WALK 2 : Colonial Past of Zeeland
Date: 27 July 2024
Time: 11:00
Location: VierVaart, Groede, Zeeland
The project WALK aims at transforming and healing the pain, wounds and rage of facing oppression, in particular racial oppression, using collective walking meditation.
Walking Meditation (in Relation to the Colonial Past of Zeeland)
For this second “walk” of the project, a publication is made which looks at the long-lasting involvement of the province of Zealand in the colonial trade in general and the trans-Atlantic slave trade in particular.
We will walk in meditation together using the “walking guide” included in the publication.
All the hundreds of ships departing from Middleburg beginning their voyage of “triangular trade” passed through the water strait between Vlissingen and Breskens, visible from the beautiful Breskens beach.
The Walking Guide draws inspiration from the book “How to Walk” by Thich Nhat Hanh.
After reading and discussing the publication, we will perform a collective 40min walking meditation at VierVaart.
