Festival & exhibition
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Highlights
Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland 2007–2026
In association with the Urban Tree Festival, we welcome Marlene Creates award-winning photographer and long time supporter of walk · listen · create, as our café guest. Marlene will discuss some of the work she has done over the past 24 years in her outdoor studio, which is a six-acre (2.4 hectares) patch of old-growth
• Find Your London: Tree or False?
Devised by Andrew Stuck of the Museum of Walking, this walkshop became a regular event as part of the Mayor of London’s London Tree Week, and subsequent Urban Tree Festivals. Everyone has heard ‘an old wives’ tale’ about a certain tree species, some of which have a layer of truth within them, others are downright
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The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age | John Constable | The Guardian
While Britain boils in a heatwave, a new exhibition built around the much-reproduced canvas reminds us of the beauty of the natural world – and what we could lose Source: The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age | John Constable | The Guardian
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Walking Art and Resistance at the 61st Venice Biennale: from Pussy Riot to the Holy See
Venice in May. Green water, muted light, the racketing of tourists’ wheeling luggage across damp stone. Now the Biennale has opened there are new sounds, sometimes protest chants, sometimes the footsteps of marchers. Or perhaps they are old sounds. Venice: a stage for spectacle and protest since the upheavals of 1968. The clamour of a
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(Tree inspired) Hidden Garden haiku walkshop – SE1
Celebrating trees as part of the Urban Tree Festival, a 90 minute walkshop (workshop on foot) in which you discover all of Britain’s native trees, all within one park, and visit London’s most iconic peace garden. Together we will compose and recite haiku – 3 lined short poem usually associated with Japanese culture. Novice or expert,
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Walking Art Now: A Survey of Australian Walking Art
WALKING ART NOW, the third exhibition for Australian Walking Artists Inc., features the works of thirty-two of our artists at the Gympie Regional Gallery. This is an opportunity to experience walking art made by artists from across Australia.
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Festival Proposals (dog walking)
Festival Proposals by Peter Liversidge consists of 103 hand-typed suggestions sent to Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Festival. Ranging from fantastical to feasible, some were realized as artworks and performances, while others exist solely as ideas. Dog Walking was one of these Festival Proposals.
Articles on WLC
Needle in a haystack
Don’t ask me to identify a tree. I may be the person who invented and co-founded the Urban Tree Festival but I left it to cleverer people to identify the trees we were celebrating. Over the next four weeks there’s a call out for people to walk in support of the Lebanon Mountain Trail. This
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The Frestas Triennial Expands the Art Universe
The exhibition features 188 artworks from 102 artists. Its title, “A Prayer Along the Way,” speaks to understanding “the act of walking as a political, spiritual gesture of affirmation, construction and projection of knowledge.” Source: The Frestas Triennial Expands the Art Universe
• Articles elsewhere
The 61st Venice Biennale and the Feeling of Elsewhere
A Guide to In Minor Keys by GessoThere are cities that ask you to move quickly and there are cities that insist you surrender your sense of direction.Venice belongs to the second category.Nothing here unfolds in a straight line. You follow sound before...
Events
Explore the Urban Forest
Discover London’s surprising and diverse canopy! Working with Paul Wood, author of London is a Forest (Quadrille, 2019) and London Street Trees (Safe Haven, 2017), Andrew Stuck from the Museum of Walking created a series of walkshops inviting participants to Explore the Urban Forest. According to a UN definition, 20% tree canopy gets you to forest status, and so London with
• Hidden Garden Haiku creative writing walkshop – City of London – East
Celebrating trees as part of the Urban Tree Festival, a 90 minute walkshop in which you discover hidden gardens minutes from the Monument, in the City of London. Together we will compose and recite haiku – 3 lined short poem usually associated with Japanese culture. Novice or expert, join in this fun walking activity in
• Hidden Garden Haiku walkshop – Holland Park
Celebrating trees as part of the Urban Tree Festival, a 90 minute walkshop (workshop on foot) in which you discover not one but two Japanese Gardens. Together we will compose and recite haiku – 3 lined short poem usually associated with Japanese culture. Novice or expert, join in this fun walking activity in which you get
• Hidden Garden Haiku creative writing walkshop – City of London
Celebrating Trees as part of the Urban Tree Festival and sponsored by the City of London, a 75 minute walkshop (workshop on foot) in which you discover hidden gardens minutes from St Paul’s, in the City of London. Together we will compose and recite haiku – 3 lined short poem usually associated with Japanese culture.
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Walking – Vanessa Grasse
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