Ben has been Director of Creative Carbon Scotland since 2011, combining over 25 years’ experience of producing events and running permanent and temporary venues in the cultural sector with an MSc in Carbon Management and a doctorate in applying complexity theory to social systems in order to bring about more sustainable social practices. He has developed CCS into a leader in both technical support for cultural organisations in carbon management and developing culture’s influencing role in addressing climate change. He has accordingly been asked to speak about this work to groups from Salzburg Global in Austria via the ArtCOP Professional workshop in Paris to the Glasgow Life Green Team Awards and the Sustainable Scotland Network annual conference. As a theatre director and producer he was the Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and Artistic Director at Manchester’s Contact Theatre. He ‘re-visioned’ Contact to help shape it for the 21st century and he led the restructuring of North Edinburgh Arts to bring it out of a financial crisis: both are now thriving organisations. As Chair of the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Committee he facilitated and supported organisational change with many cultural organisations and led the distribution of over £150m of National Lottery funds, mostly to capital projects. He has directed theatre and music theatre as a freelance across the UK, Europe, North America and New Zealand. He is Chair of Scotland’s leading contemporary classical music group Hebrides Ensemble, was Vice-Chair of the Theatres Trust and the Edinburgh Sustainable Development Partnership, and was a member of the Boards of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen.
Ben Twist took part of the Conference Encontros para o Futuro III - Navegar é preciso? Sentidos para a internacionalização da dança. A programme developed by EVC in 2020 curated by Vânia Rodrigues.
