Finding stories in Whitechapel, a walk with Morag Rose, Saira Niazi and Alisa Oleva - Whitechapel Gallery

Finding stories in Whitechapel, a walk with Morag Rose, Saira Niazi and Alisa Oleva

  • Alisa Saira Morag walk

Thu 6 Aug, 2-4pm

Monday Closed
Tuesday 11am–6pm
Wednesday 11am–6pm
Thursday 11am–9pm
Friday 11am–6pm
Saturday 11am–6pm
Sunday 11am–6pm

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Finding stories in Whitechapel, a walk with Morag Rose, Saira Niazi and Alisa Oleva

Join us for a meandering artist research walk. Together, we will be searching backstreets and secret corners for some of the many stories, spaces and projects that make up Whitechapel. As we walk, we will be finding threads of intrigue and inspiration to explore further, discovering new ways to learn and connect. Notebooks provided. Please bring a camera or camera phone.

This is an interactive walk that will be shaped by attendees.  The pace and direction will be decided collectively and will be inclusive of all who join us.

This event is part of Backyard Biennial.

Saira Niazi

Saira Niazi is a writer, artist researcher, author and renegade guide, passionate about discovering new places, collecting stories and connecting communities. Saira has collaborated with grassroots groups across the UK on various oral history, art, film, food, environment and heritage projects.

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.

Morag Rose

Morag Rose is a walking artist-activist-academic and founder of psychogeographical collective The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). On the first Sunday of every month The LRM facilitate a free, communal, wander somewhere in Greater Manchester.  Morag is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at The University of Liverpool, and her first book The Feminist Art of Walking was published by Pluto in 2025