Archive for November, 2011

Artists and Gardens: A Growing Concern

Schmidt is an artic­u­late mem­ber of a new tribe of socially engaged artists who are com­mit­ted to cul­ti­vat­ing com­mu­nity gar­dens and urban agri­cul­tural plots as works of pub­lic art. Their cre­ative roots extend into a num­ber of post­mod­ern move­ments, from Fluxus and earth art to rela­tional aes­thet­ics and new genre pub­lic art, and their role is often to co-ordinate and facil­i­tate rather than man­u­fac­ture and lec­ture. Excerpt from Robin Laurence’s arti­cle in Cana­dian Art on-line, “Artists and Gar­dens: A Grow­ing Con­cern.” Novem­ber, 2011.


Seeds From Grow

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The Grow Seed Exchange brought about some seed shar­ing at the Creek­side Com­muntiy Cen­tre. If you hap­pen to be the happy recip­i­ent of one of the Grow seed pack­ages but don’t know a lot about plant­ing and grow­ing the seeds look for details below.


Grow Walk

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Please join Jason Packer, sus­tain­abil­ity con­sul­tant with Rec­ol­lec­tive for a lively walk through the Olympic Vil­lage. Jason will dis­cuss the green fea­tures of the devel­op­ment and how these inno­va­tions reflect the chang­ing land­scape of sus­tain­able design. How can sus­tain­abil­ity be built into our urban envi­ron­ments and enacted in every­day life will be explored in this walk­ing dialogue.