Artists asked to design new needle-drop boxes
Artspace and PARN, Your Community AIDS Resource Network are calling artists in the greater Peterborough region to submit proposals to paint Peterborough’s public sharps containers. There are five boxes in the downtown core and one artist is needed for each box.
The sharps containers must retain their biohazard symbol on the front of the box and the words “Needle Drop Box” near the opening.
Each artist will be paid $1,000 for their work and up to $300 for expenses.
Applications must be submitted online by June 5 at 5 p.m. Full details are available at artspace-arc.org. A jury facilitated by Artspace staff and comprised of PARN staff and members of the community at large will review submissions.
Please email Jon Lockyer, director and curator, Artspace at jon@artspace-arc.org for more information.
Plants needed
The Peterborough Community Medicine Gardens has recently partnered with Hutchison House Museum and is looking for plant donations to replenish the Hutchison Gardens.
Plants with medicinal, culinary and strewing uses are welcome.
The community medicine garden at Hutchison House will become a teaching garden where community members can learn about the practical uses and healing properties of plants, in addition to how to identify, propagate, tend, harvest and process herbal medicines.
If you have plants you are willing to share, or need more information, please visit Peterborough Community Medicine Garden Facebook page or email ptbocommunitymedicine@gmail.com.
Public library
Did you know that the Peterborough Public Library hosts a monthly book club?
As members cannot meet in person right now, it has moved online and will meet this month on May 26 using zoom. The meeting time has yet to be determined.
This mont’s book is “The German Heiress” by Anika Scott, which can be downloaded from the library website at bit.ly/34OIplr. If you’d like to participate, please send an email to libraryinfo@peterborough.ca.
The library will soon be offering curbside pickup. Visit ptbolibrary.ca for more information or call 705-745-5382.
If you are doing some spring cleaning and want to donate books to the Friends of the Library, staff are requesting that you please consider holding on to them until the library reopens, as donations can not be processed at this time.