Den Haag (Nederland)

Title: Community Kimchi
Saturday April 20, 3-6 pm
Stadsoase Spinozahof, Repelaerstraat 61
Organizers: Anna Andrejew, Floris Janssens, Sophie Krier

A fermentation/storytelling workshop hosted by urban garden Stadsoase Spinozahof and guided by Anna Andrejew and Floris Janssens. Curation and coordination : Sophie Krier. Documentation: Shaah Kamukuro

In the opening circle we will see what everyone has brought. Then we get to work making a “community kimchi”. As we make, we share stories about the veggie we brought along. We might ask: what associations do you have with it? Did your grandmother often prepare it? Is it a veggie you don’t really know how to eat/process? While cutting, we will prepare a big pot of ‘community kimchi’, which will incorporate the stories of the day into a dish of togetherness and sharing. The community kimchi* will remain stored at Spinozahof so its nutrients and stories can be tasted during future gatherings.

*Kimchi means ‘sunken vegetables’ in Korean and is a collective name for fermented vegetables (mostly cabbage).

Paris (France)

Title: Wild Local Flora Mural : the Shapes of Plant Ancestors
Saturday April 20th, 2:00-5:00 pm
Pépinière Pariciflore
Parc du Sausset, 1 avenue Raoul Dufy, 93600 Aulnay-sous-Bois
Organizers: Horticulturist Elodie Seguin and visual artist Carmen Bouyer

Creation of a collective fresco representing a selection of local wild plants of the Paris region guided by artist Carmen Bouyer. We’ll use natural pigments derived from soil and plants to paint on a container at the Pariciflore nursery in Seine Saint-Denis. Participants will also take part in the nursery’s activities: transplanting, gardening, weeding during the workshop. Pariciflore is the first and unique nursery in the Paris region cultivating local wild plants for people and communities to green urban and peri-urban spaces. The association aims to help maintain local biodiversity by promoting wild flora and developing the production of wild plants and seeds. Local wilds have been growing in the region for more than 400 years, this workshop wishes to honor them through art and community.

Registration link: https://parcsinfo.seinesaintdenis.fr/les-parcs/parc-du-sausset/agenda-printemps-4200/creation-d-une-fresque-collective

Izmir (Türkiye)

Title : Foraging Walk and Meal, and Print Workshop
Saturday April 20th
Organizers: Dilek Himam and Maquis Projects (Thomas G. Keogh, Ali Kemal Ertem, Hande Bozbıyık)
Meeting Point : Maquis Projects, Izmir

PRINT WORKSHOP

During this workshop the participants will engage in a hands-on creative activity using an eco-friendly technique. This technique, commonly known as “Hapazome”, involves hammering foraged herbs  onto fabric or paper to create colorful prints. The process involves releasing pigments from the morning’s foraged plants onto the material, resulting in beautiful natural patterns.

FORAGING WALK AND MEAL

The Maquis foraging walk goes from Kadifekale through parks and community gardens, along old city walls, past the castle and the old roman theater, through the old Ottoman historic streets, near ancient ochre sources of Smyrna, over a buried river, under a motorway and finally ends at the Maquis Projects space on Ismet Inonu Sokak where we will use the collected plants to make a shared meal. On this walk we will revert to the ancient role of food gathering from the plants growing around us.

Bogotá (Colombia)

Title : Ethics and Aesthetics of Fire
Date : Saturday April 20th
Organizers : Landscape designer Diana Wiesner

Three actions will be carried out in the hills of Bogotá, exalting fire, as part of its ethics and aesthetics. These actions will be inspired by the recent fires that have affected various mountains and moors in Colombia due to climate change. Red tea ceremonies, fire poems, and songs/narratives related to it will be performed, all framed in geometric figures adorned with symbolic colored minerals. Additionally, a meditation on the transformative power of the fire element will be included in the red tea ceremony, inviting participants to reflect on its ability to transmute and renew. They will be documented with videos and photographs, alternating symbolic actions, with the purpose of inviting citizens to reflect on possible prevention and care measures for life.

São Paulo (Brasil)

Title: Long live the worms!
Place : Choque Cultural Gallery – Alameda Sarutaiá 206, Jardim Paulista, São Paulo, Brasil
Date : Saturday April 20th
Organizers: Curator Baixo Ribeiro, Choque Cultural, Artist Erica Mizutan

The event proposes a tribute to the earthworm, this entity so important for composting. At the event we will launch canvases by Erica Mizutani, an environmentalist-artist who has a recurring character in her paintings and graffiti that is inspired by the earthworm. We will distribute some mini worm-farms and demonstrate how to make a homemade compost bin.

Panaji (India)

Title: Upcycling Workshop with natural dyes, third edition
Saturday April 21 st 2024
Sensible.Earth Center
Organizers: Juliette Ravel et Sanjiv

In this workshop we invite the participants to bring their own discarded clothes in order to upcycle them with natural dyes. Sensible Earth’s center also collects the discarded clothes of the locality and these can also be chosen by the participant to give it a second life.

We have started making partnerships with the local farmers to source our natural dyes or with the local juice stores to use their food wastes.

The workshop reinforces the bonding between people of our locality, Porvorim in Goa. Porvorim has been strongly urbanized in the past years and the inhabitants have witnessed the change.

Through this workshop not only the participants get to upcycle their old clothes, they also get to learn about sustainability and natural dyes. They leave the workshop with a pdf helping them later in their natural dyeing practice. Through different experiences and workshops (natural dyeing, slow stitching…) at the Living Labs of Sensible Earth we create a community and awareness on sustainability.

Margate (United Kingdom)

Title : Urban Art & Nature: mural walkshop
Date : Friday April 26th / “Walkshop” from 3:45 to 5:30 pm and Film Screening from 6 to 8pm.
Organizers: Poet Jessica Taggart Rose and Rise Up Clean Up
Meeting Point: Margate School, 31-33 High St, Margate CT9 1DX

Rise Up Clean Up is hosting a facilitated ‘walkshop’ to some of the incredible murals created as part of the Rise Up Residency on the afternoon of Friday 26th April. At 3:45pm, we will gather at the Margate School and, after a welcome and introduction from your facilitator Rachel, set off at 4pm for an accessible walk to some selected murals. At each mural, Rachel will offer some information and prompts for creative responses to the murals and the issues they raise. Walking together, participants are invited to have conversations and to connect. The walkshop will run until 5:30, when we will return to the Margate School for refreshments and to debrief and share reflections.

Bring a pen and paper for writing, sketching materials, cameras or any devices to create your responses. No artistic or writing experience is required – this is a personal, non-judgmental walkshop. You may want to share some of your creativity in the debrief session but there will be no pressure to.

It will be followed by an early evening film screening (6-8pm) of four fantastic films at the Margate School : Rise Up Residency – 2022 – Margate a film by Doug Gillen & Fifth Wall TV, Salty Synchro – Margate Pride Performance 2023 a film by Tristón Wallace, Working with Wildlife to Combat Climate Change a film by Kent Wildlife Trust, with thanks to Helen Pitman, Taking the Waves a film by Kathryn Ferguson.

Registration link:

Walkshop : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/urban-art-nature-mural-walkshop-tickets-880162669237

Film Screening : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/urban-art-nature-rise-up-clean-up-film-screening-tickets-880164615057?aff=oddtdtcreator

Daejeon (Korea)

Title: Weeds are our Friends
Place: City as Nature Studio
Date : Friday April 27th, 2pm – 4pm
Organizers: Suhee Kang (herbalist) and Patrick M. Lydon (artist), City as Nature Studio

We normally think of weeds as enemies. In this half-day workshop we suggest that weeds are healers of the land, of people, and they could be healers of our cities if we allowed them the chance. 

This is a four-part activity. 1) A short introduction about important of weeds 2) Walk to Daejeon River, a national protected river where chemicals are banned, to collect various weeds including mugwort, broadleaf plantain, dandelion, and clover. 3) Learn to blend our own herbal tea using these weeds as ingredients. 4) Give thanks to the weeds and enjoy a nourishing weed tea tasting together with commemorative printing using hand-carved weed wood block stamps.

New York City (Turtle Island / USA)

Title: Walk/Clean/Make at Mosholu Teaching Forest
Place: Bronx, New York, USA
Date: Saturday, April 27, 1:00PM
Organizers: Matthew López-Jensen
Exact Location: The large boulder near the north exit of the Mosholu Parkway 4-Train stop.

This two-hour stewardship-centric session is designed around a slow walk through the Mosholu Teaching Forest. Participants will have a chance to meet each other, look at plants, visit old trees, check on newly planted wildflowers, and talk about what urban forests can do for communities. We will also focus our attention on removing the litter that has made its way into the forest. We’ll look closely at this material and creatively dispose of it at the end of the walk. The experience will blur the lines between stewardship, care, community building, and artmaking.