Two opportunities to work with a Community Allotment in Stoke-on-Trent to engage local people and imagine the future!
Burlsem based community food initiative Root ‘n’ Fruit are looking to work with artists to devise and deliver a creative project in Mott Place allotments, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. This project is designed to raise the profile, improve the physical appearance and strengthen connections within the site amongst existing plot-holders and also to the wider surrounding areas.
Commissioned artists will collect information, knowledge, stories from plot-holders and represent this in the work that will be produced on-site. It is hoped this project will bring the plot-holders on the site together and raise the usage and profile of the site in the local community.
The partnership would like to work with an artist(s) to explore two key areas within the project:
- To develop a communal area for the Root ‘n’ Fruit allotments to increase the number of people enjoying and using the space creatively;
- To undertake an allotment residency to develop ideas for working with artists to how the allotment could be developed and animated in 2016 and beyond.
Artists from any discipline can submit a proposal for a residency with the group Deadline for applications and shortlisting: 16 November 2015, 12pm
The commission is part of the Appetite Stoke Creative Peoples and Places initiative
The total maximum budget for both projects is £9,000. This total will be divided between the two projects.
Download the commission brief in full and apply here
About Root ‘n’ Fruit
Root ‘n’ Fruit is a community food initiative that links together schools, businesses and people from the community, to help them to learn about, grow, and eat, fruit and vegetables.
They have a 600sqm allotment in Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent, where they grow fruit and veg, and run allotment gardening sessions for schools and community groups.
All the fruit and veg that grown is donated, free-of-charge, to people in the local community who are experiencing food crisis
