FINDING VIEWS
DATE: Friday 21st February
TIME: 13:00 - 15:30
WHERE: Meet at Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof - we will be walking around the surrounding neighbourhood.
IMPORTANT INFO: Prepare for all weather! Wear comfortable shoes and bring waterproof clothing. Carry water and a snack if you think you’ll need this. If the weather becomes too difficult for a walking workshop, an alternative exercise will be proposed.
RSVP is not essential, but encouraged! You can either email me at rebeccadouglass7@outlook.com or text at +31624215459
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What is The Walking-Working Group?
Walking, strolling, ambling, sauntering… the Walking Working Group is a series of workshops for anyone interested in passing through the city on foot, experimenting with different ways to connect to our sense of place!
This project is less concerned with getting from A to B - rather the many unique and important experiences that can happen in between. During each workshop we’ll be focussing on a new idea, seeing how walking can connect us to writing, listening, drawing, talking, eating and more.
How can we capture the fleeting moments of a walk? Or is fleetingness the very essence of the walk after all?...
For this Walking Working Group, we will focus on the passing of sights, images, memories as we pass through Slotermeer - what ways are there to see? How can we compose images for each other? How can we experience fleeting moments of a walk?
During this exploratory adventure, we will walk through the neighbourhood armed with simple viewfinders - little squares of cardboard through which you can frame your view. Throughout the walk, we will create and share fleeting moments of place through our viewfinders - you might even decide to make your own viewfinder during the walk, or to use your surroundings as viewfinders in themselves. An act of instant composition, this game asks us to listen and look with all the care of a photographer, without the permanence of the photo.
During and after the walk, there will be moments to record our impressions of this game and of place through guided automatic writing, freeing your writing to the curves, pathways, and compositions we have experienced during the workshop.
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Who is this workshop for…
This workshop is open to EVERYONE. I recognise the exclusionary implications of walking and choose to co-opt this word to mean being physically present and visible in space, moving through it in an impactful way. There will be no pressure to walk at a certain speed, and pauses are greatly encouraged. If you have any questions or requirements, you are more than welcome to drop me a message at +31624215459.
You might like this workshop if…
You live and/or work around the Slotermeer area - my research is situated here, so I am always excited to speak to and learn from people with specific knowledge of this area.
You want to try different modes of creative production - walking as artistic research practice is an exciting, unique and stimulating mode of creation. It gets the blood flowing, but it also connects your thoughts to the passing through place and time. If you want to get inspired in your creative practice, this might be a fun way to experiment.
You enjoy walking and would like to do this activity in a group - walking alone is amazing, walking together is even better!