The Israeli Center for Digital Art, together with the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, Holon Municipality’s Social Services Unit and the Lazarus Community Center are launching the community gardening program Growing in the Community.
Thursday, November 13, 2014, 16:00-19:00
Happening, workshops and activity stands for visitors big and small.
Preparing green walls, artwork using recycled materials, story time, pots made of plastic bottles, Ethiopian coffee-making ceremony, and more.
Free admission!
The public is invited
Israeli Center for Digital Art, 4 HaAmoraim St, Jessy Cohen, Holon
The Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon’s Jessy Cohen Neighborhood will hold a happening for children and adults on Thursday, November 13, to celebrate the launching of the community gardening program Growing in the Community.
During the event, various workshops will be held, including preparing green walls, artwork from recycled materials, and pots made of plastic bottles. Various activity stands will also be there for your entertainment.
Growing in the Community is the result of collaboration between the Center for Digital Art, the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), which operates many community gardens throughout the country, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, Holon Municipality’s Social Services Unit and the Lazarus Community Center. All these organizations have joined hands to promote the initiative of turning the Center’s compound on 4 Ha’Amoraim St. into a local sustainability and community gardening center, as well as an educational center which will serve in the future as the basis for building a community that will promote ecological issues on the compound, in the surrounding neighborhood and in Holon as a whole.
The Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon’s Jessy Cohen Neighborhood acts, among other things, to integrate art and community through exhibitions and lectures, as well as open digital self-manufacturing activities at the FabLabIL. The shared compound in Jessy Cohen also hosts a Center for Parents and Children run by the Holon Municipality’s Social Services Unit, day-care centers and three community gardens managed by the Society for the Protection of Nature.
The community garden program will include an orchard, plants to attract butterflies and birds, cooking stands and facilities for extra-curricular studies, vertical food growing, and accessible plots for people with special needs.
The program leaders seek to form a diverse group of activists, including longtime neighborhood residents and new immigrants – a multigenerational group that can meet diverse community needs. The activity in the community gardens and open space will improve the compound’s appearance and make it more esthetic and attractive, turning it into an inspirational model for similar activities in Jessy and in Holon in General.
In the near future, we will open a course for community gardening and sustainability leaders that will train the various activists to act as gardening coordinators in the compound.
For details on the community gardening and sustainability course:
info@digitalartlab.org.il, +972-5568792
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