What: 3 x artist led walks exploring different ways of seeing and being as ways of developing radical connection / reconnection to the wild world and our more than human kin.
Where: Springwater Park Local Nature Reserve, Off Lily Hill Street, M45 7UW. (See below for more details about location and accessibility)
Who: Anyone who would like to take time to explore how different ways of engaging with the wild world may help us relate and see differently.
When: All sessions take place from 2pm for an hour or two
- Sunday 31st August: Lee Patterson – Hidden within the plants by our feet lies a world of activity where invertebrates have called to each other for millions of years. On this walk, we’ll investigate the enigmatic and intriging songs of insects as they sing not through the air around us, but as vibrations within the tangled mesh of meadow and thicket.
- Sunday 21st September: Neil Greenhalgh – The renewed wilderness of Springwater Park observes a landscape shaped by the river and bruised by heavy human industry. Through walking and collaborative mark-making this walk will explore the echoes of industrialisation in the park, and the ways in which more-than-human actants have reclaimed the land.
- Sunday 5th October: Liz Postlethwaite – Patterns are all around us in the natural world, and repeated at all scales from the tiniest atom to the structures of the universe itself. This walk will think about the patterns in us and around us, and how they may help us connect more actively with our more than human kin.
There is no financial contribution to participate in these walks but we ask that folk who join are able to give their time at least two out of three of the dates, or ideally are able to join all three.
More information about the facilitators:
Lee Patterson: Aiming to be less anthropocentric, sound artist Lee Patterson listens to his immediate surroundings with open and enquiring ears to record sounds heard and devise experimental musical instruments. His collaborative and solo performances, installations and fixed media works have featured in festivals across Europe and on radio worldwide.
Neil Greenhalgh: Neil Greenhalgh is an artist and educator interested in how a combination of walking, mark-making, and collaboration can help seek deeper connections with a disjointed sense of time and place.
Liz Postlethwaite: a community artist, organiser and permaculture designer. Her work bridges and unites a range of different disciplines and creates communal discourses, often between strangers in public spaces. She interested in the way that art and imagination can create new ways of doing things, and help us envisage alternative futures.
How to get there: The nature reserve is easily accessible by public transport. It is an easy walk of about 15 minutes from Whitefield tram station, and a 10 minute walk from the closest bus stop which is well served by the 135 bus. Participants will receive an confirmation email before each walk of where to meet in the nature reserve. For people who would prefer there will be an option to meet fifteen minutes before we start wandering at an easily accessible location at one of the main entrances to walk to the meeting point together.
Accessibility: Much of the site is wild so can be uneven and muddy under foot. The wanders will go ahead whatever the weather so walkers will need to dress accordingly. If you have specific access needs please flag them up on the booking form so that we can ensure that the wanders are accessible to everybody who would like to participate.
If you have any questions or queries please get in contact using this form