ART AND ECOLOGY WORKSHOPS
FOR THINKING GARDENS
How We Live In Cities at the BIG on Bloor Festival offers arts, culture and urban ecology workshops. The 3-hour-long relay projects provide hands-on opportunities to participate in interactive, multi-disciplinary events that explore ways to animate, enhance and improve the experience of living in cities – each encouraging garden-making.
How We Live In Cities is a feature event for the BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture, taking place from 1:00 PM- 7:00 PM on Saturday, July 22, and from 12:00 PM-6:00 PM on Sunday, July 23, 2017, at car-free Bloor Street between Lansdowne Ave and Dufferin Street, with up to 100,000 people attending. How We Live In Cities Hub is located just West of Dufferin Ave. on the South side of Bloor Street, in front of the Tennis Courts.
Eric Anthony Charron
Garden Sculpture: BIG Lights and Wind Works
Worshop Hours: 12:45 – 3:45 on Saturday July 22, 2017 (How We Live In Cities Booth at Bloor and Dufferin Streets)
Eric will provide instruction and assist with the building and installation of hanging solar lights and wind catchers, constructed from recycled materials. Eric’s regenerative Sun Lights demonstrate the use of recycled plastic water bottles made luminescent by solar LED technology. This workshop will feature creation demonstrations, and opportunities for all ages to help make sculptures for gardens.
Why Gardens?
Gardens lower the city’s carbon footprint. They mediate summer heat, water run-off, promote food security, provide animal and insect habitat, improve air quality, enhance urban appearances and gardening provides healthy, self-directed exercise fostering better health and mindset.
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