Stories From the garden
A DRAGON EMERGES AT PHOENIX COURT
The spirit of the ancient river flows through our environment, connecting and weaving threads of experience from across the community, calling along the banks to bridge distant shores and differences, bringing people together through the sharing of stories. As the sun starts to warm the earth in spring, the sleeping dragon awakens and roars life into our tales and mysteries, and the world comes into life and light.
Here and there… Now and back then
Reading Lucy’s blog made me reflect on a number of journeys and the stories behind them. When we first established Global Generation we had the hope that one day we would be able to employ the young people who had been through our programmes.
The dUST, THE DRAGON AND THE LETTERS: oN HIDDEN RIVERS
For about 100 days a year, across the Atlantic Ocean, a river of dust made by siliceous shells and skeletons belonging to ancient diatoms (single cell algae), travels from the Bodélé Depression in the african region of Chad, to the Amazon Rainforest, swept up by strong saharan winds.
Voices of the Water fellow Lucy and the Summer Holiday Club 2022
When I think about water, my favourite memories have always been playful experiences and sometimes even now that I am a young adult, I still imagine myself as a mermaid. I take a deep breath in, I dive deep below the surface, slowly gliding, mimicking the motion of waves using my body.
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATION
On Saturday 29 October, we opened our gates to thousands of people for the biggest Dia de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead) festival outside Mexico!