Grow Launch

Grow: May 1 – Novem­ber 30 2011

Lead Artist: Holly Schmidt

Other Sights for Artist’s Projects is pleased to present Grow, a pub­lic art project that acts as a pub­lic forum, teach­ing tool and cre­ative lab­o­ra­tory for eco­log­i­cal and social sus­tain­abil­ity prac­tices in South East False Creek (SEFC), Van­cou­ver, Canada.

Located in Vancouver’s “green­est devel­op­ment”, the Olympic Vil­lage, Grow explores sus­tain­abil­ity issues through a series of walks, work­shops and cre­ative exper­i­ments in urban agri­cul­ture. Walks led by artist, Holly Schmidt and invited guests from archi­tec­ture; design and the human­i­ties focus on the chal­lenges faced by rapidly grow­ing and chang­ing cities. Work­shops invite peo­ple to imag­ine new pos­si­bil­i­ties for agri­cul­ture in the city through inven­tive pro­to­type build­ing to sup­port the pro­duc­tion of food in the urban environment.

Activ­i­ties will cul­mi­nate in the Bulk­head Urban Agri­cul­ture Lab. Sit­ting on the periph­ery of pub­lic parks, unde­vel­oped and bristling with rem­nants of the indus­trial past, the Lab exper­i­ments with trans­form­ing a vacant lot into a space for grow­ing. Tak­ing up the pro­vi­sional state of this site, recy­cled mate­ri­als will be used to con­struct a series of sculp­tural plat­forms for grow­ing food.

Grow work­shops are offered Sat­ur­day, May 21, 28, and June 4, 2011 from 12:00– 4:00pm at Creek­side Com­mu­nity Cen­tre. Work­shops are free. To reg­is­ter call 604.257.3050.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Grow is led by Holly Schmidt a Vancouver-based artist who has a par­tic­i­pa­tory art prac­tice and an exten­sive back­ground in pub­lic pro­gram­ming. Her work involves a range of research activ­i­ties that over­lap with the nat­ural sci­ences, sus­tain­able food sys­tems and agriculture.

CONTRIBUTING PRESENTERS AND PARTNERS:

Duane Elverum, sus­tain­abil­ity edu­ca­tor, Rajdeep Singh Gill, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary scholar and cura­tor, Fabi­ola Nabil Naguib, artist, writer and activist.
Other Sights and the Grow project are pleased to be part­ner­ing with the Van­cou­ver Design Nerds and the Envi­ron­men­tal Youth Alliance.

Pre­sented by Other Sights for Artist’s Projects, Grow is part of an on-going series of artist’s works that address issues of sus­tain­abil­ity in the devel­op­ment of South East.

Con­tact:

hschmidt711@gmail.com

http://​oth​er​sights​.ca/

http://​www​.grow​-urbana​gri​cul​ture​pro​ject​.ca/

For pdf ver­sion click here.

 

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