Gerddi Courtmead Gardens
CBAT is pleased to announce the launch of a series of integrated public art works in the newly created Gerddi Courtmead Gardens by artists Parnell, Mackie & Rowe.
Gerddi Courtmead Gardens is a new community garden situated on Court Road in Cardiff’s Grangetown which was developed in a partnership between Cardiff County Council, Butetown & Grangetown Healthy Living Programme and the Grangetown Community. The project began by asking local residents in North Grangetown what they thought should happen on to a section of land on Court Road in order to improve the area. The most popular idea was to transform the space into a community garden and so, with lottery funding, the Neighbourhood Planning Team at Cardiff Council engaged Llanelli based Landscape architects Corscadden Associates to come up with a design concept. Three designs were created for the garden, and the residents then selected their favourite design to be implemented.
CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency was commissioned to work with the landscape architects to create an integrated public artwork and invited artists David Mackie, Heather Parnell and Andrew Rowe to create a work produced in close consultation with local residents. This included workshops with local schoolchildren and residents to create images through recounted stories and features relating to the area. Many of these images have found their way into the public artworks which comprise of 500 bronzes embedded into the garden’s floor.
A voluntary group made up of local residents, called the Friends of Gerddi Courtmead Gardens, have been meeting monthly since last September with the aim of ensuring the garden is maintained for the benefit of the whole community and to organise events in the garden to encourage it’s use as a community resource. A documentary film is also being made about the garden called ‘Sewing Seeds for the Future’. With the help of lottery grant money, the Friends of Gerddi Courtmead Gardens have enlisted the help of film production company media4creative to train the group in how to use cameras and sound equipment, how to produce and direct as well as edit the film right down to a finished product. The film will be available on DVD, and will be screened on July the 10th at 7 pm in the Cornwall Street Baptist Hall. Local residents are still welcome to get involved with the group and it is hoped that continued local involvement will ensure that improvements made to the garden are long-lasting and well maintained.
Gerddi Courtmead Gardens will be opened by Frank Hennessy from Radio Wales at 1.45 pm followed by free entertainment throughout the day, including Samba Galez (performing at 1 pm and 3pm), Expressions of the Young Kind (performing at 2 pm). There will also be a range of entertainments for children including a bouncy castle and face painting, badge making, bag-painting, plant exchange stall as well as craft stalls and much more.
For further information please contact Aldo Rinaldi at CBAT on 029 2048 8772 / aldo.rinaldi@cbat.co.uk
Gerddi Courtmead Gardens is a new community garden situated on Court Road in Cardiff’s Grangetown which was developed in a partnership between Cardiff County Council, Butetown & Grangetown Healthy Living Programme and the Grangetown Community. The project began by asking local residents in North Grangetown what they thought should happen on to a section of land on Court Road in order to improve the area. The most popular idea was to transform the space into a community garden and so, with lottery funding, the Neighbourhood Planning Team at Cardiff Council engaged Llanelli based Landscape architects Corscadden Associates to come up with a design concept. Three designs were created for the garden, and the residents then selected their favourite design to be implemented.
CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency was commissioned to work with the landscape architects to create an integrated public artwork and invited artists David Mackie, Heather Parnell and Andrew Rowe to create a work produced in close consultation with local residents. This included workshops with local schoolchildren and residents to create images through recounted stories and features relating to the area. Many of these images have found their way into the public artworks which comprise of 500 bronzes embedded into the garden’s floor.
A voluntary group made up of local residents, called the Friends of Gerddi Courtmead Gardens, have been meeting monthly since last September with the aim of ensuring the garden is maintained for the benefit of the whole community and to organise events in the garden to encourage it’s use as a community resource. A documentary film is also being made about the garden called ‘Sewing Seeds for the Future’. With the help of lottery grant money, the Friends of Gerddi Courtmead Gardens have enlisted the help of film production company media4creative to train the group in how to use cameras and sound equipment, how to produce and direct as well as edit the film right down to a finished product. The film will be available on DVD, and will be screened on July the 10th at 7 pm in the Cornwall Street Baptist Hall. Local residents are still welcome to get involved with the group and it is hoped that continued local involvement will ensure that improvements made to the garden are long-lasting and well maintained.
Gerddi Courtmead Gardens will be opened by Frank Hennessy from Radio Wales at 1.45 pm followed by free entertainment throughout the day, including Samba Galez (performing at 1 pm and 3pm), Expressions of the Young Kind (performing at 2 pm). There will also be a range of entertainments for children including a bouncy castle and face painting, badge making, bag-painting, plant exchange stall as well as craft stalls and much more.
For further information please contact Aldo Rinaldi at CBAT on 029 2048 8772 / aldo.rinaldi@cbat.co.uk
