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Park to Park Sunday walk – Olympic Park to Bow Creek
Want to get to know London through its parks? Join a Walk that takes in the Parks of the east side of London along the River Lea. Starting at Stratford Station we will walk through Olympic Park, Three Mills Green, West Ham's Memorial Recreation Ground, Hermit Road Rec, Star Lane Park, Malmesbury Road Park, Bow Creek Ecology Park and Botanic Square on the Leamouth Peninsula.
• Park to Park Sunday walk – Green Park to Primrose Hill
Want to get to know London through its parks? Join a Walk that takes in the Parks of central London. Starting at Green Park we will walk through Mayfair and John Nash territory, taking in Berkeley Square, Mount Street Gardens, Grosvenor Square, Portman Square, Paddington Street Gardens, Regent’s Park then climb Primrose Hill for a view of London.
• Angela Findlay Blog
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Park to Park Sunday walk – Borough Of Ealing Park Trail
September is the month when the artists and painters of the Borough of Ealing put on their Art Trail and invite you to their studios and galleries to see and buy their latest work: https://ealingbeat.org.uk/. Ahead of the BEAT fair we’ve arranged our own trail through the parks of Ealing, taking in Haven Green, Walpole Park, Lammas Park,
Park to Park Sunday walk – Olympic Park to Bow Creek
Want to get to know London through its parks? Join a Walk that takes in the Parks of the east side of London along the River Lea. Starting at Stratford Station we will walk through Olympic Park, Three Mills Green, West Ham's Memorial Recreation Ground, Hermit Road Rec, Star Lane Park, Malmesbury Road Park, Bow Creek Ecology Park and Botanic Square on the Leamouth Peninsula.
• Park to Park Sunday walk – Green Park to Primrose Hill
Want to get to know London through its parks? Join a Walk that takes in the Parks of central London. Starting at Green Park we will walk through Mayfair and John Nash territory, taking in Berkeley Square, Mount Street Gardens, Grosvenor Square, Portman Square, Paddington Street Gardens, Regent’s Park then climb Primrose Hill for a view of London.
• Angela Findlay Blog
Angela Findlay is an Anglo-German artist, author and public speaker with years of experience working in prisons in England and Germany. She now lectures around the country and her first book – In My Grandfather’s Shadow – was published by Penguin Transworld in July 2022. It expands on many of the topics explored in her blogs.
WALK AROUND PHILADELPHIA: an invitation to discover the city by exploring its edges.
Walk Around Philadelphia is an opportunity for adventure and discovery close to home. It provides a physical challenge & sense of personal accomplishment. It cultivates civic pride & a humbling sense of scale. Along the way are opportunities to ponder themes of social & environmental justice, infrastructure & ecosystems, commerce & incarceration, indigenous history & colonization, privilege & access, and of course borders & boundaries.
Along the city’s edge, one finds highways & waterways, ruined factories decaying & new housing being developed, a historic mansion alongside prisons. There are shipyards, scrapyards, graveyards and farmyards. Amidst beautiful parks are piles of storage units, and so much more.
The oddly-shaped boundaries sometime follow the curves of waterways and other times arbitrary-seeming straight lines drawn by surveyors. In some places, there’s no visual difference between either side; in other areas the contrasts are stark.
The project holds space for authentic connection between individuals who might otherwise not cross paths. Rare in our world are opportunities to walk side-by-side for long, uninterrupted periods of time, and the experience of setting out walking together is in many ways an inclusive one: One participant noted “How easily the numbers ebbed and flowed with people joining for parts of the walk and how accepting and welcoming everyone was when you “landed” in the group.”
On the other hand, there are real barriers to participation ranging from accessibility issues to financial circumstances. These are the barriers that Walk Around Philadelphia has begun to address and will continue to as more resources become available.
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Hosted by: Jacques-Jean "JJ" Tiziou
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