by Emily Bhargava | Aug 14, 2016 | community health, Uncategorized, youth development
In partnership with the school’s art teacher, the Beautiful Stuff Project and Groundwork Somerville, Connection Lab and the Argenziano School art club worked all year to make garden pavers inspired by Georgia O’Keefe. At the end of the year the Groundwork...
by Emily Bhargava | Aug 11, 2016 | community health, Uncategorized
Based on the Guidance Center’s ongoing work using mandalas as a meditative, mindfulness-building exercise for clients, the Beautiful Stuff Project and Connection Lab partnered with them to provide a series of mandala workshops for women who are survivors of...
by Emily Bhargava | Oct 23, 2015 | community art, community health, Uncategorized, youth development
The wonderful art teacher at the Argenziano School agreed to have her art club make floral mosaics to decorate pavers that will divide the beds in the school garden. She used PTA funds to buy mesh and glue, we’ll use garden improvement funds to buy pavers and...
by Emily Bhargava | Sep 27, 2015 | community health, Uncategorized, youth development
Does that title make any sense? An organization called Wilderness Inquiry organizes events across the country that they call “Canoemobile” to introduce youth to their waterways and to help them learn about ecology. As part of Somerville’s first...
by Emily Bhargava | Sep 8, 2015 | community health, Uncategorized
Once again Connection Lab helped to bring food security data to the Ignite festival of food and fire by laser-cutting information into vegetables. Take a look at some of the beautiful examples created by Rahul. And take a moment to think about some of the disturbing...
by Emily Bhargava | Sep 8, 2015 | community art, community health, Uncategorized, youth development
Just in time for the school year, the garden bed numbers are in place at the East Somerville Community School garden. After a few sessions of finishing and grouting them, Groundwork Somerville’s Green Team placed all 26 of them in the right beds. Now the kids...