Thursday was a special day
In the UK we write the calendar dates day / month / year which meant that on Thursday last week it was 23/02/2023 of which some were claiming that it was a palindrome - where the numbers can be read backwards or forwards - however, we have to wait 9 years before 23rd February offers that up.
Thursday also happened to be special day for me personally, as I published my first episode of my Talking Walking podcast on the 23rd February 2008 - well before podcasts had become as popular as they are now. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to interview so many people passionate about walking, and my enthusiasm hasn't waned, as last week, I interviewed Julius Smit on a walk along the promenade in Eastbourne, edited an interview with Clara Gari, I had recorded in Olot in Catalunya last summer, and next week can look forward to meeting Marion Childs, Head of Services at the Alzheimer's Society who is in charge of their walking challenges. Every week, I am doing something linked to the podcast, and all of it has been a delight.
This last week, we brought together the jury for the Marŝarto Award for walking art, inviting them to define the criteria by which they and our online jury will select the winner. It was fascinating to listen to each of them talk so passionately about walking art - this is going to be a fabulous award to be part of, so do please make every effort to submit walking pieces this year.
We have signed up Linda Cracknell for a Walking Writers Salon in early May, she too has been one of my interviewees, and is a terrific writer of landscape, with a collection of essays coming out from Saraband in the Spring. There's more on writing and walking too, with a book launch from the Centre of Urban Cultural Research at Goldsmiths, University of London early in March, and brought by popular demand, Joanna Wolfarth is leading an online workshop on creative ekphrastic writing for the Urban Tree Festival. Last but not least, we have a Walking Detective meet up on Monday evening - do come along and find out what we are researching or bring along your own topic to research - so lots to look forward to.
For now, keep walking!
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26 Feb · Sun · 11:45 (UTC)
· Sint-Veerleplein, Gent, België
As part of the annual Terminalia Festival of Psychogeography, Ienke Kastelein and Witold van Ratingen organize a participative walk in Ghent with choreographic and textual elements: a turning point, with a Janus Head handkerchief as props. Keep reading
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27 Feb · Mon · 19:00 (UTC)
· Online
We want to uncover the forgotten or not yet revealed walking compositions – will you help us in our detective work as we search through archives and make connections with walking artists, performers and writers across the globe? We recently posted an enquiry on the Walking Artist Network, asking walking artists to ‘fil... Keep reading
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28 Feb - 4 Apr, 2023
· 40 Bernard St, London WC1N 1LE, UK
This in-person course hosted by Open City Docs is for beginners looking to work creatively and develop their skills in field recording to produce their own soundscape composition. We will look at fundamental theoretical and conceptual debates in the area, the basics of field recording, acoustic ecology and soundwalking... Keep reading
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01 Mar · Wed · 23:00 (UTC)
· Philadelphia, PA, USA
What does it mean to walk an edge? Edges can be peripheral. Edges can be liminal. Edges can be edgy. Six writers will read selections from Ways of Walking and discuss the edges they have walked, both literal and metaphorical. Keep reading
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08 Mar · Wed · 19:00 (UTC)
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An informal presentation with discussion referring to a series of walking-with provocations in Bath (UK)
The event will be streamed.
Registration essential Keep reading
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08 Mar · Wed · 20:00 (UTC)
· Online
Back by popular demand – for all of you who like DEADLINES – this event is set to run just five days from the closing of this year’s Festival writing competition. How can we use art to inspire words? Ekphrasis translates as ‘description’ in Greek and, today, an ekphrasis is used to mean a literary description... Keep reading
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09 Mar · Thu · 17:30 (UTC)
· Laurie Grove, London, UK
Launch of the booklet ‘Writing Walking: One day in Spring during global pandemic’ an edited collection from the Centre for Urban and Community Research ‘What happens when nothing happens on a day in late Spring during a global pandemic? And, how might writing walking sociologically help us to make sense of it?’ Join us... Keep reading
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New walking pieces
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walkingwhiledrawing is a project that combines walking, drawing and VR-landscapes. It is dealing with our visual perception while walking and drawing. The drawing walks get translated in VR through 3D-painting and combined as a VR-landscape. Keep reading
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A participatory performance and a free construction-play-kit for studies, researches and works on choreographing walking. Keep reading
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For more information, visit: https://teosoundmap.com/
On this website, also an online version of the soundwalk can be accessed. Keep reading
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Local residents Bronwin Patrickson and Matt Zonca guide you through 24 hours of sights, sounds, happenings, mishaps, and serendipitous encounters, all recorded in and around parks 16 (Victoria/Pakapankanthi) and 17 (Carriageway/Tuthangga) in the south eastern corner of Adelaide's parklands. Keep reading
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Upcoming events
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26 Feb · Sun · 11:45 (UTC)
· Sint-Veerleplein, Gent, België
As part of the annual Terminalia Festival of Psychogeography, Ienke Kastelein and Witold van Ratingen organize a participative walk in Ghent with choreographic and ... Keep reading
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27 Feb · Mon · 19:00 (UTC)
· Online
We want to uncover the forgotten or not yet revealed walking compositions – will you help us in our detective work as we search through archives and make connection... Keep reading
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28 Feb - 4 Apr, 2023
· 40 Bernard St, London WC1N 1LE, UK
This in-person course hosted by Open City Docs is for beginners looking to work creatively and develop their skills in field recording to produce their own soundsca... Keep reading
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01 Mar · Wed · 23:00 (UTC)
· Philadelphia, PA, USA
What does it mean to walk an edge? Edges can be peripheral. Edges can be liminal. Edges can be edgy. Six writers will read selections from Ways of Walking and discu... Keep reading
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