A perfect start to Wick on Wheels....

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Since 2009 public works have collaborated with seven different community and interest groups, exploring their specific traditions of hosting and welcoming. At the end of March the results will come together, through a temporary exhibition and series of events.

Wednesday 28th March 2012, 18.00
Whose Plaza is it anyway
To launch Colchester Inn – All Together Now firstsite will be hosting a public discussion about the use of public spaces and its multiple users, using firstsite’s plaza as an example. Speakers are Judith Merritt (firstsite), Cany Ash (Ash Sakula Architects), Marc De'ath (Creative Co-op), Kathrin Böhm and Andreas Lang (public works), Harry Wilson (Ramprage) and Howard Davies (Colchester Borough Council).

Thursday 29th March 2012, 10am – 7pm
We need more Knick Knacks, Mosaic Space
Add your knick knacks to the KNICK KNACK CLOUD. Caroline Rhys-Lewis and Sheila Madder from the 3D design students’ group will be available all day to collect your knick knacks and their stories.

Thursday 29th March 2012, 15.30 pm - 16.30
Everyone’s rail
Free skateboard lessons* and demonstration,

*for those who have never been on a skateboard before

Thursday 29th March 2012 4.30pm – 5.15 pm
Skate Culture, Mosaic Space
Films programme selected by Jonny Antrobus

Friday 30th March 2012, 3pm – 4.40 pm
Public Tea Party Instant Cakes
Fresh cakes from the Public Tea Party clay oven, Mosaic Space
Watch and learn how to make simple cakes in no time with Glynis Brown.

Friday 30th March 2012, 6pm – 7.30pm
Pub Talk, Mosaic Space
A talk by Jess Jephcott, author of The Inns, Taverns and Pubs of Colchester,
about how pubs got shaped by legislation

Saturday 31st March 2012, 11am – 1pm
Cross Stitch!
Drop-in embroidery session with the Colne & Colchester Embroiderers Guild

Saturday 31st March 2012, 3pm
Public Tea Party, Mosaic Space
Bring your favourite cake along and sample some special cakes from the clay oven.

Sunday 1st April 2012, 12 – 4pm
Various Demonstrations, Mosaic Space

You need more than can be eaten
Learn how to make Chinese dumplings with the Colchester Chinese Cultural Society

Choose a local time
Watch how to make a cardboard clock with members of the Colchester Time Bank

Doily Boards
Design and make your own doily board.

Sunday 1st April 2012, 3.30pm
Everyone’s rail
Free skateboard lessons* and demonstration,

*for those who have never been on a skateboard before

Sunday 1st April 2012, 4.30pm
Skate Culture, Mosaic Space
Film programme, selected by Jonny Antrobus

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We are invited by Meike Schalk who works at the School of
Architecture & the Built Environment in Stockholm, and is part
of the Fatale initiative there,
to give a presentation, workshop and take part in informal
discussions. The presentation will be part of a one day conference
on March 7th on the "Miljonprogrammet" - a large scale housing
development in Sweden between1965 and 1975. public works will be
talking about local cultural projects and their spatial
manifestations.

"Miljonprogrammet – the city of the future" is organised by
Spridd /
Småstugebyrån / KTH / Delegation for Sustainable Cities /
Färgfabriken.

It will be live broadcast on
http://www.livestream.com/kthlive.

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St
Matthews Primary School in Cambridge is currently undergoing an
ambitious regeneration programme to cater for increasing numbers of
young people wanting to attend the school. public
works together with Cambridge based performing arts
company 30 Bird
Productions and "http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/people/academic-staff/dr-luke-skinner">Dr.
Luke Skinner, research fellow at the Royal Society
University are working with the school on MUD
a project which tries to capture the moments of this recent
development and unearth the heritage of the school and local area
to be celebrated by future generations of staff, pupils and the
wider community.

The project will collect oral stories and memories that go
beyond the school itself, which will travel through the city of
Cambridge and beyond. We want to hear from present and former
pupils, teaching and non-teaching staff and the local community. We
need your memories and stories, people's photographs, objects and
anything that contributes to a history of the school and immediate
area. This will translate into a fantastic resource for the school
and the local area.'


Head teacher Tony Davies call for people's involvement

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Committee of lost memories cafe - West Bromwich - Birmingham

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Cafe was set up last week ........

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Black Country Living Museum

Katy visited the museum and photographed various relevant items. She talked to the people running 'shops' including the bakery, confectioners, pub and homes. This was useful to find out what the traditional cakes and bread would have been so we make them for the cafe. Katy also met with the education officer who was really keen to be involved in some way and was going to check budgets and timings and get back to us.

Sandwell Farm Museum

Katy visited the museum and spoke with John Stokes, who is an archivist and historian, based there, and also responsible for natural history of the area. He was very interested in hearing about the project and in finding out more about the history of Charlemont. He also said he could do a talk as part of the shop programme. He has since been in touch with further information about the history of the area.

For more updates also check

http://www.multistory.org.uk/blog/program-for-the-shop/ and

http://www.multistory.org.uk/blog/making-progress-in-charlemont/

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public works in collaboration with Katy Beinart

first community meeting wednesday 18th Jan at 4pm

We are proposing a pop-up shop and cafe in Charlemont's row of shops, which will take place over 2 weeks in February 2012. Leading on from our previous research, the shop would have multiple functions including: an archive space for collecting and displaying artefacts and memories about the estate; holding classes and activities for adults which reflect the lost trades and knowledge of the community (and providing a space for 'local experts'; holding games nights to re-enact lost games; and generating funds through a cafe which people can then pitch for to make small local projects happen.

Flower arranging

Butcher – how to use cuts of meat and sausage making

cheese-making

bread-making

Barry – wildlife talk

using locally grown produce

re-enacting old games

other artists working in the area/with particular skills

We will design the space and furniture using reclaimed and locally sourced furniture and objects, with help from student or local volunteers.

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Tingbjerg is a multicultural community and suburb in the north-west part of Copenhagen. It is a small village and a meltingpot of human experiences from all over the world meeting Danish inhabitants in a condensed housing area builded in the 50's as an ideal social housing project in a beautiful surrounding landscape with approximately 6000 inhabitants.
Today, a stigmatized (and failed) version of the multicultural society. At the same time Tingbjerg functions as a test site for the multicultural society in its most condensed version. What we learn in places like Tingbjerg will probably guide the future decisionmaking of the Danish Welfare State e.g. Tingbjerg is generally surrounded by a distorted, fear-based, prejudicial mediation driven by ghetto terms with a public and political focus on conflicts.

VISIT TINGBJERG – A COMMUNITY ART FESTIVAL
That's what VISIT TINGBJERG wants to discuss through an extensive presentation of different experiences, images and stories based on new recognitions fostered by a group of twenty contemporary artists working in this public, socio-political art field. The title VISIT TINGBJERG refers strongly to the Danish Official Travel Guide, Visitdenmark (www.visitdenmark.com) and VisitCopenhagen (www.visitcopenhagen.dk) – official guides that focus on the good stories, the spectacular sites, the prosporus city, the luxurious experiences. When you arrive in the Copenhagen Airport the signs simply proclaim: "Welcome to the land of luxury and passion".

Organised by Matthias Hvass Borello and Kenneth A. Balfelt

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