Photograph by Helen Simms
£7 / £2 concessions / Free for refugees and asylum seekers. Booking required
Join ecology-tending artist and designer Alisa Ruzavina on a walking tour in the valleys of Europe’s largest urban wetlands and the surrounding territories. Partake in the imaginative exploration of the relationship between human history, urban wildlife and all the interspecies intermingling, resulting in the wildness and the man-made coming together on this unique site. Leave with a strengthened sense of empathy, solidarity and kinship with local plant and animal residents and visitors, and take home newfound reflections around the potentialities for human and more-than-human co-existence.
The walk will start at the sculpture at the corner of St James’ Park, South Access Road, E17 8AN and will take a route through the Argall Industrial Area, Walthamstow Marshes and Walthamstow Wetlands. It will finish at Engine House Cafe on Walthamstow Wetlands territory, 2 Forest Road, N17 9NH.
The route is approximately 2.5 miles so please wear appropriate footwear and clothing. There a benches to rest along the route.
ABOUT ALISA RUZAVINA
Alisa Ruzavina is a community & ecology-tending artist and facilitator.Her work focuses on creating conversations and collective experiences in the public realm that playfully explore alternative forms of knowledge, opening possibilities for sustainable place-based ways of relating, making and being that bring people closer in communion with the urban land, the civic commons and the diversity of intercultural and interspecies communities that can be found in the city. Her socially-engaged practice spans across public art, sculpture, installation, textiles, rituals, immersive and celebratory experiences, community and participatory art, walks and workshops.