The Vancouver Flower Clock Project
The Vancouver Flower Clock Project is a collaborative online naturalist’s journal based on realizing a garden plan envisioned by Carl Linnaeus (father of modern taxonomy) in his Philosophia Botanica (1751).
Linneaus’ garden takes advantage of certain species of flowers that open their blooms at set times of day to accurately predict the time, in what he described as an horologium florae (floral clock).
Starting from Linnaeus’ original observations from his travels across the Swedish countryside, Proximity Arts invites the citizens of the Vancouver region to explore our own backyards, back alleys and back country for these species, share their observations on the project’s wikiversity site, and help design a flower clock that is unique to our own latitude, climate and ecology.
Go for a walk and watch the flowers bloom.
Let the flowers be your clock.
Which flower are you?
Use our plant tags to identify specific plants and to let others know about the project. The project also encourages participants to look at our own cultural and aesthetic relationships with these plants. You can post bloom times, comments, sketches, pictures and videos or share a recipe. Add your own botanical know-how to the database and help organize the information as a whole. Everyone can participate.
Heres a link to the Project Wiki site
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Vancouver_Flower_Clock_Project
This is a collaborative website-feel free to edit the content and structure of the page as you wish. The aim is to develop a resource of suitable flowers and with it , a compenduum of vernacular botanical knowledge.
Donate!
Throughout the spring summer fall, we will be hosting partys with special presentations on botanical illustration, gardening tips and plant sharing. If you would like to be a presenter, host or if you have existing programming that you think might contribute please email us at info@proximity.com
The Salon Series
As part of our 2006/2007 season, Proximity Arts invited performers from a range of disciplines - music, theatre, dance, burlesque, video - to share their latest small performances on a small stage. Initimate performance in a face-to-face atmosphere that encouraged mingling and conversation, The Salon Series offered an ever-shifting glimpse into new creation in Vancouver.
Once in a Blue Moon - June 2007, Possible Worlds - May 2007, Tiptoe through the Tulips - March 2007, Annual General Feeding - November 2006, Sweater Weather - September 2006, Get a.jpg)
Little Closer - June 2006, Good green fun - March 2006
Salon artists to date: The Mellow Three, Lori Kessler (aka Dr. Daisy Good), Kyle Cameron, Melanie Yeats, Bessie Wapp, books & branches, Dave Deveau, Kyla Read, Tanya Podlozniuk, Mirae Rosner & Zuzia, Caroline Liffman, The Psychotic Butlers, Mit Funf, Flick Harrison, Ken Fraser, Tara Holloway, Mad Calf Productions, Carol Sawyer, Tanya Marquardt, Jon Shubert, Paul David Hubert, Tricia Collins