THE 100 YEAR STREET NEWS

AUTUMN/WINTER 2024/25

100 Year Street News is a collaborative publication to keep the fires of hope and possibility lit on Windsor Street. Within these pages, you will find artworks, recipes and pieces of hope from our network of associate artists, cooks, gardeners and community members who came along to this year’s Autumn Equinox celebration in September. This paper exists to remind us where we’ve been, to build our shared narratives together, and to dream of what’s to come. Read it here!

The 100 Year Street began on Windsor Street in Liverpool L8 with the planting of apple trees in 2010 in our Community Food Garden.

These apple trees, like humans, if well cared for, can live for 100 years, and that is just what we at Squash want to see. We mark each calendar with 8-Fold Year celebrations rooted in Celtic and global traditions that connect us through land-based rituals and encourage neighbours and collaborators to stay grounded in the present while growing towards the future. 

While political leaders turn over election cycles and the seasons change on annual rotation, our lives unfold with a flurry of activity, often taking us out of the present to what fire needs to be put out first. It is often the urgency of our daily lives and the times we are living in that prevent us from long-term thinking and building the world we want to live in. We all must be called to the greatest crises of our time; the deep inequality of our species and the collapse of our shared home, planet Earth. 

Climate change is here, but how we adapt to it, how we build a more just world with our neighbours and how we create the relationships we can rely on, no matter the storms that come, requires tender collaboration and care. By tending to our street, our gardens and our communities throughout the year, we set into motion the network of care that can hold us. The Earth transforms in the seasons. How can we begin to transform our neighbourhoods as well? 

Our 100 year street vision is a framework and an invitation to

  • connect joined up action 
  • explore future thinking
  • create space for possibility
  • to affirm long-term commitment
  • imagine beyond our lifetimes 

Over the last decade or so, Squash has created a space where belonging sits at the center of our work. From artist workshops to free soup, from plant knowledge to solidarity fundraisers, we are attempting to build the kind of relationships that people & places need most. How would our neighbourhoods, cities and countries transform if we began to put long-term thinking at the heart of how we come together, what we decide and what we make happen? 

100 Year Street News Project By Designer Corbin LaMont & Social Artist & Squash Co-Director Clare Owens

100 Year Street News Design By Corbin LaMont

100 Year Street News was inspired by The Changing Times & the ‘Hearsay’