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SWS Awards 2024

The original award discovering the best soundwalks from all over the world.

Up to €1000 for first prize!

Details · 2023 winners

Marŝarto Awards 2024

The first and only award recognising walking art from around the globe.

Up to €1000 for first prize!

Details · 2023 winners

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The Art of Walking

Our next event: 2024-04-23 18:00

We are delighted to have William Sharpe join us as our Café guest. This time last year, his book on The Art of Walking: a history in 100 images was published to wide acclaim. So how did he come to choose which images best represented the art of walking, and what did he choose to leave out, and why?

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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.

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WALC – a new future of walking arts

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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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Exploring the motor city on foot

The collectives Jalan Gembiro, from Indonesia, and Walkspace, from the UK, came together to explore their cities, Yogyakarta and Birmingham, both primarily designed for cars, on foot.

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Stories of place from Regional New South Wales

Australian arts organisation, Orana Arts is partnering with walk · listen · create, to offer a prize in the new writing competition, Neighbourhood Narratives – stories around us. An invitation has been extended to creatives, living and working in Regional New South Wales (NSW), to write about Regional NSW—a region being any town, small city or area that falls beyond the major capital cities.

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Wheels Off

At a geographic and geologic boundary, hikers symbolically disable their vehicles. The rubber wheels are then used to first draw, then erase, a mountain snowcap or glacier. Melting “waters” tumble joyously downhill.

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'A Walking Poem' is a website that writes psychogeographical poems using real Google Maps directions from your current location to a random place around you.

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When you are lost, it seems a good idea to walk a straight line. This piece reflects my experiment: for seven consecutive days I walked the same circle in the desert. Don’t we all walk in circles in our own lives, thinking we are going straight?

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Kim V. Goldsmith

A storyteller exploring hidden narratives through sound (Australia)
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Daniella Turbin

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Andrew Stuck

Co-founder of walk · listen · create (United Kingdom)
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Christopher Kaczmarek

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Tamsin Grainger

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Clara Gari

Walking, cooking, loving, exploring and wine drinking (Spain)
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Catherine Teeling
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Geert Vermeire

co-founder of walk · listen · create (Belgium)
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Henna Wang

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Molly Wagner

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Stefaan van Biesen

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walking-with, uncomfortable presence, social justice
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