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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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.
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Weeds are Community
A sound walk created for the Streets of Frome, Somerset, England, which explores the parallel between plants and people:
fragility, resilience and determination.
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All-American Ruins: Mrs. Dalby & the Gravekeeper of Hatteras Island
All-American Ruins guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating my experiences exploring abandoned spaces. Along the way, I ask questions about society and culture while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations for healing.
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