Sunday, January 26, 2020

A walk to Belmont

Sunday 2 February, 2020, 5 pm
From 80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook,
to Granderson Lab, 24 Erthig Road, Belmont



At the end of January 2020, Alice Yard will relocate from 80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook — our base for the past thirteen and a half years — to Granderson Lab, 24 Erthig Road, Belmont. Previously an adjunct space, Granderson Lab will now become the permanent home of Alice Yard.

Since September 2006, our activities have evolved in response to the physical environment at 80 Roberts Street, but we have always maintained that Alice Yard is not merely a place but a social and conceptual space, a model for collaboration, a far-ranging network. Our move to Granderson Lab offers the opportunity to test this idea, as we rethink and reimagine our way ahead in a new (but still familiar) location, and the different (but still familiar) social topography of Belmont.

On Sunday 2 February, 2020, at 5 pm, we will mark this transition with a walk from 80 Roberts Street through Port of Spain to 24 Erthig Road: a short physical journey that will serve as a simple ritual of relocation, and a collective reflection on our past, present, and future.

At Granderson Lab there will be modest refreshments and an opportunity to tour our new home, currently a work in progress. (We will provide transport back to Roberts Street for those who park there ahead of the walk.)

We invite all our friends, colleagues, and collaborators to join us on our walk to Belmont — and in our future imaginings.

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