Flower streets set to bloom again
The Flower Streets project is a celebration of Kirkdale and its residents, and has already resulted in nine, large-scale murals on the gable end of houses.
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00:00A project which helps bring a Liverpool community together is set to bloom again.
00:06The Flower Street project is a celebration of Kirkdale and its residents and has already
00:10resulted in nine large-scale murals on the gable ends of houses, each one representing
00:14the namesake flowers of each street.
00:17The artworks are a celebration of the community and aim to rejuvenate the area as well as
00:21addressing the issue of anti-social behaviour.
00:24Now two more pieces of work are to be added to the collection.
00:27Individual artist Madeleine Perez, who has been responsible for all work to date, has
00:31returned to Kirkdale to add additional murals.
00:34These new additions to the collection should be finished by the end of September.
00:38Before the creation of the murals, residents and school groups were invited to be part
00:41of an engagement programme which included free workshops, encouraged storytelling, writing,
00:45drawing, painting and an appreciation of ecology.
00:49The School of Psychology at Liverpool Hope University will be using the Flower Street
00:53as a case study.
00:54They will be researching the impact of greening this urban area.