All TAMS supporters are invited to their annual celebration of success and BBQ. See details in the poster.
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Rebecca Dunn has been in touch about this upcoming event,
Hello community growing network,
I wanted to share details of my upcoming project, which may be of interest. Please excuse the following shameless plug!
Please see the details below. Please share this information with relevant networks if you can and of course it would be wonderful if you can attend.
Invite to attend the “Nice Day, Isn’t It?” installation at Aberdeen Wonderland Festival
Time & Location
8th- 11th September 11am – 8pm
Aberdeen, 85 Union St, Aberdeen AB11, UK
Free entry
Details –
In Aberdeen, one thing we can be sure of is that we never quite know what the weather’s going to do; ‘Nice day, isn’t it?’ celebrates the language of weather. Rebecca Dunn has composed new music based on facilitated discussions at community garden locations about things you can see, hear or feel – like wind or sunshine – talking about these less tangible things allows us to express our ideas about what the past 2 years have been like and what our hopes are for the future.
Working with Gray’s Mobile Art School, an ‘Urban Grow Dome’ has been built and the new compositions form a recorded audio installation that audience members can enjoy in a small seated area surrounded by plants growing vertically all around them.
Kind regards,
Rebecca
We took delivery of our Wheelchair-friendly Picnic Table this Tuesday.
We weren’t expecting it to come flat-packed and the team’s first attempt to assemble it lead to consternation amongst the volunteers and cries of, “Should have gone to IKEA.”
However, the team soon rose to the occasion and had it all sorted out.
The table and bench set is entirely made from recycled plastics and is designed to facilitate use by two wheelchair users and and group of six. It will certainly be a great community asset for many years to come.
It was a great pleasure to see so many old and new faces at our first Community Sunday in a while. Thanks to everyone who managed to come along.
Friday 22nd July was a special day at Garthdee Field when we hosted a visit from Katie Reekie of the Aberdeen Family Wellbeing Service and two families from her group along with support from Lucy at Community Food Initiative North East (CFINE).
Katie has started a new role as a Project Worker with Children 1st which is the working name of the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (RSPCC). and is developing a community gardening project based in Balgownie.
The project will support children and families to grow their own fruit and vegetables as well as providing opportunities to engage in creative activities to make the garden a welcoming space for everyone.
Accompanied by Anne and Jordi from our Volunteer Group, the families explored our site tasting some summer fruits, visiting the wildlife pond and the polytunnel. At the end of the site tour soft drinks and snacks were supplied by Katie and the young children had a good run-about on the grass playing “Tig” with any willing adults! (There was no escape!)
With paper and coloured pens the children drew pictures of their visit while Katie held a short focus group noting the thoughts and views of the parents.
It really was a good fun session.
Stuart
Our annual bonfire will take place on Saturday 26 March starting at 9am. Come along and help feed the stuff for burning onto the fire.
Make sure you take this opportunity to get rid if any scrap or rotting timber, branches, prunings etc and help keep our allotment tidy and free from rubbish.
If you’re wearing nylon clothing beware of sparks melting small holes in the material – best to wear old clothes.
We might even manage to have coffee tea and cookies available for the helpers.
Thanks, and hope to see you at the bonfire.
Stuart