More offers for the programme

A few more offers and suggestions of activities:

Spectacular pudding art, organised by Ian

A duration run of 10 laps around the Park, led by Veronique Chance, an artist who runs

A children’s market – children sell and swap their toys and home-made things

A plant knowledge exchange – what grows well round here, who can help with your garden etc

A group-made clay animation, or similar art work, by Brian McKenzie

Something organised by Friends of Edmund Waller (FEW) – to be confirmed.

Horniman Museum at Hillaballoo

We had two proposals in for the main activity at Hillaballoo. One was from the Horniman Museum to run four activities to do with plants and food. The other was a new art collective called Amalgum to create a community newspaper for the occasion. We liked Amalgum’s proposal but felt that the Horniman offered a better fit with the brief and we also wanted to build the relationship seeded with their provision of the African garden for the Equiano memorial.

The activities they offered include planting food seeds in recycled containers, a hands-on mini-museum about food,  ‘meet the gardening expert’ and an art installation of pledges to take more care of our environment. So, we’ve told them we would be very pleased to commission them and are looking forward to it.
We’re also hoping the local police will do an activity about environmental health (anti-dog fouling etc) and possibly provide a bouncy castle. More things are brewing. More ideas welcome too.