Veg, chicken, spinach and spuds, the new poster by Gerry Davis is a 2 page selection of his PEAS PARK cartoon still in the making and unfinished. Will the monster chicken roost on top of the container? Will the bugs undermine the area? And who is S?
Saturday, 19 March, 12-3pm: Spring fair. With music, horse&cart, food, art, potato planting, goat and geese, apple press, dance, balloons and lots more.Free and everyone welcome
Spring planning at PEAS PARK: What do you want the park to be? Saturday, 23 January, 12.30-2pm @ LYL drop-in centre, roundabout Glandore/ Skegoneill Avenue. Everyone interested welcome
Let us know if you are coming peasparkbelfast@gmail.com
It was time to celebrate another successful season at PeasPark on Saturday 3 October. If the weather hasn’t been kind to us this season, other things have, and it has been a great year. We’ve tackled monster slugs and mutant chooks and learned 100 ways to cook a courgette. While there will be plenty happening over the […]
PeasPark (along with our our fabulous artichokes, in their prime.) has featured in The Guardian online article about peace lines in North Belfast by @PeterKGeoghegan Will Belfast ever have a Berlin Wall moment and tear down its ‘peace walls’ Alongside other initiatives in the area, including the opening of Alexandra Park gates to allow better access […]
The brand new poster at PeasPark is by one of our gardeners and chief irrigation engineer, Daniel. Inspired by one of the season’s great successes, a humble £2.50 artichoke root from B+Q, it captures the spirit of the garden;unusual, resilient and hard to ignore. Daniel is big fan of ‘Strictly’, which is why he wants […]
One of the things the DOE Challenge Fund helped to fund was a container at PeasPark. It is a great asset;, tools can be stored and we can hide from the rain, when we want to. It has also allowed us to install a secure water supply (although we didn’t need it that much this […]
One of the things the DOE Challenge Fund helped to fund was a container at PeasPark. It is a great asset;, tools can be stored and we can hide from the rain, when we want to. It has also allowed us to install a secure water supply (although we didn’t need it that much this […]
Non Natives: Eimear Campbell 2015 The new poster at PeasPark is by Eimear Campbell, a recent graduate in Photography at Ulster University. Eimear spent some time at the garden and surrounding area in December 2014 as part of her studies. The poster is one of an ongoing series at PeasPark, which reflect, amongst other things, the […]
Peas Park took part in the Open Source weekend in May. The event was in partnership with The Federation of City Farms and Community Allotments and Co-Operative Alternatives. Full report to come, but for now take a look at the coverage from NVTV.
TG4- film about PEAS PARK This short, 4.11min documentation was filmed by TG4, the Irish language television channel in September 2014. At this time, the community garden- PEAS PARK- was still suffering from the spells of destruction during the summer months. Nevertheless, the fun and enjoyment, especially by the children, is visible in the documentation […]
PS² = Paragon Studios / project space [pssquared], is a small artist collective, with studio space in the centre of Belfast. Alongside the studio space, PS² uses a former shop, project space, on the ground floor of the building as a platform for art projects and cultural activities which often include fringe sites in the […]
It would be great if you help to grow the garden at Skegoneill/Glandore Avenue roundabout, North Belfast. If you are interested or just want to have a look and talk to someone, you can either call around on Saturdays between 12-2pm or contact: garden[at]pssquared.org
Saturday, 24 and 31 January 2015 Gardening workshops, open and free for everyone When: 12-2pm Where: LYL drop in centre- former laundrette, close to Glandore /Skegoneill Avenue roundabout. For location see .
Some comments about the garden mention, how much better the site looked before it was used by residents as a park, garden, playground, art field, adventure ground and so on. Though derelict houses did provide adventure for the kids, we see the changed use as an improvement.
For everyone who is interested in the community garden project, please come.
We would like to invite everyone to our Garden Fair at the community garden at the roundabout Skegoneill/ Glandore Avenue. Like last year, it will be a fair for the whole neighbourhood, colourful, fun and creative.
It started with a steady increase of plants and vegetables being ripped out. Now, within three days, the community garden was hit by a series of acts of vandalism, targeting the built structures. First the billboard sign was flattened, then the green house and tepee were set on fire. We expected acts of vandalism from […]
‘A bird’s eye view- aerial image of the Skegoneill/ Glandore Community Garden. Monday, 14 April 2014. With some left over helium from the Belfast Photo Festival Youth Edition workshops at PS², artist Paddy Bloomer brought the weather balloon to the garden. With the ‘New Town’ garden extension in progress, ’orderly’ laid out like Craigavon, the ‘Old Town’ with […]
The initial Temporary Places project lasted for about six months in spring and summer 2013. With its different strands- the culture shop, the container workshops, the community garden- it not only provided ‘temporary’ space for activities, it also opened up insights into the social fabric of the neighbourhood, desires and hopes, frustrations and conflicts. The […]
The Skegoneill Glandore community garden was shortlisted at the Belfast Healthy City awards. Unlike our sunflowers or Johanna’s beans, we didn’t make it to the top, but the garden was ‘Highly Commended’. As we now need an appropriate place for this glass framed certificate we could either – place it in the garden grounds. – […]
Yvonne Kennan is an artist and works in PS² as curatorial assistant. For ‘Temporary Places’ she curates the Culture Shop. Culture shop, located in an empty shopfront, experiments in new forms of artist residency within a community setting. Key aspects are participation, local skills and interests and creative empowerment.
Phil Hession is an artist who works in video and performance. He was born in Omagh in 1978 and now lives and works in Belfast. He graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in 2001. Since then he has consistently exhibited video works and made performances, including: Elective Perspective, April […]
Paddy Bloomer, who describes himself as ‘artist, inventor, explorer and plumber’, often uses recycled materials in his sculptural work, from a mobile disco to a gondola. Bicycles and all possible hybrid forms and functions of it return again and again in his work, re-worked into fascinating machines and moving objects.
Mairead Dunne (Offaly, 1982) is a visual artist based in Belfast. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and received a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Ulster Belfast. Her practice investigates the playfulness and strangeness of childhood where the work often adopts an unsettling child’s fantasy environment. Inspiration […]
Laura O’Connor is a video artist.
Joanna Hopkins is an Irish born artist born in 1984. She works predominantly in video, photography and installation. For more information see: http://www.joannahopkins.com/
Culture Shop, located in an empty shopping unit at the Ashton Centre, is reclaimed as a workplace and studio for artists and cultural workers. After an open call and selection process, four artists were chosen to use the space for one month each. The culture shop is seen as an open and publicly exposed place […]
Temporary Places- what’s happening – September 2013 Charlotte Bosanquet: Centre for Creative ideas. The Centre for Creative Ideas is a space where ideas are formed and discussed, a creative space for excellent ideas to happen. During the month of August The Centre for Creative Ideas is housed in a temporary portable structure in the Glandore/Skegoneill […]
The Skegoneill Glandore community garden was shortlisted at the Belfast Healthy City awards. Unlike our sunflowers or Johanna’s beans, we didn’t make it to the top, but the garden was ‘Highly Commended’ As we now need an appropriate place for this glass framed certificate we could either – place it in the garden grounds. – […]
Young Person’s Newspaper Participants: Youths from the neighbourhood and close- by areas Time: Wednesdays’, 7-9pm Where: Container hub next to the garden Lead artist: Duncan Ross This project and it’s participants/ journalists will produce a local newspaper and make it available to the community through a specially designed dispenser. The paper’s […]
The Centre for Creative ideas. Participants: Everyone interested Time: Monday- Friday, 11am-4pm- till 23 August 2013. Where: Container hub next to the garden Lead artist: Charlie Bosanquet The Centre for Creative Ideas is a space where ideas are formed and discussed, a creative space for excellent ideas to happen. During the month […]
Anne-Marie Dillon is an artist and activist. With a large family to look after, she studied art as a mature student and completed an MA in 2009. Her socially engaged work is centred round the small rural community of Ballykinler, Co Down, where she organizes events, from mother and toddler meetings to Bingo for pensioners. […]
Soon to come: Produced by Duncan Ross alongside residents from Skegoneill, Glandore and surrounding. It presents a bit of social life and art from one month in the […]
Garden Fair Saturday, 28 September 2013, 12-3pm. With: Live music- ethnic&local&DJ; BBQ; badge making; sports; garden harvest cooking; ping-pong; animal farm; face, arm and toe painting; wilderness run; hula-hoop and more… Free & fun and please all come! The garden fair marks the end of the Temporary Places community arts project and celebrates the outcomes […]
Billboard posters. Left: Paul Bower; right: Duncan Ross After a billboard poster by Celia, aged 6, who made the courageous start with the ‘art in the dschungle’ campaign, the second poster is up. It is designed by Paul Bower and was created as an early response to the potential of the community garden as […]
Gardening session: Every Saturday, 11am- 2pm. All welcome. Every Saturday between 11am and 2pm we meet for a gardening session, chat, tea… Just come along, from toddlers to pensioners, all are welcome.
Every Sunday in May, 1-3pm Time: 1-3pm.Artist: Duncan Ross. In preparation for this Summer’s art projects we’ll take the grey Temporary Places container and turn it’s outside into an artwork. We’ll be thinking: shall we camouflage the container or exaggerate it’s difference? Will we stencil, spray-paint or use old socks and spent chewing gum to […]