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Participate in the Urban Physic Garden Festival!
Hi Spacemakers!
We are busy building the Urban Physic Garden (www.physicgarden.org.uk), transforming a derelict site in SE1 into a pop-up garden of medicinal plants for a launch on June 11. We are also planning an exciting summer festival of events while the garden is open (June 11-August 15) - and would love you to be part…
Added by wayward plants on May 26, 2011 at 9:16 — No Comments
Looking for events for the Urban Physic Garden
Hi Spacemakers!
We are busy building the Urban Physic Garden (www.physicgarden.org.uk), transforming a derelict site in SE1 into a pop-up garden of medicinal plants for a launch on June 11. We are also planning an exciting summer festival of events while the garden is open (June 11-August 15) - and would love you to be part of it!
- Are you interested in running a…
Added by wayward plants on May 26, 2011 at 9:11 — No Comments
Out of the Ordinary
I've just been catching up on this fantastic project, which has opened its first space in Whitechapel:
ContinueOut Of The Ordinary is a community of makers and doers, fixers, visionaries and alchemists.
We create and manage public sheds where you can make beautiful and useful things from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life.
Our sheds are simple places, built with bit of ironmongery and a lot…
Added by Dougald Hine on March 9, 2011 at 18:30 — No Comments
Meanwhile Space are recruiting!
If you are under 25 and claiming Jobseekers Allowance in London we want to hear from you.
We are Meanwhile Space, a non-profit Community Interest Company set up in 2009 to enable and assist interim uses of vacant property and sites. You can find out more about the work we do at www.meanwhilespace.com and about meanwhile in general through the Meanwhile Project programme (…
ContinueAdded by Emily Berwyn on March 8, 2011 at 14:01 — No Comments
Things are still moving with compARTment - heres an invitation to our first major event!
For this years White Night Festival in Brighton - compARTment is
transforming Brighton's Open Market for one night only... into The Open
Sesame Night-time Bazaar
On the 30th Oct compARTment presents, The Open Sesame Night-time Bazaar at the Open Market.
From 6pm till 2am we will transform the market into an illuminated
evening of pop-up cinema, performance, music, art, craft stalls and
beyond… Continue
Added by Susanna Gibson on October 18, 2010 at 23:42 — No Comments
Open Market Pilot Opening soon..! for compARTment =)
Open Market Pilot Opening soon..!
Well, things are moving with the Open Market project and we are aiming to be opening early July.
Applications are coming in for Artists and Volunteers and these are looking great. To give some flavor – proposals so far include - circus, sonic art, a zine fair, recycling workshops and more..
We will be having a pre-project-meet, for…
Added by Susanna Gibson on June 28, 2010 at 19:18 — No Comments
Pop-up project proposals for the Open Market, Brighton
by Patrick Donohoe
compARTment have secured temporary use of two stalls at Brighton’s Open Market prior to the major developments planned. This…
Pop-up project proposals for the Open Market, Brighton
compARTment have secured temporary use of two stalls at Brighton’s Open Market prior to the major developments planned. This is brilliant news for us and in some ways a long time coming!
This is our pilot project in the realms of transforming unused city space for creative and community regenerative purposes. We…
Added by Susanna Gibson on June 28, 2010 at 19:17 — No Comments
Of Human Rights and Empty Shops
What do foot-binding, female circumcision and an empty shops project in Brixton have in common? In amidst the looming 6th May elections (brought to you in collaboration with Facebook and Youtube), some trivia.and
(photo credit: Sara Haq/Andy Broomfield)…
ContinueAdded by Gaia Marcus on April 30, 2010 at 14:00 — No Comments
Meanwhile Use - National online mapping research
It would be great it you could help Meanwhile Space and the Development…
Added by Gaia Marcus on April 18, 2010 at 11:00 — No Comments
Cabinet of Curiosity shortlisted for RIBA Forgotten Spaces
Added by Cabinet of Curiosity on April 12, 2010 at 19:11 — 1 Comment
Need space to make space?
Added by Gaia Marcus on April 4, 2010 at 11:30 — No Comments
More ways to get involved at Brixton Village
This started with the offer of three months rent-free space — but it only succeeds if the market continues to be full of life and activity into the future. There mustn’t be a moment when things empty out… Continue
Added by Dougald Hine on March 24, 2010 at 18:30 — 1 Comment
We Make Margate half day Conf 30th April 2010
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Added by Lynn Ellen Kaye on February 23, 2010 at 8:22 — No Comments
Empty Shops Project in Cumbria prompts #town2town dialogue
arcade spring project scheduled for 5th march – 20th 2010…
ContinueAdded by Caroline Dalton on February 9, 2010 at 17:30 — No Comments
Brixton People: The story so far
Added by Carole Evans on January 27, 2010 at 20:30 — 2 Comments
Brixton People; A pop-up photography studio and exhibition
Added by Carole Evans on January 25, 2010 at 21:04 — No Comments
Photography & Video of Brixton Village (Granville Arcade) Events
The images are available to view online at the address below where you can select to view the images by a specific weekend/ event:…
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Added by Ash Finch on January 25, 2010 at 2:38 — No Comments
Caroline Dalton Blog
Added by Caroline Dalton on January 22, 2010 at 21:41 — No Comments
Christmas Celebrations @ Brixton Village.
On a freezing night in December 2009, all kinds of magical new pop-up projects and community-driven shops opened their doors in Brixton Village, south London. The first-time shopkeepers were winners of a competition run by Space Makers Agency to bring a new lease of life to this 1930s market arcade.
Since October 2009,… Continue
Added by Gaia Marcus on December 22, 2009 at 21:44 — No Comments
Come to the Brixton Conversations
We’re very excited to announce the Brixton Conversations are starting this coming Saturday 5th December 2009, 12-5pm in the Granville Arcade, Brixton Market.
What are the Brixton Conversations?
The Brixton Conversations introduce members of the local community in Brixton to each other as part of a photography project.
If you’re visiting the… Continue
Added by Elizabeth Varley on December 4, 2009 at 14:25 — No Comments
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- Participate in the Urban Physic Garden Festival!
- Looking for events for the Urban Physic Garden
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- Meanwhile Space are recruiting!
- Things are still moving with compARTment - heres an invitation to our first major event!
- Open Market Pilot Opening soon..! for compARTment =)
- Pop-up project proposals for the Open Market, Brighton by Patrick Donohoe compARTment have secured temporary use of two stalls at Brighton’s Open Market prior to the major developments planned. This…
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