An exciting community project at Craigmillar Now led by photographer Zoe Hamill. Participants learned new skills through photography workshops and developing a Darkroom Garden on the site of the community centre.
Why?
Photography is part of our everyday lives through smart phones and social media, making it an accessible entry point into visual art and an approachable way to empower and engage creativity for most audiences. Analogue photography in particular offers a hands-on, screen-free way of working that is immersive and meditative, offering all the benefits of mindfulness.
How?
Growing
Clearing, planting and maintaining a garden offers local community members the chance to learn these practical skills and spend time with nature.
Making
Garden plants will be made to make photographic chemistry that will then be used in photographic workshops, encouraging creativity.
Learning
We will research and implement systems to reduce the projects’ environmental impact, such as harvesting rain-water, composting waste an reusing second-hand materials.
Accessibility
There is a car park on site of Craigmillar Now and ramp access to the garden. Workshops will be held inside Craigmillar Now which is ground floor and accessible.
At present most of our flower beds are not wheelchair accessible and require volunteers to walk across unpaved surfaces to access plants. Garden tasks require lifting and bending but we will do our best to support volunteers if they wish to attend with accessibility requirements where possible.
Lunches
We host a free lunch for our volunteers and local community on Mondays between 1-1:30pm. All welcome!
Contact info@craigmillarnow.com or 07447812666 if you have any questions.
