The Chimera Plantarium Weekend | Healing the Hood with Rasheeqa Ahmad

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Join Chiara Dellerba and community herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad of <a href="http://www.hedgeherbs.org.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hedge Herbs</a>, based in London, for a knowledge-sharing and practical plant medicine workshop.We will hear about the practice of herbal medicine in our healthcare ecologies today, its role in systems change that connect us with the neighbourhood and urban ecosystem.Using urban plants, we will make simple herbal preparations that you can make at home. We’ll share information beforehand – all materials will be provided, but we may suggest optional ingredients to bring from home.<a href="https://www.weareprimary.org/whats-on/the-chimera-plantarium-weekend" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Chimera Plantarium weekend</a>2–3 October 2021During 2021, artist Chiara Dellerba undertook a period of research to expand her ongoing project<a href="https://www.weareprimary.org/projects-archive/chimera-plantarium-project?rq=plantarium%20" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> The Chimera Plantarium.</a> She has tested out a model for working with local people in Radford and Lenton to map, rethink and redesign public places from the perspective of plants plants - with the ultimate goal of revealing the beauty and biological wealth of these great protagonists of the living world.The Chimera Planetarium Weekend will present this research through a series of activities, bringing together different people to share their knowledge around plants, city planning and collaborative design. Book for just one session or join us for the whole weekend. All events are free, but places are limited and booking is essential. If you have any questions or access needs please contact rebecca@weareprimary.orgChiara DellerbaChiara Dellerba is an artist based in Nottingham. Her work focuses on ecology, slow down and collective-care practices and their civic impact on society. She makes installations, interactive performances, collaborative-based works and books as toolkits to investigate the city, the environment and the future of our society. In 2017 she co-founded F-L-A-T-5, an interdisciplinary research space which explores domestic narratives and place making dynamics.In 2019, she founded Zona Planetaria, a research-based residency programme which promotes slowing down and contemplation as practices in which caring, resting, suspending can be reclaimed as political acts by and for everyone. Her work has been exhibited across different countries: Marilena Bonomo (Bari), Macro Museum (Rome), Alessandra Bonomo (Rome), Sara Zanin (Rome), Onetwentyeight gallery (New York), Kiyomiyamagishi (Nagano, Japan), Attenborough Arts Centre (Leicester), Mac (Birmingham), NAE (Nottingham), 58th Venice Biennale (Venice). Her current work is focused on the development of the Chimera Plantarium, a multidisciplinary investigation program on urban spontaneous plants and their contribution in rethinking and redesign public places.Rasheeqa AhmadRasheeqa (Hedge Herbs) is a herbalist in her community in Walthamstow in North London. She has been practicing since 2012, offering treatment with herbal medicine and teaching about its many aspects, alongside a wider mix of work whose aim is connecting us as communities with the potential of this knowledge and craft as a way to develop healthier living systems and relationships. She is inspired by her early involvement with the <a href="http://www.radicalherbalism.org.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Radical Herbalism Gathering</a> in exploring how to make plant medicine accessible and restore balance to its practice in the contexts of systemic inequalities and oppressions that are part of our shared histories. Rasheeqa is part of the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/communityapothecary.wf/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Community Apothecary</a> in her locality, a CIC that brings community members together around a patchwork of medicinal herb gardens where they can learn about growing, wildcrafting and making medicines together, exchanging knowledge and peer support and seeding the model in other neighbourhoods so that we create landscapes of healing everywhere! She is also involved with the <a href="https://phytology.org.uk/apothecary/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mobile Apothecary</a> in Bethnal Green, a street medicine distribution project bringing solidarity herbal healthcare to people from rough sleeper and less well-resourced communities there.

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