Welcome to the Blog for
The Secret Grove of the Garden Project at the
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh this summer.
On this site you should find all the information on the project; what it is, what events are going on and when, what sort of characters you might expect to meet here, clues to the secrets that lie within, and how to come and get involved yourself.
The Secret Grove of the Garden is a temporary hidden outdoor learning environment that has sprung up amongst the exotic shrubery behind the glasshouses by the Fletcher Building in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens and is inhabiting the two yurts and surronding space there with a diversity and free interactive and exciting activity sessions. There will be day-time workshops and performances exploring Edinburgh’s local environment through craft, storytelling, music and presentations on the secrets of nature. We are hoping to offer different workshops that engage the participants with new experiences and arouse curiosity and creative response to the local natural environment of Edinburgh.
The project will run from
Friday 6 to Sunday 29 August (not Mondays) with the interactive performances at 10.30am, 12.30pm and 3.30pm and the workshops and activity sessions at 11.30, 2.30 and 4.30, with a variety of intriquing and evolving art installations throughout.
Follow this blog for information on all the different workshops and performances that will be on, and also check the programme schedule at
www.invisiblestructures.org.
From its inception the Secret Grove of the Garden project has been developed by local people meeting to discuss ideas, visions and thoughts on how they see they perceive and relate to the city, and how we could create an experience here that would be relevant and of interest to the people of Edinburgh.
It is run completely by volunteers without any funding, and is all totally free to come to or to get involved with. Free tickets will be available on the door and from the
Fringe box office, with donations very welcome.
So, please come down to perform, share a skill, try out a workshop, demonstrate your craft, meet with others, discover the wonders of the natural world, learn something new, make some art, tell a story or just hang out.
Finally, if you would like to add an entry on your experience at the Secret Grove, or help in developing the characters, stories and images that will make up the spirit of the place please email them to us and we will include them on this blog.
Whisper the word and do keep coming - it will evolve and change throughout August through the partipants and their responses that bring it alive.
