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We made our city sparkle!

Check out the some photos from the 2024 Spring Clean

As you scroll through the photos from last year, you'll see that there was a HEAP of people involved, including folk from Live Life Disability Support Day Services, Downtown Backpackers, Open Home Ready, Nelson Environment Centre, Boffa Miskell, RMM Landscape Architects, Arthouse Architects, Magenta Creative, VenueTech, Thompson Property Group, Nikau Hauora Hub, Bett Apartment Residents, Nelson City Council, Nelson Provincial Museum, The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū, our amazing ‘Angel Gardeners' and some incredible volunteers.

We're excited to be doing it again in 2025!

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Our glorious gardeners left little plantings across the city!

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Picture by Tim Cuff 17 October 2024 - Make Shift Spaces Spring Clean, Nelson, New Zealand.
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At Red Art Gallery & Cafe, Suzy planted vibrant spring flowers and installed a free little library for everyone to enjoy. And then all the tennentsf the ArtHouse building got together to give the laneway a makeover, complete with a Richard Seller'e artwork.

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NEL cleaned their electrical boxes, and then we commissioned some artists to transform them.

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