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SUMMARY:Inspiral Collective - Mucking Investigations
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Kinetika and as part Beach of Dreams 500 miles\, 500 people\, 500 Dreams\, 500 Silks\, InspiralLondon Collective Walking on Day 29 (Mile 420-435). Starting from Benfleet Station and running out\, up the tidal Creek north of Canvey Island\, we pass across marsh\, landfill and railway track – a low-lying landscape created and shaped by water – now undergoing seemingly irreversible change with the building of London Gateway Port. From the rise at Pitsea and on the crest of Fobbing revisit the land of the Peasant’s Revolt\, slow resistence\, and an Estuary land\, teeming with the bio-diversity of a watery commons. \nWe will be joined by local artists\, community group members\, Hydracity and inspiralLondon Associate Artists including Jane Trowell from Platform\, Ben Coode-Adams (BlackWater Polytechnic)\, orniphilosopher JD Swann\, and environmental artist Miyuki Kasahara. Stopping at locations along the way\, to discuss aspects of this manmade environment overlying the marshy Thames Delta. Something is oozing up from beneath our feet… and out of the landfill. \n  \n \n  \nThis Day Walking Event is part of Kinetika’s Beach of Dreams \n Walk sign up HERE with latest info and route: \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/inspiral-collective-mucking-hydrodetour/
LOCATION:Benfleet Station\, Ferry Road\, Benfleet\, Essex\, SS7 1NF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210613T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210613T130000
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SUMMARY:Rainham Marshes/Rainham Barges
DESCRIPTION:Rainham Marshes/Rainham Barges\nThis unique artist-led walk and performance starts from Rainham Station\, leading us out along the London Loop pathway\, to the Concrete Barges at Coldharbour Point. Join this exploratory collaboration as part of Estuary Associate programme and Kinetika’s T100 Dreaming. \nThese barges were the site for Bow Gamelan Ensemble’s extraordinary sonic event 51º 29.9’ N \, 0º 11’ E\, performed in 1987. In visiting and re-experiencing this waterlogged war time grave site\, Inspiral’s walk explores aspects of our watery commons; in the ways we memorialise\, preserve\, cover up or alter our environments and the other stories we tell about contested histories. \nOn the day\, InspiralLondon – as a collective – offers an improvised musical performance\, on the edge of the Thames. This unique performative visit will include a brief evocation of the Concrete Barges performance given by Bow Gamelan Ensemble member Anne Bean. We will also be livestreaming and sharing this event experience on our web platform. \nAfterwards\, you are invited to walk with us towards Purfleet\, along the Thames to Mardyke Creek\, to join in Kinetika’s walking tour and celebrations. The route enjoys views of RSPB Rainham Marsh\, and we will be guided by locals along the Estuary to end at High House. Rainham Marshes/Rainham Barges is part of a walking event curated by Kinetika that includes a tour of Purfleet\, a world-food picnic and introductory welcome to Kinetika’s projects including Beach of Dreams. \n \nRainham Concrete Barges were constructed during the Second WW. Their hulls formed from ferroconcrete — concrete reinforced with iron. They were used as oil barges or as floating structures to support temporary docks for D-Day Landings or for other wartime improvised engineering. 16 remaining Barges were given a new lease of life after the storm floods in 1953. Towed back to the Thames\, then sunk\, to shore up damaged flood barriers against future tidal surges. They remain lodged in the mud supporting other migrants: the annual wintering of rock and water pipits\, and roosting sites for other birds. \nConcrete Barges \n51º 29.9’ N \, 0º 11’ E documentary TV event created specifically for an Alter Image (Channel 4) performing Concrete Barges in Rainham\, Essex\, in 1987. The Bow Gamelan Ensemble chose to work with the concrete barges near Rainham where they had previously explored sound on several of their many river trips into the estuary\, recognising the huge differences in sound from low to high tide. They were filmed for over ten hours as the tide ebbed and flowed capturing the massive energy of this amount of incoming water and the ways one could harness this power to shift and shape sound. \nBow Gamelan Ensemble – The artists Anne Bean\, Paul Burwell (1949 – 2007) and Richard Wilson extensively explored Thames riverscapes by boat\, which fired their imaginations. Visions started to germinate and their shared excitement of the countless possibilities within the visual dynamics and unexpected sounds\, often on vast scales\, stimulated the ideas that became embedded in the group DNA. \nKinetika is an internationally renowned company\, with unrivalled reputation for working with local communities on projects that change the way people feel about where they live. From local community walks in Essex to high streets and city squares across the UK\, out to the Great Wall of China\, Ethiopia and West Bengal. \nFor all Inspiral Ticketing visit our: Eventbrite \n \nWatery Investigations Launch as part of Estuary 2021 Associated Programme: see here \n  \n \n  \nPart of Kinetika/T 100 Dreaming – ‘Grow Your Own’ – Purfleet-on-Thames (10am -4pm)\nMeet the Purfleet-on-Thames community and hear about their journeys and connection to the place through the sharing of food\, recipes and music. Together we will capture our dream for a sustainable community by creating a recipe for Purfleet. \nWith contributions from Heavenly Greens Fruit & Veg\, The Backstage Centre\, South Essex College\, local community groups and in partnership with developers PCRL (Purfleet Centre Regeneration Limited)\, walkers are invited to this celebratory event on the theme of sustainable communities\, culminating in a shared picnic made from local produce. \nThis walk split into two parts – with walkers coming from both Purfleet and Rainham.\n10am-12.30pm: Meet at Rainham RSPB. This circular walk to Rainham Concrete barges will include an event hosted by Inspiral London inspired by the Bow Gamelan Ensemble performance in 1987. \n12.30-4pm: Meet at Rainham RSPB. This walk will visit the Heritage and Military Centre for a ‘welcome to Purfleet’ talk and then lead to Heavenly Greens Fruit & Veg stall to meet local residents who will join us on the walk to High House Production Park for a picnic. Heavenly Greens Fruit & Veg customers will share a few of their recipes from around the world.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/rainham-marshes-rainham-barges/
LOCATION:Rainham Station\, Ferry Lane\,\, Rainham\, RM13 9JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210612T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210612T213000
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SUMMARY:Darent Valley Con/fluences to Graves/end
DESCRIPTION:Join Inspiral’s Epic Journey long the Thames and walk the marshland of the south bank from Dartford Marshes. This two part walk starts at Dartford Station and leads us out along the Darent River to its confluence with the Cray River towards the River Thames; then for those adventurous urban explorers continues to the River\, to walk long into the evening and reach Gravesend\, via Greenhithe\, Swanscombe\, Northfleet. The walk takes in an extraordinary inspiring landscape\, across hidden watery terrain and through one of London’s most biodiverse habitats\, while skirting the historic Thames-side.\n \nDarent Valley Confluence (with J D Swann)\n \nFor the first afternoon walk – fully accessible at approximately 2 ½ miles long loop – we are joined by inspiral associate J D Swann who will guide us in all things orniphilosophical. This short walk reveals the contrast between urban environment and its marshy underpinnings\, while allowing us to enjoy the bio-diversity of the watery commons. \n  \nCon/fluences to Graves/End (with Charlie Fox) \nThen\, as the walk to the edge of Dartford and Cray Marsh finishes with light refreshments\,  those wishing to return to Dartford will be guided back to the Station. All other long exploratory walkers will be invited on an adventurous night walk along the Thames toward Gravesend. \nAs we pass under the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge dusk arrives\, we head toward Swanscombe Marsh and the ghostly memory of our prehistoric origin. \nLater on\, as we pass through Northfleet by night\, we hear again the sounds of Rosherville Pleasure Gardens. This evening into night walk is approx. 12 miles to arrive at Gravesend around 9.30pm.  Trains run to North Kent or back to London. There are earlier stops on way – including Greenhithe and Northfleet stations. \nPlease bring an evening picnic and/or refreshments and some sensible\, comfortable walking boots or equivalent. \nDepending on Covid rules – and group walking permitted – the walk will be managed in two parts by experienced walk guides. Both parts of this walking event start from Dartford Station but visit https://www.inspirallondon.com/events/ or Eventbrite ticketing for up to date information. Suggested Donation to support work of InspiralLondon CIC £6\n \n \n  \nWatery Investigations Launch as part of Estuary 2021 Associated Programme: see here \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/darent-valley-con-fluences-to-graves-end/
LOCATION:Dartford\, Dartford Station\, 5 Station Approach\, Dartford\, DA1 1BP\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210605T170000
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SUMMARY:Towards the Watery (H)edges of Gravesend
DESCRIPTION:A Hydrodetour  collaboration – Towards the Watery (H)edges of Gravesend.\nThis exploratory walk launches from Gravesend’s unique art centre LV21 and after the morning’s mystery tour ‘Trail of the Blue Porcupine’ (co-created by IL associate artist Sarah Sparkes). \nAs the mystery trail ends InspiralLondon leads walkers from St Andrews Quayside by LV21\, further out into the watery (H)edges of Gravesend – to (H)igham Marshes and in a loop to St. Marys\, Higham. \n Together we explore this unique environment in all its diverse unkempt beauty\, traversing the lattice work of waterways and ditches\, while listening into the other inhabitants of the Marshes. \nPlease bring a light picnic and/or refreshments and some comfortable walking boots or equivalent. The walk will take approximately 4 hours (Either returning to Gravesend Station or to Higham Station). \nThis walk is the first in a series of experimental and/or public walks for Hydracity investigations: \nInspiralLondon’s tours are unique artist-led walks that offer new ways of experiencing our city’s watery ecosystem. Embarking upon another voyage of discovery on foot\, whether in waders\, with boots or by boat – to investigate – on the fluid oozing ground\, something of the Thames Valley Basin’s rich watery commons. Together\, we detour and explore among its watery terrain\, in order to understand its urban complexity and its hidden variety\, but also to create a new sense of value and wonder within its beautiful biodiversity.  \nIn these times of rapid extinction\, climate upheaval and ecological crisis Hydrodetours offer you a time to celebrate and a time to share the extraordinary and unexpected\, hidden within the Metropole’s shifting watery veins. By sharing alternative narratives and experiences we invite you to navigate these fluid times\, building together walking rafts to the future. \nA full list of Walks can be found HERE \nThe Trail of the Blue Porcupine. \nIn the morning from 11 am – c.1pm you are invited to pay homage to former and contemporary fauna of the marshy landscapes by joining The Trail of The Blue Porcupine: A collaboration by Poet James M’Kay and IL associate artist Sarah Sparkes. This is a Siltings Commission for LV21. \nBring your trusty smartphone to communicate with Blue Porcupine HQ\, as you decipher the clues and follow the trail of Porcupines on a mystery tour of Gravesend. Start point: LV21. \nTrail length: about 2 miles\, duration: dependent on puzzle-solving ability. Unleashed at 11am\, June 5th. \nSEE for more details LV21 \n \nDepending on Covid rules the walk is managed in two parts – the afternoon walk is led by experienced walk guides. Both parts of this walking event start from the Riverside by LV21 but visit Estuary Website or Eventbrite ticketing for up to date information. \n  \nWatery Investigations Launch as part of Estuary 2021 Associated Programme: see here \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/trail-of-the-blue-porcupine-towards-the-watery-hedges-of-gravesend/
LOCATION:LV21\, St Andrews Quay\, West Street\, Gravesend\, Gravesend\, DA11 0BG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210605T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210605T130000
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SUMMARY:The Trail of the Blue Porcupine
DESCRIPTION:The Trail of the Blue Porcupine. \nIn the morning from 11 am – 1pm you are invited to pay homage to former or contemporary fauna of the marshy landscapes by joining the Trail of The Blue Porcupine: A collaboration by Poet James M’Kay and IL associate artist Sarah Sparkes. This trail is a Siltings Commission for LV21. \nBring your trusty smartphone to communicate with Blue Porcupine HQ\, as you decipher the clues and follow the trail of Porcupines on a mystery tour of Gravesend. \nStart point: LV21. Trail length: about 2 miles\, duration: dependent on puzzle-solving ability. Unleashed at 11am\, June 5th. \nSEE more details for this project and other Siltings Events at LV21 \nThe Trail of the Blue Porcupine is a companion walk for InspiralLondon’s afternoon exploration “the (H) edges of Gravesend” – Depending on Covid rules this walk will be managed in two parts by experienced walk guides. Both walking events start from the Riverside St Andrews Quay by LV21 but you can visit Estuary Website or InspiralLondon Events for up to date information. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/the-trail-of-the-blue-porcupine/
LOCATION:LV21\, St Andrews Quay\, West Street\, Gravesend\, Gravesend\, DA11 0BG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210501T191500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210501T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
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SUMMARY:InspiralLondon Hydracity Streamings (for REVEIL 8)
DESCRIPTION:InspiralLondon Hydracity streamings:  \nFrom 7.15pm (GMT) join InspiralLondon Hydracity streamings as we explore and bivouac across a variety of urban\, suburban and semi-urban sites – to listen in to a revolution of watery commons – from dawn to dusk\, back to dawn.\nFor soundcamp‘s extraordinary Reveil 8 Inspiraller’s collaborate on this collective duskscape; among water\, in watery commons\, by celebrating humid biodiversity and in a collective on the ground listening – with four mics tracking dusk\, for the audience to mix from 7.15pm to 9 pm on May 1st. \n\nStarting 19.15 London Time (UTC+1) \nFrom North Marseille Chorus (Julie Demuer & Charlie Fox) – we will be wading long\, in the vicinity of North Marseille’s unkempt streams and watery hollows; ending at Miramar in L’Estaque where Cezanne’s umbrella pines stand still – under the sudden threat of being cut down – to be replaced by containers. \nFocus from 19.45 on Thamesmead Canal Chorus\, (Calum F Kerr & Miyuki Kasahara) from the watery commons of Thamesmead\, around Southmere lake teaming with coot\, geese\, grebe\, moorhen\, swan\, tufted duck. Tracking above ground and below ground watery habitats\, canals and pipes. \nFocus from 20.15 on Peck Marshland Chorus (Rachel Gomme) ingress/outgress from Peckham Common reflects on free flow/restriction of watery commons. Following the course of the Peck Stream from Earl Sluice back to its source on One Tree Hill. \nFocus from 20.35 on Earley Chorus (Sarah Sparkes and Ian Thompson) will bivouac in what remains of the ancient Forest of Earley – a precious strip of woodland lost in the depths of suburbia next to a meandering stream that flows into the Thames via the river Loddon. \n\nOur Chorus Streamings introduction includes some occassional live discussion: of the listening sights; the critical and practical aspects of Hydracity explorations; collective ways of listening inspired by soundcamp; the relationship of our ‘on the ground mapping’ with ‘on the ground listening’; auraldiversities and the otherness that oozes from the watery commons.\n\n\n\n\n\nHydracity brings artists and public together to investigate London’s watery network\, the interlocking ideas & currents that flow in/out the Thames. We focus on collective co-creation through on the ground mapping\, ecology\, the environment and placemaking; creating a network of alternative histories for our watery commons that invite audiences to collaborate in re-imagining the city as a fluid ecosystem\, by exploring: other narratives for places\, people\, landscape within Thames Valley; novel ways to experience together and understand the city’s waterways; complex ecosystems of cohabiting/cooperating; our own body as watery ecosystem within wider watery commons – in the merging of solidity and fluidity; water as a regenerative resource for shifting times. All activities reflect something of the hydra-like city\, whose legendary regenerative ability offers overlapping narratives for this complex watery network. \n\nInspiralLondon Hydracity Streamings from: \nJulie Demuer\, Charlie Fox\, Rachel Gomme\, Calum F Kerr\, Miyuki Kasahara\, Sarah Sparkes\, Ian Thompson \nStart: 01/05 19:00 UTC+1 for full REVEIL Platform starting at 5am 1st May broadcasting for 24+1 hours \nVarious Locations: London & Reading (UK)\, Marseille (France)
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/inspirallondon-hydracity-streamings-for-reveil-8/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210425T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210425T170000
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SUMMARY:Hydracity Detour 8: Reveil 8 - Watersheds (walk postponed)
DESCRIPTION:On higher ground three rivers closely connected wend there way northwards to shed their waters into the Thames. This walk will explore something of the hidden complexity of the water courses and the biodiversity they support. Details and times – due to trains and restrictions –  will be updated. \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydracity-detour-8-quaggy-kid-brook-ravensbourne-watershed/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210412T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210412T160000
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SUMMARY:Hydracity Detour 7: Darent Valley and Cray River confluencing
DESCRIPTION:Following our explorations along the Darent Valley and on to Dartford Barrier we will now follow the west bank of Cray River to its confluence with Darent River as it spills out into the marshes. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydracity-detour-7-darent-valley-and-cray-river-confluencing/
LOCATION:Crayford Station\, London\, DA1 3PY
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210328T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
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SUMMARY:Hydracity Detour 6 - Darent Valley Watery Commons
DESCRIPTION:R&D allowing – we will revisit the final stage of InspiralLondon Trail as it wends its way along the Darent River – with all its Celtic obsolescence – to break through the surface of the ground as at Springhead and access some pre-human and pre-Roman eco-systems – to Cottage on the Hill. Date tbc
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydracity-detour-6-darent-valley-watery-commons/
LOCATION:Farningham Road Station\, DA4 9JB\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210306T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210306T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
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SUMMARY:Hydracity Detour 5 -  Watery Commons of Thurrock
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the Watery Commons of Thurrock along and into the Thames. \nPart 1 by Rainham Brook to the concrete barges\, along toward the Veolia Landfill site by the Thames foreshore to Rainham Marshes RSPB Centre\, where the Mardyke enters the Thames and back along the Mardyke to Watts Wood to Davy Down Riverside Park. \nWaymarking on the London Loop from Rainham Station along the Rainham Brook to the Thames\nCatching glimpses of the Rainham Brook as it flows through reed and rush down toward the Thames\nWe arrive at the Thames\, beyond the flood wall and the river edge – now unprotected – opens out onto a sea of mudflats\nLadies lace\, dried flowers from the summer months\, reminders of the swift change of colour and ground cover yet to come\nOn the foreshore near to the Rainham Brook outlet\, a form of erosion cuts under the concrete\, whereas it flows gently against the marshes.\nHere the outlet tunneling under the river wall froths its way across and out into the Thames\, reaching for Erith…\nA different edge to the riverside as the tide slowly ebbs and flows against the reeds and seeps into the marshlands.\nHere at the Eastern end of RSPB marsh reserve – a former gun range – the Mardyke drains its way into the Thames before we cross into Purfleet Village\nPart 2: Stanford-le-Hope\, Mucking Creek to Wharf Road\, the Wharf Nature Reserve\, down to Thameside Nature Discovery Centre. \nPart 3. Canvey Island – Pitsea\, Pitsea Marsh\, Wat Tyler centre\, Timberman’s Creek\, Vanga Creek\, Fobbing Marsh\, Upper Horse\, Lower Hourse\, Hole Haven\, Thames side lagoona… \nR&D Hydrodetours in partnership with Kinetika & Beach of Dreams
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydracity-detour-5-watery-commons-of-thurrock/
LOCATION:Rainham Marshes\, RM19 1SZ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210228T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210228T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
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SUMMARY:Hydracity Inspiral Detour 3 - Woolwich Arsenal Sailor Forbes Spirit Guide no. 236
DESCRIPTION:Sailor Forbes Spirit Guide no. 236 – Hydracity Inspiral Detour exploration: \nA R&D walk for Hydracity – as Sailor Forbes Spirit Guide no. 236 – walking the Thames Path from Woolwich Old Naval Docks to the old pillbox bunker directly opposite the Barking Creek outfall from the Roding River\, with detouring: this walk uncovered\, and reimagining\, the City of London’s origins on the South-Eastern banks of Woolwich sound. Here under the secret city of the Royal Arsenal\, and reburied under the concrete of Riverside development lie the remains of the pre-Roman Celtic city. \n \nIt is here that the shaft of Woolwich foot tunnel\, reaching down past the alluvial soils into a shifting gravel and clay\, echoes with the tales of pre-Roman civilisation; a port HAVEN on the Thames\, hillforts aligned on solstice lines\, Pythagorean geometry and Iron Age meridian lines. These other histories buried beneath a shifting Thames line\, now hidden beneath the military and naval industrial complex or overlain by regenerated apartment blocks describe another pre-Greenwich meridian\, with roads and communication lines dictated by a strict solar geometry (as described in Graham Robb’s The Ancient Paths- Discovering the Lost map of Celtic Europe): \n‘Because of the constant threat from treasure-hunters\,’ the discovery had been kept secret since 1986…(now) the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit could reveal that ‘a major fortified settlement’ had been discovered on the Woolwich Power Station site: Constructed about 250 BC\, centuries before the foundation of the City of Londinium by the Romans\, this major site on the south bank of the River Thames controlled the river for over 200 years. …The complete defensive circuit would have enclosed an area of at least 15-17 acres… dominated a wide area and was effectively the capital of the London Basin for part of the Iron Age. (quoted from G. Robb 2013: 260-261) \nSearching among the relandscaped ground between Beresford Street and the wall of the Thames foreshore flood defences you can look up at the rising ground above the Woolwich Ferry\, near the foot tunnel exit\, and see the promontory of St Mary Magdalene Church Yard or to the East the rising ground of old Woolwich. Undoubtedly this location on the Thames\, looking out to sea\, was an ideal site for settlement. Located on the last stretch of river before the more unpredictable surging tide around the narrowing bend of the Isle of Dogs that low marshy ground\, formerly known as Stebunheath\, you can see far out along the Estuary. Other oppida – on the reaches of the River Roding and those yet to be located – suggest a complex of settlements entirely independent of the Roman foundation of London the City- as the original centres of a Celtic metropolis along the Thames. \nSo\, Sailor Forbes’ impression that the Woolwich foot tunnel Southern shaft marks the centre of a pre-historic London is no longer to be doubted. \nPart 2 Flotsam to Jetson; Sailor Forbes Spirit Guide no. 236 walk will be launched in Autumn 2021 \n \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydracity-inspiral-detour-3-woolwich-arsenal-sailor-forbes-spirit-guide-no-236/
LOCATION:Woolwich Arsenal station\, London\, SE18 6EU\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210227T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210227T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20210106T170552Z
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SUMMARY:Hydracity Detour 4 - Micro locations of Watery confluences.
DESCRIPTION:Following Hydracity Detour 3 IL curates another series of explorations of watery vents and veins across the Metropole. Designed to coincide\, as a number of individuals/artists\, explorers and walkers\, join together in a simultanaeous on the ground mapping – to plot and flow along some of London’s least known or hidden waterways with the aim of recording various micro environments and confluences – in exploring potential bio-diversity\, difference and hidden beauty found within the Watery Commons of Thames Valley basin system. \n \nFor Saturday 27 February 2021 – Sailor Forbes voyages along the Darent to the confluence of the River Cray and down to Dartford Creek. (Part 1 of InspiralLondon 3 part Darent Valley Walk). \nAn echo of the Wogebourne River flowing down to Thamesmead – R&D on the ground mapping by Calum F Kerr \nAnd walking in and on the marshy bogland of River Peck – further investigations by Rachel Gomme \nAnd on Sunday 28 February a tracing of the Tyburn along its lower reaches\, entering the marshy floodplain of the Thames south of Green Park. One branch of the stream wandering toward the Thames at the northern end of Whitehall while its twin entered south of the site of current House of Parliament. Between the forked flow of the Tyburn\, the small gravel island of Westminster. \nFrom the 13th century the Tyburn supplied water for London through pipeways made of elm trunks. Now\, entirely drained off into the sewer and hidden underground\, the Tyburn flowed west of the modern Marble Arch\, near to the northeastern corner where the Middlesex Gallows once stood as a place of public execution.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydracity-detour-4-micro-locations-of-watery-confluences/
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210221T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
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SUMMARY:Hydracity Detour 3 - Multiple locations of Watery confluences.
DESCRIPTION:Following on from IL’s Watery Fox Skulks\, 2021 Hydracity detours begins with a series of collective explorations of watery vents and veins that criss-cross the Metropole. Designed to coincide – individual Inspiral artists leave their homes to follow their chosen watery path –  exploring apart but together\, one small part of the watery commons; a waterway\, traces of marshland\, hidden streams or rivers\, flowing towards a confluence. \nThe walks and detours will plot and flow along some of London’s least known or hidden waterways\, with the aim of recording various confluences and re-routings of the Thames Valley basin system. \n \nIL will be providing live reporting to share this experience. Times and access to live feed to be confirmed in advance. \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydracity-detour-3-multiple-locations-of-watery-confluences/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210207T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210207T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20201212T214940Z
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SUMMARY:Hydracity Detours - The lost river of 'lake' Wogebourne - is Postponed
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday 24th January InspiralLondon Hydracity Detours was to continue in exploratory re-rooting of the lost river Wogebourne that runs out and off Shooters Hill. This walk has been postponed. \nThe lost river of ‘lake’ Wogebourne is a continuation walk of Inspiral Thamesmead explorations but turning back towards the source of one of the Thames’ lost tidal tributeries. \nThe walk time and meeting point is closed following current government guidleines. Please email: contact@inspirallondon for further details of walks programme.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydracity-detours-the-lost-river-of-lake-wogebourne/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201212T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201212T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
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SUMMARY:Hydracity explorations - Detouring 1.
DESCRIPTION:A detour walk along a section of InspiralLondon Trail exploring watery commons\, as part of Hydracity project. \nMeet at 11.30am at Abbey Wood Station for walk a round Thamesmead and the canals. subject to measures. this walk is on Saturday 12 December. \nWe will go into the ancient woods and Abbey at start\, then along to Southmere Lake and into north Thamesmead\, around the canals to the Thames. Then at the river along to Thamesmead central\,then back along more canals to the station. \nHydracity – toward Watery Commons (InspiralLondon project 2020-2022) is a fluid\, open celebration of the shifting powers of water;  exploring together the metropolis’ consumption and management of the natural and artificial souces of water – a vital resource that simultaneously sustains and threaten London’s infrastructure. What is the future? How do we encourage other ways of seeing and experiencing the watery commons; uncover\, discover and recover the spiritual well-being inherent in this watery realm while acknowledging the climate crisis; the role of the tidal barrier\, other defences; the wetlands\, the threat of inundation or in the annual flooding – healing potential. Finally\, how water\, fundamental to life\, suggests other fluid states of being\, other realms\, circulations and possibilities. \nAbbey Wood Station – SE2 9HA \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydracity-explorations-detouring/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201206T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201206T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
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SUMMARY:Rescheduled -Word Object Walk 1 - Part Canal\, River Runs & Waterways.
DESCRIPTION:Due to new Covid19 restrictions this walk is rescheduled for December 6 Meet at 11am Sunday at exit Wood Green Station – (Walk subject to current Covid regulations)\n \nJoin us for an exploration of hidden rivers\, water courses\, canals\, drains and reservoirs as we continue on the ground mapping of London’s Thames Valley Water system along Pymmes Brook and its intersection with the New River Canal. This walk detours from the start of Segment 15.  We will meet at Wood Green Station exit at 11 am to walk back along segment 15/14 towards Lea Valley and the reservoir system that feeds London’s thirsty populations. During the walk a number of antidote Word Object signs will installed along the trail. \nThis walk is part of a year long exploration – InspiralLondon’s on the ground mapping of the Thames Valley water system within Metropolitan zone. Come and discover the hidden\, the lost and the beauty of London’s watery undercurrent as we float away towards the tidal Thames. \nWalks are open and free to public – but please support the project with a suggested donation of min £5 max £10 helps support the project. Please bring light refreshments or packed lunch.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/word-object-walk-1-part-canal-river-runs-waterways/
LOCATION:Wood Green station\, N22 4HH
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201001T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201001T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20201001T112656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201001T112656Z
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SUMMARY:How do you create urban trails?
DESCRIPTION:A public event organised as part of the exhibition « L’art des sentiers métropolitains »\n  \nA round table discussion moderated by Baptiste Lanaspeze\, creator of the éditions Wildproject\n \nA quelles conditions un sentier peut-il être un véritable équipement métropolitain ? Pourquoi la création d’une continuité marchée révolutionne-t-elle nos pratiques urbaines ? En quoi cette expérience peut-elle ouvrir à une nouvelle façon de faire la ville ? De l’écriture du manifeste Zone sweet zone d’Yvan Detraz en 2000 (inédit\, publié en 2020) à la publication du Sentier du Grand Paris\, cette conférence polyphonique\, organisée dans le cadre de l’exposition “L’Art des sentiers métropolitains” est une occasion unique d’échanger avec des créateurs de sentiers sur leurs relations aux territoires – lieux\, habitants humains et non humains\, touristes\, propriétaires fonciers\, usagers\, collectivités\, associations\, entreprises… \nWhat conditions or tools are necessary for a Metropolitan Trail? Why does continuing to create trails\, revolutionise our urban practices? In what ways can this experience open new ways of making or being in the city? Yvann Detraz’s Manifesto Zone sweet zone (2000\, published in 2020) launched at the exhibition\, part of this conference exchanging ideas with other Trail creators/artists; it provides unique opportunity to explore varied relationship to our territories – place\, inhabitants both human and non human\, tourists\, land owners\, users\, collectives\, businesses and other ‘stakeholders’… \n  \nWith \nYvan Detraz\, architect\, creator of Bruit du frigo et of Trail des Terres communes in le Grand Bordeaux\nLoïc Magnant\, Bureau des Guides du GR2013\nJordi Ballesta\, Attica Trail (Grand Athènes)\nJens Denissen\, paysagiste\, creator of Voyage Métropolitain\,\nPaul-Hervé Lavessière\, urbanHo\, co-authout du Guide du Sentier du Grand Paris \nDenis Moreau\, artist\, co-authour of Guide du Sentier du Grand Paris \nWith further research event organised for dates in October.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/how-do-you-create-urban-trails/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200927T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200927T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20200925T121557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T121557Z
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SUMMARY:MemoTrial toWard the Watery Commons
DESCRIPTION:CHOHW Memotrial toWard the Watery Commons (4-7pm Sunday 27th Sept) \nPerched for a time on the tidal beach\, between segments 6 and 7 of InspiralLondon Trail\, we invite you to join us at start of a two hour walking detour to the confluence of Bow Creek\, Channelsea River\, Limehouse Cut\, Lea River and Lee Navigation; here\, to search out the perpetual flame at Twelvetrees Memorial Garden. In tracing these confluences\, the memories and fluid nature of the city and its material\, we invite you to make your own Memotrial toWard a Watery Commons. \n\n\n\nThis is a specially commissioned walk for CHOHW event – at low tide on Sunday 27 September – meet by Three Colt Gallery from 4pm – come prepared to walk with a mask (full socially compliant instructions on day).  \nFor pre-screening view of: Inspiral Ghost Dance‘\, Sarah Sparkes\, 2018\, 5’15”\n \n\nInspiral Ghost Dance is an Inspiral London Commission. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. \n\n\nSarah Sparkes’ ‘Inspiral Ghost Dance‘ features a performance with members of the Inspiral London Collective\, walking in spiralling formation\, viewed by a mysterious ‘watcher’ above. Together\, over three years\, we walked an anti-clockwise spiral from the centre of London to Gravesend. This film shows us on the final leg of the walk. The singing was made by our collective at a workshop led by Anne Robinson and Mikey Georgeson. The Drone was operated by Ben Foong. It was all a joyful collaborative experience and I made this film to celebrate.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/memotrial-toward-the-watery-commons/
LOCATION:Three Colt Gallery\, 82 Three Colt Street\, London\, E14 8AP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200926T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200926T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20200925T121248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T121248Z
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SUMMARY:A Folly Revealed - Walk through Beckenham's Watery Follies
DESCRIPTION:A Folly Revealed\, on Saturday\, 26th of September\, 4.30 – 5 p.m. Live on Instagram.   https://www.instagram.com/nicole.mollett/ \n\nOn Saturday September 26th\, 2pm\, Meet at Ladywell Station (nr to Lewisham)\nJoin Inspiral for a walk along the Ravensbourne to meet artist Nicole Mollett on a tour of her home town; to celebrate the unveiling of Beckenham’s latest folly\, created in the artist’s garden. The unusual circumstances of 2020\, and the lockdown provided a unique opportunity to realise this ambitious project. Nicole and her father Peter Mollett collaborated together on what became an epic venture\, both in terms of collaborating and learning new skills\, including how to wattle & daub. The resulting creation is a highly ornate shell grotto\, containing many fragments from different places and stories connecting to these objects. \nImage: A Folly Revealed – courtesy the artist Nicole Mollett.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/a-folly-revealed-walk-through-beckenhams-watery-follies/
LOCATION:Ladywell Station\, Ladywell Road\, London\, SE13 7XB
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200912T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200912T143000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20200611T171036Z
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SUMMARY:Roding Valley Watery Commons walking workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join IL guided walk along the River Roding\, detouring into the tidal marshlands of water treatment; emerge into the strange Beckton GasWorks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA unique Walking Workshop – open to all as part of InspiralLondon’s project HydraCity\, towards Watery Commons – artistic exploration and on the ground mapping of the Lower Thames Valley water system. \nJoin IL guided walk along the River Roding\, then detouring into the tidal marshlands of water treatment\, to emerge into the strange uncanny world of the redeveloped Beckton Gas Works. \nFor this exploration of our Watery Commons\, we will explore how landmarks\, water sources and Thames-side activities have been subsumed into other recent narratives. Beckton Gas Works was a wonder of the world and we will explore what remains\, what was there before the Works and finally what we can reimagine\, from out of that other London. \nFor this walk we are joined by urban explorer and walk leader John Churchill alongside other inspiral artists in order to re-create other narratives and foraging. Part of HydraCity\, towards Watery Commons. \nWalk Workshop £15 helping support the project or £4 for concessions. \n \nCome and discover the hidden\, the lost and the uncanny beauty of London’s watery undercurrents as we float away into and along the tidal Thames. Covid19 advice will be updated – but bring face mask\, suitable walking footware and a picnic. InspiralLondon will provide some beverages and light refreshmemts. \nInspiralLondon is delighted to be part of Totally Thames Festival 2020. You can browse all the events here or just join us on the weekend of 11/13 September. There will be a further watery commons walk on Sunday September 27\, from 4pm. Time and location of the start of this walk to be confirmed (on the Thames by Canary Wharf). \n \n  \n                    
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/roding-valley-watery-commons-walking-workshop/
LOCATION:Barking Station\, Barking Parade\, London\, IG11 8ED\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200911T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200912T003000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20200611T170327Z
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SUMMARY:A Charm of Watery Foxes: long Thameside by Night explore the urban river
DESCRIPTION:A Charm of Watery Foxes: skulking long Thameside by Night we explore the urban industrial river – its heritage and future past.(Between Woolwich and Canary Wharf). \nJoin a spectacular exploration by night of Thames side’s urban and industrial heritage\, we take you on a walk from Woolwich Old Docks to Canary Wharf. Follow live soundscapes and walk livestreamed as watery foxes spread out along the thames and stream towards a charming meeting. \nListen from the comfort of your den to a live collective exploration of London\, as watery foxes emerge from their dens and earths to scavenge or play along the Thames\, among the remnants of industrial and dockland heritage. The Skulking foxes meet up in a variety of charming rendez-vous and allow you to hear the city through human or non-human eyes. \nBy deep listening to the Thames through the other\, its foreshore and environment\, along the south side pathway\, crossing creeks\, rivers\, streams\, sewer and slipways; as we pass docks\, quays\, drydocks\, ponds and canals\, together we begin to build a picture of the river’s central role in feeding and sustaining the City and in maintaining the equilibrium of the metropole. \nThis event is part of ongoing project – OtherWalking and as an exploration of our Watery Commons – and as one other method to listen in to a lockdowned city. \nFriday 11 September 9pm -1am (Saturday 12 September) \n \nInspiralLondon is delighted to be part of Totally Thames Festival 2020. You can browse all the events here or just join us on the weekend of 11/13 September. \nThere will be a further watery commons walk on Sunday September 27\, from 4pm. Time and location of the start of this walk to be confirmed  on day (on the Thames by Canary Wharf) \n                \n https://totallythames.org \nTechnical Requirement: \nParticipants will either need access to computer device (laptop/tablet etc.) or to smartphone to either live stream or to listen to the Charm of Foxes as they forage and search their way across along the Thames. Sign up here \nA live event link will be posted on event page as the livestream begins broadcasting.  Please give a small donation (min £1- max £5) to support the project. Thank you.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/a-charm-of-watery-foxes-long-thameside-by-night-explore-the-urban-river/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200809
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200810
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20200717T221248Z
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SUMMARY:Watery Commons - explore Roding River\, Creekside and Thames Beckton
DESCRIPTION:Watery Commons – exploring the Roding River to Creekside and along the Thames to Beckton\n \nInspiral conduct their first public walk since lockdown\, on Sunday August 9th.\n\nInspiralLondon team and associates continue watery explorations along and beside the rivers and waterways of the Thames Valley – walking and on the ground mapping of the Roding River\, the Creekside and along the Thames at Beckton. If you wish to join us then please email for information and updated instructions – contact@inspirallondon.com. Unless otherwise stated we will meet outside Barking Station (on the high street) at 11 am on Sunday 9th August. \nAlong the way we will be discussing and exploring\, through walking\, the watery ways that shape the city\, while sharing other histories\, such as Beckton Gas Works. \nPlease bring suitable clothes\, walking shoes/boots and food for a picnic on the way.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/watery-commons-explore-roding-river-creekside-and-thames-beckton/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200711T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201010T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20200717T214919Z
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SUMMARY:Art of the Metropolitan Trail - Pavillon d'Arsenal\, Paris
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition installation – photo © Vincent Fillon\n  \nParis Pavillon d’Arsenal – 11 July to 10 October 2020 Free Entrance Open 11am-7pm: everyday except Mondays. \nInspiralLondon are one of thirteen Walking Trails exhibiting as part of the Art of Metroplolitan Trail at the Pavillon d’Arsenal – exploring the work of pioneers of the Sentier du Grand Paris. Along with Paris\, the exhibition showcases parallel projects in other Urban centres across Europe and beyond; Metropolitan Trails that explore in the confluences of ecology\, alternative tourism and the art of the excursion the reality of urban life within inner\, outer and periurban zones of cities. \nPavillon d’Arsenal\, Centre for Urbanism and Architecture in Metropolitan Paris\, \n21 Boulevard Morland\, 75004\, Paris \ninfopa@pavillon-arsenal.com \nwww.pavillon-arsenal.com \nExhibition installation July 2020 – photo © Vincent Fillon\n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/art-of-the-metropolitan-trail-pavilllon-paris/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200617T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200617T223000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20200611T165502Z
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SUMMARY:A Midsummer Skulk of Foxes 4
DESCRIPTION:A Midsummer Skulk of Foxes 4 – Preserving\, Cleansing and Projecting our Watery Commons.  \nOn evening of 17 June 2020 – Live event HERE\, in solidarity with a call for action from French citizens to agitate against the retoxification of the planet\, InspiralLondon will conduct a collective walk from out the mouths of London’s rivers. As French activists agitate for recognition of the extraordinary potential of a post-oil and de-toxified world we join them in a celebration of our planet’s continued health; to Skulk on this midsummery evening walking/thinking the future of the planet\, and more immediately skulking for the health and life justice for all offspring\, human/ non-human\, and all the diverse creatures that rely on a Watery Commons. \nWhen ecologists and activists first drew attention to London’s lost and hidden waterways\, the very rivers and canals that made up the city’s watery lifelines\, they could only describe how poorly they were treated; not much more than open drains\, many had become integral to the overflowing Victorian sewage system. Now\, thankfully cleaned up in part\, they are seen as valuable real estate\, the inner-city brownfield sites: biodiverse\, with their unkempt beauty\, they are readied now to be buried under concrete and glass. After this brief interlude of planetary detoxification\, this rush to return to a new ‘normal’\, promises yet more useless growth and unnecessary consumption. But we still have time to think\, pause\, so as to Preserve\, Cleanse and Project our Watery Commons and all the other common ground that is our planet. \nTo celebrate this other common beauty\, IL Director Charlie Fox shares with other Watery Foxes elderflower champagne in a charming cleansing and projections of our Watery Commons\, and in pledging to preserve that vital legacy. Watery Foxes for the evening include: Rachel Gomme\, Clare Qualmann\, Richard Couzins\, Ali Pretty\, Charlie Fox\,  Alex McEwen\, Calum F Kerr and Miyuki Kasahara\, Ian Thompson and Sarah Sparkes. Streaming from Woolwich and the Roding River\, North Greenwich and the River Lea\, and other riverine locations. \nYou can participate by listening to the event and joining the mobile livestream mics on locussonus soundmap (from 7-10.30pm) or for online event from 8.45 pm sign up: \nHERE
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/2435/
LOCATION:Emirates  Cable Car North\, 27 Western Gateway\, Royal Docks\,\, London\, E16 1FA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200606T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200607T003000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20200530T234810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200530T234810Z
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SUMMARY:A Skulk of Foxes - towards a Watery Commons
DESCRIPTION:A Skulk of Foxes – towards a Watery Commons livestream livemix – Join the event Listen to a live collective exploration of London\, as the water foxes emerge from their dens and earths to scavenge or play; meeting up in a variety of charming rendez-vous as we hear the city through human or non-human eyes. \nThe live event will be accessible from a link live on Saturday 6th from 8.30pmish: \nHERE \nThis event is part of ongoing projects – OtherWalking and HydraCity and on the programme of Anti University 2020 – and as one other method to listen in to a lockdowned city. We discuss what we have seen/experienced/heard\, what we have imagined and what we might like to see as we think/see through the filter of other lives\, such as the urban fox: how we co-exist with the other and how we might reflect on the human beast through the eyes\, ears\, and padded whiskered feet of vulpes vulpes. \nTo listen you can go to the locussonus soundmap and zoom in on London to locate the moving mics – A Skulk of Foxes – a collective of charming couplings across London. You can make your own mix of the skulk by switching between mics – for inspiration see Remote Surveyor Anne Robinson’s film of watching at home https://vimeo.com/416664839 . Or contact us and join the skulk by creating your own livestream mic through locussonus smartphone app.http://locusonus.org/locustream/#phone
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/a-skulk-of-foxes-towards-a-watery-commons/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200531T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200531T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20200219T002025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200219T002025Z
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SUMMARY:InspiralLondon Segment 15/14 - Part Canal\, River Runs & Waterways
DESCRIPTION:This public walk will be rescheduled for a later date – hopefully in Autumn. \nMeet at 2pm exit Palmers Green Station \nBook HERE \nJoin us for an exploration of hidden rivers\, water courses\, canals\, drains and reservoirs as we begin on the ground mapping of London’s Thames Valley Water system on Pymmes Brook and its intersection with the New River Canal – near start of Segment 15.  We will meet at Palmers Green Station exit at 2pm to walk back along segment 14 towards Lea Valley and the reservoir system that feeds London’s thirsty populations. \nThis walk is part of a year long exploration – InspiralLondon’s on the ground mapping of the Thames Valley water system within Metropolitan zone. Come and discover the hidden\, the lost and the beauty of London’s watery undercurrent as we float away towards the tidal Thames. \nWalks are open and free to public – but please support the project by signing up HERE – with a suggested donation of min £6 max £10 helps support the project – or for concessionary min £1 . \n \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/inspirallondon-late-may-walk-canal-river-runs-waterways/
LOCATION:Palmers Green Station\, London\, N13 4PN\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200516T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200516T234500
DTSTAMP:20260501T062542
CREATED:20200514T155903Z
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SUMMARY:A Skulk of Foxes - a Watery Commons
DESCRIPTION:LINK to OPEN LiveStream event from 8.45pm-9.45pm:\nHERE\nand for evenings mobile mic following you can follow the skulk to its charming end from 8.30-11.45pm at: locussonus soundmap  \nFollowing our first outing as a skulk of foxes – 11 mics Otherwalking with/as urban foxes across North & South London – follow A Skulk of Foxes in search of a watery commons – lifelines and pathways for urban foxes or other wildlife on thie Saturday 16 May from 8.30pm-11.45pm.  \nListen to our live collective exploration of London\, as the foxes emerge from their dens and earths to scavenge or play; and as the individual skulks meet up in a variety of charming rendez-vous hear the city through human or non-human eyes. \nThis event is part of ongoing project – OtherWalking – and as one other method to listen in to a lockdowned city. We discuss what we have seen/experienced/heard\, what we have imagined and what we might like to see as we think/see through the filter of other lives\, such as the urban fox: how we co-exist with the other and how we might reflect on the human beast through the eyes\, ears\, and padded whiskered feet of vulpes vulpes. \nTo listen go to the locussonus soundmap and zoom in on London to locate the moving mics –  A Skulk of Foxes – a collective of charming couplings across London.  You can make your own mix of the skulk by switching between mics – for inspiration see Remote Surveyor Anne Robinson’s film of watching at home . \nLINK to OPEN LiveStream event: locussonus soundmap \nYou can open this map in window\, focus in on London and identify fox mics as listed below as they move across the city to meet in small couplings and charms – On The Quaggy River\, in Epping Forest\, Near Thamesmead\, and along the River Peck – a fluid watery exploration of the city and its watery lifelines.\n \nMICS to listen into include: \nSouth London:\nCharlie Fox/Nunhead – mobile-otherwalking-urbanfoxeSL\nFrog Morris/Grove Park – mobile-frogmorris\nCalum F Kerr & Miyuki Kasahara – mobile-skulk -thamesmead-inspiral2\nKeith Turpin – Skulk of Foxes.-Peckham\nRachel Gomme – Skulkfox -Camberwell\nDr. James Eastaway – skulk of foxes-Brockley\n\nNorth London:\nSarah Sparkes & Ian Thompson – Walthamstow Inspiral Skulk (with bats)\nDr. Will Brook (Stoke Newington)- Will Brook\nJamie Beddard – Skulk-Hackney/Finsbury Park\nAlex McEwen – Skulk of foxes-Muswell Hill\nRichard Couzins – sulkoffoxesclapton\nNear Woolwich foot tunnel photo: Miyuki Kasahara
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/a-skulk-of-foxes-a-watery-commons/
LOCATION:Peckham Square\, 89 Peckham High St\, London\, London\, SE15 5RS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Segment 22 Tree Time - Detouring Beckton Creekside - Canceled
DESCRIPTION:Ths event has been postponed due to Covid19 measures\nMeeting at 11 am Barking on Sunday 3 May 2020\nBook HERE \nMeet 11 am at Barking Station Exit to walk down the Roding River Valley then detour into Beckton Creekside Nature Reserve. \nThis reverse segment of InspiralLondon Trail runs along the River Roding and then detours into the marshlands of water treatment to emerge into the strange uncanny world of the reveloped Gas Works. Beckton Gas Works was a wonder of the world and we will explore what remains and what we can reimagine from out of that other London. \nThis walk is part of InspiralLondon’s on the ground mapping of the Thames Valley water system within Metropolitan zone.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/segment-tree-time-tbc/
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SUMMARY:A Skulk of Foxes - a collective of charming couplings
DESCRIPTION:A skulk of foxes: a collective of charming couplings and meetings across London.\nTook place on Saturday 2 May – and you can read about the evening of collective inspiralling on NEWS page – Skulking the City/A Charm of Foxes. \nJoin REVEIL and soundcamp 2020: to follow inspirallondon’s live project – a skulk of foxes – 11 mics Otherwalking with/as urban foxes across North & South London – on Saturday 2 May from 8.15pm-9.15pm listen to a live collective dusk chorus as the foxes emerge from their dens and earths to scavenge or play; from 10.30-11.15pm listen to this charm of foxes\, meetings and couplings across London\, listening in to the lockdowned city and discussing what we have seen/experienced/heard. How we co-exist with the other and how we might reflect on the human beast through the eyes\, ears\, and padded whiskered feet of vulpes vulpes. \nTo listen go to Reveil Platform Page and on left hand side scroll down the projects to play button A Skulk of Foxes – a collective of charming couplings across London – and you will hear the mix (if not see the locussonus soundmap). You can open this map in another window\, focus in on London and identify fox mics as listed below as they move across the city to meet in small couplings and chatrms – at Woolwich Thameside\, at Finsbury Park\, along the Lee Valley; in Camberwell and up in dark Epping Forest:\n \n \nThe mobile live mics on locussonus soundmap will remain live throughout the evening from approx. 7.45pm to after midnight on Saturday. So if you miss the live project mix you can still pick up individual sound streams across London marked variously with account names that include – ‘skulk of foxes’\, ‘otherwalking’; ‘inspiral’ (Will Brook/names of other artists). A full list of mics and monicas will be updated on Saturday. Enjoy… \n  \n \nAs cities emptied – hollowed out by lockdown at night – a skulk of urban foxes leaves their comfortable earths to set out on a hunt for food and entertainment. Individual foxes\, and couples\, searching for the sounds and life of North and South London make journeys towards each other\, listening and tracking their territories for rival scavengers and ‘wildlife’. As midnight approaches\, the North and South River skulkers will meet in couplings to discuss and dissect their evenings’ charming wandering. Questions of what was heard\, what sensed\, seen and experienced; of the other walking the city and of our co-existence with other inhabitants. \nOptimal Social Distancing measures are followed in the making of this collective urban fox soundscape and many of the mobile mics will be following parts of the inspirallondon.com trail. Urban foxes leave their home simultaneously at 8pm (GMT) for dusk sounding and will be making their discursive meetings between 10.30-11.30 pm. A skulk of foxes is an inspirallondon project for soundcamp 2020 with a collective of mobile mic handlers-foxes. \nFor the collective pooled event the artists and associate inspirallers include: Jamie Beddard\, Will Brook\, Richard Couzins\, counterproductions\, James Eastaway\, Rachel Gomme\, Calum F Kerr & Miyuki Kasahara\, Frog Morris\, Alex McEwen\, Sarah Sparkes & Ian Thompson\, Keith Turpin and Anne Robinson. \nLink to REVEIL 2020 soundcamp events – 2 to 3 May 2020 \nFor inspiral\, interview\, discussion and sound walk with soundcamp in June 2019 visit here
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/a-skulk-of-foxes-a-collective-of-charming-couplings/
LOCATION:nunhead\, se15
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SUMMARY:Segment 34 Knockholt to Kenley. Summertime to Downe House
DESCRIPTION:Tickets HERE\nMeet at Knockholt Station at 11 am on Sunday 29 March 2020.\nWe meet at Knockholt to walk first back along the trail toward Downe Village. For those interested there is an option to visit Downe House/Gardens – Charkes Darwin’s House – before tracing the trail back toward Kenley. Note there is an entrance fee for Darwin’s House. \n \nTaking in pigeon lofts\, worm stones\, meadows\, treelined walks\, sundials and the famous sand walk at Downe. \nFinal details for this British Summertime Day Walk will be updated in March. As this is early spring walk – dress accordingly and bring some cash or sandwiches as we will stop halfway for refreshments along the way. Note some light refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/segment-34-knockholt-to-kenley-summertime-to-downe-house/
LOCATION:Knockholt\, Knockholt Station\, Old London Road Halstead\, London\, TN14 7HR\, United Kingdom
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