Edmonton Green Town Centre

The Pavilion on The Green in Edmonton won the Inspire Future Generations Award for Community Engagement by the Thornton Education Trust!

https://www.thorntoneducationtrust.org/ifg-awards-2023-winners-and-finalists

During Summer 2024, Enfield Council’s Place Shaping Team, part of Journeys and Places, worked with Fisher Cheng Architects and the Edmonton community to create a shared vision for The Green. Together, they co-designed and built a temporary pavilion.

The programme featured creative workshops for young people and families, including guided nature walks, den-building, live music, poetry, theatre, and wellbeing sessions. These activities were run in partnership with local groups Doodle Design, Exodus Youth Worx and Northside Youth.

Over 1,000 people attended these events helping to explore ways to bring new life to The Green and shape the Pavilion’s design.

Completed in June ’24, the Pavilion has hosted a summer programme of over 60 events, all delivered by local individuals and organisations, becoming a much-loved space by the local community and providing a platform for culture and creativity.

Now adopted as one of Enfield’s five new ‘Culture Places,’ the Pavilion will be co-managed by the Council and local organizations to continue hosting arts, culture, and community events—bringing lasting change to Edmonton.

Over 100 local residents attended the "Christmas at the Pavilion" event on 14th December.

The event, organised by Exodus Youth Worx, Northside Youth, Doodle Design and Edmonton Community Partnership with the support of Enfield Council included Arts & Crafts activities, Face Painting, Gingerbread Decorating, Hair Braiding, Jewellery Making, Live Music & Performances as well as Musical Statues

We are seeking proposals from artists and creatives to create and deliver a new public artwork for a site in Edmonton Green town centre. The fee for this commission is £20,000 inclusive of all artist fees, community engagement, materials, production and installation costs.

This public art commission is delivered as part of the Journeys and Places' Curate Enfield programme, a grassroots public art initiative creating new public artworks for Enfield - one for each of our town centres and priority areas. Young people and community leaders from across the borough have been recruited as ‘Public Art Champions’ to curate a public art commission to transform a site in their town centre.

Please download the Artist's Brief (also saved under key documents at the top of the right-hand side menu of the main project page) for further details about this commission and how to apply. The public art champion for Edmonton Green, has also created a video walk-through of the site of the public artwork, which can be viewed here.

We welcome submissions from creatives from a range of artistic disciplines and encourage artists from all backgrounds to apply. We particularly welcome proposals from creatives who identify as Black and/or as belonging to diverse ethnic communities; and from creatives who identify as disabled and/or neuro-divergent. If you have access needs and would like some assistance with your proposal, please contact clare.moloney@enfield.gov.uk

As Summer draws to a close, the Pavilion on The Green in Edmonton has wrapped up its first Summer Programme.

Between 29^th June to 21^st September, over 60 individual events, including yoga and pilates classes, live music, community choir and dance, workshop for children and families and many others took place at the Pavilion, Edmonton’s new Culture Place. The free events, all run by local people, attracted on The Green over 1500 Enfield’s residents of all ages throughout the Summer.

The Pavilion, co-designed by the local community and Fisher Cheng Architects, it is one of five “culture places” being delivered by Enfield Council in town centres across the borough to host arts, culture and community events.

Key highlights of the Summer included the Untold Edmonton Festival, a two-week programme to celebrate Edmonton’s rich cultural heritage; an Interactive Concert with London Sinfonietta, Gallipoli Music Memorial Trust and DJ-MC Academy as well as activities for local young people led by Exodus, NYCC, Doodle Design and many others.

The Pavilion, designed as a demountable structure, it is expected to remain on The Green for the next three years new to encourage the local community to dwell in and enjoy a local green space. As Edmonton’s new Culture Place, it will serve as a community gathering space and a platform for cultural education and expression encouraging participation from across the local community.

The Journeys and Places Team is now collaborating with local organisations in Edmonton to build on the success of the Summer Programme and to define the Pavilion’s longer-term programming and stewardship.

The Pavilion on The Green, co-designed by the local community and Fisher Cheng Architects last Summer, will launch on 29th June!

To celebrate the Pavilion’s opening, Enfield Council has organised a Summer Programme of free activities from 29th June to 14th September featuring:

• Untold Edmonton festival from 30th June to 14th July
• Weekly wellbeing walks
• Wellbeing, fitness and yoga classes
• Summer holiday youth activities
• Family arts, theatre and dance workshops
• Adults creative workshops
• One-off youth and climate change events

To book your free tickets visit: https://paviliononthegreen.eventbrite.com

The construction of the Pavilion on The Green has been progressing steadily in the last few weeks, and the structure is approaching completion.

The Pavilion will be launched on 29th June and will host a free programme of cultural and community activities over the Summer. More details on this will be published soon.

Journeys and Places Team and Fisher Cheng Architects will be presenting the latest design for the upcoming Pavilion on The Green on Saturday 2nd December 11am - 2pm, outside Edmonton Green Library.

The design for the Pavilion has been developed with the local community during the engagement activities which took place over last Summer. This event is an opportunity to share the design progress and to discuss with them which community and cultural activities could be hosted in the space next Summer.

Thank you to all those who attended the Celebrate The Green event on Saturday 9th September. We had a wonderful turnout of over 450 people across the day who enjoyed a wide range of activities that showcase what The Green has to offer as an outdoor community space.

The day begun with an outdoor Tai Chi and Chi Gong class led by Energ'Chi, followed by poetry recitals from Enfield Poets, scenes from Bread and Roses by Enfield People's Theatre, a solo dance performance by renowned krump artist Joshua Vendetta Nash, and closed out with live Congolese Rumba with Central African Youth in Enfield. Also on The Green were DJ & MC Academy spinning the decks, Doodle Designs running a colourful den building workshop, Performing Pets with an adorable petting zoo, storytelling puppet show with Rufus and a display of pinhole photographs taken from Tales from the Towpath by Ben Nathan.

The team were also on site to run through the latest designs for a new Pavilion on The Green, developed across the summer's engagement activities.

We have spoken with over 400 people across our engagement events so far. Below you'll find some of the latest interaction boards to see how you've helped shape The Green to date.