WALK with Alisa Oleva

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?

Participants joined walking artist Alisa Oleva to explore the hidden messages woven into the city. Through a series of walking prompts, they were invited to experience Manchester in new and playful ways—asking questions, following their senses, noticing the invisible and the inaudible, and collectively rewriting and rewiring the way its streets were walked.

WALK with Morag Rose

What happens if you let the city guide you? Where will it take you next? 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?

Participants joined Morag Rose of the Loiterers Resistance Movement, a Manchester-based psychogeographical collective, for a walk through the city that explored these questions.

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.