On Sunday and Wednesday of last week, we expanded the garden we built during Motel Mozaique to about 2x the size it was in April earlier this year. The construction site in the middle of Museumpark in Rotterdam was opened once again for the traveling theater festival, de Parade, and we took the opportunity to work again with Parfum de BoemBoem, Rotterdam by bike tours, in expanding our earlier action.
The session on Sunday involved three tour groups from Parfum de BoemBoem as well as Parade visitors. To give a little background, Parfum de BoemBoem was started by the city of Rotterdam to promote construction sites around the city as more than barren and unreachable areas of the city. For several times during the year, these construction sites are opened to accommodate bike tours. These bike tours also feature special stopover activities such as greening the city or small concerts located on different construction sites. After a few hours of gardening with the bike tourists, we joined them to watch Spinvis play against the backdrop of rebar and concrete.
On Wednesday, we recruited children from the children’s Parade to add to the garden. It was a perfect day for gardening, and we were happy to provide one free activity for passerbys.
