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Artic Sound Walk – Horatio Clare BBC Radio 3 Slow Radio – 3×15′ episodes – only days left to listen
Freezing and Finding Episode 1: With a rich, varied and immersive listening experience, in the latest of his Slow Radio Sound Walks, as the winter draws and the snows threaten, Horatio Clare follows Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail from the west coast of the country towards the vast ice-sheet. In a series of alien worlds, the scapes are changing all the … More
Sound Walk September 2019 winners
For the Sound Walk September Awards 2019, over 60 contributions were accepted, connected to over 80 events worldwide. Accepted pieces were sound walks, or walking pieces, created in 2019. A huge variety of formats, approaches and subjects from a wide range of creative disciplines, including arts, heritage and history, health and wellbeing, silence and architecture, social practices, journalism, performance, literature and … More
Lion’s Holt
I journeyed from Aberystwyth to Lympstone, involving 5 trains - the last leg was the branch line from Exeter Central down to Exmouth. As you will know, Central was the high level station operated by Southern, who also controlled the Exmouth branch, g...
Call for submissions Streetnotes : “Walking in the Digital City”
Dr Claudia Brazzale and Blake Morris are editing a special issue of Streetnotes, a peer-reviewed biannual journal for the interdisciplinary study of the city, its lifeways and social relations, with a special concern for the cultural and aesthetic forms that arise through its traffic. A new generation of artists working in and across disciplines – dance/choreography, performance, visual art, music, … More
Walk, listen, and create
Welcome to the new home of walking artists.
What’s in Ironbridge other than an iron bridge?
A trip to Ironbridge for Gillian's 60th, regrettably coinciding with the 4th World Congress of Psychogeography in Huddersfield which regular readers will know I was part of in 2018. Spookily, many of the others at the Ironbridge gathering were from H...
Impaled on nails of ice, bareback ladies had fish
Regular readers will know of earlier reviews of Mr Robert Fripp's current ensemble: Aylesbury, September 2015. Aylesbury, September 2016. Liverpool, November 2018. so please take comments therein as read, and I will add an incremental review from the R...
Impaled on nails of ice, bareback ladies had fish
Regular readers will know of earlier reviews of Mr Robert Fripp's current ensemble: Aylesbury, September 2015. Aylesbury, September 2016. Liverpool, November 2018. so please take comments therein as read, and I will add an incremental review from the R...
Llanfihangel Genau’r Glyn [Llandre]
In search of Castell Gwallter. The castle was a text book motte and bailey (lat/long 52.462459, -4.028706), presumably of timber that was built by a Norman invader (Walter de Bec), captured by a Welsh chieftain (Owain Gwynedd), retaken by the Frenc...
Llanfihangel Genau’r Glyn [Llandre]
In search of Castell Gwallter. The castle was a text book motte and bailey (lat/long 52.462459, -4.028706), presumably of timber that was built by a Norman invader (Walter de Bec), captured by a Welsh chieftain (Owain Gwynedd), retaken by the Frenc...
Elspeth Penfold 2019-05-21 05:22:00
A Wander with Thread and Word. Contemporary Art and Ritual St Pancras GalleryThis exhibition ends todayThis Wander took place last Saturday at St Pancras Crypt . I was delighted to be given the opportunity to create a wander which took...
A covert trip
The Frau went to Belfast with a sister only marginally less beautiful than herself, leaving open an opportunity. Having been plagued with foot/leg pains for too long, and having learned to live with it most days, I wanted to know whether a long walk wo...
A covert trip
The Frau went to Belfast with a sister only marginally less beautiful than herself, leaving open an opportunity. Having been plagued with foot/leg pains for too long, and having learned to live with it most days, I wanted to know whether a long walk wo...
Elspeth Penfold 2019-04-11 09:29:00
Some snippets ( with photos) ' Cabinet 'at Espacio Gallery Curated by Jenny TimmerThis has been a really interesting exhibition to take part in, with thanks to all the lovely artists involved and, in particular to Jenny Timmer who has selected the...
Elspeth Penfold 2019-04-04 08:06:00
"Sumak Kawsay" a limited edition book of poems. by Thread and WordA Thread and Word publication, usingriso printing (an eco -friendly method for printing using soya based inks and recycled paper which works in a similar method to screen p...
Terminalia in Haverfordwest: a mildly psychogeographic weekend
The NHS instructed the Frau to voyage to Haverfordwest (town of many dentists), so we use the opportunity for a Citybreak in that fine Pembrokeshire settlement. Unfortunately the appointment is on Terminalia, celebrated in Aberystwyth in 2017 and 2018...
Terminalia in Haverfordwest: a mildly psychogeographic weekend
The NHS instructed the Frau to voyage to Haverfordwest (town of many dentists), so we use the opportunity for a Citybreak in that fine Pembrokeshire settlement. Unfortunately the appointment is on Terminalia, celebrated in Aberystwyth in 2017 and 2018...
Brexit preparations
M Thatcher, who went on to commit damage to our country that rivalled D Cameron's, was once vilified for stockpiling groceries in anticipation of upcoming food shortages [1974], which she countered was nothing more than good housekeeping. “I am just...
Brexit preparations
M Thatcher, who went on to commit damage to our country that rivalled D Cameron's, was once vilified for stockpiling groceries in anticipation of upcoming food shortages [1974], which she countered was nothing more than good housekeeping. “I am just...