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Clare Qualmann

@cqualmann.bsky.social

Artist, walker, lecturer, library-lover, urban forager, drawing every day. Co-editor Lines of Desire at Living Maps, co-founder walking artists network

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Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · last mo.

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

Joanna Bourke@joannabourke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Shocking news about redundancies in the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, despite their exceptional research activities. I have signed the petition against these actions: it would be great if you would as well: c.org/kDQynZV7J4 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social

National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 3mo ago

"It’s a bit of a sanctuary" This is Fallowlees Farm – a welcoming, safe space on the Wallington estate in Northumberland - is run by West End Women & Girls Centre. The farm gives 1300 women and girls from Newcastle’s West End space to grow, learn new skills and spend time outdoors.

‘Be happy! Life is too short.’ This women’s-only farm is changing lives in Newcastle

Have you and your mates ever dreamed of having a farm? Well, that’s exactly what these women did. Fallowlees Farm in Northumberland is full of laughs, but it’s also SO much more than that. Hufty,…

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Alec Finlay@alecfinlay.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A recent work by the Radical Rest Collective, the second signpost saying REST, in English and Hindi, in Stockwood Park, Luton. These signposts propose landscapes suited to resting in nature for people affected by chronicity in the post-pandemic era.

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Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Many thanks to everyone who's shared and followed this (unusually slow) walk-in-progress over the past two weeks. The full thread (122 posts) is below.

Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A walk from York to Goole, via the River Ouse, Bishopthorpe, the Trans Pennine Trail, Selby and Boothferry, 9am to 9.30pm Thursday 2 April 2026. An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

A64 underpass at Middlethorpe, City of York, Thursday 2 April 2026.
Charity Edwards@charityedwards.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So much of this resonates. And I know it’s not all about me but it is a very depressing space to occupy as someone who actually likes teaching and thinks it matters. A kind of mass grief, really.

Jes Battis@jesbattis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One of the things I miss about old Twitter is if I posted something like this on there then my entire print run for that week would sell out in about two hours and I’d spend days fulfilling the orders. I’ve only sold one print via Bluesky in all the time I’ve been here.

Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Brent Alpha oil platform awaiting dismantling on Teesside. This will be the anchor image for the section on Climate change in the Rebellion exhibition. I have some of these signed prints in stock and they can now be purchased here marcdavenant.com/product/bren...

Prints of a photo of Brent Alpha oil platform lying on a wooden table next to a rotary paper trimmer
Clare Qualmann @cqualmann.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Woop woop! New publication with the brilliant #WalkCreate team 'creative walking, repetition, rhythm and respite in pandemic times' in a new volume on walking and leisure. So many fab looking chapters. But it's £££ so get your library to buy (or DM if you'd like to read the chapter) 🚶‍♀️🏙️🏞️

The cover of the book walking and leisure: mobilities, encounters and critical engagements edited by Miriam SnellgroveChapter title page of creative walking, repetition, rhythm and respite in pandemic times by Clare Qualmann, Deirdre Heddon, Maggie O'Neill, Morag Rose and Harry WilsonContents page with chapters including: where is the leisure when walking with a baby?, disabled mobilities and critical embodied entanglements in the park, the Queer politics of walking with digital technologies, race, nature and historical memory, the role of the erotic in black women's leisureContents continues including: walking with cancer, walking and stopping together in the carceral landscape of Portland, walking with a cat, storying a place through walking, the importance of everyday walking routines for aging well in place, walking in the spatial order of automobility, reimagining the city walking tour, walking as a sociopolitical form of transforming civic experience
Tim Waterman@tim-waterman.co.uk · 4mo ago

CFP: Waste, Garbage, Surplus: Art and Cultural Imaginaries in the Age of Hyperconsumption, Barcelona networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Waste, Garbage, Surplus: Art and Cultural Imaginaries in the Age of Hyperconsumption | H-Net

International conferenceWaste, Garbage, Surplus: Art and Cultural Imaginaries in the Age of HyperconsumptionPompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Thursday, November 12, 2026.University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Friday, November 13, 2026. Waste, garbage, and surplus are concrete manifestations of the logic of the residual, understood as symbolic, political, and economic operations that determine what is left out of place, devalued, and rendered invisible.

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Bristol Walk Fest@bristolwalkfest.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Walk providers - Bristol Walk Fest 2026 programmes are ready to collect from Tuesday 7 April! Pick up your bundle (plus a sheet of brand new stickers) from 100 Temple St, Redcliffe, weekdays 9am–7pm, from 7–17 April. Take the door marked 'office' on the right. No need to call ahead. #bristolwalkfest

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