Cabbage & Kraut - Ballymun is Brilliant Artists - 2025
Cabbage & Kraut - Ballymun is Brilliant Artist Award
After years of demolition and regeneration, Ballymun has found itself a Lidl away from being classed as a food desert. With no shopping centre, no restaurants and no pub, locals face challenges to find spaces to shop, socialise and eat together. Undaunted by systemic failures, Ballymun locals have taken matters into their own hands, building grassroots communities producing, making and sharing food in innovative, sustainable ways that can show Dublin the way forward.
Cabbage & Kraut aim to celebrate this Ballymun that locals are creating for themselves. In 2025, we will explore the grassroots, greenthumbs and wonderful fruits of labour to co-create a discovery trail for Ballymun-ers and blow-ins like ourselves. Throwing the spotlight on the green growth that has found its way through the concrete cracks and established roots in the community.
Engaging with local groups through research, workshops and events, this project aims to explore ways to encourage broader participation. Our work will be designed to inspire people to get involved and see the potential of community action. The process will be a map, or a taste or a trail leading to a project shaped by the wealth of community in Ballymun.