Join us on 11th May for an evening of short films by Walkspace members at the Playhouse Cinema, Leominster.
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These are posts which don't have their own category yet. A miscellany of things of interest.
This year, Walkpace contributed a public walk to Terminalia Festival which celebrated the Severn/Trent watershed, one of the Midland’s most important and defining geographical features.
Our first public walk of 2024 celebrates the festival of Terminalia with a walk along a remarkable natural boundary. Join us on Feb 23!
In late September 2023, eight Walkspace members took part in a micro-residency at the Elan Valley in Wales, the source of Birmingham's drinking water. We undertook our journey in the manner of a pilgrimage, carrying with us a jar of Birmingham tap water to return to its source. We had thought we might respond to […]
As part of a weekend celebration of the work of weird-fiction author Joel Lane, Andy Howlett leads a twilight walk through Digbeth. Join him on November 12th for a journey between worlds.
Josh Allen untangles Walk Midlands: his COVID-born, politically-led, history-fuelled, trans-regional walking project, that is a no-cars-required walking guide to the entire English Midlands.
The Darkest Road
While researching his second book, based on Birmingham's partially lost Roman Road, Jay Mason-Burns finds the ghosts of Icknield Street are sending him on a more personal pilgrimage.
Three years into a nascent walking arts collective, what has been the value to members, how are people using it and what’s the next step on its journey?
Award-winning writer, theatre director and bookseller Clive Judd shares an extract from his current work-in-progress.
For the second walk in our Wandering Rocks series we visited Birmingham city centre for more glacial boulders, geological curiosities and further examples of "beached heritage". The "wandering rocks" of the title refers to the erratic boulders which travelled to Birmingham from Wales on an ice sheet 450,000 years ago. The catalyst for this walk […]