Chance for Sutherland residents to join Claudia Zeiske on her Slow Coast 500 walk
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Local people are being invited to join an arts director and long-distance walker on a Sutherland stretch of a hike she is undertaking down the full length of Scotland’s north sea coast.
Claudia Zeiske set off from Dunnet Head last week and is walking to Berwick-upon-Tweed at an unhurried pace in a project she calls Slow Coast 500, borrowing its name from the North Coast 500 tourist route.
Her goal is to bring attention to the importance of slowing down and considering the impact of tourism, which can have both positive and negative effects on local communities and the environment.
Ms Zeiske, a German arts director who made her home and raised her family in the north east of Scotland, is the founding director of Deveron Projects, the cultural organisation based in the Huntly.
She has always loved walking and over the past 10 years has undertaken a number of walking projects ranging from art and political walking to wellbeing walks.
On her Slow Coast 500 trek she is carrying a tablecloth in the same shade of orange seen in the branding of an Ordnance Survey Explorer map - using it as a picnic blanket to encourage conversation and embroidering it with geological and other features.
Timespan Art and Heritage Centre, Helmsdale, is organising a public walk with Claudia on Sunday, July 16, when she is expected to undertake the 11 miles from Helmsdale to Brora.
Anyone interested in doing so is asked to contact Timespan by emailing:enquiries@timespan.org.uk.
Walkers will meet at the museum at 9.15am with a departure at 9.30am. Arrival in Brora is anticipated at around 4pm. Walkers are asked to bring a packed lunch and snacks.
