Join us for monthly online sessions when we’ll be interviewing each other to find out about the peculiar backstories from the team behind Slow Ways
Want to know more about the team behind Slow Ways? Several of us have done some really peculiar, off-the-wall things, and we’d love to invite you to hear about the past lives being channelled into the Slow Ways vision.
From walking around Britain wearing brain sensors, heading off on a six-month epic with a donkey called Chico, uncovering the underbelly of cities as a renegade guide, or being plunged alone into the Canadian wilderness for a survival TV show, we’ll bare all!
Each session one of the team will interview another, plus there will be time for a Q and A so you can ask – how did that help create a national walking network?!
Tues 3rd December: Guerilla geographer Daniel Raven-Ellison Tickets here
Thurs 9th January: Wilderness survivor Eva Outram Tickets here
Weds 5th February: Renegade guide Saira Niazi Tickets here
Weds 5th March: Donkey wrangler Hannah Engelkamp Tickets here
Daniel Raven-Ellison, guerilla geographer
Tuesday 3rd December, 7-8pm
Dan is the founder of Slow Ways. He has a delicious back catalogue of intriguing and provoking geography projects, including walking 1,686km across all of the UK’s national parks and cities with an electroencephalogram on his head to record six different emotions as he explored. He created the National Park City movement in London and #100seconds films about land use. And he used to be a geography teacher! Find out about how all of these things led him to have the epiphany that became Slow Ways, and get the chance to grill him yourself!
Daniel will be interviewed by Hannah.
Eva Outram, wilderness survivor
Thursday 9th January, 7-8pm
As well as being Slow Ways’s newest team member, Eva runs eva__exploring on Instagram to over 60k followers, where she posts about living an adventurous life. She’ll be talking about being on Channel 4 wilderness survival show Alone, which dropped her into the Canadian wilderness right by the arctic circle, to see how long she’d manage to stay, catching all of her own food and avoiding becoming a meal for bears. Hear about the contestant who only made it four hours, how it was going in as a vegetarian, and what difference the experience has made to her post-show attitude to life. Don’t miss this!
Eva will be interviewed by Hannah.
Saira Niazi, renegade guide
Weds 5th February, 7-8pm
Renegade guide Saira took bunking off to new heights after discovering that she preferred wandering around, finding new places, talking to strangers and recording adventures to being in school. She says she would often end up exploring aimlessly – markets, museums, city streets and suburbs, and sometimes further afield to places like Stonehenge and Brighton. She still loves getting lost and learning through her explorations, and is always sort-of deliberately slightly unprepared. Saira, fresh back from meeting rebel guides all over New York, will be talking about how her love of wandering has led her all over the world.
Hannah Engelkamp, donkey wrangler
Weds 5th March, 7-8pm
Hannah walked around Wales with a donkey, taking not-far-off six months to do it. She’d never had a pet before and thought it would be easy and companionable. It was not. Get some tips on wild camping with a very conspicuous animal, find out what they did when they encountered stiles, and discover whether they did ever learn to like each other.
