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Seeds From Elsewhere

Setting up a garden in Finsbury Park with young refugees, growing produce from their homelands.

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Seeds From Elsewhere

Seeds From Elsewhere

Seeds From Elsewhere

Seeds From Elsewhere

Seeds From Elsewhere

Setting up a garden in Finsbury Park with young refugees, growing produce from their homelands.

Setting up a garden in Finsbury Park with young refugees, growing produce from their homelands.

Setting up a garden in Finsbury Park with young refugees, growing produce from their homelands.

Setting up a garden in Finsbury Park with young refugees, growing produce from their homelands.

They Are Here /
They Are Here /
They Are Here /
They Are Here /
1 Campaign |
Finsbury Park, United Kingdom
$2,563 USD $2,563 USD 95 backers
49% of $5,177 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
Working with young refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in London, we will create an urban garden in an enclosed area of Finsbury Park. Our aim is to grow flowers, plants and edible produce from the homelands of the participants. This will include chillies from The Democratic Republic of the Congo, mango from Sri Lanka and spices from Jamaica. To make this happen, we are raising funds to buy gardening tools and equipment, to build a greenhouse and to support group meetings.

Our names are Helen Walker & Harun Morrison. We work under the name They Are Here(www.theyarehere.net) as artists with a social practice. Alongside Florina Tudose, we are organising a project called SEEDS FROM ELSEWHERE over the next two years. Young refugees and migrants are invited to grow edible produce, plants and flowers from their homelands to create an urban garden in Finsbury Park. Over time the garden will become a portrait of our group and the journeys that individuals have made to get to London. The project also functions as a refuge from day-to-day concerns and offers an alternative space to share stories and ups and downs amongst a diverse group of people.

They Are Here will work closely with various groups, including Furtherfield Gallery (based in Finsbury Park) and Migrants Organise (http://www.migrantsorganise.org/), a community organization in West London and a platform where refugees and migrants organise for power, dignity and justice,  to facilitate a series of fortnightly gatherings. Art collective They Are Here draw on 10 years of experience of socially engaged projects, working with various groups across the public realm. Florina has been working with young refugees and asylum seekers for the past 2 years, and she is a passionate gardener.

Our campaign aims to raise funds to establish the gardening project and to maintain it. To do this, we need to buy tools, equipment and seeds, plus materials for building a polyethene greenhouse to support more fragile plants. We would like to provide food and drink to those who come to our meetings, encouraging people to return and spread the word about the project. We would also like to construct a pizza clay oven in the garden to create a more social gathering point. Ultimately, we want to create a space to invite the wider Finsbury Park community in to see what we have been doing.

In a time of turmoil regarding the status of the UK in the European Union, in which negative narratives around migration and refugees are present, we want to do something positive that creates a space for dialogue and a support network for those who may be struggling to find a place in London.

 

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Pizza Token

Currency Conversion $6 USD
£5 GBP
A Finsbury Park Pizza made in our self built clay oven; garlanded with ingredients grown in the garden.
Estimated Shipping
January 2017
45 claimed

Foreign Swear Words

Currency Conversion $26 USD
£20 GBP
Free 1 hour introductory language Class from a refugee in Portuguese, Farsi, Albanian, Romanian, English, French, Tamil, Nepalese, Amharic (& 1 pizza token)
Estimated Shipping
January 2017
25 claimed

Limited Edition Poster

Currency Conversion $65 USD
£50 GBP
Limited edition 10 x 8 inch C-print by collective practice They Are Here. You can see the work here: http://bit.ly/2gwJGDz
Estimated Shipping
January 2017
9 out of 50 of claimed

Limited Edition Photo Print

Currency Conversion $129 USD
£100 GBP
This limited edition of 50 is from the series, Green Migrants, by internationally awarded photographer Briony Campbell. She writes of the work, 'Like displaced people, these imported plants strive to adapt, and grow to their full glory despite unnatural environments. I came upon their greenhouses just behind the UN headquarters in Geneva.' You can see the edition on her website here: http://bit.ly/2fCEb5g
Estimated Shipping
January 2017
0 out of 48 of claimed

Name-a-Planter

Currency Conversion $259 USD
£200 GBP
Name a planter in the garden after yourself, friend or organisation! A limited edition print by photographer Briony Campbell & two pizza token.
Estimated Shipping
January 2017
0 out of 10 of claimed

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