Dear friends, loiterers and lovers of drifting

It’s First Sunday, this Sunday and time for change….

I’m delighted we have a guest loiterer facilitating our wanders this month. I met Bella through the excellent Narrow Margins project (https://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/research-projects-list/narrow-margins) and by happy coincidence she’s visiting Manchester this week. Here’s what she has to say about her plans….

Hi LRM folks,
I research trespass in my job and practice mental sketch mapping, a form of critical/creative cartography. In both I aim to unlearn property logics. This is needed in order to build property and memory cultures that are engaged with ongoing dispossession in Britain, whilst remaining in conversation with settler colonial and imperial projects the British state has conducted elsewhere.
To this end I have been mapping trespass and access signs everywhere I walk. This Sunday I invite you to join me in mapping signs in Manchester. This will be followed by a mental sketch mapping exercise (I’ll lead you through what this means when I facilitate) — please bring plain paper / plain notebooks and a pencil/pen for this. Very much looking forward to being part of the LRM for a day!
Thanks, Bella

Please join us 2pm at the No Loitering Sign opposite the Salisbury Pub on James Leigh Street (its just off Oxford Road behind Grand Central, near the steps up to the railway station). We don’t know where the signs will be taking us so do try to get there on time so you can find us!  If we haven’t met before I’m short with pink hair so usually easy to spot.

As ever the direction and pace of our wanders will be decided collectively by the group, and we will follow The LRM code: take care of yourself, each other and the environment and don’t be an arse.  After about 90 – 120 minutes we will find somewhere for refreshments, map making and story swapping.

We always welcome ideas for loiters whether from new faces or more familiar friends, so please do get in touch with any places or themes you think we could explore.
If you have any questions, comments, access needs or just want to meet before the start on Sunday you can contact The LRM any of these ways:
email [email protected]
x/twitter @thelrm
facebook “the loiterers resistance movement”
text or whatsapp 07974929589
 
We really hope to see you on the streets soon
 
With love and golden apples
 
Morag xx