Human Geography and Urban Gardening
If you were out and about on Elm st. Friday night you probably ran into a few of Elsewhere's Carto-Ethno-Geographers. Artists-in-residence, staff members, and friends of Elsewhere teamed up to explore our urban landscape and find out exactly what's happening in our neighborhood when we're all in Elsewhere on a Friday evening. Pictures were taken, interviews were recorded, and maps were made. All of this is being compiled by our crack team of press officers in order to create a new multi-media record of the South Elm neighborhood. This episode of CITY was presented in association with the new South Elm Alliance, a group including Elsewhere that is interested in addressing the particular issues of our small corner of Greensboro. We had a lot of fun getting to know our larger space and are planning on making more trips to complete our research. If you'd like to join us just stop by during our regular hours and ask about CITY, SEA, and our mapping project.
This week we have three different oppurtunities to come out and enjoy our new Urban Green back-alley garden. On Wednesday, May 27th at 5:30 Elsewhere will be hosting one of May's two meetings of Sustainable Greensboro's Green Drinks event. There has been considerable interest already, so if youd like to have a couple of drinks in a beautiful new green space tucked away in downtown Greensboro and get to know a few green-minded friends now is the time.
Friday night at 8 is the long awaited opening of the garden. Earth Fare will be providing the edibles and Elsewhere's first floor is making the transformation into a fun and informative exploration into the Earth's most important chemical process - photosynthesis!
Finally, this Saturday at 1 pm we're inviting everyone out to garden with us for the afternoon. Little Green Thumbs is our family gardening event. In addition to a fun afternoon digging in the Earth and exploring the possibilities for green development in an urban space there will be a sustainable toy workshop and a petting zoo presented by the Natural Science Center of Greensboro. Personally, I find pretty much everything the NSC does to be fun at any age and expect this to be no different.
So there you have it. This week is the last chance to get in our Elsewhere's incredible diverse selection of events for May. It's been an amazing month and I expect the end to be no different. Stay tuned in June for the beggining of our 2009 series of Artist Conversations and exciting new prospects for CITY.
