Workshops began today as the 25 representatives of five community organizations set out to create a new community garden for the City of God.
Participants from 8 to 80 divided between morning and afternoon sessions and began by watching a presentation on mural art across the world.
Artist Joel Bergner explained that the origins of mural art could be traced to cave paintings and that archaeologists had even found evidence of grafitti in Pompei. He brought the story bang up to date with the work of the London-based street artist Banksy.
Group members then split into two teams to play ´Pictionary´ to help them think about the importance of communication in art and design.
Fr. Nicholas said: ´´One of the most exciting things about this second phase of the project is that it is intergenerational. So as well as bringing five organizations to work together for the first time we are seeing young and old side by side.´´
