Tilted Women Festival: Walking Workshop with Poppy Jackson

Being Woman: Walking Workshop with Poppy Jackson

3pm

Bridging the bold spirit of the Tilted Women Festival at Norwich Arts Centre and the intimate provocations of Being Woman exhibition at Mandell’s Gallery, this performance art workshop with Poppy Jackson unfolds as a collective act of matriarchal space-making. Beginning at NAC and moving together through the city to Mandell’s on Elm Hill, participants will explore walking as performance: a shared, embodied gesture that claims creative openness and solidarity in public space. The walking workshop collective will become our own receptive ‘autonomous zone’ in the city.

The workshop centres a sensory, embodied experience that women are rarely able to access in its full potential while walking, due to the constant risks attached to female presence in public space.

Through gentle prompts and collective attention, the group will experiment with how matriarchal values – such as community, visibility, creative power and presence – can be enacted through movement. The walk becomes an urban ritual, linking festival and exhibition while temporarily reshaping the city through a feminist, collective body. No prior performance experience required, open to all curious about performance as a feminist, political, and deeply personal practice.

Please let us know in advance if you have any access needs. The journey to Mandells Gallery will be step free, so far as possible and alternate routes will be provided where that is not possible.