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post 14 Oct, 2025

Walking the SHREWSBURY Skull this Halloween

For this year's Halloween walk we're handing the torch to our Shropshire contingent. Join us Oct 31 for a spooky circumambulation of the historic town of Shrewsbury.

post 29 May, 2025

Midsummer Spaghetti Pilgrimage

For this year's Summer Solstice we'll be making a pilgrimage to Birmingham's famous concrete henge/motorway junction. Join us on 21 June.

post 20 Feb, 2025

Full Moon Night Walk

Walkspace celebrates its 5th year with a re-run of one the first public walks we ever did. Join us on 14 March for a magical tour of the lunar-charged waterways of Stirchley and Lifford.

post 13 Nov, 2024

Peaks and Dales of Dudley – a creative walking tour

Join Daniella Turbin and Andy Howlett on 8th December for an exploration of this dramatic and fascinating Black Country hill range. Part of the Dudley's Path to Nature Recovery project by the Wildlife Trust.

post 04 Oct, 2024

Walking the Stirchley Skull + skull mask workshop!

This year's walk around the Stirchley Skull includes a skull mask workshop with Hipkiss and Graney! Join us on October 26th for the workshop and 31st for the walk.

post 30 Aug, 2024

Portals and Contrasts of Charterhouse – creative walking in Coventry

Walkspace partners up with Historic Coventry Trust for a heritage walk with a difference. Join Adele and Andy on September 28th to explore the different worlds of Charterhouse.

post 19 Aug, 2024

Listening for the Last Day of Summer: a September Soundwalk

What does the end of summer sound like? Join artist Rachel Henaghan on September 1st for a canalside stroll, paying attention to the sounds we don't usually hear.

post 25 Jun, 2024

Walk Report: Summer Solstice Erratic Stone Circle

To celebrate the Summer Solstice we walked a new stone circle into existence. The West Midlands may not be as blessed with megalithic monuments as other parts of the country but we DO have an abundance of another type of ancient rock: the glacial erratics which travelled here from North Wales on an ice sheet. […]

post 25 May, 2024

Erratic Stone Circle Walk for the Summer Solstice

We're marking the Summer Solstice by walking the world's first erratic stone circle into existence. Join us on 20th June for a 13 mile walk like no other!

post 05 Mar, 2024

From Rea to Stour: Walking the Severn/Trent Watershed

This year, Walkpace contributed a public walk to Terminalia Festival which celebrated the Severn/Trent watershed, one of the Midland’s most important and defining geographical features.

post 02 Feb, 2024

Walking the Watershed for Terminalia

Our first public walk of 2024 celebrates the festival of Terminalia with a walk along a remarkable natural boundary. Join us on Feb 23!

post 01 Nov, 2023

Minimal Traffic Meander: in and out of the city with Badnote Choir

For November's Erratic, Simon Jefferies (AKA The Badnote Choir) shows us the unthinkable: a Birmingham without cars. Join us on November 25th to assert your pedestrian privilege.

post 13 Oct, 2023

Skull Walk 4: Widdershins

Join us this Halloween for our fourth annual walk around the Stirchley Skull. This time with a twist...

post 25 Aug, 2023

Walk Report: Wandering Rocks 2

For the second walk in our Wandering Rocks series we visited Birmingham city centre for more glacial boulders, geological curiosities and further examples of "beached heritage". The "wandering rocks" of the title refers to the erratic boulders which travelled to Birmingham from Wales on an ice sheet 450,000 years ago. The catalyst for this walk […]

post 24 Jul, 2023

The Wandering Rocks – walk two

For August's Erratic we'll be taking a rock for a walk. Join us on Sunday 20th for a tour of Birmingham's geological curiosities and examples of "beached heritage"

post 02 Jun, 2023

Metaphysical Treasure Hunt: a group drift in Stirchley

Join us on 24 June for a playful drift around Stirchley inspired by The Loiterer's Resistance Movement

post 14 Apr, 2023

On Return: Seeking Solace in a City of Trauma

Join former paramedic turned artist Rachel Henaghan on May 6 for a dawn walk through Birmingham city centre.

post 07 Feb, 2023

Layers of Landscape: a suburban stroll with Robson

For our first public walk of 2023, Robson takes us on a journey through the topographical layers of Bournville and Northfield. Join us on Feb 26th

post 03 Jan, 2023

Photos from Winter Solstice sunrise walk

For the final Walkspace Erratic of 2022 we visited Bordesley Henge in Birmingham to mark the Winter Solstice. Bordesley Henge is a municipal stone circle situated in Kingston Hill Park and is believed to date back to the 1990s. Six standing stones form a ring on top of a mound, up which a spiral footpath […]

post 30 Nov, 2022

Winter Solstice Sunrise Walk

For our final Erratic of the year we'll be visiting two of Birmingham's sacred sites and creating a Yule altar. Join us at dawn on December 21st to welcome the Midwinter sun.

sog

To walk slowly and in a leisurely fashion, as in “The old man was just soggin’ along.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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