Is it possible to have one’s own plant bed in the city center? Can urban space offer a place created by and for the city’s inhabitants? What about a place where after a long day’s work one can have some rest among the vegetables, fruits and flowers or care for the plants one sowed him- or herself?
Theatre Centre KANA, together with schloss broellin e.V. – international art research location – wants to create a space which will give us a chance to answer the above questions in the positive. We want to have a garden in the center of Szczecin – lawns, green squares and parks, all have their place on the map of our city, but the garden (not to mention a vegetable and fruit garden) has been missing so far. That’s why we’re starting the project Neightborhood Garden – community garden in the center of Szczecin.
Neighborhood Garden will be a place with vegetable- and fruit-frames, in which everyone willing will get one’s own plant-bed to plant/sow vegetables and fruits, and to spend time working in the garden.
But!, the garden space is not all. Neighborhood Garden will be open for all sorts of social and cultural initiatives: if you want to organize a picknick, discussion, documentary film screening, meeting of an association or an informal group, organize a concert or a party - the garden will have space for it all. It’s enough you come up with something, tell us about it, and we [given there’s no colission with other events :) ] will provide you with space and help with organizing.
And what if it’s going to rain cats and dogs the whole summer? We’re preparred for that too – in the end of June we’ll put up a Yurt, a traditional tent of the Eurasian Steppe, which will lend a shadow in hot summer days and a roof during rainy times.
Ah, one more thing – Neighborhood Garden will not be merely a garden space. We realized we plunge into the unknown and so we decided to seek help from experts from "prinzessinnengarten" (community garden in Kreuzberg, Berlin), experts from schloss broellin e.V. and an expert on permaculture, Robert Błaszczyk. Every month, from June till September, we’ll be having Polish-German Workshops with our experts, trying to learn from their experiences and building together with them our garden.
Theatre Centre KANA, together with schloss broellin e.V. – international art research location – wants to create a space which will give us a chance to answer the above questions in the positive. We want to have a garden in the center of Szczecin – lawns, green squares and parks, all have their place on the map of our city, but the garden (not to mention a vegetable and fruit garden) has been missing so far. That’s why we’re starting the project Neightborhood Garden – community garden in the center of Szczecin.
Neighborhood Garden will be a place with vegetable- and fruit-frames, in which everyone willing will get one’s own plant-bed to plant/sow vegetables and fruits, and to spend time working in the garden.
But!, the garden space is not all. Neighborhood Garden will be open for all sorts of social and cultural initiatives: if you want to organize a picknick, discussion, documentary film screening, meeting of an association or an informal group, organize a concert or a party - the garden will have space for it all. It’s enough you come up with something, tell us about it, and we [given there’s no colission with other events :) ] will provide you with space and help with organizing.
And what if it’s going to rain cats and dogs the whole summer? We’re preparred for that too – in the end of June we’ll put up a Yurt, a traditional tent of the Eurasian Steppe, which will lend a shadow in hot summer days and a roof during rainy times.
Ah, one more thing – Neighborhood Garden will not be merely a garden space. We realized we plunge into the unknown and so we decided to seek help from experts from "prinzessinnengarten" (community garden in Kreuzberg, Berlin), experts from schloss broellin e.V. and an expert on permaculture, Robert Błaszczyk. Every month, from June till September, we’ll be having Polish-German Workshops with our experts, trying to learn from their experiences and building together with them our garden.