Migrants
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Home Makers: go for a walk with sounds made by migrant domestic workers
Home Maker Sounds is a collection of soundwalks recorded and co-edited with migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon. The soundwalks aim to amplify the voices of often silenced or mis-represented women, who labour and live ‘behind closed doors’. On this walk in Holland Park, you’ll hear from soundwalk maker Ann, who remembers the
Under constant threat
Artist Guilherme Peters, and journalist Andrea Dip, will screen their film Under Constant Threat (Sob Constante Ameaça), a short film based on interviews with around 2500 women, on the constant threat they are faced with while walking on the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
an/other time
“an/other time” was an interactive walk in greater Moonah using an app, headphones, posters, and a printed map to explore over 70 multimedia stories from the local migrant community. Starting at Moonah Arts Centre, participants could choose their route through streets like Main Road and Albert Road to engage with personal narratives that foregrounded migrant contributions rarely highlighted in Hobart’s dominant history.
A 100 day Walk across Europe with a Wolf for company
Conservation policies across Europe have been encouraging ‘re-wilding’ of landscapes, including the re-introduction for animals that once roamed more freely. Scientists have been tracking such re-introductions, and back in 2011, a wolf left its family pack in Slovenia, crossed the Alps and journeyed across Europe for thousands of kilometres. Critically-acclaimed and celebrated travel writer Adam
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Walking the Names goes online
Walking the Names onlineWalking the Names goes online as the virus closes us down to isolation and social distancing. An informal trawl of those who had joined the first few monthly walks resulted in nearly twenty walkers interested in taking part on line. Each walker was issued with 20 names from either 1862 or 1863 entries in the Register of Burials at the Bath Union Workhouse Burial ground just off the Wells Way. This brings a whole new set of voices to the project and as they get stitc [...]
Journey to Justice Bristol
Hands Across the City Sunday 29th OctoberCastle Park by the Bristol Bridge entrance, BS1 3XDTime 12:30 – 16:00The culmination of the month-long celebration of Journey to Justice Bristol, this historical walk starts at Bristol Bridge. It proceeds to Pero’s Bridge where we shall hold hands to make a human bridge affirming the city’s solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and migrant communities. We shall end at City Hall with a celebration event. Everyone is encourag [...]
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