Dare-Dare’s Park With No Name is a busy place, it seems. Not only will Karen Spencer’s Dream Listener project take place there tonight, it will host a series of workshops and discussions on the theme of gardening and green space, hosted by Émily Rose Michaud and Catherine Beau-Ferron. The two-day schedule of activities starts tomorrow with a workshop on garden building, with information on types of soil, plants and recycled materials needed to create a successful garden.
Later that afternoon, a discussion will be held on the future of the Park With No Name. Originally a vacant lot situated partially under the Van Horne Viaduct, the borough gave Dare-Dare permission to create a temporary headquarters there last year. Dare-Dare has fashioned a sort of rough-hewn park space out of the lot — hence its name — but the borough wants to pave it over for parking with the arts organization leaves. In a neighbourhood with very little park space (there are just two small playgrounds in the whole of Mile End), this seems to run against the interests of the people who live nearby.
Here’s a full schedule of the weekend’s events:
Fall Ecogardening (community project) in the park with no name
October 20-21 from noon till 5PMInterventions on the site by Émily Rose Michaud and Catherine Beau-Ferron with Fall ecogardening workshops
Saturday 1PM: Workshop on garden building, with information on types of soil, plants and recycled materials to create a garden
Saturday 3PM: The future for the park with no name?
meeting with Caroline Voisard, from the committee of the Lambert-Closse school yard project to talk about what to do with the park with no name (with the comité de verdissement de la cour d’école Lambert Closse)
Sunday 1PM: Workshop on identifying medicinal plants growing in the park with no name
Sunday 3PM: Fall planting and information on indigenous bulbs
For more information, check out Dare-Dare’s website.