Poetry

• Chalk poetry events 
• Poetry is for the birds – put poetry in the trees
• Poetry slams
• Poetry on the streets
• Poetry writing on buses
• Poetry circles
• Incorporating poetry into murals or other large works
• Poetry wall – where people can add to poems

Theatre

• Productions in the park
• Improvisation shows

Art

• Cleaning up debris from a park and then creating art with found pieces
• Decorating benches
• Murals
• Graffiti parks
• Painting stairways / musical stairways
• Planting flowers 
• Painting crosswalks / walkways
• Creating “haunted houses” or art spaces out of abandoned buildings
• Moss graffiti
• Pumpkin decorating contests
• Art demonstrations
• Sidewalk chalking 

Sculpture

• Sculptural Playgrounds

• Floating sculptures in water
• Forest sculptures 
• Living sculpture
• Yarn bombing
• Bike racks
• artistic benches

Festivals/Events

• Rubber duck races   
• Any type of theatre in the park
• Book/poetry reading
• Side walk sales
• Junk boat races 
• Music festivals
• Buskers night
• Music on the patio concert series
• Outdoor dancing / square dancing
• Formal tea party
• Locally brewed beer festival
• Utilizing free indoor spaces
• Star gazing
• Radical art! – it’s not very radical if we tell you what to do
• Doodle contests
• Quick art contest 
• Covering playgrounds with art, interactive art
• Sand sculptures
• Puppet shows
• Children’s story readings
• Movies in the park
• Take a picture, leave a picture​

“It’s Placemaking, not Placemade. It’s a process. You are never finished.”
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—Place Governance working group

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View our Placemaking board on Pinterest for more ideas!

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“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”
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—Jane Addams

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