Walking the Stirchley Skull + skull mask workshop!
Hello Walkers!
Autumn has definitively arrived and with it comes the beginning of night walking season. For four years now we at Walkspace have marked the transition into the dark half of the year by walking the Stirchley Skull on Halloween night. Perhaps you have joined us in previous years? Maybe you’ve been curious but haven’t yet made it along? Whether you’re a skull walking veteran or a complete newcomer, this year’s skull walk is not to be missed.
We are thrilled to be teaming up with visual arts duo Hipkiss and Graney who will be leading a skull mask decorating workshop the weekend before the walk. Participants will get to design their own skull mask to wear on the walk. Hipkiss and Graney are famed throughout the realm of Mercia for their inventive and colourful community events inspired by folklore, nature and magic, and we couldn’t think of better collaborators for this spooky celebration.
The workshop is on Saturday 26th October and the walk is on the night of Thursday 31st. The workshop costs £5 and the walk is absolutely free. You don’t need to take part in the workshop to come on the walk. Costumes are entirely optional. For more info and to book your place on the workshop click here!
Bonus Skulls
If you can’t make it to Stirchley on the 31st then you can always create your own neighbourhood skull walk wherever you happen to live. In fact “Walk Your Neighbourhood Skull This Halloween” has just been published as a walk recipe in the fantastic new collection “Night Time Economy” by Floodgate Press.
In this all-new collection of work from some of the West Midlands' leading writers, you'll find stories of forlorn 3am hopes and of nocturnal revelations. Of celebrations and hauntings. Of the lost and the found. Of the urban and the urbane. Of the all too real And the all too unreal.
As well as the skull walk recipe by Andy Howlett, the collection also features Walkspace member Josh Allen’s “At the Dog and Partridge” about a notorious lost pub in Selly Oak. It’s a fantastic collection and the perfect Halloween gift.
Happy night walking!