IT’S not the usual takeaway from Gloucester Green. Tonight you can take home a festive treat – a box including a work crafted by an Oxford artist Arts at the Old Fire Station, in George Street, is set to revamp Gloucester Green for its two-day Artistic Takeaway event.
Arts at the Old Fire Station director Jeremy Spafford said: “We are going to transform it into a very beautiful, magical place.
“Instead of just having noodles and kebabs as takeaways, we are going to have art.”
He added: “I think Gloucester Green is a missed opportunity. We want to try and make that space much more attractive. There’s not many big places in the city of Oxford that people can use.”
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Arts at the Old Fire Station received £1,000 from Oxford City Council to pay for the takeaway.
Funding was awarded as part of the city’s three-day Christmas Light Festival, taking place from today. It will be used to serve visitors three courses of art tonight and tomorrow evening between 5pm and 9pm.
For starters, guests of all ages can have a design printed on a tote bag, while the main course will feature artists working on a wall of art formed of tiles.
- For more on the Christmas Light Festival, see today’s Friday Life
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