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Breaking the Dead Silence: Book Launch Bath

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‘Breaking the Dead Silence: Engaging with the Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol’s Memoryscapes’, published by Liverpool University Press, 19 voices exploring resonances and reverberations on the aftermath of the racist murder of George Floyd and the toppling of a statue to a slave trader in Bristol. Three chapters are about different approaches to walking in the memoryscape, one written by artist-reseacher Richard White. The launch is an opportunity to meet authors and continue the discussion on the issues raised in the book

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2024-10-15 18:00
2024-10-15 18:00

Hosted by: Richard White and Christina Horvath
Widcombe Social Club, Widcombe Hill, Bath, UK

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Breaking the Dead Silence

Engaging with the legacies of empire and slave-ownership in Bath and Bristol’s memoryscapes.

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Breaking the Dead Silence: Book Launch Bristol

Conversations on interventions and examples of challenges, including walking, to the official memoryscape of slavery and colonialism. A book launch in Bristol in the same museum as the infamous toppled statue.

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Bath Union Workhouse: a walk for the living with the route of the dead

A sound walk using Echoes xyz. A meander through a series of tragedies towards hope and responsibility. The walk uses sounds gathered during the two year Walking the Names project. A slow walking and reading of the names of those who died of poverty in the Bath Union Workhouse. Walkers researched into those names and


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plodge

The Scottish and English word plodging has been wading through the lexical muck and mire since the late 1700s, and it refers to icky, slow, molasses-type walking. Plodge is probably a variation of plod. This word isn’t totally out of use, as a 1995 use from British magazine The Countryman illustrates: “Northbound Pennine Wayfarers, plodging through the interminable peat-bogs of the North Pennines.” Even if you have a spring in your step, it’s tough to skip merrily through the peat-bogs. Credits to Mark Peters.

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