Ten Days on the Island presents

WordWalk

(New South Wales)

When

22 Mar Sat 10:00 am

Tickets

$79

Transaction Fee Applies

Duration

120 mins

Meeting Point

The meeting point for the Word Walk is at Soldiers’ Memorial Avenue, located off Davies Avenue, opposite the Doone Kennedy Hobart Aquatic Centre carpark. The walk follows a circuit and will return to this starting point.

Please Note

Please note that this track is not suitable for patrons in wheelchairs or with limited mobility. This event will follow the City to Gardens Circuit, covering a distance of approximately 2.4 kilometres. For more information about the City to Gardens Circuit, please visit the Greater Hobart Trails website.

Ailsa Piper (a self-confessed poetry glutton) also offers her WordWalk, an immersive ‘pilgrimage’ that encourages you to listen, look and create, inspired by the natural world.

These two hours will bring together insights from all three of Ailsa’s published works; her first book was about walking a Spanish camino, and her second was a collection of letters, celebrating an unlikely friendship. Guided by Ailsa, you are invited to pause and reflect on place, to ‘travel’ on ground that may be familiar or new. Marvel at the poetry and music of the word and the wild, and consider what it is to travel away from the familiar, and toward the self. You will have the opportunity to make notes, poems, postcards, even letters, inspired by your observations and presence in the landscape – bring a pad and pencil.

‘The best thing I’ve done for a long time. It was a masterclass in stillness, writing and being.’
WORDWALK PARTICIPANT

Image Credit: Sarajayne Lada

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