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Hilary Cox Condron
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Art, activism & the awe of nature on our doorsteps. Making space for collective imagination & creativity.

#art #culture #imagination #museums #climateaction #natureconnectivity #socialjustice #cambridge

Ex Labour county councillor

and with 🐶 #ZeldaZen
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💚 weaving my Irish roots and Cambridge reeds

Imbolc Blessings

May our days be blessed, be brighter be lighter be longer be stronger.. Let Spring come, Let Spring come.

With love 💚

#stbrigid
#brigidcross
#imbolc
#cambridge
A St Brigid’s Cross - green reeds woven into a cross shape, hanging on a brick wall.
February 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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A Fenland Imaginarium at The Heart of March.
March Library.
Friday 14th and Sat 15th Feb.
10.30 - 4pm

Free drop in. Open to all!

Because how can we create a greener, fairer and more connected future if we can’t begin to imagine it…?
January 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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More about the Imaginarium, my role as Cambridge Carbon Footprint #Artist in Residence and the handbook and #imagination resources we’ve developed here: cambridgecarbonfootprint.org/imaginarium/

#theheartofmarch
#communityartist
#imagibation
#climateaction
Large colourful text on a purple background says ‘the imaginarium handbook’ . At the top of the image in smaller white text is says ‘How can we create a greener, fairer and more connected future...’ Continuing at the bottom of the image: ‘…if we can't even begin to imagine it?’ A hand drawn yellow bird is flying off in the top right hand corner.
January 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I’m thrilled to be developing this collaborative project and taking The Imaginarium to #Fenland ! First event will be at March Library on 14th and 15th of February.

Imaginarium Artist in Residence for Carbon Footprint ♥️

#imagination
#climateaction
#communityartist
#theheartofmarch
A large red heart with bright playful font saying ‘the heart of march’. Bright green background with hand drawing of a yellow bird flying off the top right corner. Has (I hope) a playful and inviting vibe. The text reads: A Fenland Imaginarium at The Heart of March . Join us in March library on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th of February #theheartofmarch Logo in the top right saying A Fenland Imaginarium at The Heart of March. The logo is red heart with bright playful font saying ‘the heart f March’ and a hand drawing of a yellow bird flying off the top right corner. Has (I hope) a playful and inviting vibe. Large red font on green back ground says: How can we create a greener, fairer and more connected future if we can't begin to imagine it?
January 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Celebrating Tree Charter Day with the Fantastical Forest in Wandlebury Woods 💚🌳💚

www.cambridgeppf.org/event/fantastical-forest-exhibition-2024-celebrating-tree-charter-day
November 30, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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From the Imaginarium toolkit I developed & designed with Cambridge Carbon Footprint.

Want to make space for whispers of better things come? We’ve just launched the Imaginarium Handbook cambridgecarbonfootprint.org/imaginarium/

#imagination
#placemaking
#climateaction
A large green cardboard box printed with the words: "We all need space, unless we have it we cannot reach that sense of quiet in which whispers of better things come to us." Octavia Hill Leader of the British open-space movement, founder of the National Trust, housing reformer
November 25, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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The word DEMOCRACY comes from the Greek words "demos", meaning people, and "kratos" meaning power ... but what does 'Democracy' mean to us?

#trialsofdemocracy
November 25, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Thank you so much to everyone who joined at Cambridge Central library - exploring the #TrialsOfDemocracy with us . So many wonderful conversations with perspectives from Scotland, Russia, America, Thailand and Taiwan - as well as here in Cambridge.

www.menagerie.uk.com/trials-of-democracy
November 25, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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I’m running an Imaginarium training day at March Library today. Working with Cambridge Carbon Footprint and Cambridgeshire County Council - making space for collective imagination and developing a Fenland Imaginarium
Pink text on a yellow background ‘play with possibility and reimagine what a space could be’
November 22, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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I’ve been sooo busy working on this with Cambridge Carbon Footprint: The Imaginarium Handbook offers creative inspiration, resources, contacts and a toolkit to support Cambridgeshire communities to reimagine and shape the places in which we live. Together.

cambridgecarbonfootprint.org/imaginarium
November 21, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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If you didn’t want them to think you shouldn’t have given them #Library Cards

Where do we get our information?
Does this affect #democracy?
Does Mr Pink haunt #cambridge Guildhall?
And who is he?

Join us for mapping, collaging, biscuits & pondering www.menagerie.uk.com/trials-of-democracy
Two women (me in the foreground) in Cambridge library, holding up the book The Handmaid’s Tail infront of a sign saying If you didn’t want them to read you shouldn’t have given them library cards. The Trials of Democracy - who gives a XXXX? logo - a pink crest on a blue background. Held up by two of Neptunes horses (half horse half fish and a Cambridge symbol).
November 21, 2024 at 5:55 AM
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With Iain Mallett (former UNISON Lesbians & Gay Men rep) & a banner I painted for #Pride as part of the campaign to lower the age of gay consent.

Unison was formed July 1993 & the legal age of homosexual sex was lowered from 21 to 18 in Nov 1994 so it must have been London Pride June 1994.
Me : (grinning middle aged white woman with blonde hair, wearing a headscarf and shades and in denial about how old I am) with my friend Iain Mallett - who was the UNISON regional rep on the national (then) L&G group. We are standing in a park and holding up a large fabric hand painted banner that he recently found at his parents house. It has the text ‘Lesbians and gay men in Unison, Eastern’ on it. With couples dancing in a very dodgy nineties kind of way. One couple is two women , the other is two men. Three of them have flat tops. There are stars and hearts. It’s a bit of a crap painting tbh - but a good reminder of that period in time.
November 20, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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I was waiting until @davidchallen.bsky.social was here. 💚
November 20, 2024 at 6:04 AM
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This #pechakucha I presented during lockdown, about Art, Trees and the Awe on Our Doorsteps, tells a bit about why I asked Cambridge City Council to commit to the #TreeCharter and how The Fantastical Forest took root …

www.pechakucha.com/presentations/art-trees-and-the-awe-on-our-doorstep
Text saying : THE TREE CHARTER "Natural treasures, in roots, wood and leaves, for beauty, for use, the air that we breathe. Imagine: a wood begins with one small seed. We're stronger together - people and trees." Harriet Fraser, 2017 A scene in Wandlebury woods. Autumn leaves carpet the floor and there are patterns made with twigs and leaves at the fore of the photo. Behind, hanging in the corridor of trees, are large and colourful drawings of trees .
November 19, 2024 at 6:12 AM
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Photograph of a wall , taken in Cambridge Uk, with the graffiti words ‘May a better world rise from the ashes of the old’.
November 16, 2024 at 6:23 AM
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This Manifesto for Public Space was created by teenagers and young adults as part of a series of creative workshops helping to inform the Children and Young People’s Strategy for Hartree in #Cambridge

cambridgecandi.org.uk/sites/defaul...
November 15, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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“The opposite of love is not hate,
it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness,
it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy,
it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death,
it's indifference”

Elie Wiesel
Two people - a man and a woman - holding up a hand written cardboard sign with the words “actually, I do give a shit’
November 14, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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The Trials of Democracy.
Who Gives a XXXX ?

I’ve been developing this new public arts project with Patrick Morris of Menagerie Theatre in Cambridge for over 18 months - we couldn’t have imagined quite where we would be as we launch it this weekend!

www.menagerie.uk.com/trials-of-democracy
A logo design featuring a pink crest with the words ‘The Trials of Democracy. Who gives a XXXX?’ On it. The word Democracy is in a yellow scroll. In the top right of the crest is an illustration of a castle - an image taken from an old Cambridge crest. Either side of the pink crest - like they are carrying it - is a mythical creature that looks like a seahorse but has an actual horses head and a foreleg with a hoof. These are Cambridge symbols and appear in images and sculptures in and around Cambridge guildhall . There are blue wavy lines at the bottom of the crest depicting the River Cam . The logo is on a dark blue background.
November 14, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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And introducing The Boss too.
The diva that is Zelda Zen. Accessorising here with a snood made by Ruth from Reimagine recycling.

(Not so perky irl just now as she’s recovering from an op ♥️♥️)

#pug #dog #dogsofbluesky
Head and shoulder shot of a jug (pug/jack Russell cross) dog sitting on a woman’s lap - wearing a pink knitted snood. The woman is me - Middle aged, white, blonde haired woman wearing a headscarf and sunglasses.
November 14, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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Marching with the Chalk Stream #FantasticalForest banners on the #MarchForCleanWater in London a couple of weeks ago. Created with Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination and local residents alongside Coldham’s Brook #Cambridge #chalkstream💙
Three adults standing looking at the camera and holding large muslin banners decorated with children’s paintings of chalk streams A group of adults standing infront of the Houses of Parliament holding banners of brightly painted chalk stream images Marchers heading towards parliament. Two women standing and looking at the camera. One black womanly dressed in blue and smiling holding up large banners with children’s painting of chalk stream. The other white woman also dressed in blue water-patterned dress and holding up a pole with a fabric fish hanging from it. Marchers dressed in blue holding up banners with paintings of chalk streams infront of Houses of Parliament
November 14, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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So - I’ve made the move and am going to be holding out my Heart and Art here. I look forward to meeting you all! ♥️
Smiling black woman standing in a line with her three children and a white woman (Hilary). All wearing artists aprons. Looking happy towards the camera at Tate Modern studio. Each holding up fabric squares they have painted with the letters H E A R T.
November 14, 2024 at 8:43 AM