Wander the streets
It’s less than a week until the submission deadline for the Sound Walk September Awards 2023. Have you released a soundwalk in the last 12 months? Or you know someone who has? Make sure it’s submitted for consideration.
For the first time, this year we are offering cold hard cash for the winners and honourable mentions.
Winners will get a minimum of 250 euros. But, the height of the prize money depends on how many of you support walk · listen · create financially. We’re perhaps a dozen supporters away from doubling the prize money.
We would be very grateful if you are able to chip in.
Did you produce new walking art in 2022 or 2023 that’s not a soundwalk? We got you covered; submit your work for the Marŝarto Awards. The deadline for this is October 31.
This coming Friday, September 29, we are participating in The World Wide Wander, a day of free walking workshops, ideas, insights and inspiration, lead by Street Wisdom.
The day is built up, over 12 hours, around 6 hybrid walkshops in six cities around the world. Each and all of these events you can participate in, from wherever you are.
I’ll be hosting the walkshop set in São Paulo, and there are others in Melbourne, Bangalore, Berlin, Nairobi, and New York.
Besides the six hybrid walkshops, there are also 24 physical meet-ups which you can join, all over Europe and North America.
Street Wisdom’s philosophy is centred around tapping into the public space to facilitate personal inspiration. By taking a step back, slowing down, and looking anew at what we find around us, we might be able to learn something about ourselves.
Sounds good? Participate, by signing up here.
Meanwhile, if you are suffering from high (or low) temperatures, and feel like staying inside today, you might appreciate Sound Walk Stories Sunday, which is happening later today. Here, the shortlisted works for our Write About Walking A/way writing competition will be read by their authors.
Quick! There still is time!
Keep walking, see you online!
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Researchers use Placecloud to mark sites of significance with short podcasts.
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24 Sep · Sun · 15:30 (UTC)
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Hosted by R M Francis the Write About Walking A/way showcase event introduces the shortlisted authors of the walk · listen · create / Sound Walk September writing competition, and includes readings of their poetry and prose. Run in conjuction with Sampson Low Publishers, the walk · listen · create writing competition a... Keep reading
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Support walk · listen · create
walk · listen · create is a member-supported organisation. If you like what we do, and want to see more of it, please become a supporting member.
You will be facilitating a more sustainable organisation and you will contribute to larger prizes for both the SWS and Marŝarto awards. And, as a supporting member, you get free access to our online cafés.
Support us from 5 euros per month. It’s even a bit cheaper if you commit for a whole year. Check out the details.
New walking pieces
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The Headford Lace Trail mixes documentary, historical drama and *lace-powered time travel* to take listeners on an immersive adventure through Headford's nearly forgotten lacemaking heritage. Keep reading
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AntVenture is an interactive storytelling audio walking app that gives you the inside scoop about what ants think of humans. Keep reading
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Originally produced for a 4.1 sound installation premiered at the Festival of Migration, Edinburgh. The Sound of Southside project worked with Chinese and Hong Kong migrants living in the Edinburgh area. Keep reading
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Walking Together is a film by SLQS: a meditative walk on horseback through Walthamstow Marshes exploring our relationship with more-than-humans, specifically equines, inspired by the walking meditations of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh. Keep reading
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all that you hear is all that is heard is an experimental storytelling project using the motion sensors within our smartphones. The idea for this stemmed from Curator and Creative Producer Rachael Paintin. Site specific to the Nicholas Building (Melbourne, Australia), audio conversations with past and present tenants a... Keep reading
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Upcoming events
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24 Sep · Sun · 15:30 (UTC)
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Hosted by R M Francis the Write About Walking A/way showcase event introduces the shortlisted authors of the walk · listen · create / Sound Walk September writing c... Keep reading
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25 Sep · Mon · 19:30 (UTC)
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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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27 - 28 Sep, 2023
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Audiotouren zur Stadterkundung +++ Der Twist im Plot +++ Interaktion im Audiowalk +++ Mit Audioguides Geld verdienen +++
KlangLandStadt_2023 ist Tagung, Workshop... Keep reading
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27 - 28 Sep, 2023
· Rovaniemi, Finland
This workshop explores the extraordinary possibilities of walking bodies for the creation of drawings, through a unique process of blind drawing without being blind... Keep reading
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29 Sep, 2023 · All day
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Join in, for this day-long on-foot festival of creativity, imagination, joy and laughter! It's time, it's free, it's what creative people like you do. Keep reading
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30 Sep · Sat · 10:00 (UTC)
· Ramsey Hairpin, A18, Ramsey, Isle of Man
A guided walk around the MWT Hairpin Woodland Park with moments to pause and actively listen to every sound that you hear. Keep reading
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From our network
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Living Streets Aotearoa, the national walking advocacy organisation, has strongly criticised the National Party's plan to increase local road speeds to 50km/h and s... Keep reading
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Three years into a nascent walking arts collective, what has been the value to members, how are people using it and what’s the next step on its journey? Keep reading
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Schubert's song-cycle "swan songs" as music-theatre at the Armory Hall in NYC, conceived and directed by Claus Guth, with tenor Jonas Kaufmann and pianist Helmut De... Keep reading
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Stuff we found
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Translated by John HoweBy walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history … The freedom in walking li... Keep reading
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Artists in North Yorkshire have been busy crafting striking pieces of artwork in the hope of encouraging residents to walk or cycle using new… Source: Artwork urges... Keep reading
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Atlanta is known for many different things. Whether you come for the film industry, music connections, or the abundance of brunch options, one thing is for sure: At... Keep reading
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Follow the StarTribune for the news, photos and videos from the Twin Cities and beyond. Source: Can you wance? Dancing while walking has become a regular sight in S... Keep reading
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A 10-year-old Syrian girl stepped off a boat in Boston Harbor on September 7th—a beacon of hope encountering a new land. Her name is Amal, and she was without paren... Keep reading
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Hong Kong’s old neighborhoods—even now, with its hyper-modern investment in arts and technology — you may feel like you’ve entered a time machine: vendors still fix... Keep reading
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