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Flash Fiction Festival
Flash Fiction Festival UK, 14th-16th July, 2023 will be the fifth in-person literary festival entirely dedicated to flash fiction sponsored by Ad Hoc Fiction and Bath Flash Fiction Award and organised by Jude Higgins. We welcome flash fiction enthusiastics, beginner or experienced, to come together to learn more about flashfiction, write new stories, listen to
Afloat on the sea of sound there are seven ghost slave ships
Located audio sound artists Ralph Hoyte and Phill Phelps (Bristol/UK) launch their latest located audio sound art work "Colston’s Last Journey" in its international iteration at this evenings Cafe event, where they join to discuss making sound art about slavery.
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1831 Riot!
Queen Square in Bristol hosts a GPS-triggered audio play recreating the 1831 riot, originally created in 2004 as a world-first location-based sound experience. This updated 1831 RIOT! by Satsymph combines audio engineering and contemporary composition to immerse listeners in the historic event as they move through the site.
Bristoler Chronik
After 20 years, the author retraced a walk from their former Bristol home to their current residence, using the journey to explore themes of class, identity, memory, and consciousness. The work emphasizes the unique mental state produced by walking and its connection to personal and collective recollection.
Walk with the Mayor
This audio walk has been adapted from an interview undertaken on a blustery day in September 2008 from the catalogue of Talking Walking podcasts – freely available to listen to and download, Talking Walking has interviews with artists, activists and professionals from the world of walking. Walk with the Mayor: Bristol’s Brunel Mile has been
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Colston’s Last Journey (Worldwide)
Roll out this walk thru version of Ralph Hoyte's Colston’s Last Journey work of soundart about Bristol and the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans anywhere in the world (iPhone; we're getting there for Android). For further info and to experience the work search colstonslastjourney.uk and follow the link to the 'worldwide' version.
Night Walk: Walking Clifton Downs and Ladies Mile at midnight
Night-Walk is an output of the Walking and Re-Creation project. Our project responds to our belief that social and health inequalities are linked. and uses a historical lens on walking to address unequal access to pedestrianism in our own moment.
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A Walk can be an Open Air Museum
A BS3 Museum Walk (Others Are Available) Join me on one of my regular walks from my home to Ashton Gate, the home of Bristol City. I am highlighting the exhibits I connect with. If you were to undertake the walk you would, undoubtedly, see different th...
Breaking the Dead Silence revisited: a discussion
Tuesday 15 April: Breaking the Dead Silence revisitedBristol PRSC 18.30-20.00Details and tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/prsc/tue-15-apr-breaking-the-dead-silence-127816#e127816In the lead up to the Bristol Transformed festival, an evening conversation about walking, memorialisation and colonialism. I will be talking about my current practice and building out from contributions to the book published last year. Locating the sites of memory, listening for the spectres, te [...]
Ten years walking and asking questions
For the past 10 years I have been hosting walks creatively exploring hidden, obscured and often uncomfortable histories, legacies of slave-ownership and colonialism. In July our book: Breaking the Dead Silence: Engaging with the Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol’s Memoryscapes was published by Liverpool University Press. Here I set out some background to the book, and my approach to walking arts through a sketch of a recent Heritage Open Days walk at Bath Spa Unive [...]
Breaking the Dead Silence: book launches and a walk
Nineteen diverse and distinctive voices in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol. As the dust gathers on the now recumbent statue, a museum artefact, here are timely commentaries. Insights and experiences in the memoryscape seeking to enrich and transform an uncomfortable heritage through empathy and creativity. Multiple perspectives from academics, artists, activists and heritage professionals, contribute ideas and strategies towards re- [...]
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