Next walk - Wandering Rocks pt 2, Aug 20
Hello walker!
In this newsletter we have news of our next Erratic - the second in our Wandering Rocks series inspired by Birmingham's glacial boulders (book your free place below). We also have details of the Watershed exhibition at MAC curated by Kate Green, and the next Unherd! event by Andrew Howe.
The Wandering Rocks - walk two
Last year we began our Wandering Rocks series of walks by visiting some of the erratic boulders that travelled here from Wales on a glacier 450,000 years ago. For this walk we'll be heading to the city centre where an outlier erratic can be found disguised as a parish boundary marker. Join us on August 20th.
In Counter-Tourism: The Handbook Crab Man introduces the concept of "beached heritage" to describe artefacts that have travelled and washed up in unlikely places. "Once you become sensitive to these 'erratics' you will begin to navigate a landscape from which such anomalies, large and small, repeatedly pop up."
On this walk we'll be visiting other examples of beached heritage including an architectural spare part repurposed as a workers' memorial and a piece of Birmingham's industrial heritage literally marooned on an island.
We'll also be joined by a very special guest of the mineral variety: our very own "wandering rock" which you may take a turn in carrying if you wish.
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Unherd! Walking the Land
The second Unherd! Walking the Land event of 2023 will be a walk along the Prees Branch of the Llangollen Canal to Whixall Moss on August 1st. Book here
An opportunity not to be missed to join artist Kim V. Goldsmith on a visit from New South Wales Australia, and collaborator on the Mosses and Marshes project with Andrew Howe. This will be a walk for listening and noticing, for acknowledging our place with the more-than-human.
Watershed exhibition at MAC
Midlands Arts Centre and Elan Links present Watershed, a group exhibition exploring the relationship between Birmingham and Elan Valley, Wales; two communities linked by water.
The exhibition is co-curated by Walkspace member Kate Green and features work from her Watershed Line project. From May to September 2021 Kate walked the entire length of the watershed line of the Elan Valley and photographed every concrete post she encountered.
The photos have now been turned into wallpaper which can be seen hanging in the MAC until November 5th alongside work by Zillah Bowes, Daniel Crawshaw, Rowena Harris, Antony Lyons, Isa Suarez, Eustace Tickell, and Nikki Sheth.
Until next time,
Happy walking!