Exhibitions
The Settlement at St Georges Hall
January 21 March 15
pool have created The Settlement for Liverpool people to develop a people plan for our future city, a plan of how we can best use our unused open spaces and make a true local economy. Liverpool needs us local people, we have the expertise in surviving here. The space, the community gallery, in our greatest building is for you, the community, to develop the plan over the next three months. We will liaise with the city council and others to make the plan happen.
Bring friends, meet, share ideas, book the space, organise a workshop or meeting here, find other people with your interests, do a land use survey, bring photos, share the history of your area. Come to the exhibition and give us your expertise on the people plan.
The Settlement is a 3 month residency at St Georges Hall which will involve a series of lunchtime workshops which will be open to everyone and which will be used to inform the future People Plan that Pool is developing with a view to inform future regeneration developments in the City.
We would like to mark the workshops and the exhibition as a whole with an opening on Friday 13 February at 1pm and would be delighted if you could attend.
Following in the line of a Pool tradition, we are also particularly excited about our picnic workshop programme which is designed to involve, stimulate and excite all of Liverpools citizens in the Citys future.
Our picnic workshops will be:
3 hour sessions within the Community Gallery at St Georges Hall on:
Saturday 31 January from 12noon 3pm
Saturday 14 February from 12noon 3pm
Saturday 7 March from 12noon 3pm
Saturday 15 March from 12noon 3pm
Be focused on the theme of sustainability and regeneration and open to all: and will be of particular interest to those interested in:
Environmental issues
Heritage issues
Arts and culture issues
Each workshop will be of interest to adults over 16 although younger children will also be welcome to attend with accompanying parent(s) or carer(s).
Each workshop will be delivered by Jean Grant and associated pool creative practitioners and will explore in an accessible, though provoking and action-orientated way the following questions:
What do you want to do with land near you?
Can you take responsibility for it?
How can you find out?
Would you need support?
Do we have the right to open spaces today?
Who is the biggest landowner today?
Do I have to ask to run a street party?
Can I stop the traffic in my street?
How can we sell what we grow?
How can large organisations be encouraged to buy local?
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