TIME AND PLACE is a participatory work culminating in a creative visual telling of the story of mac and the significant presence it has within Cannon Hill Park. The work and the resulting publication aims to gather information, paraphernalia and public recollections relating to mac and Cannon Hill Park from various sources to form a creative archive of the area’s history. Through a public blog, interviews and participatory workshops the project will discuss notions of heritage and memory with the aim of forming a more complete story of the Midlands Arts Centre, its users and the surrounding park, during this period of transition.

Laura Guy will use walking as her primary research method, taking photographs and making oberservations as she goes. The journeys that are made as part of the project can be seen here, unfolding as the project progresses.

As part of the project there will be four printing workshops in the park aimed at children aged 9-12 and their families, led by Laura Guy and a professional screen printer. The workshops will encourage participants to make designs based on natural patterns found in Cannon Hill Park with a choice of making a screen printed poster, t-shirt or canvas bag to take away.