On 23 April the MASC website will close. The fight is not over, but we don't have
time to do it justice at the moment. Thank you to everyone who supported or visited us.
Ethos
At MASC we try to operate by certain guidelines. These are:
- To have the least environmental impact with all our activities
- this ranges from re-using envelopes to post things to using found
and recycled items to make set and props. We use e-materials, ecologically-friendly transport, focus locally and, most
importantly, illustrate the importance of this to our audiences.
- To make all of our messages relevant on both a local and global level
To empower audiences to go out and make a positive change in their environments - To do this by making messages as positive as possible, we think that people are
more likely
to make a change in their lives if they feel inspired rather than
scared.
- To let humans be human. Every positive change is to be applauded, don't get upset
if you slip just make it better next time
- To promote children as the key to conservation. Children are agents of change
and their potential beneficial impact on the environment is one that
cannot be underestimated
- To encourage care for the environment in everyday life for people of all ages.
Conservation must be integrated with the rest of daily life if it is
to have a major impact
- To embrace and promote creative
forms of teaching. The children we meet are constantly inspiring us,
they think so creatively that we want to maintain that child-like openness
to new ideas
- Communal living - in the long term we would like to live communally to minimise
the ecological impact of our organisation as a whole. Alice, Joy and
Aoife (pictured) along with Ben and Kyle hope to set up the Lighthouse.
- To use women as often as men in our casts whereever possible. There are fewer
jobs for women in theatre and it seems sensible to give both girls and
boys
people
to
relate to in the cast
- To be UK and Ireland-based, we will help design pieces for habitat country projects
but we aim to teach local groups to be self-sufficient in teaching the
messages they have chosen to the people that they understand and can
relate to
- To set up products and services to help audiences to be able to take action such
as the palm oil wiki.
