02.04.2012 | 4 pm | Volkspark Wuhlheide, Berlin
Berlin-Birkenau by Łukasz Surowiec and WikiWoods: Join in the public planting at Volkspark Wuhlheide!
Monday, April 2, 2012, 4 pm
Volkspark Wuhlheide, Berlin/Oberschöneweide
On Monday, April 2, a group of voluntaries will plant 50 birches at Volkspark Wuhlheide. For his project Berlin-Birkenau artist Łukasz Surowiec brought the birches from the area around the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to Berlin. Every helping hand is welcome to plant a birch tree as a symbolic gesture of commemoration.
The public planting takes place in cooperation with the volunteer’s initiative WikiWoods. Since 2007 WikiWoods combines the act of planting trees with climate protection and education programs in schools.
Directions
Meeting point is at Volkspark Wuhlheide.
Diagonally opposite the tram station “Treskowallee/Hegemeisterweg” there is an entrance to Volkspark Wuhlheide. The meeting point is after about 500 meters on the right-hand side.
Further information
Planting of the birches in Berlin-Neukölln, Photo: Isabel Bredenbröker
“Berlin-Birkenau” by Łukasz Surowiec
The project “Berlin-Birkenau” brings a few hundred young birches from the area around the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to Berlin, where they have found new places to root all over the city. [...]More >
