way/mark/ing walkshop #3: Emoting and Embodying

~ 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: Emoting and Embodying

In our final walkshop of the series, we will expand the landscapes of our bodies towards liberated ecological futures. A methodology that challenges Western cartographic traditions, RESOLVE Collective’s ‘emotional mapping’ will guide us to visualise, imagine and curate local narratives of the Peak District through foraging, collective song and storytelling. After lunch, Ghost and John will introduce us to their ‘embodied ecology’ practice. Through gentle movements inspired by Traditional Chinese Medicine explored through a queer, migrant perspective, we will feel into the artistic, personal, spiritual, and political constellations that arise when we come together and collide.

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: Sunday 7th September

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.

There are no toilets at the walkshop location.

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 ~

About Peaks of Colour

Peaks of Colour is a Peak Distrcit based, nature-for-healing community group by and for People of Colour. Through our seasonal Walkshops and monthly Soma Sessions we explore alternative routes to healing and justice for those with lived experience of gendered and racialised trauma. Grouned in Black Feminist politics, abolitionist principles and nature-allied practice, we are a commitment to "revolution in service of every living thing" (Lola Olufemi): the human and more than human.

About RESOLVE Collective

RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. In this way, design carries more than aesthetic value; it is also a mechanism for political and socio-economic change.They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across the world, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment.

About Ghost & John

Ghost and John are two artist-researchers across performances, writings and visual arts, and a married couple. They make embodied works about queer migrant experiences, dreaming of futures with lush gardens, fluidity across membranes and liberations after the fall. In their past productions, they present fragmented memories of traumatic experiences related to displacement, relationships, social movement, and technological interaction. Their experimental theatre work “Two Plant Gaysians” is currently available for booking. They are two of the six co-founders of Hidden Keileon CIC.