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 |
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 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 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 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
Walking! Power! Inclusion! is multi-disciplinary team of artists, curators and researchers brought together by the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities, to co-design and deliver inclusive public engagement. This collaborative project explores ideas of power, inclusion and conviviality, and our ability to live together despite difference. For the Backyard Biennial, Walking! Power! Inclusion! has programmed a series of walks and workshops that invite visitors, local residents, and diasporic communities to democratise storytelling in the city; confront the line between private and public space; use photography to shift narratives; and explore Whitechapel with curiosity, creativity and criticality. Project members include Manal Massahla, Saira Niazi, Alisa Oleva, Ella Parry-Davies, Lorna Powell, Clare Qualmann, and Morag Rose.
