Park(ing) Day Nashville 2014
Hello all, Alicia here! Last Friday, September 19, CreativeMornings Nashville had the joy to be a part of Park(ing) Day! Organized by our friends at the Nashville Civic Design Center (Workplace of our very own Ron Yearwood, CM Speaker on Minimal), Park(ing) Day transformed over 30 spaces around the downtown core into small pocket parks and parklets!
Below are a few photos of what our Speaker Wrangler, Stephen, and I created for our first Park(ing) Day!
Our space was open to anyone who wanted to take a load off in the shade, or join us for some afternoon doodling. As freelance designers & illustrators, Stephen and I re-found our joy in taking an afternoon “off” to relax, talk to new people, draw new ideas and let the pressure of work fly away.
The man with the plan, Ron Yearwood, was our pirate park neighbor!
Our space was on 2nd avenue and we got to enjoy the shade of downtown’s very limited supply of trees. This guy became our new best friend by 3 o’clock. Hey Nashville, let’s plant more of these!
CMNSH Community member M. Kelley stopped by to lend her own creative thoughts to the day!
On top of the open space, we wanted to bring in a fun piece for this month’s global theme on COLOR. Thanks to Turnip Green Creative Reuse for the donation of fabric swatches, we asked people to look through the pile to find a color/pattern they could associate with a memory.
Next, they would pin the swatch to the board and underneath they would write the memory. We were really surprised and thankful to all the people who stopped on the sidewalk to inquire and participate!
In a nutshell, that’s our Parking(day)! We will have our color/fabric memory board with us This Friday at our Next event so everyone has a chance to participate! We will document and post not only the finished piece but a video with associations as well, so keep checking back!
Park(ing) Day was a blast and if you cannot participate in making your own park I recommend you take time to explore the ones that are out there! Now that we’ve been through the ropes my team and I are excited to start planning for next year!!
