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Partner in the 'Let us Play' project. Oral history interviews were conduced by local children with playworkers & staff at Meriden adventure playground. Outdoor exhibition installed on site showcasing archival material & QR codes with oral histories.

Partnering with 'Incredible Surplus' Birmingham to test out a series of 'creative takeaway' boxes that are available from their 3 food collection points in the city. Framed by the theme of ‘food’ we are working with commissioned artists to design sets of materials, tools and instructions that respond to seasonal cycles in nature. This involves firing & glazing participants clay culinary utensils.

Partnering with 'Incredible Surplus' Birmingham to test out a series of 'creative takeaway' boxes that are available from their 3 food collection points in the city. Framed by the theme of ‘food’ we are working with commissioned artists to design sets of materials, tools and instructions that respond to seasonal cycles in nature. This involves firing & glazing participants clay culinary utensils.

Partnering with 'Incredible Surplus' Birmingham to test out a series of 'creative takeaway' boxes that are available from their 3 food collection points in the city. Framed by the theme of ‘food’ we are working with commissioned artists to design sets of materials, tools and instructions that respond to seasonal cycles in nature. This involves firing & glazing participants clay culinary utensils.

Supported by the city council, we are undertaking a 'feasibility' study in Acocks Green between November 2020 & April 2021 to develop a proposal that might feature as part of the Commonwealth Games 2022 arts programme. This is provisionally entitled 'The Acocks Green Games'.

Phase 2 of the Seven Street's Pocket Park project in partnership with The Active Well-Being Society. This includes a Balsall Heath take on a Fairy Doors trail as public artwork (with entries from schools in close proximity to the park: Nelson Mandela, Clifton & Ark Tindal primary schools). The trail will be installed/active in April 2021.

Developing project for The Active Well-Being Society that develops a park as a social space. Developing raised beds for growing, working with local residents & associated programme of creative activity. 
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Digital trail featuring former playworker Geoff Gaisford. Installation of sign commemorating playground.

Digitising Dave Swingle's extensive archive of 35mm slides, photos, super 8 footage & extensive journals relating to the adventure playground movement in Birmingham. Former playground sites include: Booth St Handsworth, Boulton Rd Small Heath, South Aston & Malvern St Balsall Heath. Creation of archive for Library of Birmingham.

Digitising Dave Swingle's extensive archive of 35mm slides, photos, super 8 footage & extensive journals relating to the adventure playground movement in Birmingham. Former playground sites include: Booth St Handsworth, Boulton Rd Small Heath, South Aston & Malvern St Balsall Heath. Creation of archive for Library of Birmingham.

Oral history training programme for school pupils & interviewing of former playworkers from Balsall Heath adventure playground.

Oral history training programme for school pupils & interviewing of former playworkers from Sparkbrook adventure playground.

Oral history training programme for school pupils & interviewing of playworkers/volunteers from Meriden adventure playground.

Mobile tourist information centre offering information on an area not renowned for it’s tourism industry. Postcard range featured a series of local ‘heritage’ sites and landmarks, such as Zaffs kebab house and Apna Ghar Asian OAP home.

Talks programme across Balsall Heath in unusual locations. For example, in the wedding suite above the Hillac Somalian restaurant and at Balsall Heath Church Centre.

Balsall Heath Biennale hub: Open exhibition at our home in Balsall Heath, Cat Gallery, street parties.

LED cycle ride.

Handsworth Coin Competition

Pre-Wassail workshop at local library where people made props to enable them to take part in the Wassail performance.. The library formed the start of a parade that went through Highbury Park to the community orchard.

Working with CASBA users prior to the ‘Very Civil’ Rights March to develop banner / placards campaigning against cuts to the mental health service.

Information: Playwright Liz Mytton was commissioned to write three new 'urban mummers plays' which were performed by a troupe of actors at Simmerdown Festival. 

Research workshop based around totem pole building that assisted Prof Peter Kraftl with his research into plastic childhoods. 
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/kraftl-peter.aspx

Curation of an alternative Apple Day, featuring the Apple Store, Cherry-Minder & Black Butter making. 

Balsall Heath has an unlikely history of Surrealism, with English surrealist Conroy Maddox living in the area during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The ‘Decorate Your House Competition: Surreal Theme’ was open to anyone in Balsall Heath and judged by Dr Stephen Forcer, a specialist in Surrealism from Birmingham University. The winning entries formed a surreal house trail across the local area as part of the biennale.

An ice cream van playing the ‘L’Internationnale’ – swap your poems for ice cream and enjoy the communism of the senses. Based on a concept by Robert Grose.
Lolly is theft! Mind that Comrade!