Sow the Seeds - Towards Community
Cohesion in Warwickshire
Until
July 2009 Hybrid Arts is inviting young people to join our new
project ‘Sow the Seeds ’
The objective of the project is maintaining, protecting and promoting
the profile of allotments as heritage sites and their natural link
to sustainability, food related issues, gardening and cultural diversity
as well as social skills such as independent living skills and teamwork.
The project will celebrate the racial and cultural diversity of allotments,
past, present and future. The project will also develop an understanding
of how other European countries deal with environment and heritage
of allotment culture
The main areas for participants to explore:
- Research the history and cultural importance of allotments (past
and present)
- Find out more about the local environmental and ecological traditions
and cultures in terms of food production, market trade and food
processes.
- Look at sustainability as an essential way forward for the enlarged
community
- How allotments heritage brings people together and helps them
to work together in reducing conflicts and isolation.
- How food is an easy way of celebrating diversity and sharing
different cultures
- Allotments contribution to a better quality of urban life
This will be done through researching the history of allotments
in Warwickshire; collecting oral histories; recording and collecting
photographic, audio and video material, attending drawing and creative
technology training sessions (photographic, video and audio); producing
creative interpretive panels/signage, and creating an interactive
web page for the participants to share their own findings, experiences,
and creative works.
This project supports initiatives that provide practical education
and training to young people from different backgrounds, skills and
practices, including those who are at risk of being socially excluded.
In partnership and funded by:-
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