Terminalia
Highlights
Walking a liminal line
Terminalia, celebrated on February 23rd, is an ancient Roman festival honoring Terminus, the god of boundaries, marked by sacrifices at boundary stones instituted by King Numa Pompilius. This practice evolved into the English custom of Beating the Bounds and inspires contemporary boundary walks, such as the author’s 2020 walk along the sea-land boundary in Skagaströnd, Iceland.
• Terminalia 2020: Walking Women
The Global Festival of Terminalia is about boundaries and borders, real, historical, fictional and imagined, and marks places of beginnings, endings and thresholds. ARTIFACTS and WIAprojects join Women Who Walk, exploring the cusp of night for Terminalia. For ARTIFACTS, this event is another stage in their continuing project ARTISTS@WORK, intended to indicate/enact the razor’s edge
Terminalia – Walking an Invisible Line
A walk along an invisible line… to celebrate Terminalia. Part of a project to walk the length Ordnance Survey ZeroZero eastings, setting off due south from my home in Gloucestershire to the grid line and initially heading west to Wales and the sea.
Offa Boundary Walk
In honour of Terminus, the Roman god of boundaries, you are invited on a boundary drift along the Wrexham county borough boundary of Offa. We will gather in the B & Q car park, just off Mold Road at 10am on Sunday 23rd February, and make our way along the Offa community boundary, heading in
Terminalia 2020 in Aberystwyth
Terminalia was the last day of the year in the Roman calendar; our system has this as February 23rd. It was the custom to walks the walls of a settlement on this day, and visit its terminii: this custom is re-enacted, often by psychogeographers, in many places today. In Aberystwyth, while the walls are no
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The walk started from the theatre cafe and across the road was the Rock Garden. This rock garden was full of specimens of rocks around the region and theres a Rock Map in the middle. From there it was on the search for rock sticks, but I first passed a hippy shop selling rocks, minerals […]
Walking Art Short Films
I am very pleased that my walking art videos are part of the film assemblages of Kel Portman Artworks @kelarrowsmith Mayday, a provocation 2024 Walking towards the Light / To the Sea to Celebrate the Morning Summer Solstice 2024 Terminalia 2024 Winter Solstice 2023 / The Walkers Equinox (Autumn 2022) Winter Solstice 2022 And I was … Continue reading Walking Art Short Films
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