Memory Walkshop

Re:living walkshop

This event is part of the Re:living Weekend, a response to our human need to talk, walk, remember, and make art about the ever-present experiences of death, grief and loss in our lives. Whether we are grieving for a close friend, pet or family member; concerned about the loss of bird, insect or plant habitats and other changes to our climate; affected by war; or managing on-going / one-off life events around relationship, work and/or home loss, coming together with others to focus, share, or simply be with our feelings is supportive.

Participants will be taken on a prescribed route around the area immediate to the Granton Hub (may include the garden, community orchard and adjoining car park/wilded area, the Waterfront Avenue, Forthquarter Park, Granton Harbour, or Shore Road).

What to bring

You will be invited to bring an object (or image) that speaks to you of absence and/or loss, to help channel thoughts and memories. This will be something small enough to hold in the hand, or put into a bag or back pack while walking. During the walk, we will be facilitating creative activities, so the object shouldn’t inhibit creativity.

About the walk

During the Walkshop, you will be invited to walk, sometimes in silence, and to respond to the environment and to your personal experience and thoughts about death, loss and grief through drawing, writing, recording, performance etc. There will be times to stop and draw, to record sounds, to photograph, write or perform.

The walk will be conducted In English. Please note that the walkshop will be fully accessible, however the Granton Hub is not fully accessible. We do have a portable ramp to allow wheelchair and powerchair users to get into the building, which you will have access to, and once in the building there is level access but no there is no wheelchair accessible toilet.

Afterwards, you are encouraged to stay for the Art Workshop (see separate eventbrite event)

We welcome everyone, whatever age, ability, status or gender.

Walkshop leaders: Bea Denton (London) and Tamsin Grainger (Granton)Bea is an artist and educator whose practice explores ideas around death and loss, faith and ritual. She has taught and managed courses at Arts University Bournemouth, UAL (Camberwell, London College of Communication and Central Saint Martins), at EBAC in Brazil and Artslink in China. She is a Trustee for Lewisham Education Arts Network (LEAN) and a member of the Artist’s Group, Throes of Grief.

Tamsin is a community artist (No Birds Land, Trinity Tunnel; The Wall, Western Breakwater), complementary therapy practitioner, session leader, and author of Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice (published by Singing Dragon Press).

Host or Publisher Tamsin