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4. A skip garden – and a whopping new 542m Felice Varini art installation

Once again a summer arts programme has kicked off in and around Granary Square, and so we’d suggest you check out the first couple of happenings this weekend. And yes, get there by walking along the canal.

The first is a skip (below right). Yes, really. It’s a “sustainable vegetable, fruit and herb garden, which can be moved as and when needed”, open from 10am to 4pm. Visitors will be able to take part in two 90-minute workshops – one on planting for bees and biodiversity and the second on organic growing in containers for small spaces. Find it north of Handyside Street, adjacent to York Way.

There’s a café too with produce grown in the Skip Garden where possible. Activities on the day also include carpentry, lemonade and cream tea making and a story tent. Places on the workshops are limited so please email generate@globalgeneration.org.uk to book.

And don’t forget to take a good look at Granary Square itself, as nine buildings host a specially commissioned silver design, a new artwork by Paris-based, Swiss artist Felice Varini. His piece, entitled Across the Buildings, has been specially commissioned for King’s Cross and sees a number of enormous geometric shapes overlaid onto the facades of the distinctive heritage buildings on the site. It covers a total area of 2.5 square kilometres. Yikes.

Can’t go this weekend? Don’t worry, the work remains in situ until the autumn.

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