A Little Patch of Ground
Project Aim
A Little Patch of Ground is a participatory permaculture and arts project that culminates in the fruition of a vegetable garden, a multi media performance and an intergenerational community group. As well as empowering people to grow their own food, it aims to reconnect people to their own imaginative and instinctive power to shift how they see the world and their place within it.
Click on the picture directly below to see a video that summarises the project and some of its rather wonderful outcomes.
Video
Further details
A Little Patch of Ground is a rural/urban food growing and performance project run by Encounters taking place in Dartington, Devon and East London. Each week, beginning in May, 25 local people from the South Devon area meet at Dartington and 25 local people from the East of London meet at Toynbee Studios. The project involves an intergenerational group meeting in each area to create a permaculture inspired vegetable garden, eat together, explore thoughts on food, climate change, sustainability and interdependence, and use creative methods to share stories about our relationship with the natural world. The project will culminate in the creation of a multi-media performance in the autumn which will take place in each location as well as touring within the local area.
Each group meet and create their projects independently in their respective localities, although they are also finding way of sharing their contrasting urban and rural contexts with each other throughout the process and will take a trip to see each other's performance at the end of the project.
Read our weekly blog of the project - http://www.encounters-arts.org.uk/blog/index.php
For more information contact - Ruth Ben-Tovim 07870 698333
Links and Partnerships
This project is in collaboration with Artsadmin and the Dartington Hall Trust and is supported by the Arts Council of England, Transition Town Network and the Permaculture Association.
Sources of Funding
This project has received funding from the Arts Council of England.
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