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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.
It must have been dark by then
Grab some headphones, choose a route and create a map of stories and sounds on this experimental literary audio walk Shift between your and others’ worlds as you listen to audio, music and narration collected from the swamps of Louisiana, empty Latvian villages and the edges of the Tunisian Sahara, while walking the streets of
Walking pieces
Going for a walk
You can take this audio walk anywhere. Or you can listen to it sitting down, wherever you are. Walking Interconnections responds to the fact that environmentalist discourses seem too readily and without awareness to place the unmarked, able body at their centre. And yet, in terms of daily practices of resilience, disabled people have experiences
Articles elsewhere
Walk 58
Upper Coulee walk, Lethbridge, ABWalking and talking make a good pair. This is one of those times in my life (there have been others) where almost all the social contact I have is through going for walks with people. The walks, which are always important, become even more important when otherwise I spend entire days sitting in my house alone. Pandemic walks are a big deal. I'm sure there will be dissertations written about it. A very simple activity, but it's a way to connect with nature and the [...]
Walk 53
River valley trail, Redcliff, AlbertaIt's been a day of baking bread and making soup and reading, a day mostly spent at home (as they will be from here on in). But it's also a sunny spring day, a mud-puddle day, and we weren't the only ones taking a walk in the river valley. No matter how our lives are limited in other ways these strange days, people seem to be openly grateful for the simple freedom of walking outdoors. These are the things we need right now - movement, fresh air, direct c [...]
