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
Finding a Place: creative-critical wanderings in landscape with Anna Burton
Our next event: 2024-05-15 18:00
Researcher and author Dr Anna Burton who has researched and written extensively about trees and how they have influenced the way we write about them; is the guest of Shani Cadwallender and Amelia Hodsdon, our writers in residence.
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.
Check out this walking piece
Check out these walking pieces
Free
Walking Piece
Her long black hair
Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff's Her Long Black Hair is a 35-minute journey that begins at Central Park South and transforms an everyday stroll in the park into an absorbing psychological and physical experience.
Walking Piece
Bute Park listening 2021
A sonic art work based on a group listening in Bute Park, Cardiff to the dawn chorus on 2 May 2021, International Dawn Chorus Day.
Free
Walking Piece Marŝarto23
One Hundred Days of Walking
“One Hundred Days of Walking” is a visualization of walking as listening, with 100 accordion books filled with watercolor landscapes, strung on 100 feet of braided cotton, hanging in space above the river that often guided my walking.
Walking Piece SWS21
Bath Union Workhouse: a walk for the living with the route of the dead
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It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Rumi
