From Rea to Stour: Walking the Severn/Trent Watershed

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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.

Walking the Watershed for Terminalia

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Our first public walk of 2024 celebrates the festival of Terminalia with a walk along a remarkable natural boundary. Join us on Feb 23!

Submerged – walkers in residence at the Elan Valley

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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 […]

The Witnesses Walk: a twilight tour of Joel Lane's Digbeth

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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.

Minimal Traffic Meander: in and out of the city with Badnote Choir

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For November's Erratic, Simon Jefferies (AKA The Badnote Choir) shows us the unthinkable: a Birmingham without cars. Join us on November 25th to assert your pedestrian privilege.

No car required: Understanding the Midlands one step at a time

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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.

Skull Walk 4: Widdershins

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Join us this Halloween for our fourth annual walk around the Stirchley Skull. This time with a twist…

The Darkest Road

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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.

What is Walkspace three years on?

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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?

"This is Water" extract – Stourport to Worcester along the Severn Way

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Award-winning writer, theatre director and bookseller Clive Judd shares an extract from his current work-in-progress.