Utopia/dystopia in conversation
Opening and closing on foot. Walk and talk. Listen. Sense. Consider the views.
A free and open conversation in which artists, writers, thinkers and anyone else who wants to join in can engage with themes that correspond with the best of our aspirations and the worst of our nightmares. 
Come and go as you please. The café will be open.

Saturday, May 28  Bath School of Art and Design
Sion Hill, Lansdown   BA1 5SF

11.00 Open the conversation, stretch minds and legs on a networked walk to The Finest View in Europe  
(but it may cost you to get in!)
Out of the enchanted city, over the fields, up the hill and back again down the road.
Meet at reception. Approx 3 mile walk. Return approx 13.00. 

1330 for 1400 - 1700   Lecture Theatre
Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe
Guest speakers include: 
Kate Rigby, the newly appointed Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University and author of Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe;  
Linda Williams, a specialist on human-animal relations, climate change and mass species extinction; and 
Rachel Withers, writer and critic, focussing on art and ideas.

17.00 Wayfaring in the Enchanted City
The conversation continues in the café, online and on foot walking through the heart of utopian Bath, approx 19.00 arriving at “Bath’s Artisan Quarter” for exhibitions and the utopian/dystopian pub, The Bell, in Walcot Street.

In the two walks opening and closing the day Richard White invites walkers to share thoughts and generate resonances on utopian/dystopian aspects of the city. Follow and contribute @walknowlive and  #walknow

Richard offers a further walk on Wednesday 1 June sense-ing the purity of spring waters and the legacies of slaveownership. 
Meet 11.00 44AD, The Time Machine.
More details of the walks here: http://www.walknowtracks.co.uk/walks.html
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