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Opportunity: ‘Art at Typhoo’ – A Community Engagement Commission

14 November – 13 December 2024
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What if Digbeth…

Eastside Projects and Grand Union are developing a cultural placemaking strategy for Digbeth and need your help!

A landscape graphic with a plain white background. At the top of the graphic, simple, minimal font reads ‘Grand Union’ in an acid green colour. Below this, the gold and silver wrappings of chocolate coins spell out ‘open’ in an abstracted way, and slightly overlaps the simple font. Below the gold wrappers, the same green text used at the top of the graphic, spells out ‘studios’.

December Digbeth First Friday: Christmas Open Studios

6 December 20245–8pm
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Art & Ecology Recorded Stories: The Growing Project Harvest Celebration 2024 Soundscape

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A landscape image of two people standing across from eachother, with a small raised garden between them. The raised bed is filled with green plants, branches, and wire cages filled with colourful rocks. Behind them, many more raised gardens are visible, set into a grassy expanse which also holds white tents and lots of trees.

BBC iPlayer: The Growing Project on Gardeners’ World

14 June 2024 – 14 June 2025
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The Growing Project

The Growing Project is a transformative community programme using art making, gardening, cooking and simply being together as a way of offering support and friendship to people passing through difficult times. Our project partners include organisations who support vulnerably-housed people and those experiencing crisis.

Floating Garden

The Floating Garden is a canal-based gardening site that makes up part of the Growing Project. We created the Floating Garden in partnership with the Canal & River Trust to spread the positive benefits of The Growing Project out into the canal network and to use it as an engagement and learning tool with our various community groups and partners.

A landscape image of the Bothy. The bothy structure, which looks like a small shed, is bright blue, with red shutters and details. Surrounding the Bothy, there is a gravel floor, tall brick walls, and a variety of green plants, which are partially visible in the frame. Pale blue sky peaks through gaps in the fluffy white clouds above.

Alberta WhittleThe Bothy: Congregation

2022 – Ongoing

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Creative Production

Since 2019 the Growing Project has partnered with Modern Clay, a co-operative clay studio in Digbeth run by artist members, which produces ceramics, runs public workshops, and designs bespoke projects with charitable organisations. Collaboratively with The Growing Project, Modern Clay developed clay-making workshops for participants, sharing the benefits of working creatively and enacting their belief that creative expression is vital to well-being.