Two festivals of non-stop nightdays of walking art; public walks, workshops, talks and urban exploration along unique Spiral London Trail. Is this email not displaying correctly?View it in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/b8fc0801da06/nightday-walking-art-inspirallondon-festivals?e=ca7d352ef1> . *2 NightDay Walk Festivals * NightWalking NorthKent April 19-22 48hr Relay of InspiralLondon July 21-22 *Exhilarating Walking Art - exploring the metropole together...* ------------------------------ *NightWalking Programme** April 19-22* Less than 3 weeks to go and spring arrives with a riot of sound, sight and moon swept explorations - *Night Walking programme <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=131aad44d5&e=ca7d352ef1>* - Tickets. <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=59c6d9a7b1&e=ca7d352ef1> With four nightdays of curated walking art events: entertaining or challenging rambles, with artistic workshops/talks and an exhibition display at Gravesend Library (26 March – 30 April). During the festival associate and local artists will offer unique responses to the metropolitan trail experience, in being a part of, then reclaiming the city by night. ------------------------------ *'Only one's a wanderer' Launch Map & Walk* *19 April 6.45-8.30/10.30pm *The Place, Kings X *Talks and Launch from 6.45pm , Night Walk from 8.45pm* Beginning the journey at Kings Cross, we launch the Inspiral trail map - Inspiral Director Anne Robinson will talk about her new work *Darks* and on being a flaneuse - *‘Only One’s a Wanderer.’ <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=6d2076a065&e=ca7d352ef1>* The evening culminates with unique ‘*Night Walking with Dickens – The road home’* guided by Keith Turpin following Dickens's steps from the spirals centre out toward Kent. Book Tickets *Here <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=20c7bcaf84&e=ca7d352ef1>* ------------------------------ *NightWalking in NorthKent 20-22 April *Gravesend, Northfleet & Medway *20 April 6.45-9.15pm Gravesham Arts Centre* Sarah Sparkes’s curates and hosts* GHost Hostings 19: Of Ghosts and Spirites Walking by Nyght <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=bed4f63951&e=ca7d352ef1>* with Fortean Scott Wood, storyteller Giles Abbott and haunting sonic performances from Breathing Space Collective <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=0041136839&e=ca7d352ef1> . *Then from 9.30-11.30pm* *HiLight Walk from GAC to Northfleet* Join the *HiLight Rosherville walk <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=a62b9599fb&e=ca7d352ef1>* to Northfleet, illuminated by Mollett and Morris’s new magic lantern encounters with the Rosherville Pleasure Gardens. As the evening progresses you will be invited to reclaim the night together with – *dotdotdash* - Birgitta Hosea’s collaborative light action. Bring lights and expect musical entertainments. Discount Ticket <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=1cba0fe140&e=ca7d352ef1> - Return trains from Ebbsfleet Intl. ------------------------------ *On the weekend 21/22 April*, LV21 and Gravesham Arts host *video installations* by Richard Couzins, Sarah Sparkes, Anne Robinson and counterproductions, discover Caroline Gregory’s* Talismans*, or join a talk/workshop including: live introduction of Rachel Gomme’s street tree-twinning, soundcamp <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=71ab2e1eae&e=ca7d352ef1> sound or enjoy free *Rosherville HiLights <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=15d20679d5&e=ca7d352ef1>* making menagerie workshop. *21 April Saturday 4.30-6.30pm On the Marshes Talk <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=b339cc8912&e=ca7d352ef1>* at LV21 LV21 <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=19bd5051a8&e=ca7d352ef1> provides a suitably Estuarine venue for a talk introducing our *Long Hoo Night Walk,* with nature writer and conservationist Carol Donaldson, celebrating the North Kent Marshlands. Carol’s book, *On the Marshes* <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=ace0828cb1&e=ca7d352ef1> follows a journey across the North Kent Marshes meeting people who have chosen to live in unconventional ways. While sound artist Grant Smith will introduce us to ways of experiencing and listening to soundscapes remotely. The talks will be facilitated by artist educator Jane Trowell. *6.45pm to late The Long Hoo Night Walk <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=5921eabd2b&e=ca7d352ef1> *from LV21/GAC This 26-kilometre+ walk into the night explores the Eastern Hoo, a 21st Century version of Charles Dickens’s treks to Gad's Hill; exploring the unique diversity of the marshes, we prepare ourselves by discussing birds of the night, Great Expectations and all things orniphilosophical with Inspiral’s unique ornithological expert J D Swann. NOTE: The walk is broken into 2 parts with trains from Higham Station (10.30pm); return to Gravesend 3am. ------------------------------ *InspiralLondon 36: Street Tree and 21C Beautification Detour* *Sunday 22 April 2pm* meet at Entrance Ferry Pier Join us at the start of *segment 36 of the Metropolitan Trail* <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=29fec0ac7f&e=ca7d352ef1>- leaving Gravesend, we walk southwards along Inspiral Trail back toward London. This unique detour to Hartley, includes a pilgrimage with 21stC Beautification Committee plane tree sapling to the site of Fairby Grange. *All ticket/info festival available here <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=a0516f51d4&e=ca7d352ef1>or brochure here <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=24a7e73ddb&e=ca7d352ef1>* ------------------------------ *Recommendations including Explore the urban Forest * *Tomorrow 6.15 pm*: Herne Hill Rail station, London SE24 0JW Continuing their popular series of *Stalking Trees* walkshops, Museum of Walking are delighted to welcome *Paul Wood,* author of ‘*London Street Trees*‘ (Guardian Nature Books of 2017) to entice you to *Explore the Urban Forest in Herne Hill*. for walks info booking HERE <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=2e4449b8c2&e=ca7d352ef1> *The Demolition Project: *Following a rain fueled walk on 30th March The Demolition Project is starting a series of monthly walks around London Docklands. Walking through an environment that mixes industry, the riverside, construction sites and new developments, exploring complex urban landscape and soundscape. See here <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=a98a6c969e&e=ca7d352ef1> *May 5-6 Stave Hill and elsewhere: *Finally don't forget to book your place for Soundcamp 2018 - http://soundtent.org/ <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=8ce9274ddc&e=ca7d352ef1> ------------------------------ Save the dates *July 21-22* to celebrate National Park City - InspiralLondon will be hosting a 48 hour relay walk of London's spiralling Metropolitan Trail - https://inspirallondon.com/ <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=c21f126279&e=ca7d352ef1> Find Us on Facebook <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=bed8db2a38&e=ca7d352ef1> Follow on Twitter <https://inspirallondon.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=352f3f391f&e=ca7d352ef1> Forward to a Friend <http://us6.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=411e64604cb3dc0d0578fe16d&id=d99084953c&e=ca7d352ef1> Rosherville Gardens model The scale model of Victoirain Pleasure Gardens before their sad and untimely demise. Photo: counterproductions Night Mapping Walk Knockholt to Pratt's Bottom Segment 35/34, mapped together in November 2017 Photo: counterproductions GHost Hostings 19. 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