WALKS:
· Sunday 5th June:
SUBTERRANEAN SOUTHWARK Walk
A trip around the surface features of the underground oddities and dark secrets of North Southwark by the geezer behind the book 'Subterranean Southwark'. See things, look down, enjoy! Along the route will encounter sulphurous crypts, disused tube lines, coal plates of fantastic design, secret cold war tunnels, a history of underground toilets, utility subways and fancy looking emergency tube exits plus other arcane ritual and architecture. A circular ramble lasting a couple of hours.
Meet outside St George The Martyr church , opp. Borough Tube, SE1 at 2pm.
· Saturday 11th June:
'50 Things That Are There' MAP TEXT GAME
Good and bad, how do we produce our space or ourself? Which traces, remains, legend and text identify the secret passage of our neighbours, of work, of adventures, of capital though our everyday streets. Wandering these local streets by playing a simple map game based on local urban text, we will try to uncover the a rich series of markers and memorials of existences that seems quite hidden or merely second nature. In this playful process we will begin to come up with answers to the key question: You Are Here But Why?
Play alone or join a team, form allliances to win! Prizes for all. History, existence, memory!! Blimey! 56a at Midday
· Sunday 12th June:
MAP FEST MICRO-WALK#2: The Obelisk History Attack!!
Laid back double circular walk around Southwark's peculiar Obelisk with mad radical history, esoteric asides, fun + games and planned history attack! Some of the following might well appear on the day - Penitent Prostitutes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mithras, Thomas Tany, One Legged Tramp Poet, Radical Paper sellers. Who can we conjure up? Who can we invoke to lead us to a kingdom of heaven here on Earth? All to be revealed!! Bring chalk and flasks of tea. Get in touch if you wanna be a History Attack player!!
Midday St Georges Circus, SE1 near The Elephant + Castle.
· Sunday 12th June:
Calling All Squatters to SQUAT SECTOR:
THE EMPTIES LIST squatting project is mutual aid in action researching, mapping and listing the empty properties of London. This functions as a practical aid to those who seek to recycle abandoned or speculative empty buildings to self-house themselves against the madness of work and rent. Co-ordinated by few but used by many, The Empties List has been running for over five years now. But London is a big old town and we know that there are more empties out there than we currently list. For this event, we seek willing bodies to play Squat Sector, a few hours spent together mapping London empties ripe for occupation. A grand attempt to expand greatly The Empties List for one and all.
Come on foot, by bike to the Squat Sector Bunker to receive your small part of the Sector map and full instructions. It's real mutual aid, it's give and take. It's squat-tastic! 56a at 3pm
· Sunday 19th June:
MAPPING ST MARY NEWINGTON: Mapping Chaos + Micro-Walk#2 +Picnic
The former churchyard at St Mary Newington, by the Elephant and Castle, is a crazy pagan open space full of chaotic self-destructive acts against Babylon and its contents. Time stands still, space evaporates or folds in on itself. As has been asid before '...this turbulent land, continuing torque from the backspin of rejecting any edifice, is pagan land. Feel it. Pre-Christian, spitting out Gods and Goddeses. Pre-idol, pre-totem, beginning at nothing. A wonderful place', quoted in 'Nine Things That Are There' (Past Tense Publications, 2001). However, the forces at work are attempting again to mould the land to their £vil de$igns. As part of the class cleansing of the The Elephant, the open land is soon to have private housing built on it and the rest made over into a muncipal park with municipal type things like rules, flower beds and ASBO's. Yuk! Come to our homage to St Mary Newington and hex the plans. Sigil signs may be placed and potions may be employed. Ot just chill and enjoy the surroundings.
A series of small guided walks will fill you in on the crazy history of the site with a view towards mapping the land in case our magic is not as robust as Southwark Council's sorcerers. Blank maps and pens, crayons etc will be provided for you to survey and map this magical place in your own styles. These will then be archived. Meet Churchyard on Newington Butts, SE1 - Noon (Picnic 3pm - Bring food+drink).
· Saturday 25th June:
'Common-ication' at KENNINGTON PARK
A walk and talk on the hidden history of Kennington Park / Common, with a view to marking our mark on the landscape of that day. Bring chalks. Meet at cafe 2pm. Common-ication: Meeting in the cafe afterward around 3pm. How would we map this in the 21st century? The continuing battle of Enclosure versus The Commons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennington_Park
Independent of this, we may also take the opportunity to investigate and 'map' the despicable banning of the Ecuadorian community's sunday volleyball social from the park in August 2004 by Lambeth Council on the pressure from a local cabal that seek a particular exclusive vision of Kennington Park.
· Sunday 26th June:
Map Fest Day Out: CAMBERWELL to LADYWELL
A lovely Sunday walk. Come and retrace the old pilgrims route between these ancient well sites - using parts of the old track to Nunhead cemetary and beyond. Meet outside St Giles, Camberwell Church St SE5. 2pm.
More info: www.transpont.blogspot.com