Looks like a fun night. Why am I telling you this? Well, I worked with Poke London to script a little pre-screening fun - a series of simple daily puzzles based on a ghost story that clued you in on where to get tickets for this event, led you on a route through London to the graveyard and added a bit of a spooky vibe for when you got there.
And on the night my invented character - ghostly Beth who likes to push people under trains - actually made an appearance in the graveyard. Nice...
There were Five of Us. Each with our own Reasons for wanting to spend a bright, crisp autumn afternoon drifting across London, talking as we did about Romantic Poetry, Careers, Easily Overlooked Architecture, Pies, Scopic Regimes – oh, and William Blake. Of course!
I have Mapped all of the Media I generated during this BlakeWalk (see map above) – and left the map open to Collaboration should others wish to pin their Materials to it. All of this Media is also freely available to you to take on a BlakeWalk of your own, including this record of our Conversations for you to play on your phone or mp3 player:
The movie says a lot to me about the power of Walking & Talking - and about how the Blakean spirit is so often about seeking out an alternative (deliberately obtuse and 'unprofessional'?) view, engaging with process rather than product, feeling trapped, being disruptive, not sitting down and paying attention to the teacher, seeking answers beyond what you can actually see. Oh and so much more!
