Kate Entwhistle is one of our new Street Trainers she says "Lottie came into my school (Central School of Speech and Drama) and gave us a talk on was street training was and how it had come about. After that we went out to the areas surrounding school at did a bit of playing about. I thought it was so much fun and liberating; it really is about following your desires. I found that if i saw something and i wanted to do it then i should just do it, try it out and see how it feels.

The Path of Safety

don't look strangers in the eye when you're scared - sara davidman

have your wits about you - passer by camberwell green

don't walk by yourself - bus conductor camberwell green

wear high heels you can run in

you need to make sure you've got appropriate clothing – teenager, AMR school Camberwell

use the seven stars and the nine palaces steps techniques, tai chi for walking through crowds - laurence noga, Artist

keep all your valuables out of sight -constance, mum camberwell

act like you know where you're going- mestre cobra mansa

Ruth Catlow wrote

Our main part in Peckham Street Training (that's myself and Aileen Derieg from Furtherfield.org) has been to create an online platform for Street Training with a special focus on the Peckham group. We were interested to think about how to translate the project in physical space into online space and to connect the two. What would characterise the paths of Safety and Joy for online participants?

Today I gave a talk to the Fine art/contemporary art course at Leeds Metropolitan University. A local techniques is. stick a 10p piece to the pavement outside your house and watch people try to pick it up, it happens all the time.

Today as part of a project i am doing at Hackney Free and Parochial school i invited Lottie to come and show us the beginning of some street training methods without leaving the school grounds....we found happiness crouching under the table in the art room, learnt Yassir's ankle dance and Sabrina's 1,2,3,4...blind walked into the rain...and talked about how when we say hoodies it becomes more complex than just talking about a jumper...

One night here in Rio at a private view for a gallery called Gentil Carioca spontaneously I orchestrated my friends to lift up my friend Lila and we carried her off held on our shoulders. We walked along together a little girl hanging out of the doorway smiled at us, we proceeded to climb scaffolding play and swing off it.

Street Training Rio

On 16th April 2009 The first official Rio Street Training session was attended by 11 people, a perfect sized group. They were:

Actor Luiz from Spain
Artist Julia Kouneski, Minnesota USA
her boyfriend Mitchell, Minnesota USA
Dancer and performer Negrah, Santa Teresa, Rio
Head of the Morro dos Prazeres Community association Eliza Brandao, Morro dos Prazeres, Santa Teresa, Rio
her seven year old daughter Eva
her friend Alex
Cintia and Edilene who also work at the resident's association started at Morro dos Prazeres

More from a Brazil Street Training Group in Curitiba, Parana. based at the university there http://www.unicentro.br/ the group is now organised by Professor Margie Rauen.

UPDATE FROM BRAZIL!

In April Lottie Child went to Curitiba and Guarapava in Parana state Brazil. A Street Training session took place with students from the undergraduate program of Arts focused on education, and a new Specialization degree in contemporary arts. Since then they have been going out and street training once in a while.

Loads of videos of Manchester Street Training as part of City as Gymnasium exhibition at CUBE centre for the Urban Built Environment
here http://www.youtube.com/user/CUBEmanchester#p/a/u/4/16rh7vyvmr0