Walks & Tours

Guided tours, performative walks, virtual expeditions and more.

Curator’s Tour

Meet at the AND Festival Information Point at Castleton Visitor’s Centre 

Sat, 2pm 

Beginning at the AND Festival Information Point AND Director, Gabrielle Jenks will provide an overview of key projects within the festival sharing insights into artists projects and the themes and issues they are addressing.

The tour will then visit augmented reality project My Wall is Your Filter Bubble, and have a one-on-one tour of the exhibition with the curator’s, Doreen A. Rios and Matthew Plummer-Fernandez.

Please bring appropriate outdoor clothing.

This event is free.

 

The Real Smiling Rock Tour

Meet at the Peveril Castle kiosk

Fri, Sat and Sun, 11am or 3pm

A guided tour of Lindsay Lawson‘s work, The Real Smiling Rock will last 45 minutes. The Real Smiling Rock is a continually updating living document between the artist, an eBay seller named guitarpickman.com, and the digital presence of a rock he is selling on eBay for $1,000,000.

Please bring appropriate outdoor clothing.

To book please sign up on the day at the Peveril Castle kiosk.

Heavy Metal Detector Walk

Meet at the AND Festival Information Point at Castleton Visitor’s Centre

Fri and Sat, 12 to 6pm

Sun, 12 to 5pm

The playful and the humorous meet the mineral and the man-made in this performative walk, Heavy Metal Detector. Using customised metal detectors, join artist, Steve Maher, as he leads daily tours across the historic setting of Castleton.

To book please sign up on the day at Castleton Garage.

Castleton Caves Virtual Reality Tour

Located at Castleton Visitor’s Centre

Fri and Sat, 12 to 6pm

Sun, 12 to 5pm

Experience the subterranean sites of Castleton through a Virtual Reality (VR) experience. Engineers from Arup have been exploring the cave syustems and creating LiDAR* scans of the sites, which will enable you to take a virtual tour without having to leave the AND hub.

Courtesy of Arup.

 

Digital Dark Ages Tour

Treak Cliff Cavern

Fri, 1 to 5pm, last tour at 4pm

Sat and Sun, 10am to 5pm, last tour at 4pm

Many of the digital objects we create today will be lost tomorrow. A group exhibition charts the rise and fall of digital preservation. Recorded in formats that will become obsolete, saved in languages that are no longer recognised, or forgotten about as they lay buried as waste under the ground.

Digital Dark Ages is experienced as a guided tour through Treak Cliff Cavern lasting 45 minutes. The tours will run across the festival with introductions to each of the art installations and time to discuss the projects with your tour guide.

How to book tickets.

 

Listening to the Dark Tour

Peak Cavern

Fri, Sat, and Sun, 10.30am to 5.30pm, last tour at 4.30pm

Set deep under the earth in the subterranean bunkers of Peak Cavern, Listening to the Dark presents a series of prodigious sonic experiments and explorations.

Listening to the Dark is experienced as a guided tour through Peak Cavern lasting 60 minutes. The tours will run across the festival with introductions to each of the installations and scheduled performances.

How to book tickets.

 

Peak District National Park Tour

Meet at the AND Festival Information Point at Castleton Visitor’s Centre

Sat, 10am 

Peak District National Park features dramatic gritstone ridges and stark moorland plateaus. Come for a walk and you’ll learn how to spot mountain hare, identify wildflowers, and navigate with a compass.

 

Caving Tour

Meet at the entrance to Peak Cavern

Sat 9:30am – 12:30pm, and then, 1.30pm to 4.30pm  

Join professional caving instructor Adam Evans to learn the basics of caving, an ideal introduction for anyone who is interested in the history of Peak Cavern and the 300 million years it took to create it. A half day’s experience which may include minor climbs or scrambles.

How to book tickets.

 

Castleton Historical Society Tour

Meet at the AND Festival Information Point at Castleton Visitor’s Centre

Fri, 5pm  

Learn about the archaeological history of Castleton from Castleton Historical Society, which was founded in 1973 and who have  participated in archaeological digs at the following sites The Hospital of St Mary in the Peak and New Hall .

The Castleton Historical Society Tour will take place directly after the Rendering the Past Talk, book on both events to make the most of this event.