WALK with Alisa Oleva

27 June 2026

2–4pm

Peoples History Museum, Left Bank Spinningfields
Manchester, M3 3ER, United Kingdom

What happens if you let the city guide you? Where will it take you next? What happens if you follow the textures and smells of the city? Which streets call to you and which places do you avoid? What stories are hidden in the cracks of the pavement and in the gaps between lampposts?

Join walking artist Alisa Oleva to explore the hidden messages the city has to tell. Participants will engage in various walking prompts that invite them to look at the city in new and playful ways: asking questions, following their senses, noticing the invisible and the inaudible, and collectively rewriting and rewiring the way these streets are walked.

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WALK with Morag Rose

28 June 2026

2–4pm

Peoples History Museum, Left Bank Spinningfields
Manchester, M3 3ER, United Kingdom

Can you read the city streets? What is Manchester trying to tell us? Does it have a spirit? How can we enchant the everyday and find new ways to explore familiar places? How might we anchor ourselves in a landscape that is always in flux?

The Loiterers Resistance Movement is a Manchester-based psychogeographical collective. On the first Sunday of every month, they organise a free, communal, creative walk open to everyone. Over the past twenty years, they have gathered stories that join invisible dots, uncover hidden power lines, celebrate serendipity, and collectively remap the city.

The LRM manifesto states: “We believe there is magic in the Mancunian rain. Our city is wonderful and made for more than shopping. The streets belong to everyone, and we want to reclaim them for play and revolutionary fun.”

This walk takes psychogeographical theory for a wander through a tour that combines storytelling, performance, poetry, and politics. Interruptions, diversions, questions, and debate are very much encouraged.

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Access information

The walk will be on pavements and public space in Manchester, and the pace will be inclusive of all who come. The walk will last about 2 hours, with frequent stops to share stories, some of those stops will include places to sit down. There are toilet facilities and places to buy refreshments at the start and finish point. If you have any specific access needs, need more information, or have any questions about the walks, please email alisaoleva@gmail.com and we will do our best to help.

About Alisa Oleva

Alisa Oleva is a walking artist based in London who works within the spaces and streets of the city, exploring the politics of public space; how the city moves us and how we move it; urban choreography and urban archaeology; traces and surfaces; borders and inventories; intervals and silences; passages and cracks. She creates one-to-one and collective performances, walking scores, personal and intimate encounters, gatherings, soft parkour sessions, walkshops, soundwalks, and audiowalks.

About Morag Rose

Morag Rose is a walking artist-activist-academic, psychogeographer, and creative mischief-maker. In 2006, she founded the LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). On the first Sunday of every month, the LRM facilitates a free, communal wander somewhere in Greater Manchester. They have played games of CCTV Bingo, made giant cake maps, saved a towpath from being diverted into a hotel lobby with Our Irwell, and created performance tours on subjects ranging from canal monsters, hostile architecture, and drunkenness to modernist heroines, public toilets, and regeneration. Morag is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. Her first book, The Feminist Art of Walking, was published by Pluto in 2025.