Plan Projects has been working with Cambridge City Council over the past two years to develop a community arts project project for Mill Road Cemetery. The cemetery was closed to burials some years ago and now forms a valued public open space within what is a very urban part of the city.
The cemetery is a greatly valued by the local community. The procurement process for the project has been necessarily lengthy given the acutely sensitive nature of the commission and the need to engage with the community at each step of the process.
Gordon Young, the artist selected to take forward the commission, is in the process of developing his detailed proposal, one inspired by bird song in the cemetery. The latest strand of community engagement, facilitated by Plan Projects and delivered by Malin Wallen, has seen a rich programme of events delivered over the summer designed both to generate material that Gordon can feed into his proposal and engage the community generally around the chosen theme.
