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Highlights
Pymmes Brook Trail
A walk across North London following The Pymmes Brook listening to voices of people talking about the river. Available in Sonic maps using following PUID codes Part 1: Cockfosters to Arnos Park. CODE 994 Part 2: Bowes Meadow to Cambridge Roundabout A10. CODE 1007
Steps of Resistance
In Los Pasos de Mama Killa Amanda Gutiérrez explores the collective meaning of agency at night, presenting the nighttime as a communal and relational space grounded in mutual care. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Amanda discusses her work. Los Pasos de Mama Killa (The Steps of Mama Killa) was
Prespa as a community-based walking art project
The Prespa International Walking Arts Encounters 2025 Walking Home - Walking in Transition is this year’s culmination of a process that started in 2007. In that year several artists, scholars, and academics walked from Florina to Prespa in a walking process named Visual March to Prespes of 50 km that aimed to initiation of a process of discovery of the place, the community, and of ourselves
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course
The Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course invites you from March 2026 on into the artistic practice of walking arts. Designed for artists, creators, educators, cultural workers, and innovators, the course explores walking not simply as a theme, but as a method of learning, creating, and relating. This is not about learning about walking. It is about walking as learning.
• nós aqui, entre o céu e a terra (we here, between sky and earth)
27 chairs were carried by performers on bamboo poles from nearby institutions to the 34th Biennial, then arranged as sculptures and conversation spaces, connecting people, objects, and places in a shared, politically and socially resonant experience.
Walking pieces
Cistemaw inyiniw
Cistêmâw iyiniw ohci is a performance by Cheryl L’Hirondelle in which she ran 25 km across the Makwa Sahgaiehcan reserve, retracing a Cree runner’s historical route. The act honors Indigenous mobility, memory, and communication through community‑engaged performance.
Tilted Arc
In 1981, Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc was installed in Federal Plaza, NYC, to engage pedestrians by disrupting the space. Opposed by workers who claimed it obstructed movement, the sculpture was removed in 1989. The controversy led to policy changes and the Visual Artists Rights Act.
The Slow Walkers of Whycocomaugh
Thomas’s Slow Walkers projects explore how moving at a slower pace shapes relationships, attention, and connection. Originating in the Whycocomagh Skillshare, the slow walks invite shared experience across varied communities and locations.
Articles on WLC
-Shoemakers Museum to Open in Somerset, Celebrating 200 Years of Clarks’ Social and Industrial Legacy-
A new museum in Street, Somerset will open this September to mark 200 years of Clarks, combining heritage preservation with community engagement and education. Source: -Shoemakers Museum to Open in Somerset, Celebrating 200 Years of Clarks’ Social and Industrial Legacy-
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Join Us! Become part of WALC!
Are you passionate about building connections, inspiring communities, and exploring innovative practices? At WALC, we are inviting collectives, organizations, and venues to become NODES, key contributors to a growing network focused on walking arts and community-based issues.
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Articles elsewhere
Shetland – south mainland
A retrospective blog in the series about a virtual visit I made to Shetland in 2019. I had booked my ferry, planned my itinerary, and, most importantly, arranged a series of walks and talks with Shetland women on the theme of ‘A sense of belonging’. Then the lockdown happened. NorthLink Ferries cancelled my ticket so … Continue reading Shetland – south mainland
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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 episode of the On Pilgrimage series we are exploring how pilgrims and pilgrimage may have created or
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• +1 Talk the Walk – blue sky thinking for professionals
Talk the Walk: Networking events for people promoting vibrant walkable neighbourhoods. Each Talk the Walk has a definite theme; themes have included: physical activity; emotional well-being and public space; animating public space; workplace health, retrofitting for walking; and children, play and independent mobility. Bringing professionals from different fields together to promote walking is key to Talk the Walk, and
• WALC online course Session 2 – Walking as a form of art
A presentation by Aspasia Voudouri is followed by an introduction to the Australian Walking ArtistsFive invited artists from Australia talk about their work - Melinda Hunt, Megan Williams, Sepa Sama, Perdita Phillips, Bea Mowson and Molly Wagner.
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walk1000miles.co.uk
abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast
