Walking Wolverhampton for Wellbeing

University of Wolverhampton, Being Human Fest

Join us for a positively disruptive walk across various sites in the city of Wolverhampton to enhance your wellbeing.

Boundary Way

Join us for a positively disruptive walk across the city of Wolverhampton to enhance your wellbeing. We start at West Park for an exploration of Black Country Geopoetics by writer Dr R.M. Francis, who attempts to understand how humans relate to the natural world. At Wolverhampton Art Gallery you’re invited to make your own prints with artist and University of Wolverhampton’s lecturer in Fine Arts Laura Onions. The final stop is Boundary Way Allotments, where we focus on climate change via an immersive tour through a soundscape in the community garden on the theme of letters to the future. Wolverhampton’s poet laureate Kuli Kohli and other members of Wolverhampton Womens Punjabi Writers Group end the day with performances of environmentally-inspired poetry. This event is suitable for all audiences over 14, however anyone under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. For people less able to walk there is transportation between the different locations, with a final drop-off at Wolverhampton train station.Detailed schedule:9:30 Possibility to board coach at Wolverhampton train station10:00 Meet at the bandstand in West Park for a talk about and performance of Black Country Geopoetics by University of Wolverhampton’s Creative Writing lecturer Dr R.M. Francis10:30 Walk to the Wolverhampton Art Gallery11:00 - 12:30 Printmaking workshop with artist and University of Wolverhamton’s lecturer in Fine Arts Laura Onions and visit of Dear tomorrow exhibition, including refreshments and nibbles12:30 - 14:00 Walk to Boundary Way Allotments		For people less able to walk there is a coach for transportation12:00 - 15:00 Immersive walk at Boundary Way Allotments and Community Garden, with a soundscape and a visual installation. Visitors will be guided by Boundary Way Project staff. In conjunction with global climate storytelling project ‘Dear Tomorrow’.*14.30 - 16:00 Exhibition and performances Poetry readings in Boundary Way Community Garden including refreshments. Kuli Kohli and other local writers will read environmentally-inspired poetry.16:00 Event ends. Transportation to Wolverhampton train station. *If you have mobility problems can you let the organisers know so we can arrange for on-site transportation.

This event is part of the Being Human festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 10–19 November 2022. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.

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