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post 30 Apr, 2017

Elspeth Penfold 2017-04-30 10:57:00

Taking Thread and Word to Edinburgh I am preparing a walk as a part of the Threads exhibition at Dundas St Gallery, the walk will take place on  the 7th of July from 2 - 4 pm.Looking ForwardI visited Edinburgh on Monday  April 24th with ...

post 29 Apr, 2017

Places of Interest: Corner of Best Lane and High St., Canterbury

It has become part of my everyday routine in the last two years to eat my lunch while sitting on a singular bench that overlooks the corner of Best Lane and the High Street in Canterbury. As well as being located conveniently close to the public lib...

post 26 Apr, 2017

Wolf traces

Yesterday, when I went for a walk through the woods where I spent most of my childhood and "climbed" the Haarlerberg, the "mountain of Haarle" (63,2 meters), I forgot I still had a sticker of a wolf attached to my forehead, planted there by my niece...

post 25 Apr, 2017

Das Spazierbüro • Ein Festival

Herrreinspaziert! – lerjentours, die Agentur für Gehkultur, lädt auf dem Werdmühleplatz in Zürich ins «Spazierbüro». Anleitungen, Anregungen, Walks und Gespräche zu Spazierkunst und zur Kunst des Spazierens. Dabei sind die Spazierkünstlerin Simone Ette...

post 24 Apr, 2017

Engaging and Metaphors: Inspiring debate about co-creative projects in Leuven

On April 20, in Leuven, Belgium, I presented my experiences with successful co-creative planning projects to researchers and project developers of the Department Omgeving of Vlaanderen – and we had a great discussion on the role of walking, engagement and metaphors in those projects. It became clear that it is crucial to creatively implement the […]

post 23 Apr, 2017

Rights restored around Eglwysilan common today

Tomorrow, pesky access-blockers may be back, but today belonged to the people who have rights on Mynydd Eglwysilan Common: commoners, byway drivers and trail, quad and pedal bikers, horse riders, walkers, roamers were all there to let the landowners know … Continue reading →

post 23 Apr, 2017

Old Story New Story

Today I have uploaded all the blogs from my facebook page The Warriors’ Way – A Journey to the Heart onto my blog here so that you can follow the story of my walk across Wales all in one place…Enjoy!   The Pilgrimage Begins – 31st May 2015 We live in changing times; the great turning […]

post 23 Apr, 2017

Traces of Long Forgotten Truths

June 2015 Day 1 Leaving the Great House, the charming old Welsh long house where I’d spent the night in a room overlooking the river Usk far from the madding crowds of Newport, I was struck by the rightness of the huge wooden sculpture carved from oak tree roots at the end of the road […]

post 23 Apr, 2017

Elspeth Penfold 2017-04-23 13:54:00

Developing Thread and WordSo the work progresses in many different ways.QuipucamayocsI have been busy in the studio making 'Quipucamayocs', a series of artefacts using the ropes knotted by walkers during the development of the walks culminating in Thre...

post 22 Apr, 2017

Elspeth Penfold 2017-04-22 16:08:00

Walking with the Waste Land Creating new encounters through walking.  April : The Garden Gate to Northdown Park.                 We have just started a series of exploratory walks following a route...

post 16 Apr, 2017

Shetland Watercolours – April 2017

In the last few days I have started a new series of water colour drawings.All based of recent walks in West Burrafirth along Brindister Voe and up on the hills above. This is a place to wander and never see anyone else, a place inhabited at this time o...

post 15 Apr, 2017

Cut Flowers

Cut Flowers at the Beaumont Gallery, Mere currently features work from the Forced Walks: Honouring Esther collection. Cut Flowers runs until Sunday April 23. In addition to work from Lorna’s practice exploring inherited trauma, the exhibition includes the Honouring Esther … Continue reading →

post 12 Apr, 2017

Looks like map’s back on the menu, boys (m/f)!

When you allow Dérive app to keep track of your location, you can find a map of your meanderings on our website. All dérives that take you around town, that is, have a length that is greater than zero, have a unique ID assigned to them. You have a...

post 12 Apr, 2017

All in a Shetland day

Off the ferry and into the mist as we drive to our house. Can't see the hills or the voe. Rain hits the windows; a little sun appears and then more rain... Later the hills brighten and the sun shines so out we go. A cold wind - icy blasts sweeping ...

post 11 Apr, 2017

Cold dreams

I love sitting on my balcony. Moving through the world without moving. Seeing the people pass by, a small part of their story unfolding under my feet. It is a beautiful sunny day in Barcelona, one of the warmest days this year so far. I look down an...

post 07 Apr, 2017

March 31, 2017, 9 am, with Marcus Y.

(With Marcus Young) This walk, on the calendar longer than most, holds the soft edge of cold. Walking in the unfamiliar, looking back on the space we’ve been in. Seeking warmth, the street only offers beginnings of answers. Allusions to spring, r...

post 02 Apr, 2017

Inverse Performance Art Festival 2017 – Part 2

At the risk of  being called an April fool I undertook to perform a new version of my piece 'No holiday' on Cheung Chau.This time the piece was being live-streamed to the Inverse Performance Art Festival in North-west Arkansas, USA....

slew

A short walk or stroll, as in “I’ll take a slew around the harbour before going to bed.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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