Green Island Festival
So La Flair partnered with Green Island Festival for their day festival series in Summer 2021. We supported them in running Vol.2 & Vol.3 - transforming the garden centre into an idyllic wonderland and creating pop-up community spaces at the festival.
Green Island are a non-profit community focused festival who have been throwing a series of day festivals in the secret paradise of Hulme Community Garden Centre in Manchester. The festivals are a beautiful day full of music, food, celebration and togetherness. We have loved being able to be a part of this special series of events!
Green Island Vol 2: Save Hulme Hippodrome
In our first collaboration with Green Island we created a space at the festival to platform and provide community outreach for the Save Hulme Hippodrome campaign.
Save Hulme Hippodrome is a community campaign to save the Hippodrome building from property development and forces of gentrification. We want to save the building and revive it to a fully functioning arts space that serves the community that surrounds it.
Programme:
Talks from people involved with the campaign & debates on the responsibilities of cultural spaces.
A series of spoken word artists from people with attachments to the Hippodrome and Hulme as a city
Collective sculptures and vision boards where everyone could contribute their hopes for the building.
A secret cinema grotto at the event, There is Another Space, screening a documentary about The Hulme Hippodrome, archive footage of Hulme and local photographers' pictures of Hulme.
Green Island Vol 3: The Brightness Sanctuary
In our second Green Island collab (Vol 3), we created the ‘Brightness Sanctuary’ - with the aim of creating a space at the festival focussing on wellbeing, mental health & pleasure activism. Here we explored brightness both literally and as a metaphor for the spirit and mental wellbeing.
It became a space to stop and feel all the brightness cultivated in the day.
Our programme was full of a variety of activities for people to engage with throughout the day:
A sustainable wishing tree sculpture where people could paint a can with a wish to add to our growing tree.
A collective mental health map of Manchester where people could write a space in Manchester where they felt brightness and pin it to that location on our map.
Social arts and crafts round tables in the sun where people could collage and colour in their own designs of our logo, whilst connecting, chatting & meeting new people.
An Eco-Glitter Station to adorn yourself in sparkle
SO LA STARS
Green Island Vol 2: Save Hulme Hippodrome
Event Director & Forum Host - Lae Carbon Wilson
Creative Producer & Volunteer Coordinator - Lucy Laverty
Producer - Scarlett Spicer
Visual Curator and Artist - Millie Loveday
Sculpture Artist - Clara Glyyn
Day Volunteers - SHH Campaign Members and Supporters
Photographer - Al Baker
Green Island Vol 3: The Brightness Sanctuary
Event Directors and Creative Producers - Lucy Laverty and Scarlett Spicer
Volunteer Coordinator - Lucy Laverty
Visual Curator - Millie Loveday
Sculpture Artist - Clara Glyyn
Brightness Sanctuary Sign Design Artist - Katy Beck
Social Media Coordinator - PJ Cunningham
Day Volunteers - Rosa Fryer, Eleanor Haigh, Lauren Ellis-Stretch and SLF Supporters
Photographer - Millie Nechvatal (Digital Photographs), PJ Cunningham (Film Photography)