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October 2024 First Sunday

Dear friends and loiterers

It’s First Sunday, this Sunday and I’m delighted that loiterer and surrealist of distinction Peter Overton is facilitating what promises to be a wonderful wander

Meet 2pm Sunday October 6th outside Manchester Central Library.

That’s all I know of Peter’s plans but I have no doubt it will be a convivial, curious and captivating drift together.

As ever LRM events are free and open to all. We simply ask you take care of yourself, each other and places we walk through together. For more information please text or whatsapp 07974929589 or email mlrose@thelrm I’m so sorry I wont be there in person but I really look forward to field reports,

We also have a couple of updates from our kindreds at Our Irwell who are working to protect, progress and promote access to our rivers

Their latest campaign is for a right of way across Pomona, and they are asking anyone who has used Pomona over the years to tell them about it. They are having a zoom meeting on Wednesday October 30th, 7-8pm to update you on progress and to answer questions and support anyone who needs help with their evidence form: https://tinyurl.com/bdz74s87

They are also hosting a workshop to comment on, and contribute to, plans for an Irwell River Park on Wednesday, 23 October 2024 6:00pm – 8:00 pm atSEESAW, 86 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6NG. Further information can be found here: Further https://shaping.salford.gov.uk/projects/irwell-river-parkor email OurIrwell@gmail.com

I hope to see you on the streets soon. In the meantime huge thanks to Peter, and if you have an idea for a future First Sunday don’t hesitate to get in touch
Facebook “the loiterers resistance movement”
X / twitter @thelrm
Email mlrose@thelrm.org
Text / whatsapp / signal 07974929589


With love and autumnal golden apples
Morag xx

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September and October 2024 First Sunday

Dear Loiterers 

Its First Sunday, this Sunday – and blimey, its September already!


We will meet for a wander at 2pm this Sunday 1st September outside Whitworth Art Gallery. It’s somewhat ridiculous but we have never actually started there before – our city is always full of places to loiter, and suggestions are always very welcome. This months launch pad is inspired by Dale.


As ever all our welcome, with the direction and pace of the derive being set by participants. After 1.5/2 hours we will find somewhere convivial to stop for a beverage and blether. The only rules as ever are take care of yourself, each other and the places we explore, and don’t be an arse. If you have any access issues, or questions or comments before Sunday please do get in touch. You can email mlrose@thelrm.org, comment on our facebook page “the loiterers resistance movement” or @thelrm on X. We’ve also got whatsapp, signal and text on 07974929589


October will see one of our occasional timeslip Sundays when we will meet instead on a weekday evening, if anyone has a strong preference for Tuesday 1st or Wednesday 2nds please let me know, likewise if you fancy organising something for the actual Sunday.


Finally, if you have ever walked or cycled on Pomona Island please contact Our Irwell (OurIrwell@gmail.com). They are collecting evidence to try and win a right of access across Pomona, and I know this is a place dear to many of us, see my previous posts or  Our Irwell for more details. Many thanks if you can help.


With love and golden apples
Morag x

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August 2024 First Sunday

Dear friends, comrades and loiterers

It’s First Sunday this Sunday and so please come and join us for a Summertime loiter.

Our manifesto states “the streets belong to everyone and we want to reclaim them for play and revolutionary fun” and right now that feels more important that ever.
The challenge a loiterer set us was to think about change so we’ll be returning to the scene of previous explorations to see what has been going on....
Find us 2pm at Cutting Room Square in Ancoats on Sunday August 4th.

For those who wish to join us for the first time or just fancy a refresher here's some more information about how we walk together:

Our wanders are always free and everyone is welcome.

The pace and direction is set by participants on the day according to their needs and desires. We move through the city together so please come prepared to navigate the urban environment. Don’t forget sunscreen / water / woollies / whatever you feel are comfy shoes (delete as appropriate to you)

This is NOT a guided tour but a psychogeographical exploration and experiment in creative walking and a critical conversation with our streets alongside interesting folk (but if you do want a critical tour there's a list of possibilities here and if there is enough interest we can sort: http://thelrm.org/events)

Please try to be punctual as we dont know where we will go and once drifting messages might get missed. I'm short with bright pink hair if you need to try and find us.

The golden (only) rule is take care of yourself, each other and all we share the streets with – and don’t be an arse.

We will walk for around 90 – 120 minutes and finish somewhere where we can have a brew and a blether sharing travellers tales.

If you have any questions, specific access requirements or need more information please do get in touch:
email mlrose@thelrm.org
X @thelrm
our facebook group "the loiterers resistance movement."
SMS/Whatsapp/call 07974929589

With love and golden apples
Morag xx

PS Our friends Our Irwell are meeting 6pm, Tuesday 13th August, at the Castlefield Viaduct. Amongst other things they will be sharing details of their campaign for access to Pomona so please do go along and show support if you can email OurIrwell@gmail.comand become a member or join their mailing list here: https://forms.office.com/e/re7Gei7z4b

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July 2024 First Sunday

Dear friends, loiterers and lovers of drifting

It’s First Sunday, this Sunday and time for change….

I’m delighted we have a guest loiterer facilitating our wanders this month. I met Bella through the excellent Narrow Margins project (https://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/research-projects-list/narrow-margins) and by happy coincidence she’s visiting Manchester this week. Here’s what she has to say about her plans….

Hi LRM folks,
I research trespass in my job and practice mental sketch mapping, a form of critical/creative cartography. In both I aim to unlearn property logics. This is needed in order to build property and memory cultures that are engaged with ongoing dispossession in Britain, whilst remaining in conversation with settler colonial and imperial projects the British state has conducted elsewhere.
To this end I have been mapping trespass and access signs everywhere I walk. This Sunday I invite you to join me in mapping signs in Manchester. This will be followed by a mental sketch mapping exercise (I'll lead you through what this means when I facilitate) — please bring plain paper / plain notebooks and a pencil/pen for this. Very much looking forward to being part of the LRM for a day!
Thanks, Bella

Please join us 2pm at the No Loitering Sign opposite the Salisbury Pub on James Leigh Street (its just off Oxford Road behind Grand Central, near the steps up to the railway station). We don’t know where the signs will be taking us so do try to get there on time so you can find us!  If we haven’t met before I’m short with pink hair so usually easy to spot.

As ever the direction and pace of our wanders will be decided collectively by the group, and we will follow The LRM code: take care of yourself, each other and the environment and don’t be an arse.  After about 90 – 120 minutes we will find somewhere for refreshments, map making and story swapping.

We always welcome ideas for loiters whether from new faces or more familiar friends, so please do get in touch with any places or themes you think we could explore.
If you have any questions, comments, access needs or just want to meet before the start on Sunday you can contact The LRM any of these ways:
email mlrose@thelrm.org
x/twitter @thelrm
facebook “the loiterers resistance movement”
text or whatsapp 07974929589
 
We really hope to see you on the streets soon
 
With love and golden apples
 
Morag xx

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June 2024 First Sunday

Dear friends, comrades and lovely loiterers

Wow – its First Sunday again this Sunday, time really does seem to be whizzing by at the moment.

We’ve had requests for more water, more tram stops and  an exploration of the developments around the Etihad campus and so this First Sunday we will combine them all…

Lets meet 2pm Sunday 2nd June at New Islington Tram Stop. We’ll follow the canal towpath up to the Co-op Live building and then see where the drift takes us….  There aren’t any major sporting events scheduled but loiterers are warned Coldplay are in the vicinity.

As ever the direction and pace will be set collectively (if folk aren’t feeling it we can wander away from the canal). Wherever we go will will walk for around 90-120 minutes and then find somewhere for a drink and a chat.

All are very welcome to join us, because these streets belong to everyone and we believe in the power of walking them together.

Please do get in touch if you have any questions, comments or ideas for future First Sundays. Email mlrose@thelrm.orgtext/whatsapp 07974929589 x @thelrm or comment on the facebook group “the loiterers resistance movement”

I hope to loiter with you soon

With love and golden apples

Morag xx

PS Manchester Histories Festival is back 6-9thJune and as ever lots of interesting stuff. Thanks to spooky loiterer par excellence Julian I’ll be part of a panel on paranormal Manchester on Saturday afternoon: https://manchesterhistories.co.uk/events/day-3-saturday-8-june-2024-intangible-sounds-daytime-events/please do share other highlights here too.

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May 2024 First Sunday Full Details

Dear friends and loiterers

As promised, here’s the information about May’s First Sunday. It is being facilitated by walking artist extraordinaire Blake Morris at The Walk Exchange. Find out more about Blake here: https://thisisnotaslog.com/British-Summer-Time-Sunrise-Walks and The Walk Exchange here: https://thewalkexchange.com/

Here’s the invitation from them (UK folk: it’s a 3pm start this month)

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Manchester and NYC: A Walk in two Quays        

This Sunday, The Walk Exchange will join the Loiterer’s Resistance Movement (LRM), the UK’s longest running group dedicated to psychogeography, for a simultaneous wander in New York City and Manchester England. Since 2006, The LRM has been gathering the first Sunday of every month for “some kind of communal wander, public dérive, or drift”; in May we will join them. Starting at two different quays, Salford Quays and Quay Tower in Brooklyn Heights, the walks will explore the different riverfronts, while looking to “uncover hidden histories and discover the extraordinary in the mundane” and engage with pertinent questions about urban development, rights of access and ways of changing our engagement with the urban landscape. Connected through a shared WhatsApp Group, the walk will consider the things that connect us at a distance while also digging in to the particularities of our local walking experience.

The walk is free and open to all. We will be deciding the route together and will work as a collective to make the walk accessible to everyone who joins.

Date: 5 May

Start time: 10AM EDT // 3PM BST

Starting Location USA: Quay Tower, Brooklyn Heights, New York City (50 Bridge Park Dr, Brooklyn, NY 11201) Time: 10 AM EDT

Starting Location UK: Broadway Metrolink Stop, Salford Quays, M50 3AZ
Time: 3PM BST

Online / remote participation by whatsapp: please message 07974929589 or email mlrose@thelrm.org by 10am BST on Sunday 5th May to be added to the private group chat. Please remember to share your name and country code when you get in touch

Length: 90-120 minutes.

Cost: Free

For More Information: blakemwalks@gmail.com

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Thanks so much to Blake, and please remember we are always open to collaboration, comments and ideas for future wanders, please get in touch with The LRM via X @thelrm, our facebook group “the loiterers resistance movement” email mlrose@thelrm or text/whatsapp 07974929589

With love and golden apples

Morag xx

PS we think Blake is right to say we are the longest running psychogeography group, but if anyone knows different please holler (and yes we like the oxymoron of running loiterers)

PPS UK Folks: please note the 3pm start time

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May 2024 First Sunday

Hello lovelies

as you know the Thursday before First Sunday is when we share the meeting time and place.... this is basically a hold on notice as full details will be shared tomorrow (Friday) but it will be worth the wait... we will be wandering with the fabulous Blake Morris who will be in New York.... so you can also join us anywhere via whatsapp if you like. If you prefer in person we will start at THREE PM (3pm) BST so an hour later than usual at Broadway Tram Stop Salford Quays. More soon. The whatsapp number to join the group that way is 07974929589 or as ever you can email morangopop@gmail.com

with love and golden apples 

Morag xx

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April 2024 First Sunday

Dear friends, loiterers and random Spring bloomers

It’s First Sunday, This Sunday and time for a colourful wander….

Meet 2pm outside Manchester Art Gallery on Mosely Street this Sunday 7th April. Together we we explore the city, make new connections and search for wonder on the streets.

As ever the pace and direction will be set by all who participate, and we will follow only our rules: take care of yourself, each other and the environment. And don’t be an arse.

Afterwards – around 4pm - we will find somewhere to convene for a beverage and a blether.

If you have any questions or specific access requirements or just want to know a bit more about The LRM please don’t hesitate to contact The LRM:

Email mlrose@thelrm.org
Facebook “the loiterers resistance movement”
Twitter / X @thelrm
Text/Call/Whatsapp 07974929589

With love and golden apples

Morag xx

 

PS we are always open to collaborations, invitations and suggestions for future walks so please do get in touch if you have any ideas.

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March 2024 First Sunday

Dear friends and fellow loiterers

I hope you have found something delightful this leap year day. I’ve been enjoying the first Spring flowers which bring joy and comfort; all things shall pass

It’s First Sunday, This Sunday and of course that means its time for us to gather for a communal wander. I missed loitering together last month, huge thanks to Peter for helping out as I was called away.

This month we are in for a treat as Matthew is facilitating an exploration starting at the wonderful William Mitchell totems which were discussed a couple of months ago.

The themes guiding us will include (amongst other things) some questions that have haunted our perambulations for many years:
what’s in a name?
what is “authentic” (and does it matter?)
what is worth unknowing, saving, discarding or treasuring in the landscape?
and how does the rational mingle with the unknowable on our streets?

Of course we may go off on tangents that mean these mysteries remain unvoiced, let alone discussed or (whisper it) resolved.

Please join us 2pm this Sunday 2nd March at the sculptures outside the Allerton Building, Frederick Street, Salford M6 6PU.

It is appreciated if you can be on time as the route is largely unplanned and I cant promise you will find us if you are late. As ever the pace and direction will be decided collectively but I strongly suspect we may derive unusally for us venturing both inside and underground at some points. We will probably finish at The New Oxford around 4pm.

All welcome and as ever its free for all and we all look out for each other as we walk.

If you need more information or have any questions or feel a bit unsure and want to meet beforehand please do get in touch:

Comment on the facebook group “the loiterers resistance movement”
X / twitter @thelrm
email mlrose@thelrm.org
text/ whatsapp 07974929589

With love and golden apples

Morag x

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February update

Hello everyone

Its First Sunday, This Sunday and time to wander together again.

I’m sorry to be late getting the details out this month but this has been a tumultuous week and I wasn’t sure what to do. The answer, of course, is to keep going and seek new directions….

Lets gather at one of The LRMs favourite spots, beneath the tiled map in Victoria Station 2pm on Sunday February 4th

Here’s the plan;

Let your heart or soul or instinct or what-ever-you-call-it guide you, if you need an extra nudge head towards a light.

As you go collect words from signs, names, litter, whatever you find

Use them to write a poem of the streets, it can be on paper, in pictures or just in your footsteps.

Share it if you like or just let it glow inside you, both are fine

I won’t be there in Manchester this Sunday, but I know others will be and as ever all are welcome. As ever the only rule is: take care of yourself, each other and the streets. And don’t be an arse

If you would like to connect remotely from wherever you are I’ll be on whatsapp so feel free to share with me on 07974929589

Any questions or comments please share on facebook “the loiterers resistance movement” twitter @thelrm email morangopop@gmail.com or text/whatsapp 07974929589

Thank you to all loiterers for the curiosity, care and fabulousness you bring to the streets.

With love and golden apples

Morag xx

PS next month we will be at exploring the magic of mitchells totems in Salford as discussed last time xx

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