Revealing untold stories of women in Birmingham, this walk uses the act of walking itself as a means of connecting to the world around us.
This session will consider how walking aids understanding, giving a brief insight into the in-person walk in Birmingham taking place the following day, before moving to reflect more broadly on how walking enables us to connect to the world around us.
Devised by Andrew Stuck of the Museum of London, this walkshop became a regular event as part of the Mayor of London’s London Tree Week, and subsequent Urban Tree Festivals. Everyone has heard ‘an old wives’ tale’ about a certain tree species, some of which have a layer of truth within them, others are downright
• Beginning in 1981 with a march from Cardiff to Greenham by women, men and children, the camp became women-only the following year and remained so through its 19-year span. According to Barbara Harford and Sarah Hopkinson (1984), Greenham ‘became a place where ideas, fears, dreams, philosophies and skills came together to be worked through’, and initiated a series of actions of exceptional creative ingenuity and political efficacy.
• 'In Conversation' event launches the Women Walking Festival and will see Kerri Andrews provide an insight into the history of women walking, re-examining assumptions of gender and exercise, before moving to consider contemporary aspects of women walking and walking the pandemic more generally.
On the first weekend of May every year, Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world. Jane’s Walks encourage people to share stories about their neighbourhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbours. We walk our cities to honor and activate
• The Walking Institute
A peripatetic school for the human pace – it explores, researches and celebrates the human pace by bringing walking and other journeying activities together with arts and other cultural disciplines and people from all walks of life.
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