Every day for a hundred days, a different part of the city centre of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands will be coloured green. That is because more than one thousand large and small trees will be walking around the city. Source: Timberbiz
This forest aims to play with senses and thanks to a dedicated team of hundreds of volunteers it will create a new network of interconnected roots.
Bosk is more than just an impressive, mobile art installation, though. It’s an arts project with a packed program of performances and exhibitions that focus attention on the urgent need to change our view of the relationship between humanity and nature.
It ranges from a summer school for Leeuwarden neighbourhoods, a Bosk news program for primary school pupils and a whispering garden full of inspiration, to a spectacular percussion show and dance performances.
For 100 days, Bosk will also create space for everyone to make time for conversations, art and ideas. After a hundred days, the walking forest will leave the Leeuwarden city centre. The trees will make their way to their final destinations. Dispersed throughout the city and in the surrounding areas, they will find fresh soil where they can put down roots.
Bosk follows a 3.5 kilometre route through Leeuwarden city centre and tours from location to location. It moves in stages on weekdays, so the forest decreases in one place while growing somewhere else.
After 14 August, the trees and the thousands of seedlings of the walking forest will all find permanent places in the Leeuwarden municipality.
