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SUMMARY:Sleepwalking Deptford - Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Join Inspiral for an extraordinary punkish journey through Deptford’s history and future with lanterns\, song and hidden stories. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday 30th September meet at Deptford Station exit at 7pm\, for a winding walk\, returning around 8.45pm\, to the station courtyard \nSleepwalking Deptford Part 2 is a twilight Punk Marlowe Mash up exploration of Deptford’s bizarre and extraordinary history;with artist/punk Mikey Georgeson\, The Art of The Magic Lantern\, Joanna McCormick and Sarah Sparkes. This walk brings you the best of Deptford Sleepwalking – a series of walks created for Lewiisham Cultural Borough – taking you through a spiralling history – accompanied by song\, puppet and magic lanterns that sees you enter a nocturnal other world\, where reminders of ‘sniffing glue’ tells Deptford’s other stories. \nSleepwalking Deptford Part 2 is part of a mini-season of inspirallondon night walks and hydrodetours. Your donation supports the work of the Community Interest Company and our collective socially-engaged work. Please give what you can from £1 – 10. Thank you TICKETS HERE \n\n\n\nWalks in February 2022 – renmade for Autumn 2022 with a new twist….
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/sleepwalking-deptford-part-2/
LOCATION:Deptford Train Station\, Deptford High Street\,\, London\, SE8 3NU
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SUMMARY:Branches of the Wogebourne
DESCRIPTION:Branches of the Wogebourne – Meet 11 am 24th September at  \nInspiralLondon’s resident ornithological investigator J D Swann will lead a walk along a possible route of the lost Wogebourne river\, its source emerged from Oxleas Wood on Shooters Hill\, the highest point in Greater South London at 132 metres. It was called in 14th century manuscripts the Wogebourne or Woghbourne becoming widely known as Plumstead River in the following centuries. However\, by the 1970’s much of the river had been enclosed just as the Westbourne had been in West London or the Fleet in the City; it had then become the Wickham Valley Waterway\, shifting names for a mysterious watercourse. SIGN UP here \n \nObservation of wildlife will be encouraged as we pass through Shrewsbury Park and East Wickham Open Space. There the Wogebourne branches between and under Plumstead housing towards Abbey Wood Station\, it was exposed there during the construction of Crossrail in 2015 (opening 2018 and counting) where it is referred to in plans as a stormwater drain. The branch we will be following is through Bostall Heath and Woods into the ancient Lesnes Abbey Woods with its ponds and streams. We walk past the 11th century Lesnes Abbey ruins into the South Thamesmead Estate and to Southmere Lake. The lake was created in the late 1960’s as part of the drainage system for the new Thamesmead development; there an underground channel takes the remnants of the Wogebourne to the Thames at the Crossness Pumping Station outfall. \nSaturday 11th September Starting at: 11am Welling Station (Zone 4) – Meet outside main entrance (platform 1). Finishing: at Southmere Lake\, Thamesmead – then 1km (accompanied by J D) walk to Abbey Wood Station (Zone 4). Sign up HERE \nApprox 11 kilometres/ 7 miles walk – 4 hours (approx) – 8+ under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult – Full walk is not buggy and wheelchair accessible. \nJ D Swann appears courtesy of Calum F Kerr \nTerrain: Long uphill climb at Shooter’s Hill then largely downhill until Bostall Woods and Lesnes Abbey Woods in which there are several steep slopes and stairs. Oxleas Woods and Lesnes Abbey Woods after rain can be particularly muddy so appropriate footwear and weather-appropriate clothing recommended. Binoculars and Recording devices for nature are encouraged. There is a Café/WC at Oxleas Meadows\, Lesnes Abbey has a Café/WC (closes 3.30pm). \nPart of InspiralLondon unique season of Autumn Walks.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/branches-of-the-wogebourne-2/
LOCATION:Welling Station\, Welling Station STOP A\, Welling\, London\, DA16 3BA
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220917T190000
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SUMMARY:Watery Fox Walk to Woolwich
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 17th September Watery Fox Skulk to Woolwich – Meet at Gallions Reach DLR exit at 7pm \nInspiral collective organises an early evening night walk; following our lockdown fox skulking –  we will  be retracing the trail backwards from Gallions Reach DLR to borrow under the Thames to Woolwich\, searching for urban foxes in Woolwich old Naval Docks. SIGN UP for Tickets HERE \n \nThe walk starts from Gallions Reach at 7pm and will finish at Woolwich Station at 10pm. Starting on the Northbank of River near King George V Dock and tunnelling under Thames as night falls we follow in the footsteps of watery foxes and other salty sea dogs. With tales of Woolwich’s ancient history and one year after a series of night walks organised for Hyderacity this night exploration allows us to see the city through non-human eyes and to listen to its future-past in other ways. As the urban fox\, a watery type\, we follow our scent back and forth to Woolwich Old Docks\, in the company of Sailor Forbes steps\, led by inspirallondon Director Charlie Fox. \nCharlie will be reading extracts from forthcoming book and sharing other forgotten writers. \nThis is a gentle night walk but come prepared with good shoes\, some refreshments and a spirit of adventure. Once in the tunnel you can never be sure of where one might re-appear.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/watery-fox-walk-to-woolwich/
LOCATION:Gallions Reach DLR\, 3 Armada Way\, London\, E6 7ER
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SUMMARY:Special Online event for Watery Foxes of Woolwich
DESCRIPTION:JOIN us tonight online 7pmish to 9.30pm – via livestream remote listening: \n“In early May 2020 during the first period of the Covid pandemic\, we launched a series of Night Skulks\, as a way of connecting back into a forbidden landscape. Being together without fear and experiencing life again\, these walks\, conducted individually or in small ‘family’ groups mimicked the night scavenging of urban foxes. But to make these night shift less literal we imagined ourselves as foxes\, somewhat transformed into watery beasts\, animals adapted to water\, fluid and fleeting as the shadowy night. Tracing our way along a variety of water courses that flowed near to or by our homes’ front doors\, our sensibility transformed now as hybrid animals\, we confronted another sense of dwelling within this city. We witnessed the city\, floating on a floodtide\, no longer made up from firm ground\, liquefied\, returned to a silty marshland. We saw how this city unexpectedly quiet\, with its emptied streets\, offered us unusual opportunities to see the place anew.” (Charlie Fox – ‘Waylaid by bodies of water’ (unpublished chapter GroundWalking London: To Walk and Re-enchant the City forthcoming 2023) \nFor tonights night skulk from Gallions Reach to Woolwich – tracing backwards on segment 21 of inspirallondon trail – listen to our live broadcast streaming of the walk here: \nhttp://locus.creacast.com:9001/thamesmead_wild_chorus_thamesmead_london.mp3\n\nFrom around 7pm to 9.30pm listen to live acoustic walk following the traces and scent paths of urban foxes plus reading\, discussion and soundscapes)\n\n\n\nThis broadcast is made possible because of the international artistic research platform locussonus and through our longterm collaboration with soundcamp. For the night we are grateful to the expertise and committment of associate artist Calum f Kerr for the skilled use of his binaural microphone/headphones.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/special-online-event-for-watery-foxes-of-woolwich/
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SUMMARY:InspiralLondon Autumn Explorations
DESCRIPTION:Autumn Explorations (September 16th to October 29th 2022)\n \nAll walk times\, dates and ticketing confirmed. \nFor Autumn 2022 InspiralLondon associate artists create a best of our recent walks\, explorations and performance\, along and around the Metropolitan Trail. From walks made for Hydrocity\, to events launching Lewisham’s Cultural year\, and work made in lockdown\, Inspiral offers a series of unique walks that include: \n \nFriday 16th September from 7-9pm Southwark Borough Refuge walk around the Borough. \nA walk led by Keith Turpin themed around refuges/refugees/sanctuary & imprisonment traversing the second segment of Inspiral Trail. \nSaturday 17th September from 7-10pm – Watery Fox Skulk to Woolwich \nInspiral collective organises an early evening night skulk from 7pm – 10pm. Starting on the Northbank of River near George V Dock and tunnelling under Thames  back and forth to Woolwich Old Docks in search of unusual urban foxes. \nSaturday 24 September – 11am -5pm  Branches of the River Wogebourne Walk after the autumn Equinox\, Welling to Thamesmead. \nInspiralLondon’s resident ornithological investigator J D Swann will lead a walk along a possible route of the lost Wogebourne river\, its source emerging from Oxleas Wood on Shooters Hill\, the highest point in Greater South London at 132 metres. \nFriday 30th September 7pm-8.45pm  Sleepwalking Deptford Part 2\n \nA Dusky Punk Marlowe Mash up (with Mikey Georgeson\, The Art of The Magic Lantern\, Joanna McCormick and Sarah Sparkes) brings you the best of Deptford Sleepwalking – taking you through a spiralling history – accompanied by song\, puppet and magic lanterns that sees you enter a nocturnal other world\, where reminders of ‘sniffing glue’ tells Deptford’s other stories. \n \nWeekends in October – Three Other Hydrodetour Walks (Marshes of South London; Cray River Confluences; Searching the MarDyke)
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/inspirallondon-autumn-explorations/
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SUMMARY:Southwark Borough Refuge Walk
DESCRIPTION:Meet London Walk Guide Keith Turpin at the exit of Borough Tube for a unique walk through North Southwark by the River Thames.\n \non Friday 16th September –  from 7-9pm Tickets HERE\n \nKeith Turpin was invited to create a unique walk to celebrate Southwark’s role as London Borough of Refuge. For this inspirallondon night walk he takes us on a gentle preambulation by segment 2 of the trail. A walk that explores both the historical and contemporary role the area has played in offering both refuge and relief. \nThis Southwark Borough Refuge walk loosely themed around refuges/refugees/sanctuary & imprisonment provides another view of the city\, just on the southern margin of the Thames. \nThis is a gentle night walk but come prepared with good walking shoes and suitable clothes for the weather. \nSouthwark Borough Refuge Walk is part of a mini-season of inspirallondon night walks and hydrodetours. Your donation supports the work of the Community Interest Company and our collective socially-engaged work. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/southwark-borough-refuge-walk/
LOCATION:Borough Tube\, Borough High St\,\, London\, SE1 1JX
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SUMMARY:Beautification Biosphere walk
DESCRIPTION:This unique 21st C Beautification Bermondsey Biosphere walk\, hosted by InspiralLondon Director Charlie Fox. \nMeet at Bermondsey Tube on Friday 12th August 6.30 pm for a gentle 2 hour walk until 8.30 pm\, arriving by the River for an optional shared picnic until 9.30 pm (near the Angel pub\, Rotherhithe) \nPart of Salter Centenary and generously supported by inspirallondon associate artists and guests. \nJoin the 21st Century Beautification walk as we navigate our way through Ada Salter’s rich and varied legacy: passed Wilson Grove\, onto Southwark park\, to Rotherhithe village. Observing and celebrating something of Bermondsey’s biosphere\, in its mature street trees\, pocket parks\, housing\, in the soil beneath our feet\, we witness together the legacy of Ada’s radical care; as a radical politician and pioneer of social change\, who used her power to plant the seeds of a healthy more equitable future. \nBy retracing this history on the ground\, we continue to enjoy the bountiful evidence of her collective work; celebrating Ada’s holistic ecological approach to politics\, while thinking together of future green cities. \nThis is an early evening walk with option at the end of a shared picnic by the river. Please bring water\, light refreshments and optionally something to share for our picnic. \n \nThe walk starts from Bermondsey Tube and finishes near Rotherhithe Overground or Canada Water (tube and bus). Please SIGN UP for Ticket (donation pay what you can £1-£6). \n“Ada Salter was a ‘green before the Greens.’ She knew that contact with nature is vital for mental health. She brought trees\, flowers and green space to the inner-city. \nToday it is even more urgent to protect the natural world. New initiatives are emerging to save our green planet.” (Beautifying Bermondsey – Salter Centenary website)
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/21st-century-beautification-biosphere-walk/
LOCATION:Bermondsey Tube\, Jamaica Rd\, London\, SE16 4SN\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Tanieres D'Aventures
DESCRIPTION:Camps\, Dens and Playwalking the terrain. \nSearching for\, then discovering tribal dens and other encampments across the quarried plains of Foresta and North Marseille\, with the aid of nomad hybrid trolleys.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/taniere-daventures/
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SUMMARY:An Archaeology of Water - explore segment 35 of Trail
DESCRIPTION:On 1st May: A walk inspired by the archaeology along the Darenth Valley – in Experimental Archaeology of Water: on the geodetic\, in dowsing for time and other civilisation. \nWalking on segment 35\, with InspiralLondon Director and lapsed archaeologist Charlie Fox exploring watery leylines\, pre-Roman remains and the legacy of hidden civilisations located in waterborne energy lines. Returning to the North Downs of Kent\, after our Geology inspired investigations\, Charlie will offer an alternative view of the landscape as we walk part of this beautiful segment of the walk as the Metropole runs out towards Gravesend. \nWe meet at Knockholt Station on Sunday May 1st at 11.30 am to finish walk either at Eynsford Station around 4pm or Shoreham Station around 5pm. (Note we will start walking at 11.30 am – so do aim to be at Station before then – best train arrives 11.15am – Sunday train service from London Bridge at 10.19 am is to Orpington change or train direct from London Victoria 10.28 am depart – both trains have a number of South London stops)\n \n \nThis section of the trail traverses some beautiful down land countryside and then cuts back towards London along the energy lines of the Darenth Valley\, as the river wends its’ way to Dartford. We will visit the Druid’s picnic spot\, orchid-filled ancient woods\, Lullingstone Hill Fort\, skirting the Roman Villa\, the Castle to end the first part of walking at Eynsford Station. \nDarenth apparently means ‘fed by streams where oak trees grow’ – but much of the spring sources of the old river have been captured by the Medway watershed and this river was in danger of almost dying\, starved of waters in the 1980’s. Since then conservation works and renewed care of this beautiful waterway means much of the valley is accessible. For the Romans and pre-Roman the valley was a rich mosaic of farmland and forest supporting up to 13 Roman Villas. There were possibly as many Celtic Iron Age Farms along its 22 miles. \nThis walk seeks to search for\, celebrate and uncover some of the more hidden and inaccessible\, using dowsing and other experimental archaeology techniques – inspired by the watery leyline theories of Guy Underwood elucidated in his book Patterns of the Past and the Celtic map theories of Graham Robb. This is a walk that delves into the pre-Roman origins of London and its hidden energies. At the same time\, we can enjoy walking this section and looping back into the world of another visionary – Samuel Palmer who painted his most arresting works in Shoreham. \nPlease bring suitable clothes and walking shoes for changeable Spring Weather – plus a light picnic/packed lunch. We ask all participants on the walk to sign up here on eventbrite and give a small donation to support the creative community work of our collective artist-led project.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/an-archaeology-of-water-explore-segment-35-of-trail/
LOCATION:Knockholt Station\, Bromley\,\, London\, TN14 7HR\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220430T123000
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SUMMARY:InspiralLondon Collective Reveil 9 Pitcher Walk
DESCRIPTION:On 30th April – Join our Reveil 9 Pitcher Walk – a soundcamp inspired and collaborative walk streaming across North Southwark to arrive at Stave Hill Ecology Centre around 12/12.30pm for a welcome Leon nourishing lunch for £7.\n \nOr listen the walk stream live 10.30am to 12.30pm Saturday 30th April HERE \nWe will meet at Peckham Rye Station at 10.30 am sharp to walk along the lost waterways of Surrey Canal\, up to Glengall Road (crossing Old Kent Road) to marvel at the Beautification plane trees\, then across towards MillWall and the new greenway to Southwark Park – to walk from Canada Water then onto Stave Hill. We will be sharing some InspiralLondon livestreaming – exploring through unexpected soundscapes\, some of the lost or hidden ecological infrastructure found across North Southwark as we move toward Reveil 9 base at the site of unique urban ecology centre by Stave Hill. \nSee Reveil 9 Project page HERE for all livestream links. \nInterlaced with the livestreams – inspirallondon’s flowing walk asks us to listen to\, and read the city in different ways; in taking care and note of urban ecology through lost or hidden bandwidth. We will also be sharing conversations in another anthropomorphism\, vitality (entelechy)\, repaired ecosystems and vital materiality suggested by the 14th Century handbook for musicians Great Treatise on Supreme Sound: \n‘To listen and mimic ‘an emaciated crow perched on a bare tree or pecking in the snow in the hope of finding something to eat… & with the lute a floating sound as a white butterfly fluttering at flower level\, lingers but does not stay.’ \nWill we hear the watery singing of the poplar tree\, the sound of the quivering aspen emanating from drainage culverts\, the promise of invertebrate life proliferating amongst the tarmac? \nWe hope to provide an entertaining\, thought-provoking but free-ranging walking conversation with all participants\, as an opening introduction to the extraordinary world of sound ecology and acoustic commons explored in Reveil 9\, and hosted at unique site of Stave Hill Ecology Park. \nPlease bring suitable clothes and walking shoes for changeable Spring Weather. We ask all participants on walk to sign up here on eventbrite and give a small donation to our collective artist-led project. If unable to sign up on eventbrite: \nplease email our contact@inspirallondon.com to book a place. Suggested Donation £6 (includes refreshments) \n \nSoundCamp are an arts cooperative based in London\, Crete and the The Hague\, working on transmission ecologies from DIY broadcasting devices to public sound and radio projects. As part of the Acoustic Commons network\, we coordinate the long-form radio broadcast Reveil (2014 –)\, and a series of sound and ecology events (soundcamps) on Dawn Chorus day each year. \nReveil is a 24 hour live radio programme\, assembled and broadcast from a temporary station at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe. This is also the site of the longest running soundcamp. Real time streams are supplied by contributors around the world at daybreak. The primary feed is hosted by Wave Farm in the Upper Hudson Valley\, New York\, and aired by our UK broadcast partners Resonance FM / Extra in London UK and a collection of FM and netradio stations.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/inspirallondon-collective-reveil-9-pitcher-walk/
LOCATION:Peckham Rye Station Exit.\, Station Way\, Peckham High Street\, London\, SE15 4RX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Inspiral - the end to the beginning. Three walks on segments 34\, 35\, 36
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday 24th April: Quarries\, Chalk and Pit/falls – Join Artist and amateur geologist Gail Dickerson on segment 34 of Inspiral Trail for an exploration of all things chalky and geological by Riddlesdown Quarry near Kenley Station to walk across chalk towards New Addington. This will be a fun interactive riddling walk\, exploring InspiralLondon Trail through the eyes of an artist inspired by geology. \nApart from the large quarries such as the site of Riddlesdown – Kent was riddled with smaller diggings and caverns such as the infamous deneholes whose origin and ubiquity on the outer skirts of London and onto the Downs\, remained a riddle in the 19thC. Sudden collapses and sinking could occur anywhere our ancestors might have quarried for chalk and flint. See for  Darenth Valley example. \nFurther information on deneholes can be accessed here. \nFor the walk we meet at 11 am Kenley Station on Sunday 24th April. The walk will end at New Addington at 4pm where there are transport links into central London. \nPlease bring suitable clothes and walking shoes for changeable Spring Weather plus a picnic. We ask all participants on walk to sign up here on eventbrite and give a small donation to our collective artist-led project. \n \nOn 30th April Reveil 9 Pitcher Walk – a soundcamp inspired walk streaming across North Southwark to arrive at Stave Hill Ecology Centre around 12/12.30pm for a welcome lunch.  \nWe will meet at Peckham Rye Station at 10.30 am to share InspiralLondon streaming – exploring through unexpected soundscapes\, some of the lost or hidden ecological infrastructure found across North Southwark as we move toward Reveil 9 base: along the lost waterway of Surrey Canal\, to Glengall Road (crossing Old Kent Road) across towards MillWall and the new greenway to Southwark Park – to walk from Canada Water then onto Stave Hill. \nPlease bring suitable clothes and walking shoes for changeable Spring Weather. We ask all participants on walk to sign up here/eventbrite and give a small donation to our collective artist-led project. \n \nOn 1st May: An Experimental Archaeology of Water: on the geodetic\, in dowsing for time. On segment 35\, with InspiralLondon Director and lapsed archaeologist Charlie Fox exploring watery leylines\, pre-Roman remains and the legacy of hidden civilisation located in waterborne energy lines. Meeting at Knockholt Station on Sunday May 1st at 11.30 am to finish walk at Eynsford Station around 4pm. \nThis section of the trail traverses some beautiful down land countryside and then cuts back towards London along the energy lines of the Darenth Valley\, as the river wends its’ way to Dartford. We will visit the Druid’s picnic spot\, orchid-filled ancient woods\, Lullingstone Hill Fort\, skirting the Roman Villa\, the Castle to end the first part of walking at Eynsford Station. \nDarenth apparently means ‘fed by streams where oak trees grow’ – but much of the spring sources of the old river have been captured by the Medway watershed and this river was in danger of almost dying\, starved of waters in the 1980’s. Since then conservation works and renewed care of this beautiful waterway means much of the valley is accessible. For the Romans and pre-Roman the valley was a rich mosaic of farmland and forest supporting up to 13 Roman Villas. There were possibly as many Celtic Iron Age Farms along its 22 miles. \nThis walk seeks to search for\, celebrate and uncover some of the more hidden and inaccessible\, using dowsing and other experimental archaeology techniques – inspired by the watery leyline theories of Guy Underwood elucidated in his book Patterns of the Past and the Celtic map theories of Graham Robb. This is a walk that delves into the pre-Roman origins of London and its hidden energies. At the same time\, we can enjoy walking this section and looping back into the world of another visionary – Samuel Palmer who painted his most arresting works in Shoreham. \nWe meet at Knockholt Station on Sunday May 1st at 11.30 am to finish walk either at Eynsford Station around 4pm or Shoreham Station around 5pm. \nPlease bring suitable clothes and walking shoes for changeable Spring Weather. We ask all participants on the walk to sign up here/eventbrite and give a small donation to support our collective artist-led project. \n  \nOur Blue Porcupine Trail Walk has been postponed until summer 2022.  \nIn Summer we will explore Gravesend and the beginning and end of Trail through an interactive search for the Blue Porcupine. A work created by artist Sarah Sparkes with Local Poet James M’Kay. You are invited to pay homage to former or contemporary fauna of the marshy landscapes by joining the Trail of The Blue Porcupine: \nThese four complimentary walks explore the depth geology\, hidden archaeology and mythic structure of landscape\, topography and place that is traversed as you walk slowly along sections of InspiralLondon 300 mile long trail. \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/inspiral-from-the-end-to-the-beginning-3-walks-on-segments-343536/
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SUMMARY:Quarries\, Chalk and Pit/falls - Walk along Segment 34
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday 24th April at 11 am: Quarries\, Chalk and Pit/falls –  we joined artist and amateur geologist Gail Dickerson on segment 34 of Inspiral Trail for an exploration of all things chalky and geological by Riddlesdown Quarry. Finding and using chalk to mark our riddling way across the outer edges of South London towards Biggin Hill. \nImages from the days investigations follow; as we walked up from Kenley Station to the tunnel entrances of the mysterious Optical Surfaces Ltd\, the sunlight radiated from the surfaces of Riddlesdown Common. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nApart from the large quarries such as the site of Riddlesdown – Kent was riddled with smaller diggings and caverns such as the infamous deneholes whose origin and ubiquity on the outer skirts of London and onto the Downs\, remained a riddle in the 19thC. Sudden collapses and sinking could occur anywhere our ancestors might have quarried for chalk and flint. See for  Darenth Valley example. \nFurther information on deneholes can be accessed here. \nFor the walk we meet at 11 am Kenley Station on Sunday 24th April. The walk will end at New Addington at 4pm where there are transport links into central London. \nPlease bring suitable clothes and walking shoes for changeable Spring Weather plus a picnic. We ask all participants on walk to sign up here on eventbrite and give a small donation to our collective artist-led project.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/quarries-chalk-and-pit-falls-walk-along-segment-34/
LOCATION:Kenley Station\, Kenley Lane\, London\, CR8 5DF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220403T110000
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SUMMARY:Inspiral Artist Exploratory Walk on segment 13.
DESCRIPTION:Sunday 3 April meeting near Forest Gate Station exit\, at 11 am \nTo congregate across the road at Querky Cafe\, 180 Forest Lane which is also close to Wanstead Park Overground – see https://tfl.gov.uk/tflrail/stop/910GFRSTGT/forest-gate-rail-station?lineId=tfl-rail \nThe walk will end around 5pm by Wood Street Overground. Please wear suitable walking shoes and clothes\, and bring water or light refreshments. We plan to stop for a light lunch in a pub or cafe at halfway point. \n \nJoin IL Associate Artists to walk segment 13 of Inspirallondon trail. In search of Bruce the black swan and the geological depths at Hollow Ponds. This wonderful walk is an exploratory walk workshop\, an introduction to the collective on ground mapping of the Metropole and takes us across the southern edges of Epping Forest via Wanstead Flats\, through the Greenman Gyratory to Leytone Flats. \n13. Forest Gate to Wood Street
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/inspiral-artist-walk-on-segment-13/
LOCATION:Forest Gate Station\, Woodgrange Road\, Forest Gate\, London\, E7 0NE\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220304T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220304T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060356
CREATED:20220125T145421Z
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SUMMARY:A Sleepwalker’s guide to Deptford - 4th March
DESCRIPTION:A Sleepwalker’s Guide to Deptford on Friday 4th March\n \nThe walk starts from 5.30pm – 7.30pm meeting by little Nans this FRIDAY 4th March with Mount Analogues Hypnagogic Light Machine to 8pmish at Badger Badger (both Little Nans and Badger Badger are close to Deptford Station). \na FREE artist-led walk around Deptford produced by InspiralLondon Sign up for ticket HERE\n \nFor this unique night walk you will need to bring your smart phone if you have one\, with headphones if possible. Mikey will be inviting you to join a Zoom Meeting. If you have a QR reader or equivalent app on your phone that will help. Everything will be explained\, and come to light\, on the night. For the live walk intro. HERE \nMikey Georgeson has also created a musical sound piece for the highstreet section of the walk which walkers will find through a QR coded “leafish” on a fishing pole they receive. The link is HERE \nDon’t forget to come wrapped up warm\, wear suitable clothing and bringing with you some  hypnogogic spirit. \n \nWe are delighted to invite you to take part in a trance-forming ritual\, animating the temporal substance of Deptford High Street and into the beyond. You will enter the automatic realm of the sleepwalker awakened via sonic frequencies broadcast on smart phone devise (please bring a mobile telephone and head-phone-buds/overears). Once in the trance reality of an emerging story we will delve down south towards the Brookmill flows taking in the Hours of the poet Johny Brown. Listen out for the trance-formative lyrical tones of Mikey himself whose first single opened with the words “Sometimes London don’t seem so appealing but maybe your lover is living in Deptford”. Our sleepwalk begins with an introduction from Professor Tony Sampson author of A Sleep Walkers Guide to Social-media and concludes with exclusive trial encounters with Mount Analogue’s Lucia No. 03 hypnogogic light machine further enhancing the vibes of empathetic entanglement our trance-forming ritual has summoned onto the plane of Deptford’s immanence. \nWhen you return to little Nan’s you can also to sample the Lucia No.3 cocktail to celebrate the Deptford light machine inaugural experience! \nWith one eye on the virtual urban experience this walk channels the trance-ritual mind of the walking group. The collective non-conscious is regarded as a precognitive or a more than human experience. It is an impersonal user experience that exceeds the filtering of individual phenomenal experience. Using smart phones (please bring headphones) this extra-embodied walk takes the social-media realm as something potentially materially vital and incorporates trance ritual song and somnambulistic poetry. In association with CCNI (the centre for critical neuroaesthetic interferences) and Mount Analogue we are delighted to be able to offer a trial of the cutting edge *Lucia No. 03\, advancing the transformational potentialities of Brion Gysin’s dream machine. Transformative trial sessions on thehypnagogic light machine will conclude the walk. The sleeper must awaken. \n*Please note the Lucia N°03 hypnagogic light machine is not a medical device. It is contraindicated for sufferers of strobe intolerance due to a psychological condition such as a psychosis\, anxiety disorder\, sufferers of photosensitive epilepsy or individuals who have medical conditions with tendencies to have epileptic incidents. Pregnant women and children under the age of 16 are not permitted to use the machine. Mount Analogue reserves the right to decline individuals access to the machine at any time. \nWalk approx. 1.5 miles long With Light Therapy offered at end. \nJoin us outside Little Nan’s Bar by Deptford Railway Station from 5.30pm\, the walk departs at 6pm and returns to Little Nan’s by the Station\, the walk will last approximately 1.5 hour including stops along the way. You are welcome to join us for as little or as long as you wish. \nPlease bring warm waterproof clothing suitable for March weather. \n \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/a-sleepwalkers-guide-to-deptford/
LOCATION:Little Nans Bar\, by Deptford Station\, London\, SE8 4BZ
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220217T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220217T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060356
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SUMMARY:Nautical Twilight Tour - Sleepwalker's Guide to Deptford
DESCRIPTION:The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Deptford presents: Nautical Twilight Tour \ncreated by The Art of The Magic Lantern\, artists Frog Morris & Nicole Mollett\, produced & supported by InspiralLondon \n5.30pm – 7.30pm Thursday on 17th February \na FREE artist-led walk around Deptford – sign up for TICKET HERE \n \nPeople of Lewisham\, step this way! Bring your eyes but leave your good reason at the door!  You will not believe the wonders that await you in the streets of Deptford… \nWitness spectres\, monsters and all manner of otherworldly scenes appear from the darkness. For this unique perambulation Nicole Mollett and Frog Morris will take their Magic Lanterns out into the streets after dark to project an extraordinary collection of hand-painted imagery onto the walls and building of Deptford. What will we reveal? Long lost visions of Lewisham! Ghost Ships of Deptford Docks! Monsters of the River Thames! Christopher Marlowe’s Demons! Lost Treasures of Deptford Market! \n  \nJoin us outside Little Nan’s Bar by Deptford Railway Station from 5.30pm\, the walk departs at 6pm up the High Street to The Thames Path and to The Creek return to the Station\, the walk is 1.6miles will last approximately 1.5 hour with regular stops. We’ll be using pavements and paved paths and making regular stops so it’s suitable for everyone. You are welcome to join us for as little or as long as you wish. \nPlease bring warm waterproof clothing suitable for the February weather. \n \n\n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/nautical-twilight-tour-sleepwalkers-guide-to-deptford/
LOCATION:Little Nans Bar\, by Deptford Station\, London\, SE8 4BZ
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220214T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220218T193000
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SUMMARY:The Sleepwalker's Guide to Deptford Walks
DESCRIPTION:Three unique walks\, created by InspiralLondon Associate Artists and guests\, that explore the lesser known parts of Deptford\, from its High Street sleepwalking into night fall. \nTo find out more see individual event listings or sign up to free walks go directly to eventbrite links: \n14th Feb: Love around the Mulberry Tree from 5.30 – 8pm TICKET \n17th Feb: Nautical Twilight Tour – Magic lanterns 5.30 – 7.30pm TICKET \n18th Feb: A Sleepwalker’s Guide to Deptford – with Hypnagogic Light at the end 5.30 – 7.30/8pm TICKET \n  \nALL WALKS set off promptly at 6pm.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/the-sleepwalkers-guide-to-deptford/
LOCATION:Deptford Train Station\, Deptford High Street\,\, London\, SE8 3NU
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220214T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220214T200000
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SUMMARY:Love Around the Mulberry Tree
DESCRIPTION:For Love Around the Mulberry Tree\, come prepared for: \nShadow Puppets\, lanterns and Love in the Air\,\nled by Joanna McCormick and Sarah Sparkes  – supported and produced by inspirallondon\n14th February 5:30pm – 800pm \nFor Free Ticket sign up Here \nA dream-like magical mystery tour\, illuminated by twinkling lights\, shadow puppets and ethereal musical wonders. \nSarah and Jo will whisk you away\, down the hidden passage ways and back alleys of Deptford\, in search of the mighty Thames. Uncover a magical dream land\, peopled by a host of historical characters and events. \nFrom good natured ghosts on Butt Lane\, Green folk outside the Dog and Bell and epic street hockey tournaments on Childer’s Street\, the walks will illuminate the lesser known wonders of Deptford. \n \nDiscover the lives\, loves and dreams of local people from the past. Hear the ghostly trumpeting of John Blanke\, esteemed musician at the court of King Henry VIII. Learn of the legacy of Olaudah Equiano\, who fought to free himself from slavery.  Tread the one time grounds of experimental gardener and diarist John Evelyn\, seducer of Restoration maid Mrs Godolphon. Dance around Evelyn’s mulberry tree\, planted by a Russian Tzar. \nThe walk is approximately 2.5 miles long and easy walking on even ground.\nPlease wear appropriate footwear for walking and warm clothing. The walk will go ahead if raining\, just bring an umbrella or wear waterproofs. There will be stopping points\, with benches\, along the route. There will be opportunities to purchase light refreshments\, or you could bring your own. \nThe walk will set off at 6:00pm prompt from Little Nan’s\, Arches 13-15 Deptford Market Yard SE8 4BZ\, close to Deptford Station. The walk will return to Little Nan’s for 8:00pm. \n \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/love-around-the-mulberry-tree/
LOCATION:Little Nans Bar\, by Deptford Station\, London\, SE8 4BZ
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211218T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211218T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060356
CREATED:20211209T195709Z
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SUMMARY:A Return to InspiralLondon Spindle
DESCRIPTION:Returning (to) the Inspiral Spindle: 6pm-7.30pm Saturday 18 December \n \nOn the 18th December InspiralLondon will be revitalising the empty plinth of the Spindle\, the starting point of the 300 mile spiral trail\, now stripped of its Henry Moore sculpture. \nYou can join the inspiral team at 6pm at the spiral plinth for short performance then walk together the first mile of the trail. \nSee the epicentre of the spiral trail here: https://www.inspirallondon.com/location/kings-cross/ \n  \nFrom NIght Walking Xmas 2018 – Knockholt Station. \nFurther January and New Year walks to come…. \nInspiralLondon plans a monthly series of public walks and performative events during 2022 – watch the events page.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/a-return-to-inspirallondon-spindle/
LOCATION:Kings Cross Square\, By Henry Moore Spindle Sculpture\, London\, N1C 4AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211030T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211030T170000
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SUMMARY:Dartford to Gravesend with artist Susie Bear
DESCRIPTION:Trail from Dartford to Gravesend with artist Susie Bear \nAnother unique InspiralLondon unique watery commons exploration through South London to the origins of the in/spiral\n \n“We shall not cease from exploration \nAnd the end of all our exploring \nWill be to arrive where we started \nAnd know the place for the first time.” (TS Eliot – from Little Gidding) \nSign up here \nA new entanglement of the UEL Art Foundation encounter with InspiralLondon as part of their continuing Cultural Landscapes walks: “This process based student project is an example of how intuitive research can enfold us into a material tapestry of collective understanding” Dr Mikey Georgeson. \nThe Thames footpath leads from Dartford (Bridge Development) down to Gravesend\, passing through the old Littlebrook power station site\, down to Greenhithe (Ingress Park)\, where there is plenty of historical sites to encounter. We will then wind our way through the conservation area – Botany Marsh Northfleet (to the south part of Swanscombe Marsh peninsula). Swanscombe marsh recently became a SSSI protected by Natural England as one of the most bio-diverse parts of the city’s watery commons. Home of rare invertbrates like the jumping spider.  Swanscombe Marsh also retains the ghostly memory of our prehistoric origin. \nThe route then becomes quite industrial wending through Northfleet before reaching Gravesend and the Statue of Princess Pocahontas. We will finish at Gravesend Leisure area where there are plenty of places for refreshments – near to the train station.  Gravesend has excellent train links back to London. This walk will take around four hours including stops. \nThis exploratory Hydrodetour is a collaboration between InspiralLondon and UEL Visual Arts foundation. \nWith thanks to Susie Bearman\, UEL Foundation and Dr. Mikey Georgeson. \n \nMeet at Dartford Station 1.30pm on Saturday 30th October for short bus ride to start walk. \nFinish approx. 5pm near to Gravesend Station. \nPlease come prepared for weather conditions and wear good walking boots/shoes. It is worth bringing light refreshments and water. Please sign up our eventbrite – donations welcome. \n \nImages: Susie Bear 2021
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/dartford-to-gravesend-with-artist-susie-bear/
LOCATION:Dartford Rail Station\, Station Aproach\, Dartford\, DA1 1BP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210926T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210926T200000
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SUMMARY:Mollett and Morris’ Hydra-detour Lampshow
DESCRIPTION:Mollett and Morris’ Hydra-detour Lampshow (Meet at Thames-side Gallery from 6pm on Sunday 26 September 2021) \n \nRoll up! Roll up! Ladies and Gentlemen! Boy and Girls! For Mollett & Morris Hydra-Tour Lampshow.\nYour hosts Frog Morris and Nicole Mollett will use the ancient wizardry of magic lantern to conjure up fantastical tales of monsters\, forgotten places and satirical humour. You will not believe the wonders that await you in the watery nooks and crannies of the old Naval Docks… \nPrior to the COVID-19 lockdown\, M & M had been developing a series of guided night walks in Gravesend and Ebbsfleet using hand-held magic lanterns adapted with modern battery powered LED light to project outdoors onto pavement\, tunnels\, walls and buildings. During these lampshows we recreated the lost Rosherville Pleasure Gardens with exotic plants and animals and surprising guest appearances by long lost music hall entertainers such as – Little Titch’s Big Boot Danc or Shrimp impersonator Herr Von Joel. For Woolwich we create a similar guided walk inspired by the water-rich history of this Naval area – War Ships\, Explorers\, Merchants and Buccaneers\, at one time they all passed this way searching for adventure. \n \nA live performance walking tour to take place outdoors after dark\, meeting at an agreed time. The performance can involve audience interaction making sound effects and using small handheld projectors. We will assess the safety of this and make changes dependent on the COVID risk-levels. The lanterns project images 1m – 3m in height from a distance or 2 – 3m. \nThe Art of the Magic Lantern is a collaborative live art project by Nicole Mollett and Frog Morris which re-purposes pre-cinema projection equipment to create new live performance pieces for contemporary audiences. Hand painted illustrations and Victorian-era photographs are projected into dark spaces accompanied by live storytelling. \nTimes: 6.30-8pmish Sunday 26 September \nDeparture Point: Thames-side Gallery\, Thames-Side Studios\, Harrington Way\, Warspite Road\, Royal Borough of Greenwich\, London\, SE18 5NR. \nEnd; near Woolwich Foot Tunnel – short walk through old Naval Dock Yards to finish near Fish and chips/ Woolwich Arsenal DLR station \nMore on Lampshow website
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/mollett-and-morris-hydra-detour-lampshow/
LOCATION:Thames-Side Gallery\, Harrington Way\, Warspite Road Royal Borough of Greenwich\, London\, SE18 5NR\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210926T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210926T170000
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SUMMARY:Hydrodetour: Fluid crossings and stratigraphy - Geodiversity & Art Walk
DESCRIPTION:Hydrodetour: Fluid crossings and stratigraphy – Geodiversity & Art Walk \nled by Artist Gail Dickerson and Geologist Diana Clements. \n26 September 2021 \nCrossing paths of art and geology as we walk – Hydrodetouring deep histories on our journey from Abbey Wood towards the Thames at Woolwich we will explore the colours\, textures and forms deposited by floods\, glaciers\, rivers and seas that once covered the land on our walk from Abbey Wood to the Thames Barrier. From abbeys to fossils\, discussions on chalk and glaciers\, we wind our way along the Thames passed natural sculptures and former quarries\, to marvel at earth colours and exposed layers of London’s strata\, an amazing variation laid down millions of years ago. \n \nSTART Abbey Wood Station \nThe Walk will last approximately 6 hours and toilet stops are very limited. \nBe aware that there are many ups and downs along the 7 miles (11 kilometres) and that there will be roads to cross\, some of them busy.  \nIn the woods the ground may be slippery and uneven although mostly we will be on well-trodden paths and pavements. \nStop 1 View Point at Abbey Wood \nOverview of London geology \nFlooding in the area \nThames Tideway \nStop 2 Fossil Enclosure \nAncient environment of Abbey Wood c. 55 million years ago \nWhat fossils can be found? \nStop 3 Chalky Dell \n                  Ancient environment of Abbey Wood c. 85 million years ago \nNature of Chalk \nStop 4 Conduit Pond \nThe importance of springs in the area \nWhy here? \nStop 5 Bostall Wood \nWhy is there such a steep valley? \nStop 6 Old Quarries\, Mines and Brickworks  \nMore recent history of brickmaking in the area \nHow this spot is influenced by the geology \nStop 7 The Slade \nEffects of the Ice Ages on London \n  \nLUNCH STOP Old Mill Road (Old Mill Inn & snack-bars) \n  \nStop 8 Dog Rocks \nArt\, Natural or Anthropogenic? \nStop 9 Ha-Ha and Shooters Hill \nShooters Hill\, the highest spot in South London \nWhat is it formed of and why does it stand alone? \nStop 10 Charlton Cemetery wall\, Charlton Park Lane \nThe processes and results of brickmaking \nStop 11 Gilbert’s Pit  \n                  The rocks and the pigments obtained \nComparison of the area 55 million years ago to the area in the present day \nStop 12 Thames Barrier \nWhy was it built\, and why here? \nWhat of the future? \nCrossing paths of art and geology as we walk – Hydrodetouring deep histories on our journey from Abbey Wood towards the Thames at Woolwich – artist Gail Dickerson Here and Geologist Diana Clements\, from the London Geodiversity Partnership Here\, explore the colours\, textures and forms deposited by floods\, glaciers\, rivers and seas that once covered the land on our walk from Abbey Wood to the Thames Barrier. From abbeys to fossils\, discussions on chalk and glaciers\, we wind our way along the Thames passed natural sculptures and former quarries\, to marvel at earth colours and exposed layers of London’s strata\, an amazing variation laid down millions of years ago. \nGilbert’s Pit – Old Quarry Charlton\, showing layers of sediment. (image: Gail Dickerson)\nThis walk with Artist Gail Dickerson and Geologist Diana Clements\, both from London Geodiversity Partnership provide a wonderful overview of watery commons and an exploration of fluid geological structures on which the city floats. \nStarting from Abbey Wood station\, winding through green spaces to Lesnes Abbey\, to view point to explore the fossil pit for early mammals\, discuss the chalk at Bostall Wood; then talk about the glaciers at the Slade\, see the Dog Rock natural sculptures on Plumstead Common\, view the exposed layers of London’s strata at the former quarry Gilberts Pit in Charlton\, and then head down to the Thames Barrier at Woolwich. \nWalk approx. 6 hours + Distance: 7 miles + \nStart from:     Abbey Wood Station exit 10:30 am – Abbey Wood\, Londres SE2 9PY \nLunch             Bring a pack lunch \nEnd: by Thames Barrier 16.30 pm or continue to Thameside Studios Gallery to see the Hydracity exhibition with final performance lantern walk starting 6.0 pm \nPart of Totally Thames 2021 and Hydracity (Support of Thames-Side Studios Gallery): \nHydracity invites you to observe and re-imagine London and its hinterland in new ways; to re-experience this fluid\, shifting untameable environment. What is it that circulates beneath our feet oozing from the muddy Thames? In Hydracity we create a unique labyrinth map that interacts with other works & 8 hydrodetours. This ever-changing environment of watery commons\, reflects back something of the hydra-like city\, its ability to rejuvenate\, offering overlapping narratives for a complex ecosystem.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydrodetour-fluid-crossings-and-stratigraphy-geodiversity-art-walk/
LOCATION:Abbey Wood Station\, Felixstowe Road (Abbey Wood Station Exit)\, London\, SE2 9PY
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210925T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210925T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060356
CREATED:20210525T151657Z
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SUMMARY:Hoo Peninsula (Watery) Soundings
DESCRIPTION:Join InspiralLondon and Ian Thompson’s Hoo Peninsula (Watery) Soundings  \nThis long exploratory walk – sounding out and listening in to this watery environment – takes you from the River  \n Medway to the Thames via Higham\, along the route of The Thames/Medway Canal\, dissecting a variety of artificial and natural landscapes teeming with life. The walk will stop at Higham around halfway for those unable to do the full days walking.  \nThe walk is approx. 12 miles. Please bring a suitable packed lunch and refreshments – with suitable clothing and footware for venturing on the edge of a marshy landscape. \n \nTimes: 25 September from 11am – 5pm \nDeparture Point – Medway at the entrance of the canal –Meet at main exit Strood Station\, Canal Road\, ME2 4DR \nEnding either halfway at Higham or at Gravesend Stations. \nExpected Duration: 4 – 6 hours
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hoo-peninsula-watery-soundings/
LOCATION:Strood Rail Sation\, Canal Road\, Rochester\, ME2 4DR
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210925T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210925T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060356
CREATED:20210915T215230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T215230Z
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SUMMARY:Natural Heritage Woolwich Riverside - Hydracity Community Day
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday 25 Sept (10.30-4pm) as part of Hydracity Community events – Natural Heritage Community Day joined a Carnival day in Woolwich Riverside with local walks\, hosted from the Dockyard gem – Clockhouse Community Centre: following the Natural Heritage of Woolwich Docklands with Charlie Fox (inspirallondon collective) from midday to 1.30pm; or going foraging to find fruits and edible plants for jam making workshop with Clare Qualmann’s East End Jam in the afternoon. \n\n\n\n\nJoin a day of Woolwich Riverside Community-led walking to celebrate nature\, and the natural heritage of Woolwich Old Dockyard\, along the River Thames.\n10.15 am Welcome – meet in front of the Clockhouse Community Centre\, SE18 with artist Clare Qualmann and inspirallondon team for a foraging stroll in Clockhouse locality.\n10.30-12 midday Foraging walk/s – identify and collect edible fruits and plants\, at the end of Summer\, to be made into jam. We also be visiting the Community Garden.\nLunch Break – with tasting of East End Jam & inspirallondon jam\, chutney\, jellies.\n1.30 – 4.0pm Drop in Jam making workshop – using the foraged fruits to create jam. Youcan come for an hour\, all welcome\, but children should be accompanied by an adult.\nFrom 12 midday to 1.30 Charlie Fox\, inspiral Director will lead a walk to discover and share local stories or history of Woolwich old Dockyard (we will also be foraging).\n\n \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/natural-heritage-woolwich-riverside-hydracity-community-day/
LOCATION:Clockhouse Community Cente\, Defiance Walk Woolwich Dockyard\, London\, SE18 5QL
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210924T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210924T143000
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SUMMARY:Waterside foraging walk - East End Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Clare Qualmann and InspiralLondon for a waterside foraging walk exploring the unexpectedly edible city. \nThis rambling slow walk – provides time for Waterside foraging – and is part of East End Jam\, an ongoing project to celebrate the unexpected fruitfulness of the urban environment. Come and see what fruits and berries can be found along this part of the Thames Old Woolwich Dockyard and neighbouring areas of Woolwich. \n\nDates & times Friday 24th September 1pm – 2.30pm\nMeet at Thames side Gallery\, Unit 4 Harrington Way\, Warspite Rd\, London SE18 5NR\nSuggested Donation £4 but free if you email: contact@inspirallondon.com\nAccessibility details tbu Nearest Public Transport Woolwich Docks or Woolwich DLR. There is free car parking at Thameside Studio site\, step free access and disabled toilets.\n\n \nPart of Hydracity – Hydrodetours \nHydracity invites you to observe and re-imagine London and its hinterland in new ways – to re-experience this fluid\, shifting and untamable environment. What is it that circulates beneath our feet oozing from the muddy Thames Delta? This ever-changing environment of the aqueous commons reflects something of the hydra-like city\, whose ability to rejuvenate\, offers overlapping narratives for this complex watery ecosystem. For the Gallery\, InspiralLondon collectively co-creates a unique labyrinth map that interacts with other archives\, experiences and with eight new hydrodetours.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/waterside-foraging-walk-east-end-jam/
LOCATION:Thames-Side Gallery\, Harrington Way\, Warspite Road Royal Borough of Greenwich\, London\, SE18 5NR\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T170000
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SUMMARY:Hydrodetour Marine & Green – Watery Commons in Surrey Quays
DESCRIPTION:Marine & Green with Inspiraller Keith Turpin\nWednesday 22 September 2021 – Meet at Surrey Quays to head down to the Thames via Greenland Dock. \nThis walk follows the theme of “Marine & Green”\, exploring the interplay of river\, Docks\, waterways & green spaces bound by the curving  contours of the Thames in this unique part of the city \nWe will head West around the Surrey Quays peninsula passing Surrey Docks Farm\, cut into Russia Dock woods & pick up the canal/channels to Surrey Water. \nFinally we hit the Thames again at Rotherhithe exploring the village & waterfront & cut into Southwark Park to finish our explorations of Watery Commons  at Canada Water (maybe options for Rotherhithe or onto Surrey Quays again if easier connections.) \n \nKeith is a London Walks Guide and conducts tours for the Brunel Museum\, in Rotherhithe Village. He will be joined by InspiralLondon Director Charlie Fox to talk all things Watery and Courage.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydrodetour-marine-green-watery-commons-in-surrey-quays/
LOCATION:Surrey Quays Station\, Lower Road\, Rotherhithe\, London\, SE16 2UF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210918T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210918T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060356
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SUMMARY:Watery Woolwich – London’s Celtic Omphalos
DESCRIPTION:Watery Woolwich – London’s Celtic Omphalos (18 September 11am-1.30pm)\nJoin InspiralLondon’s Director and Sailor Forbes for an Hydrodetour exploration of London’s watery genesis\, around Woolwich Thameside. Starting from Thames-side Studios Gallery 11 am near to the Thames Barrier – nearest station Woolwich Docklands or Woolwich Arsenal DLR. \nA walk that will see the ghostly re-appearance of Sailor Forbes returning from the National Maritime Museum. \n \nAround the millennium\, on the edge of Woolwich’s secret city\, a new chapter of London’s history was once again being hurriedly re-buried\, under the footings being explored near to the Thames. Here on the site of the demolished Woolwich Power Station\, Sailor Forbes will guide you on a tour of London’s true centre\, the Celtic Omphalos of the pre-Roman City complex lost beneath the destructive power of this ‘civilising’ Empire. Before this glassy empire of Riverside apartments\, lay a network of pathways and waterways linking another culture\, looking out\, far and long\, down the Thames Delta toward Europe. \nSearching among the re-landscaped ground between Beresford Street and the wall of the Thames 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 turn and gaze to the East the rising ground of old Woolwich. Undoubtedly this location on the Thames\, looking out to sea\, was an ideal site for a major 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 Thames Delta. Alongside other oppida – on the reaches of the River Roding and those yet to be located – this walk reimagines London’s history through the lens of watery commons. And recreates a complex mapping of settlements entirely independent of the Roman foundation of London the City- as the original centres of a Celtic metropolis along the Thames – and as one part of the Druid’s geometrical mapping of 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 Graham Robb’s The Ancient Paths- Discovering the Lost map of Celtic Europe\, 2013: 260-261) \n \nTimes: 11am -1.30pm Saturday 18 September. \nDeparture Point: Thames-side Gallery \nThames-Side Studios\nHarrington Way\, Warspite Road\nRoyal Borough of Greenwich\nLondon\, SE18 5NR. \nEnd Point near to ; Woolwich Arsenal DLR station – mainline\n21 Greens End\, Woolwich\nLondon\, SE18 6JY \nFor this walk of approximately 2 miles\, we will meet at Hydracity exhibition space at Thames-Side Gallery\, then walk along the Thames path to Woolwich Foot Tunnel; to then explore beneath the waterside redevelopments of Royal Arsenal\, another watery geography suggested by recent archaeological findings and the shifting silt of the Thames. \nThe walk will finish near the centre of Woolwich where you can find lunch or refreshments. Please bring suitable clothes and shoes for the walk\, and depending on the weather conditions\, suncream or water proofing. \n \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/watery-woolwich-londons-celtic-omphalos/
LOCATION:Thames-Side Gallery\, Harrington Way\, Warspite Road Royal Borough of Greenwich\, London\, SE18 5NR\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210917T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210917T160000
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SUMMARY:Urban Sound Ecology investigations Hydro/detour- Greenwich Peninsula
DESCRIPTION:Urban Sound and Hydrodetour Ecology is walk led by Soundcamp SC\, in partnership with Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Centre \nMeeting: 12 noon at Thames-Side Studios Gallery\, Thames-Side Studios (Harrington Way\, Warspite Road Royal Borough of Greenwich SE18 5NR) \nThis is a unique opportunity to visit one of London’s most intriguing ecology parks (a set of specially created ponds by the River Thames) while being introduced to the sound world broadcast through soundcamp’s pioneering work. \nMeet at Hydracity exhibition to listen to soundcamp’s live streaming and then walk along the Thames Pathway to arrive at Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park (1pm )\, to meet staff for a tour of the site and investigate the sound ecology streaming potential of this remarkable aquatic site. \nFrom 2pm-4pm Streambox workshop and install with possible Hydrophonic listening of pond ecosystems. \nThis is a walk for anyone discover the unique ecology park at Greenwich Peninsula and encounter the possibilties of sound ecology to inspire and share other sensory experiences. \nSC are an arts cooperative based in London\, Crete and the The Hague. Work explores intersections among social\, personal and environmental ecologies. SC initiated the Creative Europe small cooperation project: Acoustic Commons (2020-22)\, in partnership with arts organisations in Europe and Japan. Projects include the annual Reveil daybreak broadcast (3.3 million Twitter impressions on #Reveil2020)\, Biosphere Open Microphones (BIOM – with UNESCO) and PITCH – a project on indigenous soundworlds in development with Museum of the UN / UN Live. \nFor the workshop soundcamp will be setting up an experimental soundbox at Ecology Centre. \nFor more info on Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Centre – https://thelandtrust.org.uk/space/greenwich-ecology-park/ \n \n  \n \nAs a remote part of Hydracity Soundcamp (SC) will install an off-grid streambox or ‘Barking Box’ at Beckton Creek\, London\, where the river Roding discharges into the Thames. The device will relay live sounds to a public online platform\, where listeners can exchange impressions and responses to the stream\, via IRC chat. This will be the basis for a series of virtual and face to face listening events\, generating an extended text record of audio observations over a year.   \nThe site includes close associations and interactions between ‘natural’ features such as reedbeds\, watercourses and tidal mudflats\, and ‘cultural’ or ‘industrial’ features such as recycling\, ‘strip out’ and waste handling facilities\, the largest sewage works in Europe and the abandoned Beckton Gasworks\, where soil contamination has blocked development. Together these elements form significant edgeland habitats\, and a mix of aquatic and terrestrial ecologies.\n\nThe stream will be presented\, together with contextual materials\, as part of Hydracity in late 2021. The ‘flat ontological’ presentation of sound objects developed for the proposal will be extended into a series of large works for the wall at the Thames Studios gallery\, bringing together text and other documentation generated remotely and in situ. \n\nBarking Box continues SC’s long standing interest in using real-time sound and collective listening to tune into lesser known places and environmental objects that resist straightforward description and classification. The provisional flattening of values in relation to the site creates a space for new hearings and interpretations to emerge.\n\n\n\nThese Walk is part of Hydracity 2021-2022: \nHydrodetours Walks are integral part of InspiralLondon’s larger Hydracity project\, to explore and map the hidden\, lost or undervalued watery commons of London and the Thames Valley Delta. \nFrom September 10 – 26 September visit HYDRACITY\, an exhibition featuring the work of collectives\, community groups\, local and international artists\, all exploring this watery commons\, together. \nThames-Side Gallery (Harrington Way\, Warspite Road Royal Borough of Greenwich SE18 5NR) \nFriday 10 September 2021\, 6-9pm Exhibition opening events (all welcome) \nExhibition open Saturday Saturday 11th – Sunday 26th September 2021 \nOpening times: Thursday-Sunday\, 12 – 5pm Except Sunday 26 September open late to 6pm.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/urban-sound-ecology-investigations-greenwich-peninsula/
LOCATION:Thames-Side Gallery\, Harrington Way\, Warspite Road Royal Borough of Greenwich\, London\, SE18 5NR\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210912T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210912T153000
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SUMMARY:Watery Commons Deptford   
DESCRIPTION:Join InspiralLondon’s Hydrodetours in a collective exploration of Watery Commons Deptford   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet: 10am  Deptford DLR Station \nEnd: Near Canada Water overground and bus routes at 3.30pm \n5 miles – 4.5 hours (approx) \n \nJoin InspiralLondon’s Hydrodetours in a collective exploration of Deptford’s watery commons. On this walk we will meander together from the Ravensbourne River at Brookmill Park\, along Deptford Creek to the River Thames. We will encounter on the route – activists\, campaigners\, residents\, conservationists – and learn more about the layers of this unique area’s history: including social histories and recent anti gentrification battles that define the ongoing story of this historic part of London and all its watery commons. \nPlease check back nearer the time for more details – plus contributors info. \nTerrain: Flat\, maybe some steps but optional depending on the tide. \nBring: Please bring packed lunch and water – we will pass a supermarket just before lunch break\, flat comfortable shoes\, sketchbook encouraged but not essential. \nInspiralLondon will also provide some light refreshments. Donation to support activity of InspiralLondon CIC
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/watery-commons-deptford/
LOCATION:Deptford Bridge DLR\, Blackheath Road\, London\, SE8 4HP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210911T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210911T160000
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SUMMARY:Branches of the Wogebourne - Hydrodetour
DESCRIPTION:Branches of the Wogebourne with J D Swann\nSaturday 11th September Starting at: 11am Welling Station (Zone 4).\nFinishing: at Southmere Lake\, Thamesmead – then 1km walk to Abbey Wood Station (Zone 4)\n11 kilometres walk – 4 hours (approx)\n8+ under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult \n\nInspiralLondon’s resident ornithological investigator J D Swann will lead a walk along a possible route of the lost Wogebourne river\, its source emerged from Oxleas Wood on Shooters Hill\, the highest point in Greater South London at 132 metres. It was called in 14th century manuscripts the Wogebourne or Woghbourne becoming widely known as Plumstead River in the following centuries. However\, by the 1970’s much of the river had been enclosed just as the Westbourne had been in West London or the Fleet in the City; it had then become the Wickham Valley Waterway\, shifting names for a mysterious watercourse. \nObservation of wildlife will be encouraged as we pass through Shrewsbury Park and East Wickham Open Space. There the Wogebourne branches between and under Plumstead housing towards Abbey Wood Station\, it was exposed there during the construction of Crossrail in 2015 (opening 2018 and counting) where it is referred to in plans as a stormwater drain. The branch we will be following is through Bostall Heath and Woods into the ancient Lesnes Abbey Woods with its ponds and streams. We walk past the 11th century Lesnes Abbey ruins into the South Thamesmead Estate and to Southmere Lake. The lake was created in the late 1960’s as part of the drainage system for the new Thamesmead development; there an underground channel takes the remnants of the Wogebourne to the Thames at the Crossness Pumping Station outfall. \nJ D Swann appears courtesy of Calum F Kerr \nTerrain: Long uphill climb at Shooter’s Hill then largely downhill until Bostall Woods and Lesnes Abbey Woods in which there are several steep slopes and stairs. Oxleas Woods and Lesnes Abbey Woods after rain can be particularly muddy so appropriate footwear and weather-appropriate clothing recommended. Binoculars and Recording devices for nature are encouraged. There is a Café/WC at Oxleas Meadows\, Lesnes Abbey has a Café/WC (closes 3.30pm). All subject to Covid-19 Guidelines.
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/branches-of-the-wogebourne/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210910T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210926T180000
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SUMMARY:Hydracity - Towards Watery Commons 
DESCRIPTION:Hydracity – Towards Watery Commons \nAn Exhibition from 10th September – 26th September at the Thames-Side Studios Gallery with a programme of walks\, performances\, and interactive artworks. \nFinal Weekend Special Events: \nStart the final weekend of September with gentle Waterside Foraging led by artist Clare Qualmann (on Friday 24 Sept\,  Meeting at Thames-Side Studio Gallery for walk 1pm – 2.30pm); the fruits and edibles will be used on the following day. \nSaturday 25 Sept (10.30-4pm) as part of Hydracity Woolwich Riverside Community events – Natural Heritage Community Day with local walks – see here.\n \nOr join Ian Thompson’s unique walk from Rochester to Gravesend skirting the Thames Delta marshlands on Hoo Soundings along Thames/Medway canal (11am -5pm) \n\nThen on Sunday 26 September Exhibition open from 12 to 6.30pm \nAt the exhibition events for all from 4-7pm Hydracity Story Tales and Tails\, ending with a magical lantern show. \nFrom 4pm inspirallondon will serve tea and drinks including our vintage inspiral sloe gin. Alongside Hydracity Associate Artists Tales and Tails from Hydrodetours and inspiralling – the histories\, archaeology and geology hidden beneath the watery commons: Including readings and tales from Le Collectif des Gammares… \nFrom 6pm an appearance of the Blue Porcupine from Gravesend (artist – Sarah Sparkes) \nFor Hydracity finale from 6.15 pm Mollett and Morris setting up for Hydrodetour of Woolwich Old Dockyard – With Gallery Lantern show from 6.30pm. Come prepared for fantastical tales of monsters\, forgotten places and satirical humour in the watery nooks and crannies of the old Naval Docks. \n(If you are coming to the walk that leaves the Gallery and finishes around 7.45pm please do book here and wear sensible clothing and lighting for an early evening walk) \n \nHydracity asks us to observe and imagine London and its hinterland as watery environment\, by inviting artists to re-experience this fluid\, shifting and untameable environment. What is it that circulates beneath our feet oozing from the muddy delta of the Thames as we explore the interconnected labyrinth of watery commons intersecting urban spaces\, that flow across\, through and into us? \nThis exhibition will focus on our experience of these watery commons while exploring fluid collective co-creation. You are invited to collaborate in this artistic project to reimagine the city as a watery ecosystem. By re-evaluating the city as a space shaped by water\, we’ll track the nature and extent of the radical changes wrought on the valley’s watery arteries\, while creating alternative visions\, and understandings. \nHydracity also re-imagines the city’s river system as slowly evolving tentacled organism\, much like a hydra’s looping locomotion. By observing water – its capacity to merge fluidity and solidity – we can see it as a regenerative resource and even a metaphor for shifting times.  This ever-changing environment of the aqueous commons reflects something of the hydra-like city\, whose ability to rejuvenate offers overlapping narratives for this complex watery labyrinth. For the exhibition at Thames-side Gallery InspiralLondon creates a unique sculptural labyrinth map that interacts with other activities\, archives\, experiences and with potential walks across the city. \nArtists\, artist groups and collectives have been invited to contribute to Hydracity\, by coming together in this search for our watery commons. The exhibition launches a number of specially commissioned public artworks that includes Hydrodetours guided walks; performances; sound and sculptural installation; performative lectures; films and an interactive watery archive. Together\, making alternative narratives for places\, people and the landscape within London’s Thames basin by immersing ourselves in different ways of understanding the city’s waterways\, and in experiencing the complex ecosystems and surprising biodiversity sustained by them. \nInspiralLondon’s Hydracity is an artistic exploration of London’s urban environment and ecology through on the ground mapping with the aim to create a network of alternative histories\, stories and experiences of the  commons. This collective art project is an opportunity for artists to re-imagine the Thames Delta as a fluid and dream-like ecosystem\, unpredictable\, ever shifting and dissolving and ultimately mysterious. \nPreview: Friday 10 September 2021\, 6-9pm\, exhibition opens Saturday 11 September 2021- Exhibition dates: Saturday 11 – Sunday 26 September 2021   Open Thursday-Sunday\, 12-5pm (except 26 September open until 6pm) \n \n 
URL:https://www.inspirallondon.com/event/hydracity-towards-watery-commons/
LOCATION:Thames-Side Gallery\, Harrington Way\, Warspite Road Royal Borough of Greenwich\, London\, SE18 5NR\, United Kingdom
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