Sidetracked LIVE: The Creators Tour 2022
Events
Presented by Craghoppers // Supported by komoot & Elliot Brown
Join us for a night of exploration, films, photography, fantastic craft beer, and loads more. Live and onstage.
Throughout October, Jenny Tough, and Sidetracked Founder John Summerton will be our hosts as we travel the UK for second year of our Creators Tour – a series of lively interactive evenings packed with fascinating speakers, beautiful adventure films and photography, competitions and drinks with the Sidetracked team and like-minded friends.
The tour will take place at a series of unique craft beer taprooms (plus a couple of very special locations) across the UK. The concept is simple: to capture the emotion and experience of adventures and expeditions throughout the world… and to inspire.
In support of the tour’s charity partner, Trash Free Trails, each night there will be a competition with prizes from Craghoppers, komoot, Elliot Brown, Outdoor Provisions, LifeStraw, and 20 Photos, a Sidetracked subscription, and back copies of the magazine.
DATES & VENUES
October 16th – Cornwall with Cat Vinton
Discover the wonder of Kudhva and hear stories from award-winning adventure and ethnographic photographer Cat Vinton.
After graduating from Camberwell School of Art and Design, Cat left the UK to work in the People’s Democratic Republic of Lao. A place and an experience that defined her path, fuelling her curiosity for human nature and for the people who have so far escaped the consumerist, capitalist societies of our modern world. During her two years in Lao, she photographed stories for the United Nations and Redd Barna. Her nomadic journey began here and has become her life project.
Since Lao, Cat has lived in many places and for the last few years she’s not called one place home. Instead she’s roamed, weaving her life and work, more in tune with a wilder spirit and with those who still live connected to nature.
October 17th – Bristol with Lizzie Daly
Come and join us in Bristol at the Lost and Grounded taproom. It will be an interactive evening packed with a talk from Welsh adventurer, explorer and wildlife biologist, Lizzie Daly. Lizzie’s curiosity for the natural world has led her to conduct research and make wildlife films all over the world. Lizzie has a real love for adventure and inspiring other women in the wildlife adventure space. Most recently Lizzie has run 140km solo in temperatures reaching -35 in the Finnish Arctic Circle. She has also filmed humpback whales and Orca underwater in Arctic Norway, filmed in Antarctica and led offshore blue sharks trips in the Celtic Deep.
As a scientist and broadcaster Lizzie is heavily involved in giving her own wildlife talks and live shows on a range of topics. She has given talks at Norwich Science Festival, Blue Earth Summit, Royal Geographic Society, Northern Ireland Science Festival to name a few.
October 18th – London with Jenny Tough
Join us at Fourpure Brewery for an interactive evening packed with a talk from Jenny Tough. Jenny is a writer and adventurer and an enthusiast for all things endurance challenges, particularly in the mountains. Whether it be a race or a solo adventure, her desire to push her limits has led her to numerous corners of the world. In 2021, she completed a global challenge to run, solo and unsupported, across a mountain range on every continent, including three world-first traverses. She’s also competed in long-distance bikepacking races, including becoming the two-time first woman in the Silk Road Mountain Race and first woman in the inaugural Atlas Mountain Race – considered two of the toughest off-road bike races.
Outside of her personal pursuits, she is on a mission to get more people outside and challenging their own comfort zones, particularly women and girls, which she has championed by launching a book called Tough Women: Adventure Stories.
October 19th – Cheltenham with Matt Pycroft
Come and grab a beer at DEYA Brewery while listening to stories from Matt Pycroft. Matt is a 32-year-old photographer, filmmaker, host of The Adventure Podcast, and Creative Director of Coldhouse, a content agency and platform for authentic storytelling. ‘I love the environments we film in, but for me, it’s about the human connection. It’s the moments at the end of the day when you just feel like you’ve nailed what you set out to do, and you were only capable of doing it because you were all locked in together. Filmmaking is a team sport and often the result is greater than the sum of its parts. And I just adore that.
October 20th – Llandudno with Anna Taylor
Join us at Heartland Coffee, with beer supplied by Wild Horse Brewing Co, and a talk from Anna Taylor. Anna is a climber and adventurer from the Lake District. Most known in the climbing world for hard trad climbing and free-soloing, she has recently moved into the world of expeditions – whether that’s climbing remote mountains in the middle of the jungle, or coming up with gruelling, human-powered link ups around the UK
October 24th – Manchester with Frit Tam
This evening is located at Cloudwater Brew Co. in Manchester with a talk from adventurer Frit Tam. Frit is a British-born Chinese, transgender filmmaker, photographer, speaker, podcaster and writer. He co-hosts the transgender podcast called ‘TransAtlantic: TransMasc’ with fellow trans guy, Ryan Rhys, who is based in the US.
Frit runs a film studio, Passion Fruit Pictures, in which his sole mission is to add colour and diversity to the adventure industry through filmmaking, and his two latest films ‘Brave Enough’ and the award-winning ‘The Wanderlust Women’ share stories on ageism, colour and religion.
Frit has also been in front of the camera, when he cycled and rollerbladed across England last summer on a trip called ‘Glide for Pride’. He interviewed over 35 people from the LGBTQIA+ community to tackle the issue of belonging and is currently in post-production for the adventure documentary. And finally, Frit has reignited his YouTube channel to share his own personal journey of the early days of his transition to support anyone else in the early days of their own journey.
October 25th – Leeds with Ellie Stones
Join Craghoppers ambassador, Ellie Stones at the North Brewing taproom in Springwell. Ellie is a conservation photojournalist and filmmaker from the UK.
With a degree in Natural History Photography and Film, Ellie’s work explores the relationships between humans and nature, with a drive to tell impact-led, investigative stories. Her passions lie particularly with documenting animal injustice and human-wildlife conflict.
Her most recent project ’The Pangolin Man’ is a self-funded, one-woman-crew documentary about the most illegally trafficked mammal in the world; the pangolin. It focuses on one man’s fight to save pangolins in south-western Uganda, and change the minds of the very people who hunt them. In 2022 Ellie returned to Uganda in partnership with WildAid Africa to screen The Pangolin Man to local communities using a bicycle-powered cinema.
October 26th – Glasgow with Gilly McArthur and Calum Maclean
Join us at Drygate Brewing Co for an interactive evening packed with a talk from Gilly McArthur and Calum Maclean.
Gilly is An illustrator, climber and wild swimmer, Gilly is a director of the Womens Trad Festival. She is also a cold water swim coach, ice seeker and founder of Blue Mind Men – a cold water swim club for men and friends.
Originally from the North of Scotland, Gilly now lives in Cumbria where she is partial to an iced over tarn to swim in and loves helping other find their space in the outdoors.
Much of Gilly’s work is strongly tied into mental wellbeing and she has written numerous articles, participated in podcasts, films and graced the main stage at a number of high-profile outdoor events in order to passionately share cold water swimming with a broader audience.
Calum Maclean is a writer, broadcaster and film-maker. Best known for his social media videos and BBC ALBA series Dhan Uisge, in which he shares his love for swimming in cold water, and looking beyond the obvious aspects of outdoor adventure. An ambassador for the Outdoor Swimming Society, Calum is author of 1001 Outdoor Swimming Tips. A native Gaelic-speaker, Calum also brings the language into his work, so that people can learn more about it.
In 2021, Calum and Jenny Graham walked ‘The Longest Line’ – walking for 78km through the Cairngorms National Park, the longest straight-line distance between paved roads in mainland Britain. Following the 4 day journey of seemingly constant up-and-down heather-covered slopes and staring at a GPS screen, Calum swore off straight-line endurance walking. Unsurprisingly, no-one else has yet attempted to replicate the journey.
October 31st – Edinburgh with Vedangi Kulkarni
This evening is located at Bellfield Brewery in Edinburgh with a talk from Vedangi Kulkarni. Vedangi was born and raised in India and currently lives in the UK. She’s an adventurer, endurance athlete, writer, expedition/project manager and a business owner. She loves organising mountain biking and bikepacking events, managing a million projects simultaneously and talking to a ton of new people. In 2018, she rode 29,000km around the world in 160 days, mostly solo and unsupported, at the age of 19/20, becoming the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe on bike. She’s always keen for an adventure, be it cold water swimming, long distance hiking or cycling, climbing, mountain biking, skiing or travelling through remote places. On her most recent expedition, she skied across Svalbard. Her happy place is anywhere outside, in the wild, and on the move. She tells stories from her adventures both digitally (through her social media channels) and through in-person events. When she isn’t out and about, you can find her reading non-fiction books or writing something in one of her million Moleskine notebooks.
November 1st – Fort William with Alex Roddie
To finish the tour, we’ll hear from a member of the Sidetracked team at Black Isle Brewing Co. Alex Roddie is an award-winning outdoor writer, photographer, and professional editor who lives in Lincolnshire.
In 2015 he hiked his first Cape Wrath Trail, which marked the beginning of an intensive period of long-distance hiking including the Tour of Monte Rosa, West Highland Way, Skye Trail, Jotunheimstien, Mercantour Traverse, Haute Route Pyrenees, and many more. He has also spent several summers in the Alps trying to climb big snowy peaks. He’s been with the Sidetracked team since 2015 and became editor in 2020. His books include The Farthest Shore (Vertebrate Publishing), Wanderlust Europe and Wanderlust Alps (gestalten).
