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Civic Street Open Day: July 2nd

Date & Time
2 July 2022
Building

The first Saturday of each month from May to September (7th May, 4th June, 2nd July, 6th August, 3rd September) marks a Civic Street Open Day – where Agile City and its partners Bike For Good and Glasgow Tool Library welcome our communities to get involved in workshops, events, talks, and collective making.

Taking the Civic Street site as a commons and a resource to be shared, we ask you to get involved in activating the area through building, planting, growing, cooking and play. We will offer different levels of engagement through these hosted activities – allowing you to get as involved as you choose.

In return we will give you the time and space to learn new skills, connect with the site and meet new people. Through this process of cooperation with each other and the ecology of the street we hope to create a hub of collaboration, community and democratic exchange which will shape the development of the site into the future.

Here’s what we’ve all got up to at past Civic Street Open Days!

July 2nd Activities

Seasonal Cooking with Donna Borokinni explored seasonality and Scottish grown produce – centering on the humble beetroot! Cooking and eating with the seasons promotes thinking about where our food comes from and what our cultural and ecological relationships are to it. During this three hour workshop attendees learned how to bake beetroot brownies, prepare fresh seasonal salads, and chickpea burgers/ falafels.

Public Pixels with Unit Studio looked at paper lanterns as vessels of hope, creating bespoke lanterns illuminated with LED light pixels. Fabricated from newsprint by folding, they embodied our individual wishes for Civic Street by writing and drawing on the lantern skins. Once made they were installed inside Civic House, growing into a light installation from each attendee’s participation.

Insect Identification with Zoe Pearson saw a morning identification session using simple tools such as magnifying glasses, jars, and pooters to spot insects who live around Civic Street – while the  afternoon ‘insect making’ session saw attendees learn how to make insect sculptures from willow branches that can be placed back into local green spaces.

Civic Anthotypes: Archives, light, organic process with A+E Collective worked with the past, present and future of Civic Street and its surrounding ecosystem through a playful and environmentally friendly form of photography: the anthotype. Foraging for plants, berries and other matter from the Civic Street garden, we experimented with sunlight, stencils, pigment and temporalities of exposure.

Launch of Civic Street Cycling Festival with Bike For Good celebrated the start of the eponymous cycle festival held from the 2nd to the 16th of July. Bike For Good hosted multiple activities and workshops across the day – including face painting, arts and crafts, food, smoothies, bikes to try out (including family e-cargo bikes), cycling taster sessions, free Dr Bike checks, printing workshops, and a DIY workshop led by Glasgow Tool Library.