Como sabés la SEBiCoP es miembro de Planta Europa, y dicha entidad organiza periódicamente actividades, en muchos casos orientadas a proyectos de conservación para el Centro y Este de Europa, pero para los que podemos colaborar desinteresadamente desde la parte occidental del continente; la propuesta que nos transmite la Dra. Seona Anderson, coordinadora de proyectos europeos de Planta Europa, es francamente bonita (y por supuesto puede daros ideas a más de uno/a para hacer cosas parecidas aquí). Se trata de crear para 2014 un mosaico a base de 'patches' o piezas (a hacer con cualquier tipo de material, escanear y remitir a los encargados del proyecto) con motivos relativos a especies propias de cada sitio desde el que se colabora, para su exposición en países del Sudeste Europeo. Tenéis abajo el texto de Seona y los enlaces de contacto. Ahora es sólo cuestión de animarse (en los envíos que hagáis socios/as de SEBiCoP está bien recordar que lo hacéis como miembros de nuestra asociación):
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Dear Planta
Europa colleagues,
I wish you
a good start to 2013 and a successful and happy year. I am writing to let you
know about a project that we are running with partner organisations in South
East Europe called Wildflower Europe. It is part funded by the EU Culture
Programme and the aim is to re-inspire interest in the culture history of
Europe’s wild plants and trees and to bring economic benefit to rural
communities who maintain wild plant rich landscapes through annual wildflower
festivals. There is also a training element to develop tools to create
community history archives. The information about the project is at www.wildflowereurope.org
One part of
the project is to create a public participation work of art called the
Patchwork Meadow. Anyone in the project countries can contribute a 15cm fabric
square (sewing, knitting, painting, printing, felting, lace etc) that depicts a
wild plant or plants. There is an online gallery where people can upload an
image of their artwork and write some information about their chosen plant or
plants. There will be a first exhibition of the national artworks at the flower
festivals in May/June 2013 and in 2014 we will have a selection of the works
from each country going to each of the flower festivals.
If anyone
in the Planta Europa Network is interested in sending in one square from their
country it might be possible to create a special section that celebrates the
wildflowers from across Europe. We are trying to see if it would be possible to
have an exhibition of this work from across Europe in Brussels in May 2014, but
I stress that this is not confirmed yet. The aim is to show the rich history of
Europe’s wild plants, how central they are to our cultural life as well as to
biodiversity, and to reach new audiences who might not normally think about
wild plants. If you are interested or you know someone who might be able to
contribute a square from your country we would be delighted to hear from you.
The
deadline for these squares would be the end of 2013, for exhibition in 2014.
All the information about how to make the squares is at http://wildflowereurope.org/create-your-patch/
My
colleague Jeremy Huet (jeremy.huet@plantlife.org.uk)
will be coordinating this project and if you are interested and have any
questions or suggestions you can contact him directly.
With thanks
and best wishes
Seona
Dr. Seona
Anderson
European
Projects Coordinator
Plantlife
Web: www.plantlife.org.uk
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