Creative Roaming #1 hosted by Erika Cann

Join us for a social walk along the Exeter Quayside and meet like-minded creative people in the process! Exploring ideas around observation, boundaries, and roaming both in a creative sense and in relation to the landscape, we encourage you to bring along something related to your practice to work with as we walk – whether that’s a camera, sketchbook, notepad, sound recorder – any and all creative mediums are welcome.

We want to encourage conversations between people from different creative backgrounds working in/connected to the local area and ask that you are open and welcoming to everyone, using the event as an opportunity to chat to people you haven’t met before. We will walk to the Double Locks where there will be a chance to grab a drink and share some observations/ideas – then we’ll walk back together.

This event is open to everyone – the walk is 44 min each way from Exeter Phoenix and the paths are accessible/easy terrain. There is a hill on the way in/out of town!

Please get in touch if you have any access questions.

NB this walk is weather dependent…please check with Exeter Phoenix Box Office beforehand if in doubt

About the facilitator

Erika Cann is an artist whose home lies between the granite tors of Dartmoor National Park and the dynamic cliffs of the Jurassic Coast. Her work investigates place through accounts, both historical and contemporary, within the guides and maps of an area. She navigates the environment through climbing – pushing, pulling, jamming and squeezing her way up and through time, geologies and accumulated narratives. The work takes the form of photography, film, and printmaking, which is often imbued with language.

Erika is an advocate for public access to nature and has recently been awarded a New Perspectives bursary from Campaign for National Parks to use her practice to engage local communities with public transport access to Dartmoor National Park. She hopes to engage local communities with the landscape in a position of care and enjoyment through exploration, which is ecologically considered yet adventurous.

Website

@erikac_art

Social [practice]: Creative Roaming

This programme of events offers an alternative platform for artists and creative producers to meet and make together in a series of practical projects hosted by creative practitioners.

In this new series we invite you to put on your walking shoes and join our hosts to explore the role that walking plays in connecting artists to the landscape and the way it creates a space for processing ideas and facilitating conversations.

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Right to Roam + Q&A 

Thu 11 May | 6pm

Dir. Charlotte Bill
2023 | 60 mins | UK
Music by Beans on Toast

From the Kinder Mass Trespass of 1932 to the great Dartmoor Gathering of 2023, people have claimed the right to walk free across the land. Right to Roam is a documentary which tells their stories using archive footage and photographs, recordings and interviews with activists, walkers and campers of all ages.

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX

*Subject to a £1.50 ticketing system charge. We don’t charge this to make a profit. Find out more >>