
Supporting community-led projects to help your local area recover from the COVID-19 crisis
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By Liv Wright
To create a mural in Pymmes Park working with local community groups.This fantastic public artwork will transform an abandoned community centre into a inspiring community asset for the park!
‘Close to a walled-garden, there is a run-down inelegant building, which bears the sign ‘Visitors Centre’. With broken windows and locked doors, I doubt that this building has received many visitors in recent times. This presently unwelcoming building started life as a WW2 civil defence centre. It was established as a decontamination centre to be used in the event of a gas attack on the local population’ http://andylovemp.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-and-improved-pymmes-park-visitor.html Our project is to transform the former meaning of this building as a WW2 civil defence centre/decontamination centre into an artistic landmark the community can be proud of and inspired by. Through participatory processes, with local groups, we will create a mural and bring the users of the park together. We will use this venture as a way to begin to heal the disconnect caused by the pandemic and bring something joyful and fresh to a space people have used during these difficult times.
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Why it's a great idea:
Project Aims: - One Google Review observes it to be a ‘Welcome green wedge in a very urban area’ we will create an entrance that is inviting and encourages people to come in. - To make a building that has failed to remain active as a community centre on the inside to present a community art piece and point of social connection on the outside - with the hope that reopening the space to be used for community purposes inside will follow. - To bring people together who wouldn’t normally connect, embracing intergenerational practice and reflecting the diversity of this community - To allow residents ownership of the space they inhabit - To inspire interest in artistic practice - To encourage pride in the local area which is heavily littered and experiences a lot of fly-tipping which has been increasing over recent years - To make this space which has experienced crime feel safe and welcoming -To bring public art to an area of London that lacks any currently.
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Supporting community-led projects to help your local area recover from the COVID-19 crisis
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How will the money be spent?Total £7,137
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