Mapping The World's Water: What It Takes To Be A Wild Swimmer, 3pm Saturday 20th October

Kate Rew looks at the drive and practicalities behind the new modern aquatic adventurer, from the big scale adventurers undertaking new journeys across oceans and polar seas, to the humble everyman currently busy plotting their local rivers and lakes.

Through a series of stories about people and her own adventures, Kate looks at what it takes to be a wild swimmer, the hazards and pleasures that are encountered along the way, and the pure joy of the undiscovered.

Kate Rew is founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society and author of Wild Swim, a photographic journey of some of the best swims across Britain.

PS The Outdoors Swimming Society are keen to know if you have any favourite wild swimming spots in the Peak District that they don't know about already.  Drop a pin on their Wild Swim website and share.

Following Kate's talk we'll show a series of films including two of Kate's own award-winning shorts.

Shot during one of the coldest winters for years, the WINTER SWIMMING features a swimming club based on the banks of the Vltava river in Prague whose members specialise in swimming outside through the winter - one couple even get married in 1.5C water.

Quite literally breath-taking.

In FREE FALL world champion freediver Guillaume Nery "BASE jumps" head first into Dean's Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world.  This surreal short was filmed entirely on breath hold by fellow French freediver Julie Gautier. 

The sensational viral hit caused controversy, though Nery insists it's an artistic project.

Simply bewitching.  A rare treat to be able to view in its full glory on the big screen.