Walking and camping
Camp Day is a global feast, this year happening today on Sunday November 19th, celebrating the outdoors. This day has been around since the early 20th century.
Whether you prefer hiking and pitching a tent in the woods or sleeping under the stars by a campfire, this is a day of reconnecting with nature and enjoying adventure!
Recreational camping and immersion in nature goes as far as the 19th century, more specific from the 1850 ies on, when transportable tents were “invented” for urban inhabitants, in a time that cities became industrialized and people felt the desire to escape urban chaos to reconnect with nature. A phenomenon occuring around the same time when artists and writers became inspired by walking in their creative work.
Tents in the 19th century were still heavy and often transported by sailing boats, camping trips organized along the Thames were highly popular.
This way of camping changed in July 1897, when the Briton Thomas Hiram Holding, at the age of 52, designed and made a very small, lightweight tent which could be carried on a bicycle and on foot, when he set off on a three-day cycle-camping tour in south-west Ireland with his son Frank and two friends.
In the years after, and a book by Thomas Hiram Holding, Camping in the wild became a worldwide phenomenon, till today, and even more after the pandemic, when our perspective on traveling and adventures changed.
We discovered that adventures and traveling don’t have to be fast, big or remote.
Adventures became micro-adventures and traveling became vertical, discovering (again) what is near our home and in the nature around us. Camping and walking is micro adventuring, deepening connection with nature and flow, when consciousness and action fall together, in an even more deep sense of connection.
Take your tent out for a walk…
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28 Nov · Tue · 19:00 (UTC)
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Brian Lewis is our November Walking Writers' Salon guest, as poetry publisher at Longbarrow Press, he will be discussing the economics of small press publishing, the relationship between a walking practice and writing practice, and the ethos of craft, collaboration and care that runs through it all. Keep reading
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29 Nov · Wed · 21:00 (UTC)
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Join two American authors as they trade tips and share insights about writing and walking at walk · listen · create’s Walking America. For our inaugural conversation on November 29, we are delighted to welcome authors Neil King Jr. and Tom Zoellner, to discuss their epic walks through America’s divided political landsc... Keep reading
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05 Dec · Tue · 19:00 (UTC)
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Claudia Zeiske’s Slow Coast 500 was a long-distance walk from Dunnet Head to Berwick-upon-Tweed along the entire coast of the North Sea in Scotland. Keep reading
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New walking pieces
The premise of the installation is that the audience opens the box and chooses which fragment they will collect first. Here is the link to the video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLah6v5Po1ZsJpRIlSwyn6F7O074HSu-Ci&feature=shared Keep reading
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Upcoming events
20 Nov · Mon · 19:00 (UTC)
· St John’s Church, Waterloo, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY, UK
Film screening and panel discussion -the film documents the Camino to COP26: a people’s walk carrying a message of love, hope, grief, fear, and connection to the na... Keep reading
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21 Nov · Tue · 19:00 (UTC)
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An online masterclass with multidisciplinary artist Adrienne Mackey, Founder and Artistic Director of Swim Pony, on transforming storylines into narrative landscape... Keep reading
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From our network
Day 141 - Politic and 2.0 km drawing.Temporary and 1.4 km drawing. Keep reading
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I’ve put together 3 postcard collections featuring work from my Value Studies series in time for holiday shopping – check them out and share with a friend:
Postcar... Keep reading
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Salt Air City ForestA long walking day full of wonders, mostly within smell and view of the ocean, but the most beautiful part was a quiet path through the rainfore... Keep reading
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Public : Solitaire, en duo, en groupe, de préférence ados et adultes Lieu : Ici ou là Temporalité, durée : Au libre choix, néanmoins, il est bon de donner un cadre ... Keep reading
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November 2023 I am happy to say that I am on my way to Camallera near Girona in Cataluña / Catalonia, where I am taking up an Artist’s Residency at Nau Côclea (Cent... Keep reading
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Stuff we found
The AI app has been praised and panned for its itinerary planning abilities. In Sydney, the city she knows best, travel writer Kate Hennessy puts it to the test Sou... Keep reading
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