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Past Events	A Garden You Can Eat Event One: Peace in the Park Ponderosa 14 June 2008 Art in the Park joined forces with the popular and ever-growing Peace in the Park festival this year in the Ponderosa for our first event of the summer project, 'A Garden You Can Eat'! The sun managed to break through the clouds, allowing us to have a warm and beautiful afternoon in which to carry out the activities led by our new artist facilitator, Lindsay Berry. We were nestled in the frenetic and exciting children's area where kids and adults had fun experimenting with our circus equipment and easel painting, as well as covering the playground with colourful chalking designs. The most popular activity involved creating nature palettes (small shapes with natural materials found in and inspired by the Ponderosa) and sticking them onto our giant painted beanstalk. Other volunteers and participants also helped to make a beautiful archway, welcoming everyone into the kid's area. It was a busy and exciting day and was a great way to kick off our summer project! Event Two: Ruskin Park Fun Day Ruskin Park July 2008 This was the second event for our current project 'A Garden You Can Eat' with artist facilitator Lindsay Berry. It was an all round success, the sun wasn't shining but thankfully it didn't rain. We had some great hands on activities in our gazebo such as making your own paper, modeling animals out of vegetables and easel painting. All the fun day visitors seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves, having a go at everything we had on offer and were able to take their wonderful creations home with them. My favourite vegetable animal had to be a poodle and its food bowl made from brocoli, celery, courgette and a raddish. The paper making was lots of fun, we added all sorts to create different texture and colour including seeds, beetroot and flowers. The children got really creative with this and took things from their natural surroundings to mix in. There were plenty of families getting involved in the easel painting area which has always been a popular activity. The Ruskin Park fun Day as a whole was great, there were lots of interesting things going on in other tents, fantastic food stalls and live music and dancing. Just goes to show you don't need the sun to have fun. Event Three: August 6th 2008 Philadelphia The latest event in the series ‘A Garden You Can Eat’ involved getting your hands dirty and completing a clay oven to be used in the final event to cook pizza! The sun shone and people of all ages flocked to get their hands stuck in, moulding clay into a decorative multi-coloured oven. If getting dirty wasn’t your thing then Access Space, Sheffield, provided the opportunity to smash up old computers to create garden ornaments and name plaques from keyboard letters. Hallam Fm even dropped by to publicise the events on the radio and take part of course!
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Sound and Sculpture, Philadelphia August 2009
Dens Project at the Winter Gardens June/ July 2009
May Half Term Holiday Activities May 2009
Peace in the Park, Ponderosa June 2009
Firth Park Christmas Fair December 4th 2008
Zest Festive Fun Day December 20th 2008
Philadelphia Fun Day 14th December 2008
Braching Out Philadelphia October 2008
A Garden You can Eat Various Venues June- August 2008
Go Wild with African Art Ponderosa March-May 2008
Footprint Celebration Philadelphia March 15th 2008
Upperthorpe Healthy Living Centre Festive Fun Day December 2007
Rivelin Valley Christmas Festival December 2007
Hillsborough Park Christmas Festival December 2007
Beacons Project Ruskin Park October 2007
Langsett Fun Day August 22nd 2007
Get Fired Up About Philadelphia August 2007
Ruskin Park Fun Day June 2007
Urban May Day Upperthorpe Peace Gardens May 2007
Stannington Fun Day April 2007
Blake Street Insects and Creepy Crawlies March 2007 and April 2007
Philadelphia Trail Through The Trees February 2007
Weston Park Art in the Dark January 2007
Hillsborough Park Christamas Fair December 2006
Rivelin Valley Christamas Fair December 2006
Balloonistas! Part 2 Edward Street Flats November 2006
Superheroes Ponderosa October 2006
Balloonistas! Part one Edward Street Flats September 2006
Circus Project August 2006
Ruskin Park Fun Day July 15th 2006
Upperthorpe Peace Gardens May 14th 2006
Exhibition Upperthorpe Healthy Living Centre May 2006
Ponderosa April 9th 2006
Langsett Green Space February 12th 2006
Edward Street Flats Photography Special Part 2 January 15th 2006
Hillsborough Park December 11th 2005
Photography Special Edward Street Flats November 2005
Big Draw Nottingham Rec. October 2005
Bole Hill September 11th 2005
Langsett Fun Day August 25th 2005
Philadelphia August 7th 2005
Ponderosa July 10th 2005
Ruskin Park Fun Day June 11th 2005
Blake Street Nature Gardens April 2005
Langsett Green space March 20th 2005
Ruskin Park Feb 20th 2005
Hillsborough Park December 18th 2004
Edward Street Flats November 14th 2004
Philadelphia October 17th 2004
Langsett Green September 19th 2004
Ruskin Park Fun Day July 4th 2004
Langsett Green June 20th 2004
Ponderosa May 16th 2004
Philadelphia April 4th 2004
Langsett March 14th 2004
Ruskin Park February 15th 2004
Ruskin Park December 7th 2003
Ponderosa November 9th 2003
Philadelphia September 21st 2003
Upperthorpe Peace Gardens August 31st 2003
Wond'rous Watery Walk Ponderosa February 23rd 2003