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Marŝarto Awards 2026

The Award that recognises the year's best walking art, as decided on by a jury of your peers.

€500 for first prize!

SWS Awards 2026

The Award that recognises the year's best sound walks, as decided on by a jury of your peers.

€1000 for first prize, supported by Echoes!

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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

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
post Featured New 27 Jul, 2026

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.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
post Featured New 25 Jul, 2026

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.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
post Featured New 24 Jul, 2026

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

post Featured New 15 Jul, 2026

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

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
post Featured New 06 Jul, 2026

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

post Featured New 02 Jul, 2026

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

post Featured New 01 Jul, 2026

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,

post Featured New 29 Jun, 2026

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

post Featured New 25 Jun, 2026

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

post Featured New 16 Jun, 2026

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

post Featured New 12 Jun, 2026

Villefagnan: May, 2026

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

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The world is my gaze

New 2026-08-03 00:11:43
Raoul Vaneigem died this week. Vaneigem was a central figure of the Situationist International, which he was associated with between 1961 and 1970, when a fallout with Guy Debord saw them go separate ways. Debord picked fights with everyone, but Vaneigem’s views, though perhaps more poetic than Debord’s, closely aligned with the Situationist pushback against

A dream, a road, a path…

New 2026-07-26 17:30:00
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When the Shade Becomes a Destination

2026-07-19 12:28:53
Across much of Europe, summer has become something different. For weeks now, thermometers have remained stubbornly above thirty-five degrees Celsius. In France, entire landscapes have disappeared behind walls of smoke. In Catalonia, where many of us walked together only two months ago during the Walking Assembly, forests have once again been threatened by fire. Rivers

Walking on Water

2026-07-12 16:30:00
In the Northern Hemisphere it is summer, and in Europe the heat is unbearable. Many artists are preparing their holidays, although for an artist there is no real pause in the ongoing story of creation and life. On the contrary, holidays are often an opportunity to enter the project more intensely and more deeply. So
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Always walking (United States) 
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Latest walking pieces

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Earthsounds.xyz

earthsounds.xyz turns walked, remembered or imagined routes into music. Trace a path anywhere on Earth: distance becomes time, elevation becomes melody, and terrain gives each place its own playable voice.

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Walking piece Marŝarto26 New 2026

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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PEOPLED

Walking in isolation in Staffordshire, England , during covid, and realising I was not alone…

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Many peregrinations

Many peregrinations through the same small space accompanied by drawings, photographs and insights. Taking three months of daily walks, the inspiration has been the poetic nature of a semi-wild patch of land.

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Deeper Listening Series

🌐 Earthstage Loop Room A free ambient video experience for desktops, phones, tablets, classrooms, galleries, and live gatherings. A networked video field Open two or three looping videos on different devices.

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Sound walk SWS26 New 2025

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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Indexical Traces

I write about where I walk, what I learn and see, and how the history of place keeps me connected to the walk.

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Walking piece New 2024

WOODS/WALKS

Rooted in walks through Wytham Woods, England, this series WALKS part of WOODS has developed from observations and conversations, exploring creativity, connection, memory, and environmental and political change.

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Walking piece New 2023

WALKS/ Rio Segura

Walking drives this work. It explores connections between people, materials and the natural world, using movement through landscape to uncover relationships, encounters and a sense of place. It is a digital book printed by blurb.com

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Walking piece New 2016

Tree or False?

Devised by Andrew Stuck of the Museum of London, this walkshop became a regular event as part of the Mayor of London’s London Tree Week, and subsequent Urban Tree Festivals. Everyone has heard ‘an old wives’ tale’ about a certain tree species, some of which have a layer of truth within them, others are downright

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Walking piece New 2012

Weaving Wellbeing into Neighbourhoods

Rethinking Cities presents a Weaving Wellbeing Walkshops.  The Walkshop (mobile workshop) involve a 90 minute walkabout with prompts to engage participants in discussion and observation, followed by an hour long debriefing session with local experts during which shared learning is encouraged. You’ll explore how an existing neighbourhood can be refurbished to promote residents’ wellbeing and

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Walking piece Marŝarto26 New 2026

At the Last Stop, Walking

The walking takes place in the village Beljakovce, northern North Macedonia, at the final stop of an unfinished railway meant to connect the country with Bulgaria (Corridor VIII). Despite three decades of construction, the line remains incomplete.

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Communities along the Pilgrim’s trail

2026-08-04 18:00
Online

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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Artists in the field and by the water

Organization of Biological Field Stations
2026-11-17 17:00
Online

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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Harvest Moon Reflections 26

2026-10-30 19:00
Online

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

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Walking with Io

2026-09-17 12:00
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

A collective walking research project transforming Io’s myth, everyday complaints, shared gestures and dreams into a public dérive.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
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Absorb Ensemble

2026-09-17 08:00
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

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

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC
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A Participatory Walk in Disappearance

2026-09-17 15:00
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

A Participatory Walk in Disappearance invites participants to cover the performer's body with materials gathered along the walk. As the body gradually disappears, the performance explores transformation, embodiment, memory and our material relationsh

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC
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Migrating Voices

2026-09-17 17:00
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

A performance combining testimonies of migrants and volunteers, sound, poetry and ritual. Through collective walking, participants experience an embodied act of listening, solidarity, hope and resilience in response to forced migration.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC
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Data Walking

2026-09-16 08:00
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

Data Walking is a participatory workshop exploring walking as a creative method for collecting, interpreting and visualising environmental observations. Participants transform everyday encounters into maps, stories and new insights about place throug

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
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To Walk Your Life

2026-09-16 16:00
Fort Liefkenshoek, Ketenislaan, Kallo, Belgium

A guided art walk through Marc Dhaenens’ poetic installations at Fort Liefkenshoek. Reflect on life’s journey, traces of time and the beauty of impermanence while exploring artworks that connect memory, landscape and playful contemplation

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Nightwalk: Walking in Lessness

2026-09-16 20:00
Melsele, Belgium

A site-responsive walk inspired by Beckett's Lessness, exploring reduction as a condition for perception, presence, relation and the politics of attention by Swiss artist Simone Etter. She collaborates with young people to create a participatory night walk transforming everyday landscapes into spaces of imagination.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
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Artistic Pairs, the Tarot of the Emotions

2026-09-16 11:30
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

Clara Gari presents Artistic Pairs, a pioneering Catalan project where artists and people using mental health services co-create artworks. Discover the Tarot of Emotions and join a playful exploration of creativity, dialogue and mental wellbeing.

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WALC
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22 Stops

2026-09-15 17:30
Doel, Belgium

A dusk walking performance through Doel, where fading light opens a choreography of attention, memory, fragility and endurance.

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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 sixth episode of the On Pilgrimage series we are exploring how pilgrims and pilgrimage may have created

video New 2026  

Following the Moon from One End of the World to the Other

For WALC Confluence 14 – Eléonore Ozanne writes: *For the third time, we will be walking together, women, following the full moon, from one end of the world to the other… Last year, on 6 October 2025, we drifted in the same direction on a walk that, thanks to the time zones, lasted around 24 hours. The

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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

Stefaan van Biesen
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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.

Geert Vermeire
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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.

Geert Vermeire
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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

Andrew Stuck
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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

Stefaan van Biesen

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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

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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

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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

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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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Résidences Land Art – neimënster

neimënster is opening its parvis (courtyard) to artistic proposals that use natural, organic, and/or ephemeral materials. From land art to ephemeral sculpture, neimënster invites visual artists… Source: Résidences Land Art – neimënster

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Living Streets Ao... 85

August 2026 eBulletin

In this issue, we talk about lowering speed limits, how we can make streets better for children, and upcoming consultations and events. We want more people walking and enjoying public spaces be they young or old, fast or slow, whether walking, sitting,...

Molly Magid
Reading and Walking 90

38. Rob Cowen, The North Road

When I read a review of Rob Cowen’s The North Road in The Guardian last winter, I knew I had to read it. A study of a highway? On foot? Yes! Of course I was interested. My first book, Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road, covers similar ground (forgive … Continue reading 38. Rob Cowen, The North Road →

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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

Stefaan van Biesen
POINTS D'OU... 45

Aller là où, faire là où…

Il faut, ou en tout cas, il est bon que les artistes agissent sur le terrain, de rencontre en rencontre. Remarque sans doute naïve, mais qui, pour moi, a toujours été un des objectifs centraux, motivant des projets à visées pédagogiques, ou a minima, développant une médiation constructive. Pour cela, des rencontres et ateliers avec […]

Gilles Malatray
Walking without a... 90

Knots, a community walk

Knots, a community walk which is part of the Madelvic House / Granton:hub Doors Open Day event

Tamsin Grainger
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