The Walk is a Heartbeat
The walk takes place as part of Terminalia Festival
It is also the final walk in the year long project Walking Beyond Words. The physical location is London, or you can walk wherever you are.
for more info and to register please email: info@sallystenton.com. Please state whether you will be walking in your own location or joining the group walk.
Date: Sunday 25th February 2024
Time: 2pm
Duration: One hour (approx.)
Meeting point: Rembrandt Gardens, Little Venice. W2 1XB. Nearest tube Warwick Road
End point: Primrose Hill
The Grand Union Canal is the artery feeding this walk. We listen for hearts that resonate with ours, developing receptors that can detect unhuman beats in this city landscape. Each heartbeat is an opening for new possibilities.
You may join the communal walk in London or walk wherever you are in the world. There is no digital communication with people in other locations during the walk, but we walk knowing that others elsewhere are walking with the same words. You have the option to send words in response to the walks if you wish. The words will be collaged together as a fusion of our experiences.
Starting in Little Venice and walking to Primrose Hill the group walk will follow a waterway which once upon a time fed the capital in numerous ways. Nestled in and weaving though the urban landscape the canal is a conduit for life-giving minerals, micro-organisms, nutrients that blend into our being. We pass historic homes and modern industrial architecture that has been crafted from the earth. When the canal disappears underground, we walk above it through the city bustle and join the myriad chorus of heartbeats. In Regents Park we disperse for a time of attentive walking and re-gather before the assent to Primrose Hill to gaze back over the city.
The Walk marks both the end of the project Walking beyond words and the potential for the rhythm of its beat to morph into new walks and happenings. The 52 weekly walks have been exploring our smallness and the interconnectedness of everything. The prompts suggest that the walk itself has agency, tipping the human presence off centre and blending us with the wider ecology. Every week people’s responses from across the globe have been fused together and the 52 word collages will be compiled into a publication. Participants in this Walk no. 52 will have the opportunity to contribute to the final word collage.
Caroline L. A. Wheeler created this prompt and is co-facilitating the walk with Sally Stenton.
Walking beyond words is co-ordinated by Aya Hastwell and Sally Stenton, in association with Experimental Space Collective [esc]. Weekly prompts and word collages are contributed by participants.
How to register
There are 2 ways of participating in this walk. Please indicate whether you would like to take part in the group walk in London or walk in your own location.
Email: info@sallystenton.com
