Art student Zelda Moehring brought her video camera and ‘slow’ vision to the first Slow Down London festival in April-May 09, documenting numerous events and discussions. You can watch her 10-minute feature, along with footage of individual events. (more…)

A team of volunteer photographers has been documenting the festival, and you can enjoy their images in our Gallery. From Tai Chi on the riverside to the Big Slow Walk, slow down for a few minutes to watch our slideshows. (more…)

The 2009 festival is over, and we are delighted with the good turnout, the atmosphere at events, the positive feedback from participants and partners, and the widespread support for Slow Down London as an initiative. Many of you are asking us – what happens next? (more…)

Art and meditation were the focus of a Contemplative Arts workshop that took place on Saturday 2nd May 2009 at the London Shambhala Meditation Centre. (more…)

Over 100 people casually strolled through the green pathways of north London on Sunday 3 May 09. The six mile walk, organised by Metropolitan Walkers in conjunction with Slow Down London, began at Highgate, meandered through the lush landscapes of Crouch End, Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington on the capital ring, before taking a detour through a leafy area of Canonbury. (more…)

A review of ‘Why Does When Matter?’ (British Museum, 1 May 2009)

It’s 8am at Whitechapel tube station in East London. The train bound for central London pulls up and people crowd on. They wait, but the train doesn’t move. People start checking their watches and frowning. (more…)

For someone seen as a leader of the global slow movement, Carl Honoré is a ball of energy. Speaking at the South Bank Centre on 25 April 2009, the Canadian journalist and author of In Praise of Slow took the audience on a speed history of the Slow movement. (more…)

Slow Down London kicked off very slowly on Friday 24 April with about two hundred Londoners calmly strolling over Waterloo Bridge. Watch a video.

The crowd gathered at Embankment Gardens by the Thames at 5pm and were handed t-shirts and placards for the walk. (more…)

Dramatist Michael Benenson leads a workshop at the Albany theatre on 25 April 2009 exploring themes of speed, communication and ‘slowing down’ in our daily lives and our relationships with others. He tells Alex Rankin what it’s all about. (more…)

Dan Kieran and two friends travelled across England at 15 mph in a 1950s milk float. Alex Rankin catches up with this slow traveller before his talk at Foyles on 28 April 2009. (more…)