Stories From the garden
Making Meaning: translating in the story Garden
A participatory poem by Hasan & the Global Generation team. Inspired by Roi Gal-Or’s Storytelling Day at Story Garden and the prompt:
“If Global Generation was an image, what would it be for you?”
I WENT TO BUY A BOOK FOR YOU, AND FOUND SO MUCH MORE…
Malaika Bain-Peachey, a member of staff until March this year, shares her writing from summer 2024 before taking Paper Garden Generators to camp in Wilderness Woods and reflecting on the racist riots that broke out throughout the country. She sends this from her new place in the world where she is slowing down to the rhythm of the seasons, hands returning to the soil and writing
from Scrap to Story: Recycling Paper with Purpose
Fellow Cassie writes her learnings and reflections after the project with socially engaged artist Sogand Barham who shared her knowledge and skills for paper making reusing and reimagining old pages, documents, plants connected with the garden and our lives.
The Story Garden is moving … not closing
We always knew the day would come where we would need to move from our current location, and now after 6 beautiful years, that day is approaching. Our last day will be on Saturday 27 September, and leading up to this, we have a calendar packed full of activities, celebrations and community gatherings.
Who am I? What am I?
Time to pause. A poem written by Samika, poet and Global Generation’s fellow, currently documenting the making of our new permanent garden.