The Chicago Green Theatre Alliance was founded in 2014 with a mission to encourage, educate, and motivate theatres and theatre professionals to work together to adopt more environmentally-friendly practices.
Join our Facebook group or follow us on Instagram @ChiGreenTheatre and use the hashtag #chigreentheatre to share your greening efforts.
Chicago Green Theater Alliance & League of Chicago Theatres Presents: Drop & Swap
The League of Chicago Theatres and the Chicago Green Theatre Alliance are teaming up to make Chicago theatre more sustainable! Join us in reducing waste and giving materials a second life through a series of theatre industry drives designed to repurpose, recycle, and swap tools, electronics, and textiles.
Together, we can make a lasting impact while fostering a stronger, greener theatre community.
April 11 – Theatre Tool Drive
The League of Chicago Theatres and Chicago Green Theatre Alliance invite you to bring your drills, sewing needles, cables, and flashlights to our second annual Theater Tool Drive! Swap or donate your theatre tools and meet other industry professionals. We will be collecting items from EVERY sector of Theatre. If you don’t see something listed here please reach out to us at chigreentheatre@gmail.com to ask if we will be collecting it.
Stay connected with updates on our Facebook Page HERE.
Accepted Items:
✔️ Hand & power tools
✔️ Rigging equipment (pipe, cheeseboroughs, spansets)
✔️ Painting equipment (brushes, rollers, sticks)
✔️ Sewing tools & notions
✔️ Office supplies
UPCOMING:
Let’s make a greener future for Chicago theatre—one donation at a time! 🌱♻️
Resources and Tips
Here are some local and national resources that can help with recycling, upcycling, buying greener products or learning more about how to be greener.
Based on research, literature review and the needs and interests expressed by the theatre community, the following provides a guide to theatre greening practices. Organized by shop or department, the tips below represent a range of suggestions and tools to improve a theatre’s environmental performance; the most important thing being to simply get started. One of the barriers to getting started is the overwhelming amount of information contained in three tool kits: Julie’s Bicycle IG Tools, NRDC/BGA Greening Advisor and Mo’olelo toolkit. What follows is a compilation of some of the most easily implemented tips culled from all three toolkits.