![Colin and I have been asked to present at this bicycle tour coming up on Saturday and Sunday, part of a public art plan being created for the central corridor, home of the new LRT line between Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
We don’t live in Saint Paul or along the corridor, but we’ve been spending time over the past months interviewing community gardeners in neighborhoods across both cities, and have learned so much about what it means for them to inhabit their neighborhoods, and how they practice their own versions of creative placemaking.
For our tour stop, we’re collaborating with a group of these gardeners in the Hamline Midway area. We really connected with them after learning about their work, their passions, and the myriad connections they were drawing between people, plants and places in their community.
On Sunday morning, the bike tour will meet us all at Horton Park (Hamline & Minnehaha), where participants will learn about plants that used to grow in the corridor, that have been planted and cared for by neighbors over the last few decades and today, as well as dreams that these fantastic folks have for their gardens and green spaces in the future.
We’ll also be collecting a few plants that day and pressing them for a new project we’re evolving called City Herbarium, that asks people to join us on collecting field trips to green spaces, gardens, groceries and other places where plants and people intersect; and to help us build a public herbarium of plants and stories. More on that soon!
Full invite to the bike tour is below, click on the picture above to sign-up!
You’re invited: The Central Corridor Roadside Attraction [Bike] Tour
Saturday October 15th & Sunday October 16th
RSVP here to join the tour & get the meet up locations
The Central Corridor Roadside Attraction [Bike] Tour is a public bike ride led by Rebar that will traverse the corridor over a weekend in four legs, stopping to visit places that encapsulate the challenges, promise and particularities of this diverse urban landscape. Think of it as a mobile symposium, a place-based conversation with members of the interested public and the practitioners of art, design and activism that are shaping the Corridor. An outstanding group of invited artists, activists, and designers will host a conversation at each stop, offering their vision for the future of the Corridor there and engaging in a dialogue with the other riders. If you’re interested in public art in the Central Corridor, this is a chance to become part of the conversation!
The Roadside Attraction Tour is part of the artist-led public outreach process of the Central Corridor Public Art Plan, being created right now by the consultant team of Cliff Garten, Todd Bressi, Via Partnership and Rebar, under the guidance of Public Art Saint Paul. Because this is a very different kind of plan, we are looking for very different ways of reaching out and involving the public so that we can learn about the Corridor and make good recommendations for the future.
Whether you’re 8 years old or 80, we want you to join us. You can join up for one or all legs of the ride. Please RSVP so we can be in touch by email with meeting points for each leg of the tour. We have limited availability for van transportation as well for those who cannot ride bikes.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsvl7ixIhA1qbogafo1_1280.png)
Colin and I have been asked to present at this bicycle tour coming up on Saturday and Sunday, part of a public art plan being created for the central corridor, home of the new LRT line between Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
We don’t live in Saint Paul or along the corridor, but we’ve been spending time over the past months interviewing community gardeners in neighborhoods across both cities, and have learned so much about what it means for them to inhabit their neighborhoods, and how they practice their own versions of creative placemaking.
For our tour stop, we’re collaborating with a group of these gardeners in the Hamline Midway area. We really connected with them after learning about their work, their passions, and the myriad connections they were drawing between people, plants and places in their community.
On Sunday morning, the bike tour will meet us all at Horton Park (Hamline & Minnehaha), where participants will learn about plants that used to grow in the corridor, that have been planted and cared for by neighbors over the last few decades and today, as well as dreams that these fantastic folks have for their gardens and green spaces in the future.
We’ll also be collecting a few plants that day and pressing them for a new project we’re evolving called City Herbarium, that asks people to join us on collecting field trips to green spaces, gardens, groceries and other places where plants and people intersect; and to help us build a public herbarium of plants and stories. More on that soon!
Full invite to the bike tour is below, click on the picture above to sign-up!
You’re invited: The Central Corridor Roadside Attraction [Bike] Tour Saturday October 15th & Sunday October 16th
RSVP here to join the tour & get the meet up locations
The Central Corridor Roadside Attraction [Bike] Tour is a public bike ride led by Rebar that will traverse the corridor over a weekend in four legs, stopping to visit places that encapsulate the challenges, promise and particularities of this diverse urban landscape. Think of it as a mobile symposium, a place-based conversation with members of the interested public and the practitioners of art, design and activism that are shaping the Corridor. An outstanding group of invited artists, activists, and designers will host a conversation at each stop, offering their vision for the future of the Corridor there and engaging in a dialogue with the other riders. If you’re interested in public art in the Central Corridor, this is a chance to become part of the conversation!
The Roadside Attraction Tour is part of the artist-led public outreach process of the Central Corridor Public Art Plan, being created right now by the consultant team of Cliff Garten, Todd Bressi, Via Partnership and Rebar, under the guidance of Public Art Saint Paul. Because this is a very different kind of plan, we are looking for very different ways of reaching out and involving the public so that we can learn about the Corridor and make good recommendations for the future.
Whether you’re 8 years old or 80, we want you to join us. You can join up for one or all legs of the ride. Please RSVP so we can be in touch by email with meeting points for each leg of the tour. We have limited availability for van transportation as well for those who cannot ride bikes.
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