Polly Brannan

18 July 2025
9:30am – 10:30am
Northdown Primary School

A pop-up poster-making workshop at OSE Civic Partner Northdown Primary School, led by OSE’s Artistic Director Polly Brannan as part of our 2024-26 Civic Programme Home is where the garden is.

During the workshop pupils were invited to make posters responding to the questions:

What is a home? What does it mean to have roots? What connects you to home? What does a garden mean to you? Who/what is a garden for? How are you connected to plants?

Typography used in the posters was co-designed by Despacito Art School with Polly and OSE’s in-house graphic designer George Harding, who also designed the base poster motif, in response to Despacito’s designs.

The workshop was supported by Guest Artist Flora Parrott in a facilitator role.

The posters were exhibited as part of Despacito Art School’s 2025 Summer Exhibition Home is where the garden is at Roland Ross gallery on Northdown Road in Cliftonville.

This Civic Programme event is part of OSE’s two-year thematic cycle Home is where the garden is – find more events: https://openschooleast.org/home-is-civic