SWS Awards 2024
The original award discovering the best soundwalks from all over the world.
Up to €1000 for first prize!
Marŝarto Awards 2024
The first and only award recognising walking art from around the globe.
Up to €1000 for first prize!
WAY MAKERS: Kerri Andrews on women-walker writers and their work over the centuries
Our next event: 2024-05-22 18:00
Author and academic Kerri Andrews talks to Cheryl Markosky about her new book, Way Makers – An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking in this one-hour writer's salon. Remarkably, Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking, with extracts from writers' letters, diaries, poetry and novels.
Stories from your neck of the woods
Announcing the winners of the Neighbourhood Narratives non-fiction writing competition.
Distant places, different memories
Writing competition shortlist announced.
We’re doubling the prize money for our awards
Thanks to you, we’ve reached the first goal of our membership program, which means that we are doubling the prize money for our walking arts awards, the Sound Walk September Awards, and the Marŝarto Awards.
Australian Walking Artists goes ‘Way Beyond’
Molly Wagner and Kim Goldsmith talk about the exhibition ‘Way Beyond’, currently running in Sydney, and hosting work from around 20 Australian walking artists.
WALC – a new future of walking arts
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, establishing an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts. The project leans strongly on involving local inhabitants, and on engaging with local activists.
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The Peripatetic Photography of Georges Salameh by Georgios Giannopoulos
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A City Full of Stories
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Academy of Music's Open Academy department, The Connection at St Martin's
A City Full of Stories is a digital SoundWalk created by those experiencing homelessness in London and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. It lasts 25 minutes, blending words and music to imagine the stories of the streets and buildings.
Free
Walking Piece SWS24
Walking through the submerged forest
This piece is composed from my field recordings walking on the beach at low tide and readings of letters from Bexhill Museum archives, layered together with sound effects to bring to life a part of our eroding coastline and an archive which lies quietly unearthed.
Walking Piece SWS23
I just needed something a little bit… more
A multi narrative, immersive piece on the inner process attached to long distance walking. The changes which can happen when we take time out from our regular lives and the necessity to do so are all reflected in this piece.
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