agency of Europe's leading
conference for sustainability in the live musc industry,
GreenEvents Europe, Bonn Promotion Dept.. He is board member
of the german Sounds for Nature Foundation e.V., that focuses on
environmental issues at events and sustainability related
communication projects towards a young target group. Schmidt
was co-initiator of GO Group (Green Operations Europe) and being
the anchorman for green issues of Yourope (the European Festival
Association) he is part of the steering committee of GO Group. Schmidt looks back at
more than twenty years with Germany's biggest admission-free festival RhEINKULTUR
being in leading position from 1998 till the festival's last edition in 2011. Together with
his colleagues he invented the ‘Green Rocks’-program that covered all sustainability and
environmental issues of the festival, which was one of the greenest in Europe. Schmidt
holds a diploma in media economics from Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln.
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About GO Group
GO stands for Green Operations. GO Group is an independent, pan European and cross
industry think-tank to inspire people in the music festival and events industry to run
their operations greener and smarter. GO Group will:
1) Identify international best practices in sustainable innovations for the music
festival and event industry
2) Build a Sustainability Training Curriculum for festival and event promoters in
collaboration with Bucks University
3) Aggregate, communicate and share the collective knowledge with interested
stakeholders from all over Europe
4) Establish working relationships between different industry groups to enable
practical and spontaneous exchange of personal experiences
Bucks New University, GreenEvents Europe Conference, Green Music Initiative (GMI)
and Yourope (the European Festival Association) founded GO Group in early 2011 and
made it an european institution for sustainable event management.
GO Group sucessfully carried out two international workshops in Amsterdam (2011)
and Budapest (2012) and provided major contributions GreenEvents Europe Conference
(GER), Medimex (I), Nuits Sonores (FRA) and Eurosonic/Noorderslag (NL).
GO Group @ 2nd international workshop in april 2012
30 participants at Sziget Headquarters, Budapest, Hungary
GO Group contact:
Holger Jan Schmidt
@ GreenEvents Europe
tel: +49-(0)228-20 70 80 4
[email protected]
Lena Buck
@ Green Music Initiative
tel: +49-(0)30-77 90 77 917
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