http://defiantgardens.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:18:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Defiant Gardens is an ongoing project working with artists, landscape historians, landscape architects, writers, curators and city planners to develop public art projects that inspire the community. Winter Wonderland: A Defiant Garden by Stevie Famulari, with other juried artists (Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled due to a lack of snow.) Ice Festival ... http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/defiant-garden-projects/plains-art-museum-defiant-gardens-archive/ A Blog detailing the 4-H Defiant Gardens program. The concept of Defiant Gardens is based on the book Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth Helphand Monday, June 22, 2009 Ohio Street School Planting - Jefferson County Despite the overcast skies and the threat of rain, Mrs. Eldridge’s 4th Grade class joined 4-H ... http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/defiant-garden-projects/defiant-gardens-blog-jefferson-county-ohio/ From Whitney Art Works, Portland Maine Part two of a long-term nomadic-dinner-theatre. Our first experiment, Blue Hammer, resulted in sold-out shows, with dinner served to 180 audience members, and the formation of an emergent network of Maine artists, farmers, designers, architects, technicians, students, and writers. For the entire month of January 2010, ... http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/defiant-garden-projects/dual-site-a-psychogeographic-dinner-theater/ "More and more research has been coming out about gardening, exposure to nature in a safe setting, and horticultural therapy as effective tools for fighting posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other stress-related problems. Here are some resources." From the website HealingLandscapes.org. http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/veterans/landscapes-for-healing-resources-for-veterans/ Listen to Dr. Barbara Mossberg as she "consider[s] the relationship between gardening and poetry from earliest times, as poets wipe soil from their hands to pen their thoughts on the inextricable connections between the act of creating and co-creating Truth and Beauty out of earthly experience, between what is sown and ... http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/veterans/we%e2%80%99ve-got-to-get-ourselves-back-to-the-garden-say-the-poets/   Helmand Province's peace garden Local gardeners have created a tranquil space in the military headquarters of Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan Alison Baskerville guardian.co.uk The gardens of Lashkar Gah offer a contrast to the hostile environment. Photograph: Sergeant Alison Baskerville RLC As a member of the army combat camera team based in Afghanistan, my role is to ... http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/afghanistan/an-unliklely-flowering-in-helmand/ Radical Plots: The Politics of Gardening Gardens can captivate, relax and delight. But they have also been the setting for political statements and bloody protests. George McKay argues that we must dig beneath the flowerbeds and see the turf wars instead. INDEPENDENT Monday, 2 May 2011 Gardening is suburban, it's a leisure activity ... http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/gardens-theory-practice/radical-plots-the-politics-of-gardening/ Source: undiscovered Scotland (http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/eastmainland/italianchapel/) In early 1942 some 550 Italian prisoners of war, captured in North Africa, were brought to Orkney. They were needed to overcome the shortage of labour working on the continuing construction of the Churchill Barriers. These were the four causeways designed to block eastern access to Scapa Flow ... http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/pows/italian-chapel-orkney-islands-scotland/ For the memory to flow into the open, the fear also had to flow out; there had to be a societal space where the portrait from the past could be safe It may seem paradoxical that a meditation dealing with memory and meant to celebrate the life and legacy of Nelson ... http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/gardens-theory-practice/mandela-lecture-gardens-of-hope-amid-the-darkness-of-despair/ photos Joao Silva for The New York Times Muhi Mohammed Hussein trimmed an eagle-shaped topiary sculpture at the entrance to his home in Baghdad on Friday. Khalil Abbas says people come to his nursery from all over Baghdad and the rest ... http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/iraq/fanciful-gardens-emerge-in-a-city-of-tan-and-gray/