So far the European Street-Art Run series has taken me on guided tours of London, Copenhagen and now Paris. Here are snaps from the trip which ended up as an after-party at Favela Chic hosted by Charlie Dark, founder of RunDemCrew AND newly announced ambassador for Stance!
Last month I discovered the street-art of London's East End on a run led by Alternative London which uncovered works from Banksy to Eine and everything inbetween. This was the first city in a series of European dates on the inaugural Stance Runtour. The second stop on the trail was Copenhagen and I was lucky enough to win a place to go and join the trip. With each instalment someone will be chosen to continue onto the next destination with Paris and Milan on the itinerary.
Here are my snaps from Denmark's street-art including my favourite - a female artist Maya Hayuk who painted this whole building with a bright colour geometric pattern. Whilst we were out exploring the city, graffiti artist Brandon AKA "Juse One" was spraying a wall of Stance boxes for us to take away as keep-sakes. I love a good goody-bag and this is definitely the most unique one I've ever had; each signed, stamped and dated so that I now have two from both cities. The after-party was a great chance to get to know Copenhagen's NBRO running crew better and ask what else to do while I was in town......... hence the winning top-tip of visiting the Luisiana Museum (in the previous posts). This meant I squeezed in the maximum amount of art in the 24 hours I had in the city to run. All my favourite things combined in one......... and some new colourful socks, to boot!!
Read about the London run on my fitness blog for HUNGER TV here.
My camper van was very happy to have a second outing this summer on another festival excursion - this time to Wilderness in Oxfordshire. Both nights were headlined by legends which was enough in itself = George Clinton and Bjork. Secondly, Nick Mulvey completed touring his first album which was monumental for me to witness as I heard the whole thing being written in the studio next to me. Thirdly it's a festival with a focus on wellbeing so I was in heaven swimming in the ponds, stretching out at yoga under the sky and running in the forests. Ive written up my experiences of helping Sarah Waite with installing colour in the coppices for her Mindful Meditation Run over on my Fitness blog for Hunger here.
