Sydney Opera House & Get Grubby team came together to educate kids on carbon

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Sydney Opera House & Get Grubby team came together to educate kids on carbon

Sydney Opera House Children, Families & Creative Learning team has created a video in collaboration with Australian performers ‘Dirt Girl’ and ‘Costa’ explaining the carbon footprint of their show,  ‘Get Grubby the Musical’ when it was presented at Sydney Opera House in January 2016. Given the show had strong environmental themes, the Opera House and Get Grubby team measured the carbon footprint of the show and committed to making the production carbon neutral. To offset the emissions resulting from the Get Grubby the Musical, the Sydney Opera House team planted 1000 native Australian trees on Earth Day in April 2016.  The video also explores how kids can help to reduce their own carbon footprint at home and take their own action. A teachers resource pack for primary students is currently being developed to allow this video be used in schools.

What’s next?

This model of carbon neutral creative learning productions with supporting education resources will be expanded in 2017, with the goal of the Children, Families & Creative Learning program being totally carbon neutral in 2019. Bridgette Van Leuven, the Head of Children, Families & Creative Learning said: "Climate Change will most effect the young audiences of our shows, and families across Australia will be effected. We believe it is our responsibility to creatively engage and educate children about climate change and demonstrate how we can all make a difference to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to create a better future."

About Get Grubby TV

Get Grubby TV is where the real and the unreal hang out together in a really unreal way. This live action special takes the Australian animated TV series, dirtgirlworld, and rewinds the story to reveal the real place and the real people: dirtgirl and scrapboy living in dirtgirlworld – for real. Like any other nearly normal day in dirtgirl’s garden everything gets turned upside down with the completion of scrapboy’s latest invention. Built for speed and not comfort, this new travel machine proves to hold a few surprises of its own. Including a special guest! It’s time to empty the ‘grubby’ bucket list on Get Grubby TV. Just how grubby can you get making a salad garden, checking in to the worm hotel, heading to a mud-pie bake off and having a seed ball.

Find out more here.

About Sydney Opera House

Find out more about Sydney Opera House’s Environmental Strategy here and the Sydney Opera House Children, Families and Creative learning program here.

Also, you can watch more videos on "Greening the House" here.