Interesting conversations this week about the potentials of walking art & other outdoor experiences as pedagogy in a covid world with colleagues who are not linked in to the arts world, so a thread on outdoor stuff in London might be useful? @AcademicChatter@EastLondonUCU 1/
2/ first up @tamashatheatre and @agencyofconey 'We Are Shadows' currently running on brick lane (tix from rich mix, very cheap) is an audio walk/adventure touching on themes of migration, culture, displacement, gentrification & food.
3/ nearby @PlatformLondon 's 'And While London burns' (free) is an operatic walk through the dark heart of global connections in the city of London, brilliant for international development students, those studying finance, economics & banking and much more!
Working in my studio today& unearthed these commemorative handkerchiefs from a residency @ the womens library in 2008/9 The border lists launderettes past& present in East London, the centre motif is drawn from archive collections of suffragette souvenirs& laundry instructions.
The women's library collections are now held @LSELibrary & include some amazing suffragette ephemera including paper and cloth souvenir handkerchiefs.
Also laundry related histories like household manuals, girls' school curricula on 'correct' laundry methods, & the public baths & washhouses act which was opposed by some MPs because it would give women space to TALK to each other.....
Do you live in #Hackney E8 and have a fruit tree in your garden that you can't harvest, or can't use all the fruit from? #EastEndJam is expanding its physically distant foraging work to include home grown as well 🙂. Thread 1/
Basically we forage, prepare & preserve fruit, making jams, jellies & chutneys that are shared with the people who've worked on them, with excess distributed through local food banks. So far this summer we've made cherry & elderflower jam from Hackney marshes & London Fields 2/
We've made Mahonia jelly from berries picked on the @WETRAE8 estate & Blackstone Estate. You don't have to have a garden to get involved. If you'd like to learn about edible plants, fruits and berries get in touch. We share identification guides & location tips to help you 3/
'Ways to Wander the Gallery' built on work gathered together in the 2014 book 'Ways to Wander'; a collection of 54 suggestions, instructions, guidelines & ideas for going on a walk, written by members of the #WalkingArtistsNetwork#CultureinQuarantine#MuseumFromHome 2/5
#WaysToWanderTheGallery explored the connections between walking, art, experimental writing & composition through a series of workshops @Tate Modern. We wanted to think about the gallery, & the page, as sites for walking & creativity. #CultureinQuarantine#MuseumFromHome 3/5
I'm about to start a rewalking of #walkwalkwalk's 2007 ' Chip Shop Tour of E8'. Can't way to see what's changed. @hilswalk will be simultaneously walking for chips in Prespes, Greece at #MadeOfWalking 1/
@hilswalk Stop one on the route #BroadwayFishBar is closed for refurbishment 😟. Worryingly the sign in the window says 'reopening April 2019'.
@hilswalk 3/ this wasn't on the original tour, a 'ghost' of a chippy on Bayford Street, illuminated sign above the #BeijingPalace