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!
This event is free for supporting members
From here to there seeking out lost paths with Jack Cornish
Our next event: 2024-05-07 18:00
Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales, however, there are several thousand that have been lost or barricaded over the years. Walking artists and activist, Jack Cornish has dedicated the last five years of his life to walking these forgotten routes.
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.
5 misconceptions on walking art
I’ll be mostly preaching to the choir, here. Yet, I might also be giving you a helping hand when, the next time, you are asked what the point of this whole ‘walking art’ business is that you partake in. So, here are five misconceptions on walking art, with explanations as to why they are just
The winners of the Marŝarto23 are…
The winners of Marŝarto23 are Monique Besten and Alison Neighbour, both covering pertinent life questions which affect us all.
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Walking Piece SWS23
Heart Maps, Down the Line: An Ambulatory Audio Adventure
A unique ambulatory audio experience across two hours took people on a sound walk around the seaside town of Apollo Bay, on Gadubanud Country led by an imagined radio show hosted by project creators Amy Tsilemanis and traditional owner Richard Collopy. Participants were then transported to a theatrical scene on the beach, extending the stories heard in the audio then walked across the Great Ocean Road and into the Apollo Bay museum where a further soundscape and live singing in Indigenous language completed the experience: an exploration of how we connect with places and with each other, across the past present and future.
Free
Walking Piece SWS23
Decolonising Green Spaces – A Radio Walk in the Chilterns, with Dr Geeta Ludhra.
Radio Walks podcast.
Free
Walking Piece SWS23
Sehnsucht nach Sprechen und Freiheit
"Longing for Speech and Freedom" is an audio walk / location-based podcast on the feminist revolution in Iran, the racist attack in Hanau, safe spaces, discrimination and empowerment and the topicality of Anne Frank's diary.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley
