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Street Wisdom is the brainchild of David Pearl, an innovator in business, the arts and social change. Having spent years exploring how our urban environment can deliver fresh insight, in 2013 he set up the first Street Wisdom event in Covent Garden, London. Since then, the movement has grown to over 87 countries and counting, led by volunteers sharing the power of Street Wisdom free of charge through communities across the globe. We’re on a mission to bring inspiration to every street on the planet!

Every year we celebrate Street Wisdom by wandering together on one day across the globe, we call it The World Wide Wander – an international coalition of the creative, curious and courageously kind-hearted.

It’s a day to imagine better futures for us, our communities and our planet. Together.

You can join us at an in-person Walkshop or one of our online sessions running throughout the day.

Come and join our festival of future seekers!

slare

To saunter, to be slovenly (The Dialect of Cumberland – Robert Ferguson, 1873). Rarely used in Cumbria now but has a meaning of to walk slowly, to amble, to walk with no particular purpose. Used for example in the ballad Billy Watson’s Lonnin written by Alexander Craig Gibson of Harrington, Cumbria in 1872 “Yan likes to trail ow’r t’ Sealand-fields an’ watch for t’ commin’ tide, Or slare whoar t’Green hes t’ Ropery an’ t’ Shore of ayder side “(Translation: One likes to trail over to Sealand Fields and watch for the coming tide, Or slare over to where the Green has the ropery and the Shore on the other side) Billy Watson’s Lonning (lonning – dialect for lane) still exists and can be found at Harrington, Cumbria.

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