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🍎 What could a future of abundance look like in Reading?
🦋 Local #solarpunk group @commandojugendstil is inviting us to share our boldest most creative ideas and solutions for a climate-friendly future
📆 They'll set up in Forbury Gardens on Sunday 14 June during the #ReadingClimateFestival2026 Reimagine Reading Community Lunch
😊 While you're there, enjoy healthy, delicious food from @wearevegivores and @tutusethiopiantables at special festival prices.
Follow the festival link in our bio to find out more.
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👋Hey Reading, see you there?
🎪Join us for delicious food, community & creativity...we're going to Reimagine Reading as climate-friendly place to live!
💫 We've invited @wearevegivores@tutusethiopiantables to sell their famous plant-based burgers, burritos & misr wot (at a special one-off #ReadingClimateFestival2026 price so don't miss out!)
💫Local creatives @commandojugendstil & @cinergy.studios will help us shape a shared vision of a more climate-friendly Reading
💫Champions of all things food-y @incredibleediblereading will show us how to grow our own & give us free growing kits to take home
💫Enjoy the beats, brass & bass of @beatrootsbateria plus their kids' samba parade
💫Make paints with veggies with @petalsoftheearth
💫Over at @wearereadingbikehub local filmmakers, writers & artists can join a #solarpunk workshop, which will end up at the park, hosted by @solarpunkldn
💫Bring your friends & family for a chill day. All activities are kid & adult friendly.
To check out the day's full programme (and to register for the #solarpunk workshop) use the QR code or follow the #ReadingClimateFestival link in our bio.
Design workshop ahead ⚒️
Join us in the design of our new, pioneering public art project: Star Chart for New Journeys, our first Solar Mural ☀️✨️
🗓 19th May
🕦 11:30 to 1 PM
📍 New Directions College Café - RG2 8DH
🗓 11th June
🕦 11:30 to 1 PM
📍 Whitley Community Hub Café - RG2 7QA
Take part in the creation of something truly special: a painted mural, powered by the Sun, that will be able to react to your presence 👀
See you in a week 💫
Supported using public funding by the @tnlcommunityfund through @aceagrams . Thank you very much to @newdirectionscollege for believing in this project!
#solarpunk #communitymural #publicart #solarenergy
🌊 On a bridge crossing the river Kennet, a small series of unexpected encounters has happened
The Seven Wonders of the Waterways is a public art installation made in collaboration with @naturenurture_ 🌿
The seven wildlife species have been selected through a round of workshops with the public.
🎨 We designed illustrations for each animal, printed them on panels, and installed them along the railings of King’s Reach Bridge, creating a sequence where animals start out of the water, get back in and then out again, so it won't matter from which direction you start your walk through the bridge, the story will always make sense
🦦 The river-facing panels show the full illustrations, while the inner side allows you to scan a QR-code to learn more about the various species
🦢 If you’re nearby, take a moment to cross King’s Reach Bridge and discover the animals of the Kennet along the way
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✏️ Before becoming a mural, The Time Travel Tunnel began as a series of sketches for composition, poses and colours that, combined with the input from the community, allowed us to define the design
📐Then, we created small models used to study how the scenes would flow along the tunnel walls
Today the project has become 78 painted panels covering about 84 square meters, transforming the tunnel into a journey in time and space you can walk through 🎨🚶
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📖 The story of the Katesgrove Community Mural continues. In this reel, we focus on the final scenes.
❓️ One of the stories represented here:
Frederick Potts was a trooper in Gallipoli in 1915, during the first World War, when he was wounded to a leg. His friend Arthur Andrews got it even worse and found himself unable to walk.
Under enemy fire, Potts could have left Andrews to his luck, instead he decided to tie his friend to his shovel and dragged him until they reached safety 🪖
In the Time Travel Tunnel you are between Potts and the safety of a rough shelter 🏚
➡️ Find Part 1 on our profile
#solarpunk #communitymural #publicart
Dear friends!
We’re excited to invite you to help bring a new community mural to life! 🎨 Everyone is welcome to take part, whether you paint regularly or are simply curious to try.
📍 Reading Bike Hub
📅 11 April - 31 May, everyday except Mondays and Thursdays
⭐️ No need to book, just drop in
🖌️ No art experience required
👨👩👧 Children under 16 must be accompanied and supervised by an adult
🔗 For full details about the project and the event:
/events/hbnmurals/
With thanks to @tnlcommunityfund for making this project possible.
#solarpunk #publicart #communitymural
📖 The Katesgrove Community Mural tells many stories from the area’s past. In this reel, we’re looking at the first five scenes of the mural.
🔎 Look closer at one of these scenes:
The quality of the bricks created in Reading was renowned around the country 🧱
Elgar Road became an open-air showcase where brickmakers could show what they could do to potential clients 👀
You can see the artisans imagining what they would create, and today you can walk along Elgar Road and see those same unique creations, feeling like one of those clients ✨🏘️
➡️ Part 2 coming soon
#solarpunk #communitymural #publicart
14 days, 50+ volunteers, 60+ colours 🎨
The Time Travel Tunnel 🕰️
Here’s the painting process behind a few panels of our latest community mural in Katesgrove 🌱
#solarpunk #communitymural #publicart
Last September we spent two weeks painting this community mural at the Katesgrove Community Hub with the help of 50+ volunteers 🖌️🤝
Over those days the mural gradually came to life, with plenty of colour, lots of jazz in the background and ideas from the young artists of Katesgrove Primary School 🎷🎨
Once everything was ready, we installed the mural in the Katesgrove Underpass at County Lock over two intense days of teamwork 🚧
Huge thanks to everyone who painted, helped and supported the project, especially to Tony and Stuart for making the installation possible 🔩
#solarpunk #communitymural #publicart
🎨🎉 New community mural is up!
The unveiling of The Time Travel Tunnel was a heartfelt celebration of the people who made it possible ❤ So many familiar faces and friends, live music by @readingband , delicious food from @mamaswayuk and even a break from the rain ☂️⛅
We'd like to thank once more the Katesgrove Community Association and @readingcouncil 🌱
Thank you to the Katesgrove Community Hub for providing the space to create the mural, to Tony and Stuart @read_inglibraryofthings for their constant and invaluable support, to Mark, Rebecca and all the musicians of the Spring Gardens Brass Band, to Mayor Alice Mpofu-Coles @mayor_of_rdguk and to MP Matt Rodda @mattrodda_rdg 🌸
And last but not least, thank you to all the friends and volunteers who participated and supported the project 😊🤝
#solarpunk #communitymural #publicart
