Month: October 2024
‘I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | New York | The Guardian
New law, letting people cross street outside of crosswalk, ends racial disparities in enforcement, council member says Source: ‘I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | New York | The Guardian
Immigration and Motherhood: Dance Film and Performance
LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER: FILM PREMIERE AND PERFORMANCE Sunday, November 17th, 2024 at 3pm at Center for Performance Research (361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11211) Tickets: CLICK HERE $10 students and $25 general admission. Celebrate the 18th anniversary of Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama with the premiere of the 20-minute dance film Listen to Your Mother and an intimate performance by […]
Point d’ouïe, narration sous forme de tentative d’épuisement
Assis sur un banc de pierre, tout près de chez moi. Une petite ville provinciale. Quartier came, tous les commerces sont fermés à cette heure. 21 heure milieu octobre Nuit tombée. Température douce . Un ruisseau se fait entendre encastré dans une faille minérale assez profonde il se tait en traversant la place en sous-terrain et […]
Marina Abramović on Her Epic Walk Across the Great Wall of China: ‘This Is the Best Thing I’ve Ever Done’
A new exhibition at MAM in Shanghai sees Marina Abramović relive her three-month-long walk along the Great Wall of China. Source: Marina Abramović on Her Epic Walk Across the Great Wall of China: ‘This Is the Best Thing I’ve Ever Done’
A People’s History Chapter 4
A MISCELLLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Four A few short years after our walk along Stroud’s High Street in the previous chapter, William Cobbett made his way through Stroudwater, as recorded in...
Stroud Walking Football and the Heavens
Ye Stroude Walking Football and Ye Heavens It is reported that members of Ye Stroude Walking Footballe intend to gather for a ramble of Ye Heavens on Sunday October 27th (the happie daye when ye sun dialles go back an houre) at eleven o’clocke of the ...
Iron Knob
When I made a quick visit to the Eyre Peninsula in late 2023 with Maleko, our standard poodle, we camped overnight at Iron Knob in the Middleback Range. I wanted to spend some time walking around this old mining town to see what was left. I had briefly visited it in passing a decade or […]
Walking From My Hometown to My Father’s
This week’s adventure: a long walk to my father’s hometown, and another one back. Both walks turned out to be longer than I’d anticipated, even though I took a shorter route on my return journey, but the fall colours in southwestern Ontario are stunning and the weather was glorious. I have lots to think about … Continue reading Walking From My Hometown to My Father’s →
Play the City: Understanding Manipulation in Public Space
Today, at WALK21 Portugal 2024, we hosted a walkshop in which participants explored the city along Situationist lines, guided by the theme of Positive Public Space. Held alongside the international conference dedicated to walking and urban mobility, th...
Grandes oreilles cherches repreneurs.euses
Les grandes oreilles cherchent une seconde vie.Voulez vous les adopter ?A donner avant destruction le 15/11/2024Après deux présentations en Normandie, nous ne pouvons malheureusement plus stockercette œuvre et cherchons à la donner pour éviter la destruction.L’œuvre est actuellement à la Maison du Parc des Boucles de la Seine, à Notre-Dame-de-Bliquetuit (76940).Les «oreilles» peuvent être transportées […]
New Walkability App
The Walkability App, available in the Apple and Google stores, allows citizens of all ages and abilities to share their walking experiences. Sharing walking experiences helps communities and responsible authorities... The post New Walkability App appeared first on Walk21.
Heritage sites on new offshoot of Spain’s Camino could benefit from pilgrim boom
While travellers rarely stop to sightsee, providing overnight facilities will give historic venues an edge Source: Heritage sites on new offshoot of Spain’s Camino could benefit from pilgrim boom
The forgotten art of walking. Toward intra-active geography of an urban landscape
The idea is to deepen our knowledge of landscape as a sphere of movement. The need to conduct research on urban walking emerges from the mechanics of so-called “sensory motor amnesia”, an unaware process of memory loss of how certain groups of muscles feel and how to control them. Source: The forgotten art of walking.
