Tales from a Slow Way
Zine: Telling a different story about North Sheffield
Nisha Kotecha, director of positive news organisation Good News Shared, walks across this deprived and diverse area to explore its rich community spirit
Art
Risograph: walking from Falmouth to Coverack and camping by the Helford river
We invited risograph artists to walk Slow Ways routes and make a piece of bespoke artwork about the experience. Madeleine Kemsley chose a magical walk, night swim and wild camp in southwest Cornwall
Environment
Geography students of colour band together amidst a diversity crisis
Minoritised students in Lancaster counter the male-dominated, Eurocentric, heteronormative study of the environment. And go for a walk!
Art
“To return to a place” is decolonising work in practice
Writer and founder of Peaks of Colour, Evie Muir, shares how a recent artistic 'walkshop' in Ecclesall Wood helped forge an embodied connection with nature at a mycorrhizal level resulting in a sensory woodland exhibition
led walks
Podcast: A walking tour of the Somali East End
British Somali tour guide Abdiladif Ahmed invites you to explore the lesser-known landmarks and histories of the Somali community in the East End of London
Journeys
Pushing ourselves to exhaustion and coming through stronger – could your family do this?
Three days, three dogs, marathon distances and a teenager – together we discovered what resilience looks like
This story is the next in our Trails series. We invited people to apply to assemble a group of friends...
Short read
Jenn and Mike are MJ Outdoor Adventures, and they walked along Slow Ways from Colchester to Leigh-on-Sea
This story is the next in our Trails series. We invited people to apply to assemble a group of friends...
Trails
“Blisters the size of cats”: a zine on walking from Leeds to Hull
A group of friends walk from Leeds to Hull and capture their experiences through the co-creation of a zine, a small imaginative D.I.Y publication