COLOURS OF GREEN STREET
The Project will deliver a number of murals aligned with an ambition to identify feasible sites for murals and work with local artists to develop them, highlighting the history and identity of Green Street to brighten and make the area more attractive to the locals and visitors.
The mural designs will be developed through a community co-design process including multiple in-person workshops and drop-in sessions as well as these online project pages here including the details of the project and providing residents with an opportunity to engage in the discussions online.
The project aims to address recommendations in Newham High Streets Strategy: ‘Colours of Green Street’ and ‘Green Street', ‘Bright Alleyways’.
The final mural designs will be developed through a community co-design process which will involve public consultation on the shortlisted mural proposals. The preferred option for each mural is to be revised to create final mural designs through collaboration between the local creative collaborators and the mural company.
Your opinion on the mural designs is important. Do you have any further ideas or want to comment on the proposed designs, please see the timeline at the bottom of the page for details on how to share your thoughts at each project stage.
If you have any queries about the project or wanted to get in touch more generally, please email NewhamHighStreets@newham.gov.uk
Phases
Workshops for mural designs - Workshop 1
Workshops
Following the initial engagement even on 1st June and discussions with property owners the mural company will develop a brief for each mural based on the community workshops. These proposals would be reviewed and jointly shortlisted by the mural company and the council.
The first workshop to collaboratively develop the mural designs for each workshop will be held mid July and the date will be advertised here. The second workshop is proposed to be focusing on common themes through canvas making workshop possibly with a specific community group. We are open to further ideas to create artist briefs for each site. Please e-mail your ideas and suggestions to NewhamHighStreets@newham.gov.uk
The mural company ran a ‘call to artists’ to invite proposals from local creatives for mural designs with a deadline of 19 June. This is currently being followed by the shortlisting of the artists with a deadline of 7 August.
Workshop 1
The first session of the creative workshops for the Colours of Green Street project to co-design and install Murals in Green Street to complement the St Stephen’s Parade public realm project and showcase the creativity of Green Street. The session acted as an icebreaker for the community. The group discussed the project and discovered any thoughts, feelings or reservations towards it.
