Night Echoes: Nocturnal Explorations of the Moon-Blued / Garnette Cadogan

"Flintlike, her feet struck

such a racket of echoes from the steely street,

tacking in moon-blued crooks from the black

stone-built town, that she heard the quick air ignite

its tinder and shake”

from Night Walk, Sylvia Plath

Join us on the moon-hued streets as we walk from Boston to Cambridge, exploring the variegated terrain, textures, and moods of the paths, streets, and sidewalks underfoot. We’ll bring our full sensorium to explore the ground and the buildings and adjoining water, allowing the refracting sounds of the night to add to the music of our voices and steps. We’ll walk, talk, laugh, and linger together as we warm to the thrill of nightwalking and its “racket of echoes.”
Garnette Cadogan is an essayist whose research explores the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism. Cadogan is the Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism at MIT. He was a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar (2017-2018) in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. and is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. The editor-at-large of Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro), he is at work on a book on walking. Garnette Cadogan has served as an advisor to the Walking Festival of Sound this year and is renowned for his courses and local walking festivals that bring together diverse groups to explore Boston and Cambridge.

Meeting Point: Stairs outside Public Boston Library (Copley Square), in front of the Free to All sign.

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