Age suitability: family groups of all ages welcome, recommended for children aged 6+ and must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Situated 15 minutes into Wales from the Welsh-English border, Fishpools is set within the Radnor Forest, a landscape of hill farming, moorlands, steep narrow valleys and hills.
This walk takes the border as its inspiration, and will encourage children, along with their parents or guardians, to explore this beautiful, historic woodland as one group.
Meeting at the carpark, the first part of the walk will include playful interventions and invite participants to connect with each other and the woodland environment.
We’ll be inspired by borderers of the past, who would have bartered and borrowed as they made their way through this landscape. Carrying an object as a group, we’ll share, pass and translate as we go, and look at how this shapes the way we walk and relate to each other.
We’ll then walk deeper into the woods using a couple of smaller side paths, until we reach a clearing, where there will be a foraged, seasonal warm or cool drink waiting. Afterwards, participants are invited to disperse, either back to the carpark or further into the woodland.
About the artist:
Sarah Boulton is an artist and trained forest school leader. She lives near Hay on Wye and runs her own forest school, Land Under Waves, nearby. As an artist she’s shown work across the UK, most recently at Studio Kind, Devon. She has an intuitive, participatory approach to working with people and places, and works with drawing, poetry, performance and foraged materials.
The walk is organised as part of Meadow Arts’ BorderLands project, a three-year, place-based partnership project inspired by Offa’s Dyke and the Welsh Border region. It challenges the idea of borders dividing territory and communities and instead sees them as places of connection and shared identity. Through contemporary visual art, the project invites communities to reflect on how they experience and interpret borders in their own lives and globally.
This event is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills.
This walk coincides with Kington Walking Festival’s Autumn Festival.
