An exhibit of Walk Around Philadelphia, featuring photographs from around the city’s edge, will be displayed at Cedar House Cafe (at the top of the Forbidden Drive on Northwestern Avenue) and will remain through the first weekend of March. 

The 100-mile walk around the city’s perimeter happens twice a year in February and September, with occasional special programs and invitations. Anyone can join for any segment, as they are able. 

The next walk is scheduled for Feb. 2-19, with the Chestnut Hill section of the walk starting on Saturday, Feb. 17. It will take place over 12 segments split over three long weekends, going from Friday through Monday over the weekends spanning Feb 2-19.

This year, the first day of the walk happens to land on the 170th anniversary of the signing of the Act of Consolidation of 1854, whereby the city merged with the county and took on its current strange iconic shape. 

The project, designed and organized by J.J. Tizious, uses walking the city’s perimeter to explore themes of borders and boundaries, privilege and access, social and environmental justice, infrastructure and ecosystems, commerce and incarceration, and indigenous history.

For more information, go to jjtiziou.net/project/walk-around-philadelphia