Walking
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
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
Tales from a Slow Way
How does it feel to walk blind?
Gill has been blind since a car accident in her teens. Join her on a walk through West Norfolk in this beautiful film
Article
A tale of two cities: wealth gap neighbourhoods
What is going on when the people at one end of a single route live ten years longer than the people at the other end? Heiba Lamara looks at five Slow Ways that pass...
Trails
Our Carlisle to Newcastle walk immortalised in silver talisman rings
What to expect when blazing a new coast-to-coast trail across the North (bog soup!), and how we told the tale in film and silver
Article
I walked through the Cambrian Mountains in the footsteps of a Victorian snob
Author and 'extreme rambler' Ursula Martin compares her walk to George Borrow's 170 years ago. Will she be rude about redheads too?
Long read
Walking artist ‘living with a bowl of lava in my brain’ learns to walk again at 34
The story that Slow Ways storyteller Genevieve Rudd never imagined she'd be writing for us
Nature
“For people of colour, our migration is often met with suspicion”
Writer and founder of Peaks of Colour, Evie Muir, shares how a recent 'walkshop' along the Rivelin Valley Trail helped articulate an embodied response to liberation