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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed
Sound walk
SWS21 2021

Bath Union Workhouse: a walk for the living with the route of the dead

This sound walk, created using Echoes xyz, guides participants through a reflective experience based on names and stories of those who died in the Bath Union Workhouse, collected over the two-year Walking the Names project. It includes contributions from walkers, live music by the Bath City Jubilee Waits, and served as a memorial during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

Walking piece
2017

Forced Walks: Honouring Esther

This project retraced a Nazi Death March route, walking from Frome to Bath in 2015 on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belsen, and completing the original route in Germany in 2016 on the 71st anniversary. The walks included remote participants who identified and adapted historic death march routes for contemporary commemoration, with documentation gathered for exhibition.

Happened
SWS23  

Saeflod, A Walking Requiem

Activate Performing Arts / Inside Out Dorset
15 - 24 Sep, 2023
Moors Valley Country Park and Forest, Horton Road, Ashley Heath, Ringwood, UK

Experience music in the forest, a requiem for the Earth. You are invited to interact with a series of sound boxes placed among the trees. Walk, listen, pause and move.

Happened
 

ephemeral memorials

HUB Prespa
2021-07-06 06:00
Laimós, Greece

In the walkshop we will attempt to explore whether walking practice can reconstruct memorization and public mourning policies, beyond the regulatory archiving of state collective memory, and how we can focus on the “other memorials” that interrupt hegemonic cultures in relation to memorization policies and practices. More specifically, we will discuss the concept of an

Walking as a Question
Featured SWS24 16 Dec, 2024

A Sonic Exploration of Memory, Death and Public Space

The sound walk The Graveyard Digression asks the question "What can a cemetery teach us?", as well as others, in an approximately 30 minute long sound journey passing through St. Pauli Southern Cemetery in Malmö.

Featured SWS24 09 Dec, 2024

Brompton Cemetery Sound and Stories

With The Living and Tender Flesh, Laura Khan Mitchison created a sound walk set in London's Brompton Cemetery, and with this, she continues her collection of interventions connected to where the dead reside.

Sound walk
SWS21 2021

Ase

This soundwalk offers a meditation on life, death, and interconnectedness, emphasizing the preciousness of each moment. It incorporates musical elements and reflection inspired by St. Francis of Assisi’s call for genuine inner peace.

Happened
 

The Long Walk

HUB Prespa
2021-07-06 06:00
Psarades, Greece

The Yellow Immigration Sign was a U.S. highway safety sign warning motorists to avoid illegal immigrants darting across the road. It depicted a man, woman, and girl with pigtails running. The signs were erected in response to over one hundred immigrant pedestrian deaths due to traffic collisions from 1987 to 1990. Immigrant smugglers adopted the

Walking as a Question
Happened
SWS20  

Walking the Names

2020-09-06 09:00
Bath, UK

An invitation to join all or part of a socially distanced relay walk. Walking and reading the names of of those who died of poverty in Bath Union Workhouse over a hundred years ago. More than three thousand men, women and children buried in unmarked graves. The first time their names have been spoken in

Happened
 

Walking the Names

2020-10-04 09:00
Wellsway, Bath, UK

Bath Union Workhouse Burial Ground, a field just off the Wellsway, Bath. A burial ground that does not exist on a current map. Here over 3100 bodies lie in unmarked graves, the last remains of those who died of poverty in the Bath workhouse between 1858 and 1899. Walking and reading the names of those buried

Happened
 

Sara’s Last Steps (Postponed due to Covid-19)

Richard White and Lorna Brunstein
2020-05-17 00:00
Windermere, UK. (further details on registration)

A slow participatory walk in the Lake District exploring layers of erasure, separation and reunion. May 2020. 120 minutes, 500 metres from Auschwitz selection point to the crematorium. A line transposed to the site of a demolished housing estate built for aircraft workers on the shores of Lake Windermere. in 1945 residents of the estate

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Articles on WLC

Featured SWS24 07 Nov, 2024

Who is Mrs. Dalby?

In Mrs. Dalby and the Gravekeeper of Hatteras Island, Blake Pfeil takes the listener on a fantastical walk to the ruins of a seaside shanty, standing proudly on the edge of a graveyard overlooking the mighty Atlantic Ocean in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Curated news 20 Dec, 2023

Walking Leicester’s new Richard III trail – 530 years in the making | Leicester holidays | The Guardian

A walk threading through the city follows in the footsteps of the Yorkist king vanquished in 1485, whose remains were found – beneath a car park – in 2012 Source: Walking Leicester’s new Richard III trail – 530 years in the making | Leicester holidays | The Guardian

Featured SWS20 02 Nov, 2020

Remembering the dead

Richard White talks about his work 'Walking the Names, highlighting the deaths of thousands who died in poverty in the Bath Union Workhouse, between 1858 and 1899.

Articles elsewhere

Walking without a... 85

Re:living Weekend

30 Sep – 2 Oct 2022 granton:hub, Granton, Edinburgh The Re:living Weekend is a response to our human need to talk, walk, remember, and make art about the ever-present experiences of death, grief and loss in our lives. Whether we are grieving for a close friend, pet or family member; concerned about the loss of … Continue reading Re:living Weekend

Tamsin Grainger
Anabella Lenzu�... 45

Ritual & Performance

Dance Composition/ Choreography Workshop Theme: Ritual & Performance Saturdays, May 8, 15 & 22, 2021 11-2pm (EDT) NYC Time Faculty: Anabella Lenzu https://www.anabellalenzu.com/workshops Dance is union and communion with ourselves, with others, and with the environment.During this workshop, we will explore the connection between performance and ritual by using movement, spoken word, sounds, music, and […]

Anabella Lenzu
exercises in bein... 70

On the edge of the middle of nothing

I failed. I was supposed to be at a beautiful city garden at 12.00 to watch a silent movie with a soundtrack made by a dj and drink vermut afterwards. I had reserved a ticket a long time ago. I left in time. I skipped the first metro entrance because i...

Monique Besten
Forced Walks 40

After the Walk: Visiting Esther

notes from Lorna Brunstein: We returned from Germany and even though I was aware I was coming down with a cold and was also completely exhausted by the trip, I  knew I had to visit mum as soon as possible. … Continue reading →

Richard White

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A Series of Outdoor Adventures: Meet me at the Cemetery Gates

2022-03-20 10:00

A series of outdoor adventures, presented by Coney.

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A Series of Outdoor Adventures: Perfect Insta

2022-03-25 12:00

A series of outdoor adventures, presented by Coney.

fit-stramp

A footstep: I widna geng a fitstramp owre da door efter her.

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