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

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

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

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.

LED cycle ride.

Digitising Dave Swingle's archive.

Handsworth Coin Competition

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!

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

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

Developing project for The Active Well-Being Society that develops the park as a social space. Developing raised beds for growing, engaging local residents & associated programme of activity. 
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Phase 2 of the Seven Street's Pocket Park commission 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.

Digital trail featuring former playworker Geoff Gaisford. Installation of sign commemorating playground.

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.

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.

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

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.