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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Walking Piece Marŝarto23
Sentinel Species
People have long observed animals for signs of threatening hazards or evidence of impending environmental threats. These species, called sentinel species, are of great importance not only in “perceiving and bringing” the first signs and symptoms of the “climate crisis”, but also in “anticipating” it as sentinels. Sentinel Species Walking Encounter reverses the sentinel roles of humans and birds. Humans will enact the role of sentinels for the endangered bird species living in the area. Choosing Prespa as a location for the proposed Performance/Installation is no coincidence as Prespa is an environmentally protected area.
Walking Piece SWS22
Ghosthunter N16
St Mary’s Old Church is London’s only surviving Elizabethan churchyard, where the tombstone inscriptions have been lost to weather and time. This self-directed audio trail pieces together the fragments of story.
Produced October 2021.
Walking Piece SWS22
Night Walk: Walking Clifton Downs and Ladies Mile at midnight
Night-Walk is an output of the Walking and Re-Creation project. Our project responds to our belief that social and health inequalities are linked. and uses a historical lens on walking to address unequal access to pedestrianism in our own moment.
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