Walkspace is delighted to be teaming up with Voce Books to welcome walking artists and performance makers, Phil Smith (Crab) and Helen Billinghurst (Bee) on the launch of their new book “Matter of Britain: Mythlands of Albion“.
Helen and Phil will be joined by Walkspace co-founder Andy Howlett for an evening of conversation, performance and readings from their new work of re-enchanted & hallucinatory landscapes.
Crab & Bee have been gathering the ‘old stories’ for their new Matter of Britain, using the map of their own instincts, travelling on foot, and always ‘being there’.
These are not the stories of the medieval manuscripts, or their nationalist retellings for the BBC or the readership of the Times. This is how the old stories tell themselves these days, in their own places, the places where their genii loci dwell.
Matter of Britain is a banishing spell against nostalgia and a magical working for the remaking of the Matter in the ruins of the present, from the treasures of the past, speaking into the bodies of weird future.
Join us on Thursday 22nd May, 7pm at Kilder Bar, 5 Shaw’s Passage, Digbeth, Birmingham.
This is one of Voce’s PLACE events, taking drifts, detours & derives with writers exploring the contemporary practices of psychogeography, hauntology, creative walking & our relationship with the places & spaces that make us.
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