~ Please note: This walkshop is open to People of Colour only ~
way/mark/ing is a collaborative project that brings together Black artists across the city to further the work of the late, great, historian, educator and racial justice activist Mark Hustchinson. Mark has left behind an expansive archive documenting Sheffield's Black history, and way/mark/ing attempts to make this public through our community gatherings.
Peaks of Colour is contributing to the project by curating a series of way/mark/ing walkshops, held in the Peak District. Inviting artists and organisers to share their cartographic and grief-tending practices as tools of temporal and spacial justice, together we will journey between past, present and future in pursuit of collective liberation.
way/marking walkshop #2: Playing & Co-Creating
In our second way/mark/ing walkshop we will explore how playful and creative practices can give us permission to experience and exaggerate the breadth of our emotions. Drawing from clown, improv games, grief tending, and toddlers, Camille will introduce us to Grief Games, providing an experimental, trauma-informed container to move through a series of exercises that explore being with and expressing feelings beyond words. After lunch, Benaiah will guide us to decipher and extrapolate these emotions through textiles, drawing and paint mediums. Incorporating the elements and the landscape, we will create different pigments and effects which will allow us to expose our emotions on site, with nature as both witness and collaborator.
About the Walk
Snakes Pass is an infamous road that journeys through the Peak District's vast landscape. Our walkshop will be held in a tucked away valley, a short walk from our meeting point. From here, we will journey down into the valley, surrounded by hills. Encased by nature, we will cross the stream, and settle in our walkshop location; a riverside meadow next to the ruins of an old farm house - now home to a family of sheep and lambs.
Though the walk isn't very long, our individual and collective waymarking practices will in fact start from home. This is because there is very little signal and a small number of parking spaces at our meeting point. In the lead up to walkshop, we will share information about how to get there, considering what care-full methods we must apply in order to arrive on time and in purpose.
Date: Saturday 9th August
Time: 11am
Meeting location: Blackden View Farm, (layby), Snakes Pass, A57
Ability: Easy-Medium
Accessibility: The walk from the meeting point to the walkshop location is short, but includes going down (and coming up on the return) a steep hill with uneven terrain and crossing a bridge.
Duration: 5-6 hours
Additional details: There is no pubic transport to our meeting location. There is also limited parking spaces and intermittent signal.
We reccomend organising car shares via our closed Facebook group: here. We will share the Google Pin, What3Words, images and further instructions shared closer to the time.
What to bring/wear
- Walking boots/Comfy footwear
- Packed lunch
- Plenty of water
- Weather appropriate clothing/items eg Waterproofs/sun cream
- Blanket or something comfy to sit on
- Sketchbooks/art supplies (optional)
~ Please note: This walkshop is open to People of Colour only ~
