16th September 2023
Join Heart of Glass for an action-packed family-friendly Saturday at Court Hey Park’s community allotment, Incredible Edible, and One Knowsley’s Courtyard, to launch an autumn programme, celebrating our community’s love and appreciation of local green spaces.
The day includes a range of activities from a creative celebration of local bird species and hands-on art and embroidery workshops to facilitated discussions about the climate crisis. We invite you to listen, watch, create and reflect on the wild spaces right on our doorstep. See below for more information and how to book onto individual workshops.
Environmental Justice Questions: Workshop
10.30am – 12.30pm and 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Environmental Justice Questions, organised and edited by Harun Morrison, is a compilation of questions for discussion and debate. Harun has invited a range of people including activists, writers, artworkers, theorists, architects, chefs, natural historians and horticulturalists to propose a question relating to environmental justice that can stimulate conversation. The workshop will involve a series of small-group discussions around chosen questions followed by a larger group discussion.
Suitable for ages 16+.
Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based on the inland waterways. He is currently Designer and Researcher in Residence at V&A Dundee and an associate artist with Greenpeace UK.
Benjamina Albanese: Let’s Make Rubbish Art
11am – 4pm, Drop-in
Part show-and-tell, part artistic play area, Benjamina invites you to make ‘rubbish art’ from a range of materials she has accumulated over years of zero-waste living. Having lived without a general waste bin since 2018, the St Helens-based artist will use the session to challenge what we think of as ‘waste’, our role as waste producers, the waste we produce, and how that ‘waste’ might be reused .
Benjamina is a writer, performer and creative exploring themes of nature and identity in her work, often engaging with sustainability, accessibility and the importance of gentle activism. She has been commissioned by Heart of Glass as part of Prototype Projects 2023.
Avian Amble with Paul Harfleet
12.30pm, Booking required
A special sharing / celebration event at Court Hey Park, where attendees of Paul Harfleet’s Birds Can Fly workshops are invited to share their bird-inspired creations, and have their portraits taken to add to an exhibition of ‘gently referenced’ ornithological looks. There’s a prize for best dressed, and a free lunch too. Meet us at the park café in your best feathers if you’d like to join the walk, or come along to watch!
Birds Can Fly uses art, illustration and design to educate and inspire bird lovers and promote creativity, kindness and acceptance, encouraging an inclusive community of ornithologists and naturalists.
Sign up to be part of the Birds Can Fly workshops.
Lunch
Enjoy a delicious homemade lunch on us! From 1pm – 3pm grab some free food and take a tour round an exhibition of work by artist John Maguire and volunteers from Incredible Edible, exploring how we can help to look after our precious ‘green lungs’ (parks, gardens and fields). Meanwhile,writer and social advocate Bernadette McBride will be sharing poems from creative writing workshops with local group Cut Glass Writers.
Mythology, Ecology, Embroidery with Becca Rauer
2.30pm – 4.30pm,
Folklore, mythology and storytelling have been used for centuries to influence behaviour and instil morals in children and adults. Many of these powerful stories include environmental conservation messages that continue to influence policy today. Becca’s embroidery workshop will explore how folklore can help shape attitudes towards green spaces, inviting you to share stories and knowledge to inspire original embroidered artwork.
For all the most up-to-date information, please visit https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/project-and-events/events/a-sense-of-green-at-incredible-edible.
