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Birds on a Wire
A despatch from our story-writer-in-residence Penny Walker. 13 July 2026, Southport to Tarleton, 13 miles The air is wobbling over the flat land which grows pale brown grass out of grey-red soil. Sweat and suncream on my glasses make me lose focus. I cannot make sense of it. Dry, bone dry, both sides of the flood
The Unyielding Waterland
We arrive in Emmadorp and walk towards the imposing long dike that embraces the Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe like an ancient boundary. Once we reach the top, near Emmahaven, a panorama unfolds that truly reveals the immense scale of this tidal landscape. The horizon seems endless. In the distance, we see a group of walkers
Walking between Worlds. Made of Walking Prosperpolder : walking a landscape
Walking Between Worlds reflects on Made of Walking Prosperpolder as an evolving walking arts practice. Through walks, performances and dialogue, it explores how artists, communities and landscapes co-create long-term ecological and social relationships.
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Participate in the Made of Walking Residency & Lab
Made of Walking – Prosperpolder | 11–17 September 2026, Belgium. A week of walking, art, ecology, care and exchange on the Belgian-Dutch border. Join artists and partners from across Europe. Free participation. Apply by 15 August.
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Wandering as a way of attaining knowledge beyond the material world
That maybe a Sufi quote about dervishes, the whirling kind, of which I read about in To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova: “A precept of dervishism is renouncing possessions, surrendering to the Road.” The subtitle of her book is “A Journey of War and Peace” and, as she writes of her travels along the shores
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To Walk Your Life: Between History and the Present
Our journey, in early July 2026, to Fort Liefkenshoek with Marc Dhaenens, Anna Maria Mestdagh, and me is, to say the least, sobering. The route leads us through a landscape of container terminals, towering loading cranes, bridges, chemical plants, and an almost endless network of roads crowded with heavy trucks moving in every direction. Everything
The bag beneath the seat
You’re flying low-cost and don’t want to pay for checked luggage. You’re allowed one bag, 25 × 40 × 10 cm, small enough to fit under the seat in front of you, and everything you take must earn its place: every piece has to be both essential to you and acceptable by airport security. You’re
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Following Walter Benjamin
The Contemporary Creation Centre Nau Côclea and the Museu Memorial de l’Exili (Exile Memorial Museum) invite artists to apply for the Walter Benjamin Creation Grant 2026. For thirteen years, the Walter Benjamin Route has invited artists to engage with questions of memory, borders, exile, critical history and the act of walking itself. Artists are asked
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A Metre of Blue: Mnemosyne and the Art of Distilling a Walk
It was around five in the morning on the shores of Lake Prespa in Northern Greece when I first encountered Ridha Dhib: a figure moving slowly along the water’s edge, a walking stick in hand, conversing with a strange, synthetic voice coming from a small red speaker clipped to his hip. The lake was still,
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Between Clay, Farmland and History
During the first two editions of Made Of Walking by The Milena principle (2015 and 2016, Delphi, Greece), we had the opportunity to meet two remarkable walking artists: the Dutch artist Ienke Kastelein and the Greek artist Katerina Drakopoulou. Through numerous international projects, their artistic practices have become widely recognized within the field of walking
Yumari! The Festival of Hospitality as a Ritual of Renewal
This article is available in French and Spanish. On May 30, Gigacircus presented the Festival of Hospitality in Villefagnan, bringing to a meaningful close the French hosting phase of the WALC project, Walking Arts & Local Communities. Before the dinner concert held in the village community hall, more than eighty residents took part in an
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Shadowy Figures
Here in the northern hemisphere we have just enjoyed the longest day, more daylight than at any other time of the year. We have been having quite a heatwave too, the early mornings and late evenings have been a relief as temperatures have dropped, and wonderful shadows have been revealed. To inject a bit of
• Columns
“Putting it off for a rainy day”
• The world is my gaze
• When the Shade Becomes a Destination
• Meet the network
Latest walking pieces
Mnémosyne. Paris → Nafplio, 100 days on foot
One hundred days on foot, Paris to Nafplio. The heartbeat replaces the kilometre as the unit of measurement. Each day yields one sealed Cardio-Cartography. On 5 November 2026, ten minutes of restitution at the University of the Peloponnese.
What the land holds
I want to take you back tens of thousands of years, when the train rail might have been the walking paths of San and Khoikhoi, with animal spoor worn by eland and quagga. The rail isn’t a rupture with the past so much as an appropriation of it.
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Fragments from Walk the Line
Since finishing the work, I’ve been thinking about why I keep walking along this abandoned rail line and realised it is not about how I made the work, but the layers of history I gathered in local archives and how those stories need to be kept alive
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Smugglers’ Run Heritage Trail
Smugglers Run is a one-of-a-kind cultural trail on Mudeford Quay (Dorset, UK). The trail includes 16 publicly-accessible signs that incorporate text, illustrations, models, rubbings, and audio re-enactments of the real-life smugglers of Christchurch.
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Listening
For our first Walking Writers Salon after the summer break, and to open Sound Walk September, we are delighted to welcome Canadian writers and researchers Kit Dobson and Ken Wilson in conversation discussing Kit’s Field Notes on Listening. Many of us walk out with scant attention to what we hear, our brains filtering out much,
• Communities along the Pilgrim’s trail
Local voices, custodianship and care Every road a pilgrim travels along links them to a community, but what of those communities, how have they evolved, is sacredness bestowed upon them or are they already sacred places? In this episode of the On Pilgrimage series we are exploring how pilgrims and pilgrimage may have created or
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• +1 Artists in the field and by the water
Biological field stations and marine labs are place-based institutions primarily focused on science research, science education, and public engagement with science. In the past few decades, there has been a growing interest among field stations and marine labs to invite artists to participate in artist residency programs, art education, and community arts events. We are delighted
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Women Walking, the City, at Night is an international performance in the form of collective night walks, initiated and curated by artist Eléonore Ozanne. The project began in Seville, Spain, in September 2021 during the night of the Harvest Moon. Since then, it has grown into a global action, with women walking together in different cities
• Absorb Ensemble
A playful participatory walkshop combining somatic practices, chance-based games and collective creative writing. Journey from inner awareness to shared imagination, discovering new ways to connect body, place, others and the stories that emerge betw
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After the Walk
Made of Walking Prosperpolder and the Future of Walking Arts Walking After the Walk The expression walking arts has become surprisingly familiar. Over the past two decades it has entered conferences, books, festivals, university programmes and European projects. It has proved useful because it brought together a remarkable diversity of practices that had previously remained
• The Unyielding Waterland
We arrive in Emmadorp and walk towards the imposing long dike that embraces the Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe like an ancient boundary. Once we reach the top, near Emmahaven, a panorama unfolds that truly reveals the immense scale of this tidal landscape. The horizon seems endless. In the distance, we see a group of walkers
Walking between Worlds. Made of Walking Prosperpolder : walking a landscape
Walking Between Worlds reflects on Made of Walking Prosperpolder as an evolving walking arts practice. Through walks, performances and dialogue, it explores how artists, communities and landscapes co-create long-term ecological and social relationships.
• Wandering as a way of attaining knowledge beyond the material world
That maybe a Sufi quote about dervishes, the whirling kind, of which I read about in To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova: “A precept of dervishism is renouncing possessions, surrendering to the Road.” The subtitle of her book is “A Journey of War and Peace” and, as she writes of her travels along the shores
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Reading Maps – Maps & Travel Routes from Books & Films
Reading Maps plots real-world journeys from classic novels and films – Around the World in 80 Days, Heart of Darkness, James Bond, On the Road – on an interactive atlas. Source: Reading Maps – Maps & Travel Routes from Books & Films
Embark on a musical treasure hunt: Contemporary composers strike a chord with the Sound Walk at Look Park in Florence – Daily Hampshire Gazette
Look Park is full of the sounds of nature and human life — birds chirping, cars passing by. A new sound installation encourages visitors to consider the park in a fresh way through original musical compositions. The Etchings Festival, a celebration of contemporary music, is hosting the Sound Walk, its first-ever outdoor installation, at Look
Swap Paphos for Preston! City features in new book exploring places off the tourist trail – Blog Preston
We invited Lancashire author and travel journalist Chris Moss to explain why he wants us to explore the UK’s bypassed towns Source: Swap Paphos for Preston! City features in new book exploring places off the tourist trail – Blog Preston
TrenAir Residency Program – Trenčín 2026
As part of Trenčín’s European Capital of Culture 2026 programme, TrenAir continues to open the city to international artists seeking time, space, and inspiration for artistic creation, research, and exchange. Following the inspiring collaborations and international connections created through the previous TrenAir open call, Trenčín 2026 is opening a new opportunity for international artists to
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Birds on a Wire
A despatch from our story-writer-in-residence Penny Walker. 13 July 2026, Southport to Tarleton, 13 miles The air is wobbling over the flat land which grows pale brown grass out of grey-red soil. Sweat and suncream on my glasses make me lose focus. I cannot make sense of it. Dry, bone dry, both sides of the flood
Paysages sonores, les pesants silences caniculaires
Point d’ouïe un brin dystopique, quoique que…J’ai entendu cet été, dans le parc voisin, se taire les voix des jeunes au cœur de la journée brulante, puis réapparaitre, timides, au mitan de la nuit, dans une fraicheur relative.Tout comme s’est tu le ruisseau attenant, asséché par un impitoyable et torride étiage.La placette voisine se réduit […]
The West 77th Street Stone Arch in Central Park
From time to time, I do New York City things that fall outside my day job or bird blog, and I feel I would like to share them. It may be a walk, a scene in Central Park, or a museum visit. I still have this website.I often go months, if not years, upda...
After the Walk
Made of Walking Prosperpolder and the Future of Walking Arts Walking After the Walk The expression walking arts has become surprisingly familiar. Over the past two decades it has entered conferences, books, festivals, university programmes and European projects. It has proved useful because it brought together a remarkable diversity of practices that had previously remained
• Bio Blitz at Grass Lake Wetland Minneapolis, Aug 2026
Do you like taking photos of plants and bugs and stuff? Join me and Rachel Kimpton for a Bio Blitz using the iNaturalist app at Grass Lake Wetland in Minneapolis on Saturday, August 15 at 9am! https://www.kennyneighborhood.org/events/august-bio-blitz/...
