It’s the best walking art of 2023!

The big news, last week, was that we announced the shortlist for the Marŝarto Awards 2023. Buuuut, you're correct, this didn't show up in last week's mailing. I won't spill the beans on the culprit.

So now I have the honour to tell you the good news. The Marŝarto Awards 2023 shortlist consists of 14 pieces, produced after January 1 2022. Two pieces are not eligible to win, leaving the Grand Jury to thoroughly analyse 12 remaining pieces, with the full list representing work from creators on four continents.

In the mean time, we've asked the shortlisted creators to write a background text on their work, which will be published on our website over the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, we're closing in on the announcement of the winners of the SWS23 Awards, while over the last few weeks, we've published several of the articles by shortlisted creators.

In the past two weeks, Keira Simmons wrote about her work Listening to the Port, Dakota LaCroix and Cinema Wood wrote about Head, Hand and Heart, David Merleau told us about AntVenture, and Adje Both went back in time for Sounds of Teotihuacan. You're not getting off that couch; you've got some reading to do.

Winners and honourable mentions for both our awards walk away with cash prizes. The height of the prizes is dependent on how many of you are able to financially support the work we do at WLC. And, right now, we're only a handful of supporters away from doubling the prize money; from 250 to 500 euros for winners, from 100 to 200 euros for honourable mentions.
If you enjoy the work we do, and are able to financially support us, and our creators, we'd very much appreciate it if you can become a financial supporter today for as little as 5 euros per month. It really makes a difference. And if you tip us over the threshold before we announce this year's winners, you'll make some of our shortlisted creators very happy with the extra money. Heck, this could be you!

Meanwhile, the world is still burning, and I'm not getting the impression we're moving in the right direction. The conflict in the Ukraine is not letting up, Israel is inflicting a genocide on Gaza, COP28 was presided over by a Saudi oil magnate, and next year's COP is in the oil-rich country of Azerbaijan. Manipulated news is on the up in the US, just in time for next year's elections, while Trump beats Biden in the polls. Trump, who, incidentally, admits he will only be a dictator for a day.

I do not think our, the world's, future is looking very bright, short of being annihilated by scorching heat. Too many players with vested interests that are too large, and with the means to fight for them, control our lives, and are able to manipulate our future to their own narrow-minded benefit.
It's easy to be narrow-minded ourselves, and to only fight for our own, selfish, interests. It's, after all, what everyone else seems to be doing.

Except that for many of you, many of the creators in our network of over 1600 contributors, the work that you produce often shows an alternative, even better, way to interact with nature, the built environment, and those around us. And by showing the world, maybe, just maybe, we're able to make a tiny difference, perhaps even a tiny difference that snowballs into something larger.
And so we must do what we can. Not just as artists, but as human beings. For if not us, who? If not now, when?

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