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Highlights
Silent Witnesses
The London Plane tree, how bare our streets would be without these shade-providing adaptable and absorbent trees protecting all within our city. Artist Susan Trangmar ran this ‘forest of signs‘ walkshop, in conjunction with Andrew Stuck and the Museum of Walking. It celebrated the Platanus x acerifolia – looking at how the prolific planting of this tree has framed the
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Forest Sound Walk with Alice Boyd – Timber Festival
Join composer and sound artist Alice Boyd on a walk through Feanedock, exploring the sounds of the National Forest. From birdsong to underwater insects, to plants photosynthesising, come and experience the landscape in a completely new way. We will be focussing on the practice of Deep Listening, broadening our awareness of sound and creating a
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Kysihýbel Arboretum: A forest art walk in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia – The Slovak Spectator
In Slovakia’s Kysihýbel Arboretum, rare trees frame contemporary sculptures in a quiet walk where art and nature meet. Source: Kysihýbel Arboretum: A forest art walk in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia – The Slovak Spectator
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Costing the Earth – The Sound of Nature – BBC Sounds
Waves crashing on the shore, footsteps crunching on the forest floor. Stress levels plummet when we immerse ourselves in nature. Nick Luscombe meets the Japanese scientists working to bring the healing power of nature into the heart of the city. Nature’s secret, they believe, isn’t the sound you can hear, it’s the high frequencies you
• The Thing to be Known Grows with the Knowing: Walking in the Western Ghats from Ignorance to Intimacy.
“The Thing to Be Known Grows with the Knowing” reflects on my experiences walking in the rich and fragile environment of India’s Western Ghats propelled by the question: What does it mean to be a guest, a good guest, in an unfamiliar place?
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Being with Trees: A Contemplative Walk
Take a walk among the trees with us. During this contemplative audio walk we will tune in to aspects of our relationship to trees through guided contemplations and actions that focus our senses and invite an experience of co-being and appreciation.
• Walking pieces
A Wooden Floor Walk
The ‘Wooden Floor Walk’ took place on 23 August 2024 in a large group house on the edge of the forest in Biel/Bienne (Switzerland). The house is largely made of wood. 18 participants crossed the room very slowly (15 minutes). A wooden floor sound piece was created.
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Down to the Woods
Writer Arnold Thomas Fanning takes up photography, and quickly realises that to get better he will have to take a lot of photos: so he begins to go out with his camera on 'PhotoWalks.' This podcast documents a PhotoWalk in a local forest.
Arboretum
This post acknowledges the sovereign peoples of the lands where gatherings occur, honoring Elders past, present, and emerging, as well as all human and non-human inhabitants. It introduces Arboretum, a collective forest of real and imaginary trees created by members to symbolize solidarity and interconnectedness.
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Events
Sunrise Sound Walk, Port Blake
Can you imagine listening near Lake Huron at dawn, or with the many species in a woodland trail? Our four Sunrise Sound Walks, led by Canadian environmental artist and composer Anne Bourne, will explore the Lake’s wave patterns, the complex resonance of its deep waters, tectonic currents, the shifting shoreline sands, and the many pulses
• Forest Talk Radio: Under Your Favourite Tree
Forest Talk Radio: Old Growth (Temagami ON CA) is a walking adventure where you have awoken to a world where your fellow humans act like brainless automatons all thanks to a virus that has leapt over the organic/silicon divide–a digital virus created by trees, and uploaded to the info-grid through cell-phone-hacking fungi, that allows humans
