Confluences
The co-funded EU Walking Arts and Local Communities project offers an opportunity for public scrutiny of the project, by running bi-monthly free online “Confluence events”, in which project partners come together to present how the aspect of the project for which they are responsible is progressing.
The first 30 minutes of these hour-long online events, will be presentations and discussion between the WALC partners. The second 30 minutes provides an opportunity of the Confluence host partner to invite a walking artist to present their work. The whole event will be video recorded, edited and published in our publicly accessible video archive.
We acknowledge the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program in the framework of the European project WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community).
WALC Confluence 13 – When art takes to the road
Conceived by Clara Gari over the last twelve years, El Grand Tour has explored what happens when art leaves the exhibition hall, the stage or the auditorium and takes to the road. Clara Gari invites you to Grand Tour 2026. “In 2026, we return to three territories that have marked us deeply: the Eastern Pyrenees,
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WALC Confluence 12 – 1- WALC course program presentation – 2- El laboratorio, a Migrating voices Franco-Chilean-Mexican exploration
During a thirty-minute experimental *Laboratorio*, artists will experiment with a live performance using rudimentary audiovisual tools and raw materials, far from the giants of the Internet.
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Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire host this special Confluence to announce the launch of an online course on walking art and an interactive map to strengthen engagement with walking artists and collectives across the WALC ecosystem. There follows a presentation at 20h CET by Yannis Ziogas regarding the Encounter to take place in Prespa in
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+7 WALC Confluence 10: Walking with a cello and other stories
Do you want to know how our 2025 adventure went? How we set off from Badalona and crossed beaches, mountains, and rivers on our way to the Pyrenees — and climbed the Taga with a cello? Do you want to hear about our shared library, lovingly cared for by an artist? Would you like to
• • WALC Confluence 9 – Prespa Reflections – walking home, walking in transition and beyond
We are keen to hear from attendees and participants of this year’s Prespa Encounter – were you there? What were your highlights and how would you like the Encounter to evolve? If you have been to a previous Encounter in Prespa, but were unlucky enough not to be there earlier this month, we would still like to hear about the highlights and memories you have too.
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WALC Confluence 6 hosted by Nau Côclea documenting walking art, featuring Ernesto Pujol.
How do you document Walking art? Asks your host, Clara Gari from Nau Côclea. For some artists documenting their work is a process of making a further an artwork in itself, for others the walk is the document. In 1998, the CDAN (The Centre of Art & Nature) in Huesca, Spain, commissioned a piece for
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• WALC Confluence 5 hosted by De School van Gaasbeek, featuring Publiek Park
Anna Luyten introduces the Belgian nomadic contemporary art project Publiek Park, which explores public city parks and gardens as its exhibition grounds. The project invites both international and local artists to create artworks that draw inspiration from the surroundings in a site-sensitive manner. Walking is employed as a curatorial methodology to discover the parks with
WALC Confluence 3 hosted by Gigacircus with guest, Gustavo Alvarez
WALC Confluence 3 is hosted by Sylvie Marchand (FR) and Lionel Camburet (FR) of Gigacircus, and their guest artist is Gustavo Alvarez. Gustavo Alvarez, is a performer and an anthropologist, at the heart of great number of collective events and meetings, stimulating artists to resist and go beyond their passion!
• • Confluence 2 hosted by Nau Côclea
Do you like to travel on foot? Grand Tour is a 250km walk with poets, dancers, storytellers, visual artists and musicians. 21 days across beautiful landscape and hidden places in Catalonia, it is a shared celebration and this year, you can be part of it.
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