Events

Walking the Land’s events | 2013

Our next First Friday Walk is looming into view, so…….

OLD STUFF

First Friday RIVER Walk | January 4th

Richard & Kel donned waterproofs and boots then strode purposefully into the unknown to recce the latest walk to the headwaters of the mighty River Frome at Misereden.

some details:
Over the next year, Walking the Land and associated artists will be working in conjunction with the Cotswold Conservation Board and Stroud Festival of Nature, making work about the River Frome and Nailsworth Stream, their tributaries, landscape, culture and stories. The intention is to use the work produced to promote community debate about landscape change.
If you would like to take part in this, we’d like to invite you to join us on our First Friday RIVER Walks and help us to gradually build up a record of drawings and photographs of the local river landscape. We will provide sketch books made especially for the project and hope to show them in an exhibition at about this time next year. To take part, you would not need to attend all of the walks.

First Friday RIVER Walk | December 7th

We’ll be striding off again armed with creative curiosity on our next walk. As winter draws on, but maybe a wetsuit would be a better bet.
Nevertheless, we’ll be out walking again on the first Friday of December, dressed suitably for any conditions.

some details:
Over the next year, Walking the Land and associated artists will be working in conjunction with the Cotswold Conservation Board and Stroud Festival of Nature, making work about the River Frome and Nailsworth Stream, their tributaries, landscape, culture and stories. The intention is to use the work produced to promote community debate about landscape change.

If you would like to take part in this, we’d like to invite you to join us on our First Friday RIVER Walks and help us to gradually build up a record of drawings and photographs of the local river landscape. We will provide sketch books made especially for the project and hope to show them in an exhibition at about this time next year. To take part, you would not need to attend all of the walks.

First Friday RIVER Walk | November 2nd

First Friday Walk | August

First Friday Walk | July 6th

hi everyone
We felt a need for a summer outing and as July’s First Friday Walk is almost upon us, we thought we’d have a change of scene from the Cotswolds and take a trip south into the Marlborough Downs, to Avebury.
We have another reason for doing this beyond visiting this special landscape in as much as it could be an opportunity for you to contribute photos and drawings to The Ridgeway Project http://ridgeway.creativewiltshire.co.uk/home.html , which will be featured at the opening of the remodeled Wiltshire County Hall in September.
date: Friday 6th July
time: 13:15 prompt  til 5.30 approx.
starting point:  The Red Lion, Avebury,  http://www.red-lion-pub-avebury.co.uk/ We’ll be having lunch in the pub from about 12.00. If you plan to eat there too, do check availability. There are also other places to eat in Avebury and a museum if you want to make a day of it.
travel:  please try to arrange to car share
where we’ll walk:  our circular route will include Avebury Stone Circle, The Ridgeway, Fyfield Down, Overton Hill round barrows, The Sanctuary, West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill. The route is moderately easy – flat compared to the Stroud Valleys!- so we should be able complete the five miles or so by 5.30, allowing for stops to draw, write, take photos or just contemplate.
if you’re joining us - Numbers are limited so please make sure to let us know if you want to join us…email us as soon as you can or call the number below
We look forward to seeing those of you who can make it.
t: 01453 756064

Our first Friday walk for May is going to be a springboard for a long walk to Derby later in the month. On our Derby walk we will be holding conversations with Transition Towns and other related projects. The walks are based on Gainsborough’s Landscape Paintings. These were imagined – of invented places and on our walk to Derby we will be exploring the type of landscape that we might invent for the future and questioning how these will be accessible to people. Gainsborough also painted people traveling to and from market and this is another theme we will pick-up on in terms of local food and produce.

 Don’t worry, we are not expecting you to walk to Derby, however we would like you to come and draw and photograph the Community Agriculture Project at Hawkwood and the Community owned wood at Folly Lane. We will then somehow “carry” these with us on our Derby journey, acting as envoys of Transition Stroud.


here are the details:

when: Friday 4th May, 2012
where: The Retreat, Stroud
time: 13.15 is when we leave

If any of you would like to get there early for an early spot of lunch, some of will be there around 12:00
here’s the contact information, postcode and URL:

28 CHURCH STREET, STROUD, GLOS GL5 1JL
Tel: (01453) 750208
http://www.retreatstroud.com/contact.php

Where we’ll walk:
Our 7km walk will take us out of Stroud and across the fields to Hawkwood. After a good stop to draw and photograph, we’ll continue by climbing out of the Painswick Valley and as we begin to go into the Slad Valley we’ll have another longish stop to draw and photograph in Folly Wood. We’ll walk back into town along Folly Lane.

Bring with you the usual accessories; walking boots, sunscreen, weather gear, water, hard tack and water, a notebook, drawing and photographic equipment.

so….we’d love you to join us but numbers are limited, just let us know by email if you’d like come.

looking forward to walking with you
car sharing: please share if you can…let me us if you have space or want passengers
if you’d like to join us on this FREE walk, we’d love to share it with you
numbers are limited to 12, so please let us know by email  - ASAP

Kel, Richard and Tom

Solstice Sunrise Walk Thursday 22nd December
The cunning plan is to meet just before dawn (about 07.45) on Solstice Morning, right on top of Painswick Beacon and from there walk around the old hill fort, down into Painswick where we’ll take breakfast at the Falcon.  Once fortified we’ll make the return journey (perhaps some drawing, photography or other creative things on the walk) to pick up vehicles (car sharing advised) and resume our journey around the sun and into spring.

It’ll depend on numbers, but any takers? Please let me know ASAP

Best wishes

Kel

First Friday Walks – December
Walking the Land are actually going to get our boots on, polish up our map-reading skills and armed with cameras, sketch pads, snacks and all sorts of wet weather gear, see what it’s like out there in the big-wide-world.
We’re inviting you to join us on what we are referring to as First Friday Walks – not too many guesses needed ‘cos they will take place regularly on the first Friday of every month and we’ll be walking….somewhere….

it’s time again for one of our First Friday Walks and unlike last month’s, this one’s actually on a Friday.

when: Friday 2nd December
where: The Retreat, Stroud
time: 13.15 start

Our 7km walk will take us over the hills by Hawkwood College, towards Folly Wood and along the Slad Valley

Bring with you the usual accessories; walking boots, sunscreen, weather gear, water, hard tack and fine wines. (and no comedy Santa hats please)
Oh and a notebook, drawing and photographic equipment.
so….we’d love you to join us but numbers are limited, just let us know if you’d like come.

best wishes

Kel
kel@sva.org.uk