Access Garden

Access Garden invites local community gardeners and growers to participate in a workshop that centres on access in various landwork practices. We will discuss the possibilities of mobilising one’s needs to build more careful relationships in a garden or on an allotment.

Facilitated by an artist and land worker, Amy Dakin Harris, this workshop introduces a contract of care as a tool that articulates one’s preferred ways of growing together as a basis of stronger communal bonds and access as a core theme in a collective practice.

This is a closed session for gardeners, by invite only. However, we appreciate that the topic might have relevance for many more people. If you are interested in finding out more about developing a contract of care for community growers, please email glasgowseedlibrary@cca-glasgow.com

About the contributors

Amy Dakin Harris (she/her) facilitates multiple community growing projects around Glasgow. Her movement practice investigates how embodiment can help create a more expansive and integrated view of regenerative [growing/life-sustaining] principles. Central to this research are ideas and practices around mutual aid, rest, interoception and conversation with land.

Anastasia (A) Alevtin (they/them) dwells as a researcher and artist whose work centres on the ways in which queercrip, migratised and other precarious individuals and communities quietly subvert structural marginalisation. Herbs, berries and corpo-affectivity of chronic illness are currently on (A)’s mind.

About the project

The workshop is a part of Dormancy, Reseeding, Resistance. Initiated by Anastasia (A) Alevtin in partnership with Glasgow Seed Library, this project is centred on anti-ableist and queercrip dailiness, communal gardening and seed-saving practices.

Dormancy, Reseeding, Resistance is supported by Glasgow Seed Library, Light-harvesting Complex, The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, and The Arts Promotion Centre Finland.