A walk through Selly Oak's radical history

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Join us on 10 June for 'Squats, Street Theatre and Sprints into Staffordshire: A walking tour of Selly Oak's radical history' led by Josh Allen from Walk Midlands.

Still Walking, book launch, and the search for a lost well

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It's lining up to be a good summer for walking in Birmingham with the return of Still Walking Festival and the accompanying guidebook "111 Places in Birmingham That You Shouldn't Miss" by Ben Waddington. Still Walking has been a big influence on many of us at Walkspace with its unusual and highly creative approach to […]

Photos from Winter Solstice sunrise walk

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For the final Walkspace Erratic of 2022 we visited Bordesley Henge in Birmingham to mark the Winter Solstice. Bordesley Henge is a municipal stone circle situated in Kingston Hill Park and is believed to date back to the 1990s. Six standing stones form a ring on top of a mound, up which a spiral footpath […]

Winter Solstice Sunrise Walk

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For our final Erratic of the year we'll be visiting two of Birmingham's sacred sites and creating a Yule altar. Join us at dawn on December 21st to welcome the Midwinter sun.

The Contraption – A tribute to Nicholas Monro 1936 – 2022

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This piece by Andy Howlett was originally written in April 2021 and appeared in Back to the Future, "a forward looking journal about past-futures, modernism, architecture, and town-planning in Birmingham." Upon learning of the death of the pop-artist sculptor Nicholas Monro it seemed fitting to repost it here in tribute. Every word of it is […]

Skull Walk 3: Return of the Wandering Dead

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Join us for our traditional Halloween jaunt around the Stirchley Skull.

Unherd! Walking the Land

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Andrew Howe introduces an exciting Shropshire-based series of walks and gatherings focusing on land justice, deep time, rewilding and more.

Urban Emoji Mapping

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For September's Erratic Dan Gutteridge invites us to rethink how we relate to busy urban environments. Can we find peace and solace in central Birmingham? Join us on Sept 18 to find out!

Roaming Flags: guided walk and flag-making workshop

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Explore and celebrate the natural abundance and rich history of Bumble Hole nature reserve with this day of walking, art and creativity. It's free!

The Roaming Flags of Bumble Hole

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Walkspace is happy to announce its next funded project – a celebration of the natural abundance and rich history of Bumble Hole nature reserve