London Midweek explorers was established to fit a gap in our programme, which was that we had no mid-week day-time events. We meet monthly in the third week of the month but rotate the days to give people the chance to fit the walks in around their other commitments and attend at least once or twice quarter.
The meetups are normally in three parts: a photo walk of about two hours followed by lunch and in the afternoon, an option to visit a photo Exhibition together. Members are welcome to come for all three parts of the walk, or just one! Exhibitions visited have included our own RPS London Region Exhibition, Don McCullen at the Tate, Martin Parr at The National Gallery and again our own RPS TotallyThames Outdoor Exhibition in Putney - and more.
Anyone is welcome to come: the walks are free but clearly lunch is at the participants' expenses and there may (or may not) be an entry fee for the Exhibitions. To see a listing of planned walks / events - go here
Walks are usually designed and led by Roger Towell (londonurban@rps.org) with support from Judy and/or David Hicks (Londonro2@rps.org and london@rps.org)
Here is the tentative programme for the rest of 2020:
Monday 16th March: Putney
Tuesday 21st April: Central London and Cecil Beaton at NPG (https://rps.org/events/regions/london/2020/april/midweek-explorers-april-2020/)
Wednesday 20th May: Crystal Palace – Val Straw Organising
Monday 15th June: Brent (not Wembley!)
Tuesday 21st July: Temple
Wednesday 19th August: Isleworth & Chiswick
Monday 21st September: Bethnal Green
Tuesday 20th October: TBC.
Wednesday 18th November: Stoke Newington / Abney Park (https://abneypark.org) (Judy will do this one, if you wish)
Saturday 5th or Sunday 6th December. Christmas Meetup at the Dickens Rochester Christmas Festival and Markets (https://www.visitkent.co.uk/events/dickensian-christmas-3820/)
Another Date in December. Perhaps do an early evening walk and photograph the Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square, Lights etc and follow up with a Mince Pie and Mulled Wine