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2025  

Write About Walking In The Dark Showcase

Write About Walking In The Dark Showcase event introduced new writing from 11 shortlisted authors of the walk · listen · create annual writing competition and included them reading their poetry and prose.  Erin Bondo, Krista Carson, Paul Connolly, Elizabeth Fevyer, Eleanor Holmes, Sarah Leavesley/James, Rosaleen Lynch, Isabella Mead Husain, Laura Theis, Penny Walker, and Emily Wilkinson. Author and poet, and long time supporter of

Happened
 

Walking to Greenham: Women’s Bodies in Motion Across Art and Activism

The Cultural Capital Exchange
2022-03-25 10:00
Online

Beginning in 1981 with a march from Cardiff to Greenham by women, men and children, the camp became women-only the following year and remained so through its 19-year span. According to Barbara Harford and Sarah Hopkinson (1984), Greenham ‘became a place where ideas, fears, dreams, philosophies and skills came together to be worked through’, and initiated a series of actions of exceptional creative ingenuity and political efficacy.

Happened
 

Women Walking: Sensory Perspectives

The Cultural Capital Exchange
2022-03-24 14:00
Online

Using a variety of methods, this series of mini-workshops encourage participants to take part and contribute to ongoing research projects around the issue of women walking. The topic will be explored from a range of sensory perspectives including: an audio workshop on women walking and liminality; a creative movement workshop exploring women walking, communication and diversity, and finally, a visual workshop exploring women's movement in film.

No Map Could Show Them

Helen Mort
2024  

Way Maker Salon- Cheryl Markosky talks with Dr Kerri Andrews

Video recording of a Way maker Salon in which Cheryl Markosky talks to Dr Kerri Andrews

Curated news 20 Jul, 2022

A walk to reclaim the night — women go on Delhi trail of roads named after other women

‘Women Walk at Midnight’ is a group that organises walks for women across the city of Delhi to give them a chance to feel safe in public spaces at night. Leaving stickers at places along the way ….. Source: A walk to reclaim the night — women go on Delhi trail of roads named after other

Curated news 16 Mar, 2023

How Young Women Fight Loneliness—Walking Together in the Park by the Hundreds – WSJ

How Young Women Fight Loneliness—Walking Together in the Park by the Hundreds Source: How Young Women Fight Loneliness—Walking Together in the Park by the Hundreds – WSJ

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Women Walking: In Conversation with Dr Kerri Andrews

The Culture Capital Exchange
2022-03-24 11:00
Online

'In Conversation' event launches the Women Walking Festival and will see Kerri Andrews provide an insight into the history of women walking, re-examining assumptions of gender and exercise, before moving to consider contemporary aspects of women walking and walking the pandemic more generally.

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Women Walking: Untold stories and hidden histories – Walking to Understand

The Cultural Capital Exchange
2022-03-25 14:00
Online

Revealing untold stories of women in Birmingham, this walk uses the act of walking itself as a means of connecting to the world around us.

2024  

Walking by Moonlight – WALC café

Video recording of a WALC Café hosted by Clare Qualmann with guest Eléonore Ozanne discussing Women walking, The city, At night. A performance series in the form of collective walks between women. It was began by Eléonore Ozanne in Seville, Spain in September 2022 on the night of the ‘Harvest Moon’, and has subsequently taken

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Walkspace 90

Take a walk on the wild side

We last wrote about Birmingham-based artist Kruse in February – Wayfaring with Kruse – and then something must have happened that got in the way of all that beautiful creativity… Happily she is now back after a nine-month hiatus, writing on her walk blog and taking cues from climate change and autonomous things and women walking. […]

Fiona Cullinan

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A footstep: I widna geng a fitstramp owre da door efter her.

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