My Grow Box...

 Manchester Garden City’s sixth scheme is on Victoria Street adjacent to Manchester Cathedral.

 Located just at the end of Deansgate, in the area that was closed to traffic in March, many of the materials are recycled from Chris Beardshaw’s Groundwork Garden at RHS Hampton Court show as well as wooden decking.

 The site also incorporates a temporary Cathedral building, which will be in place for 18 months. The 22m long wooden structure will host services and events whilst the floor of the main Cathedral is re-laid for a new heating system.

There are also ornamental flowers and shrub beds to add all year round colour, and allotment-style ‘Grow Boxes’ for local residents and businesses to plant their own herbs and vegetables.

Art - Manchester...

Friday 5 July 2013 - Sunday 22 September 2013

Manchester Art Gallery

FREE

Help make groundbreaking new art by taking part in do it – an evolving exhibition created from a series of instructions written by artists. An eclectic mix of things for you to do at the gallery and at home, the instructions range from the active to the absurd to the philosophical.

Initiated by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist with artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 20 years ago, do it has been enacted in 50 different places, making it the widest-reaching and longest running ‘exhibition in progress’ ever to occur.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, and in homage to the original idea, this new exhibition premieres 70 brand new instructions. It brings together artists from the first do it experiments with a new generation of contemporary artists from Ai Weiwei and Adrian Piper to Tracey Emin and Richard Wentworth.

do it is a generative exhibition conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. do it 2013 is produced by Manchester International Festival and Manchester Art Gallery, in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. 

There are dozens of instructions written by international artists on display this summer. Join in by uploading your own response on the doit2013.org website.

Part of Manchester International Festival 2013 at Manchester Art Gallery

Dig the City Manchester 2013...

From 3 – 11 August, Manchester will play host to urban gardening festival Dig The City. The event will see the city centre transformed into a nature wonderland as Manchester’s retailers, restaurants and food producers join forces to celebrate the growing culture of city greening and sustainable food production. 

The Journey...

Everything in place, and ready to roll.

A series of fabric designs...

Illustrated cross stitch

Geometric pattern