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The Perimeter – a photographic journey around the coast of Britain

Quintin Lake
Sound walk SWS26
2026

Once Upon a Time in Luton

Twelve short stories created by primary school children and the residents of a care home in Luton, Medway. You're invited to listen to them at home, or as you walk the route featured on our beautifully designed map.

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Rediscovering Britain with Quintin Lake

Hatchard's Booksellers
2026-02-04 18:30
Hatchards - Piccadilly, Piccadilly, London, UK

Join Quintin Lake for an illustrated discussion of his solo pilgrimage around the coast of Britain. We are delighted to welcome Quintin Lake here to Hatchards this evening for an illustrated talk on his experience of walking and photographing Britain for his book The Perimeter. On Friday 17 April 2015, photographer Quintin Lake set off

Walking piece Marŝarto23
2023

Coasts in Mind

A video documentation using sound, walking and weaving to share stories as method for collecting inter generational stories with adults with learning difficulties about coastal change with CITiZAN and East Kent Mencap in Herne Bay.

Chris Wood in Faversham

6 Aug, 2020 · Folk on Foot
The award winning singer, songwriter and guitarist Chris Wood has lived in Kent all his life. “If you keep moving around, how much can you trust your judgement?” he asks. “If you stop where you are, the world does eventually come to you.” Since the Brexit …
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post SWS20 29 Sep, 2020

Mapping a digital quipu

Elspeth (Billie) Penfold is a textile artist who brings her experience of teaching and research into performative work. In 2012 she formed the arts group Thread and Word. Through call outs and personal invitation Elspeth works collaboratively with invited artists and academics to develop performative walks. Elspeth was born in Bolivia, and she likens the digital threading of texts with the physical threading of Andean quipus.

Open Call Closed

Call for Proposals – The Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography, 6-8 September 2024

The return of the face-to-face congress!

Curated news 17 Nov, 2022

‘Ghostly Army’ marches through disused railway station in dramatic remembrance art display | ITV News Meridian

The ‘Walking with Ghosts’ installation in Kent is billed as an ‘immersive experience’ using projected archive video with a soundscape of music and spoken word. | ITV News Meridian Source: ‘Ghostly Army’ marches through disused railway station in dramatic remembrance art display | ITV News Meridian

Sound walk
2020

Somnambulist

A binaural soundscape collected whilst taking one hour of exercise during the Covid lockdowns of 2020.

Sound walk SWS20
2020

Listening Between: There Here

This 15-20 minute street-level sound walk in Chatham High Street, Kent, combines live ambient sounds with slowed and real-time skylark recordings from a nearby riverside nesting site. The route passes The Brook and Military Road, featuring underwater River Medway audio captured by hydrophone, with headphones recommended for full effect.

Sound walk SWS21
2021

THE RESCUE OF THE BENVENUE

Steven M Halliday’s historical sound walk from Folkestone Harbour to Sandgate, Kent, retraces the 1891 shipwreck of the full-rigged Benvenue. The 25-minute experience combines 3D sound design, narration, and music to narrate the dramatic rescue events.

Sound walk SWS21
2021

sloopwild

‘sloopwild’ is a site-specific walking project created for the UNFIX Festival 2021, inviting participants to meander and drift without a map along the edges of Kent. It emphasizes listening to environmental sounds and experiencing boundaries through recorded solo walks called sloops.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 12 Oct, 2022

How art and ancient history collide on a hike through Deal, Dover and Folkestone | National Geographic

Few stretches of the England coast path are as storied as the 20 miles connecting the Kent towns of Deal, Dover and Folkestone. But far from living in the past, each community passed is cultivating a buzzy new reputation in the present day. Source: How art and ancient history collide on a hike through Deal,

Curated news 20 Mar, 2021

Kent Walking Tour highlights public art downtown | Latest Updates | kentwired.com

The sky was full of dark gray clouds and raindrops sprinkled the sidewalk outside. Despite the weather, a young blonde woman stood between two buildings staring at a landscape painting Source: Kent Walking Tour highlights public art downtown | Latest Updates | kentwired.com

Curated news 10 Mar, 2020

Popular Big Issue vendor Rob is taking on a two-year walking challenge | The Big Issue

The long-time Kent vendor will be walking from John O’Groats to Land’s End with canine companion Molly and selling the magazine on a pitch across the country as he goes Source: Popular Big Issue vendor Rob is taking on a two-year walking challenge | The Big Issue

Articles elsewhere

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Elspeth Penfold 2022-01-10 11:27:00

Plough Monday 2022 Setting the Furrow to the Plough With thanks to Sara Trillo for leading me to this destination for a walk in Kent and for the walking prompt by @SoniaOverall #Distance Drift. I have included my collage as  I map o...

Elspeth Penfold
Elspeth Penfold
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Elspeth Penfold 2021-02-12 15:23:00

 Terraqua : River story postings 'The mind assembles experiences and constructs stories from them" As we prepare for  Terraqua I was looking ahead and reminded of The Terminalia Festival 2018. Where the land meets the sea....

Elspeth Penfold
Elspeth Penfold
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Objection to the proposed development at Highland Court Farm

Photograph of orchards at Highland Court Farm by Mike SoleThis is somewhat different content to what I've been posting in recent months, detailing some of the activist work I've been doing alongside my academic and artistic projects. For the ...

Jack Lowe
Jack Lowe
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Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-23 15:47:00

Thread and Word - A Walk with Shrines At The Margate Bookie                               Film maker Anna Bowman takes some time out from a busy filming schedule in Yo...

Elspeth Penfold
Elspeth Penfold

stramp

To walk firmly: Dere dey wir, strampin back an fore.

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