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When a walking artist is a Renegade Guide
Towards the end of 2024, during a highly contentious election season, writer, guide and founder of Living London, Saira Niazi, spent two months in the US (New York and San Francisco) developing a research project on tour guiding. Attending various walking tours and community events, exploring hidden gems and local neighbourhoods and interviewing renegade guides,
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• When a Walking Artist is a Renegade Guide
A walk · listen · cafe with Saira Niazi Towards the end of 2024, during a highly contentious election season, writer, guide and founder of Living London, Saira Niazi, spent two months in the US (New York and San Francisco) developing a research project on tour guiding. Attending various walking tours and community events, exploring
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• The Renegade Guides Handbook, a new resource created with and for walking guides, is now live and available to download for free from Saira Niazi‘s Living London website. Alternatively, you can purchase a physical copy on her online bookshop..
The handbook is filled with practical advice, reflections, case studies, stories, ideas and a manifesto. I am sure it will be of benefit to those in our community as well as those interested in joining our community! More below –
“I’ve often asked myself, what is a tour guide, really? Your work helps answer that. It redefines guiding as a platform for social change and storytelling rooted in respect for place and people. This guide shows that a tour guide is multi-dimensional—and it’s a resource we need.” – Larry Henderson, Soul of Harlem
“This guide is a great resource for people who are struggling and looking for ways to help their community.” – Alexandra Maruri, Bronx Historical Tours
“What an incredible resource!” – Barnali Ghosh, Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour
Towards the end of 2024, during a highly contentious election season, writer, guide and founder of Living London, Saira Niazi, spent two months in the US (New York and San Francisco) developing a research project on tour guiding.
Attending various walking tours and community events, exploring hidden gems and local neighbourhoods and interviewing renegade guides, organisers and storytellers from all walks of life, Niazi sought answers to the pressing questions that prompted her journey. What makes a tour? Who decides which stories get shared? How can we better support our communities?
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