Name: Walking is an art form. Memories are material.
Start: 2025-02-23T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-23T11:30:00+00:00
Location: Swan London

Join us for a unique event celebrating the beauty of walking and the power of memories in shaping our experiences and identities.
About this Event

Walking is an art form. Memories are material.

Walk the Thames a new way

Walking is an art form. Memories are material.

Many of us hold important memories about bodies of water, be it our first swim, working on ships or standing watching the happenings of sea life from the shore. The Thames is a place that is centred within many people’s memories for hundreds of years. On the 23rd February as part of Terminalia we shall be using these memories as a map to guide us on a walk in London. We will be guided around the Thames and the surrounding city in its mid morning dress. The direction we take will be led by our memories and intuition. Examples may be words, places, sounds that peak the collective interest of the group. We will be remapping our minds, entering each other’s memories and connections to not just the Thames but to bodies of water that are dear to us. We will be connecting to each other as strangers and connecting to the stories we hold using them as material to create an art piece that will only ever exist once.

We shall explore memory and how it affects movement, specifically walking. We shall play with speed and presence to our movement and observe how this connects us to place and how we engage with what is around us. Perhaps your memory relates to walking around the Thames or a body of water, but it does not have to.

We will have no intended destination. However our time together will end exactly an hour and a half after it begins. I would like us to have a 15 minute sharing circle, this will mean that our walk is a total of 1 hour and 15 minutes long.

Please wear warm clothing. Try to arrive with at least one positive or neutral memory that relates to the Thames or any other body of water. Bring any items that may support the communication of your memory if you wish. Make sure that you can get home afterwards, I imagine we will not be venturing too far away from our starting point and we will remain in central London when we finish.

Meeting point: 10am The Swan at Shakespeare’s globe, London