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“Continuing our series of Sunday afternoon talks in the magnificent drawing room of Clissold House, we are pleased to announce the third of three talks for 2016.

Doors open 1.30pm. Ticket price includes a glass of wine or a soft drink.

Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there – and that they always will. In fact, the roots of even the most humble neighbourhood park lie in age-old battles over land and liberty. From their medieval life as private royal hunting grounds and private estates to their modern incarnation as public spaces teeming with activity, as Clissold Park is today, acclaimed author Travis Elborough traces their extraordinary history in an illustrated talk based on his new book, A Walk in the Park.

Elborough is a Stoke Newington resident and Clissold Park user; he was also the Chisenhale Gallery Victoria Park Residency artist for 2014-15.”

Link for tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-walk-in-park-an-illustrated-talk-by-travis-elborough-tickets-28498460663?aff=es2

picture @BloomsburyInst

Link here:

http://pages.bloomsbury.com/bloomsburyinstitute/sartre

I have the back-cover story article about Brighton’s i360 tower in the latest issue of Blueprint magazine.

Now read online here:

http://www.designcurial.com/news/i-in-the-sky-i360-by-marks-barfield-5022848

Travel the Thames Estuary and meet its people with author Rachel Lichtenstein, who will be discussing her new book.

Rachel will be in conversation with Travis Elborough, author of Wish You Were Here about her new book Estuary: Out from London to the Sea (2016, Hamish Hamilton); an immersive, intimate journey into the world of the Estuary and the people who spend time there.

Part of the Landlubber’s Maritime Folk Festival and Totally Thames 2016Read more at

http://www.rmg.co.uk/see-do/exhibitions-events/estuary#OrDH0iw05Ltxuii3.99

I am delighted to be appearing at the Windsor Festival talking about parks in The Great Park.

Full details here:

http://tickets.windsorfestival.com/Sales/Autumn-2016/Wednesday-21st-September/A-Walk-in-the-Park-The-Life-and-Times-of-a-Peoples-Institution/A-Walk-in-the-Park-The-Life-and-Times-of-a-Peoples-Institution

Courtesy Dan Thompson ‏@artistsmakers

More on the festival here: http://www.estuaryfestival.com

Travis Elborough explores the role of public parks in British life and urges us to cherish them as institutions for the people.

“The best public parks, as artfully contrived areas of greenery in the midst of brick and concrete, offer the delights of nature with fewer of its downsides.”

Link here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v2mf7

*Since the broadcast it has rightly been pointed out that Lyme disease can be contracted in public parks, so please mentally substitute the word ‘less’ for ‘no’ in that bit of my talk.

I will be appearing at the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography in Huddersfield speaking on at 7.30 pm on Friday 9th September.

More details here:

http://4wcop.org