Sustainable travel in concert hall spotlight
Perth Theatre and Concert Hall is holding a free event to highlight the importance of sustainable travel to their audiences and the wider community.
‘ Ticket to Ride’ takes place at Perth Concert Hall Plaza and in the Concert Hall foyer on Saturday, November 11, from 1pm until 4pm.
The afternoon will feature discussions around sustainable travel with invited experts and activists.
There will also be an art gallery on a converted bus, an orchestra performance, an exhibition of public transport- themed creative artworks and banners, a film screening and more.
Part of Perth Theatre and Concert Hall’s ‘Transforming Audience Travel Through Art’ project with Creative Carbon Scotland, ‘ Ticket to Ride’ will open with the screening of a new film created by Comrie-based project artist Helen McCrorie in collaboration with Craigie Choir, exploring buses for communities.
Exhibition panels in the foyer will display creative work exploring bus travel, its benefits and barriers to using the bus, produced by Perth Theatre and Concert Hall audiences and at Climate Cafés around Perth and Kinross, with Helen.
Helen said: “Perth Theatre and Concert Hall audiences have been vocal about what they need to allow them to access sustainable travel.
“It is clear that our audiences want to use public transport, but they face barriers of sparse services – particularly in the evenings and in rural locations – and are also deterred by high ticket prices for non-bus pass-holders and for rail.
“Attendees with disabilities have told us they also need better access to transport services.
“It is heartening that local Climate Cafés have shown great imagination, coming up with positive solutions to all this through our creative workshops.
“It has also been inspiring to connect with successful local community transport initiatives, like Glenfarg, that are helping to provide transport for communities, and we hope to build on these relationships.”
Following a performance by Kinross Kacophony orchestra – which will arrive on Glenfarg Community Transport minibuses – Margaret Roy, a public transport team leader for Perth and Kinross Council and Ellie Harrison, an artist and public transport campaigner, will discuss the future of sustainable travel in the region.
In addition The Travelling Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in a bus, will be parked on the Perth Concert Hall Plaza for the duration of the event with their multi-art exhibition ‘ Take Care’ by artists including Uma Breakdown, Gwenan Davies, Ellie Kyungran Heo, Laura Wilson and Joy Baek with Sculpture Placement Group.
Christopher Glasgow, chief executive of Perth Theatre and Concert Hall, said: “We’ve had great engagement and interest from audiences and the community in the project so far, from completing our initial survey on how they travel to our venues to taking part in a variety of creative workshops and discussions.
“Audience travel is one of the largest sources of emissions associated with our work.
“Whilst we don’t have direct control over how people travel to our venues, it is important for our decarbonisation efforts that we facilitate and encourage more sustainable travel choices.
“We’re delighted to be working with Creative Carbon Scotland and Helen to highlight this in such a creative and collaborative way.”