Video: grass covered facework in Ebrington

Internationally renowned artists Ackroyd and Harvey at the Cunningham Building in Ebrington, Derry which has been chosen as the site for a temporary public art installation, funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, where the facade has been planted and grown with seedling grass. Entitled Cunningham, this is the second Artists Garden from the Void Sites program for 2013 as part of the City of Culture program and is open to the public from 15th September 27th October. Visit www.derryvoid.com for more information.
Picture by Brian Morrison. — Internationally renowned artists Ackroyd and Harvey at the Cunningham Building in Ebrington, Derry which has been chosen as the site for a temporary public art installation, funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, where the facade has been planted and grown with seedling grass. Entitled Cunningham, this is the second Artists Garden from the Void Sites program for 2013 as part of the City of Culture program and is open to the public from 15th September 27th October. Visit www.derryvoid.com for more information. Picture by Brian Morrison.

Artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey have covered it in grass, ahead of an official unveiling on Saturday (September 14).

Ironically, the Ebrington Parade ground around the corner was supposed to be covered in grass but instead is - debatably - all weather.

Londonderry native Mitchell McLaughlin told the Public Accounts Committee last year: “The parade ground was initially intended to be a grassed area, and a contractor was in position.”

He explained: “The contractor was preparing the ground for a grassed area and was putting in subsoil and whatever, and there was a change of plan. It was decided to change it to a gravelled area.”

In the film workers are seen preparing for what promises to be a spectacular event at the parade ground next weekend.

For two nights only Ebrington Square will be transformed into the city’s largest stage to showcase Haris Pasovic’s ‘The Conquest of Happiness.’

Inspired by the writing of world-renowned pacifist Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness will feature a dynamic combination of first hand accounts and dramatisation of some of the most horrific acts of war of the 20the century.

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