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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.

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

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. 
Facebook group

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.

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.