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Sound walk SWS21 2021

Seawall Sounds – Seven at Seven; a self-guided soundwalk

On Sunday, May 23 at 7 a.m., Jamie Dolinko will lead a self-guided soundwalk along seven mapped stops on the Stanley Park Seawall, focusing on early morning natural and man-made sounds. A detailed route map will be available on the Vancouver New Music website for independent walks at any time, encouraging silent observation and adherence to public health guidelines.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS20 2020

Pastoral Paradise: Prospect Park Meditation

Pastoral Paradise is a 45-minute, 1.4-mile immersive mobile audio tour exploring Prospect Park’s natural landscapes and historic Beaux-Arts architecture. Created by Rebecca Chaisson, the free tour highlights the park’s significance during the pandemic and encourages support for the Prospect Park Alliance.

Happened
Walking Writers Salon  

Where my feet fall – going for a walk in 20 stories – with Duncan Minshull

2022-04-05 18:00
Online

WHERE CAN A WALK TAKE YOU? Duncan Minshull has brought together 20 contemporary writers to write about a walk they remember or a walk they have undertaken during the pandemic - join this Walking Writers Salon to chat with Duncan Minshull.

Happened
walk · listen · café  

Common knowledge or walking wisdom? – our end of year quiz

2021-12-28 19:00
Online

Reckon you know what happened in the world of walking in the last 12 months? Join our free end-of-the-year live online Quiz and test your skills against other artists, performers, writers and walkers.

video 2021  

Remote walking – walking with prompts

In this Walk Listen Café prominent artists discuss remote walking and talk about their new walking projects for the hybrid walking arts encounters/conference Walking as a Question.

Walking as a Question
video 2021  

Walking, isolation and togetherness

Social isolation, already prevalent for many, has been exacerbated during the pandemic. Author Sonia Overall argues that walking alone can increase togetherness, regardless of absences and physical distance.

post 14 Dec, 2021

Writing Home

Where is your home? Is it your birthplace? Is it the place you share with your family? Lydia Kennaway muses over the meaning of 'home' in anticipation of our upcoming writing competition.

Curated news 25 Oct, 2020

Design and Sound during Lockdown – Daiwa Foundation

The pandemic has forced the closure of many entertainment venues during the lockdown. Cities have become quieter spaces and people have been cut off from many familiar sounds, changing our interactions with the outside world. In this webinar chaired by Nick Luscombe, Yuri Suzuki will investigate the relationship between humans and sound, and he will

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS22 2022

In-between distance

An audio piece recorded in Crete, Greece and in Quebec, Canada.

Walking Art and Relational Geographies (2022)
Happened
walk · listen · café  

Pandemic walking

2021-07-17 18:00
Online

This cafe conversation centers on academic research and artistic practices that investigate the act of walking as shaped by pandemic conditions.

Walking as a Question
Happened
walk · listen · café  

Remote walking – walking with prompts

2021-07-06 18:00
Online

The pandemic challenged walking artists to engage with new forms and new media for their practice. Group walking was translated into online walking, allowing people around the globe to walk together. Prompts or "walking scores" facilitated pandemic walkers to explore within the limits of their walking spaces, often in surprising and new ways, individually or with other remote walkers. Online technologies permitted to listen into remote spaces, beyond physical reach in the pandemic.

Walking as a Question
video 2021  

Pandemic Walking

This cafe conversation centers on academic research and artistic practices that investigate the act of walking as shaped by pandemic conditions.

Walking as a Question
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Curated news 13 Jun, 2025

Hikers can finally walk the U.S. side of the Chilkoot Trail. But what happens at the border?

Much of the U.S. side of the trail has seen long closures due to the pandemic and flood damage. Source: Hikers can finally walk the U.S. side of the Chilkoot Trail. But what happens at the border?

Curated news 30 May, 2021

Insight: Walking back to happiness after Covid lockdown | The Scotsman

On a dreich May afternoon, Dee Heddon emerges from her tenement flat wearing a pair of sturdy Brooks shoes and wielding a multi-coloured umbrella. The professor of theatre studies at Glasgow University is leading a research project into walking, arts and the pandemic, and has invited me along on her daily constitutional. Source: Insight: Walking

Curated news 13 Feb, 2021

San Fernando will host a pandemic historical walk

On Sunday 14 February 2021, a group of culture-conscious individuals known as the Creative Minds will participate in the Pandemic Historical Walk. They’ve dubbed it ‘In Solidarity with the World’ in honour of the World Health Organization (WHO) and all frontline workers fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. It will also serve as an opportunity to showcase

Curated news 29 Jan, 2021

Walk With Me: A Performance Artist Adapts to the Pandemic

For two weeks last fall, performance artist Alisa Oleva walked with 33 different women in Istanbul; sometimes for 30 minutes, sometimes for three hours, but always from 1500 miles away. Source: Walk With Me: A Performance Artist Adapts to the Pandemic

Articles elsewhere

Let's take a... 95

Let’s Take a Walk #65 took place as part of EnTransito

Dear Friends,Let's Take a Walk #65, a worldwide participatory walking performance, was part of EnTransito 2025 in San Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza. I invited people, in person and worldwide, to participate in a multi-phases p...

Marie Christine Katz
pedestrian - Pede... 85

Walk 94

Boardwalk, Marsh and Bridle TrailsBoxing day after the second pandemic Christmas, and just happy to be together for a muddy walk. The chickadees, ducks, and squirrels are all looking for their share of the feast. Darkness sinks into the valley before we get back to the car. Location: Grindstone Marsh Trail, RBG, Burlington, OntarioLength: 4 kmCompanions: Tom, Anna, IsabelDate: 126 December, 2021 [...]

Pedestrian Blog
martin.p.eccles: ... 40

Alnay – tomorrow

As ever, I hope that you are, and remain, well This is a reminder for “Alnay” – a winter solstice sound work playing for the 24h before to 24h after the winter solstice which is at 3.58 pm on Tuesday … Continue reading →

Martin Eccles
THE LRM 95

August 2021 First Sunday: In person and on line

Dear friends, lovers and loiterers It’s First Sunday, this Sunday and so time for a spot of creative wandering, and at long last there will be a chance to loiter together in person as well as online. I’m finding this invitation unusually ...

THE LRM

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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