Rough Trade In-Conversations: Claire Ratinon, Sam Ayre and Zakiya Mckenzie
The first of two in-conversation events is with authors @claireratinon, @@samsamayre and Zakiya Mckenzie, chaired by Sui Searle. This conversation will explore the necessity and urgency of bringing a decolonial lens to the practice of horticulture – from the stories we tell about it to the language we use within it, how that shapes us as growers and gardeners and the dialogue around the gardens and land we grow in. The idea of ‘the garden’ is a complicated, curious thing. They loom large in the imagination—a locus of desire, aspiration, colonisation, care, effort, property, land and ownership, loss and literature. Rough Trade have created a set of pamphlets that examine all of these ideas and more, with a group of writers and gardeners generating new work inspired in some way by our notions of all things green and pleasant, or perhaps less so. Has there ever been so much rich thought around the radical potential of gardening, with so much urgency surrounding how we maintain our little bits of earth, of the meaning that plants carry. @gardenmuseum
Time: 18:30
