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video 2025  

Beach of Dreams Documentary by Fotis Begklis

⁠Film by Fotis Begklis

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video 2014  

The Sissy’s Progress

After surviving a homophobic attack, Nando Messias transforms trauma into defiant joy in The Sissy’s Progress: a hyperflamboyant dance-theatre march with live band that floods city streets, confronting gendered violence and celebrating sissies everywhere.

Sound walk SWS25
2024

Seconds of Sound

Seconds of Sound is a collection of acoustic habitats gathered by Martin Scaiff on a series of 26 soundwalks between all 45 public libraries in Suffolk, UK, between April and October, 2024.

Walking piece Marŝarto23 Shortlisted
2023

Poor Old Horse

Poor Old Horse is a short walking film responding creatively to the site-specific custom of Hoodening in East Kent, UK.

Happened
walk · listen · café SWS22  

Walking Within – landscape, words and music

2022-09-12 18:00
Online

Sound walks as art? Join Helen Ottaway and Ralph Hoyte at this Cafe exploring how a composer and a poet work together; are they independent or is it a collaboration, and if so what does this look like? Is poetry music and music actually poetry? Where is the interface?

Happened
walk · listen · café  

My #Culture30Walks – How Culture 3.0 is your city?

2022-02-08 19:00
Online

Carola Boehm starts from the concept of Culture 3.0 to make some walks and document them in a few twitter threads. These #culture30 walks aim at making visible how places that have attended specifically to cultural policy almost unknowingly enhance the everyday creativity that one encounters on a simple 30 minute walk to work.

Curated news 28 Jan, 2022

Walking Home | Opera North

Tune in to an unique series of sound journeys composed by musicians during lockdown for BBC Arts and Arts Council England’s Culture in Quarantine programme – all part of Opera North. Designed to be listened to on headphones while walking, each piece offers a chance to renew your imaginative connections with your environment. Could be

Sound walk SWS20 Honourable mention
2020

A Different LENS

A Different LENS is an interactive locative media map created by Elspeth Penfold and the artist group Thread and Word, enabling users to explore literary and geographic sites in Margate via computer or smartphone. Developed with community collaborators and funded by Arts Council England and others, the project combines psychogeography, storytelling, and local culture using the CGeomap tool.

Sound walk SWS19
2019

Soundmarks

Soundmarks is a collaborative project by Rob St John and Rose Ferraby that uses sound and visual art to explore the sub-surface landscape of Aldborough Roman Town in North Yorkshire through an eight-site art trail. The project includes free online soundtracks, a digital and analogue map, an LP release, visual exhibitions, a seminar, and workshops, supported by Arts Council England and heritage partners.

Walking piece
2013

Diamond Street app

“Lichtenstein has brought alive something of London… how one street can be a kind of Tardis, a portal to another world of parallel commerce, codes, rituals, history.” The Times The jewellery quarter of Hatton Garden is one of London’s most mysterious areas – home to diamond workshops, underground vaults, monastic dynasties, subterranean rivers and forgotten

Sound walk SWS21
2021

Feral

This post introduces the development of ‘Toolkit for the Eremocene,’ a scored walk exploring the relationship between nature, mental health, and sound through a theatrical sensory experience. Created in collaboration with movement artist Tess Latham and theatre designer Anisha Fields, the walk invites participants to engage playfully and mindfully with urban or suburban environments at sunset, with future versions incorporating audio and interactive storytelling.

Sound walk SWS22
2022

Back on the Drom: Steps in Time (episode 1)

The listener joins our hosts Livvi & Gus as they explore the old ruin of Moore Hall, near Lough Cara Co. Mayo. Although one is not required to listen in situ, it would certainly enhance the experience - safely exploring as one listens to the piece.

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Walking pieces

Walking piece
2021

HOME-ing

A live-art odyssey on foot from London to Wales. Walking in a costume that spells “HOME” Harriet Hill talks to the British public about “home” and what it means to them as we emerge from lockdowns in summer 2021.

Articles elsewhere

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The Feminist Art of Walking with Morag Rose

Emily Wilkinson shares moments from a recent book launch at Voce Books and reviews The Feminist Art of Walking by Morag Rose

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Walkspace
post 75

Roaming Flags: The Earth Parade

On 13 August our Roaming Flags of Bumble Hole project concludes with a colourful musical parade. Come and fly a flag for nature!

Andy
Walkspace
post 85

Roaming Flags: guided walk and flag-making workshop

Explore and celebrate the natural abundance and rich history of Bumble Hole nature reserve with this day of walking, art and creativity. It's free!

Walkspace
Walkspace
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The Roaming Flags of Bumble Hole

Walkspace is happy to announce its next funded project - a celebration of the natural abundance and rich history of Bumble Hole nature reserve

Andy
Walkspace

slare

To saunter, to be slovenly (The Dialect of Cumberland – Robert Ferguson, 1873). Rarely used in Cumbria now but has a meaning of to walk slowly, to amble, to walk with no particular purpose. Used for example in the ballad Billy Watson’s Lonnin written by Alexander Craig Gibson of Harrington, Cumbria in 1872 “Yan likes to trail ow’r t’ Sealand-fields an’ watch for t’ commin’ tide, Or slare whoar t’Green hes t’ Ropery an’ t’ Shore of ayder side “(Translation: One likes to trail over to Sealand Fields and watch for the coming tide, Or slare over to where the Green has the ropery and the Shore on the other side) Billy Watson’s Lonning (lonning – dialect for lane) still exists and can be found at Harrington, Cumbria.

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