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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

We arrived in the flatlands of the Charente in the last days of May, carrying laptops, agendas, PowerPoints about our deliverables, European acronyms and all the fragile optimism required to believe that human beings from five countries can agree on anything. It was a heatwave. Our nostrils tingled with the whiff of ammonia rising from

We are delighted to announce the winner and runner-up in the first chapter of our year-long On Pilgrimage poetry competition. Each quarter beginning in February this year, we have a new theme and new volunteer judges, and our first quarter theme of Solvitur Ambulando was chosen by judge Electra Rhodes. She was joined in the

A few years ago, a group of Australian walking artists came together to form the appropriately named Australian Walking Artists. Going from strength to strength, they recently published a book, Australian Walking Artists, Volume 1 24/25, highlighting work by the members of their organisation. One of the group’s founders, and president, Molly Wagner, wrote an

With a contribution from Martyn Howe offering e-book copies of his new book, The Coast is Our Compass, in which he describes a personal pilgrimage to walk the coast of England along what is now officially the King Charles III National Coastal Path, as a monthly prize, our Shorelines project has had a new lift.

A despatch from our story-writer-in-residence Penny Walker. 30th April Golders Green station to Highfield Avenue, and back 1.5 miles I am by myself among strangers who are friends: women walking together in sisterly solidarity.  We meet just before six, outside Golders Green station, on the small semi circle of grass where the buses turn. At