freedom
Highlights
Free Steps between Walls and Hills
Free Steps between Walls and Hills is a 22 km walk from Guimarães to Citânia de Briteiros, proposed by AVE and The Walking Body. Through collective walking, participants explore the territory as a relational landscape of body, memory, and environment
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Footnotes to freedom
Footnotes to Freedom is a three-part workshop exploring how freedom is experienced and expressed in the city of Guimarães. Participants share and map places where they feel a sense of freedom, discussing how these moments relate to access and public
• Walgett Freedom Rides
Walgett was a pivotal site in Australia’s Freedom Ride, where students confronted racial discrimination against Aboriginal people, notably the exclusion of Aboriginal veterans from the local RSL. Two key incidents there brought national attention to the issue of racial discrimination for the first time, marking a significant moment in Australian civil rights history.
Walgett Freedom Rides
Walgett was where the Freedom Ride exploded onto the national stage. It was the place, as Charlie Perkins said, which was the first big test of moral courage. “Are you with it? Or are you against it? Are you fair dinkum? Or are you not?” It was the place where the Freedom Rides students found
Walking pieces
Άφρικα: A Certain Kind of Freedom
In part soundwalk, in part performance art, in part punk archaeology, in part getting lost in the dark; ‘Άφρικα: A Certain Kind of Freedom’ is a nocturnal rumination bringing together historical bewilderedness with embodied experience of a place.
Freedom Rides Moree Baths
The Moree council uniquely formalized racial discrimination through a legal order banning Aboriginal people from public facilities like the swimming pool. In response, the 1965 Freedom Riders challenged this by demanding entry, facing violent backlash but ultimately securing a landmark victory against segregation.
Articles elsewhere
Wood Mountain Walk, Day Seven
All I’ve done in Assiniboia today is eat and sleep. And laundry. That’s what rest days are for. It’s hot again today and I’m glad I’m not out on the highway. Tomorrow will be a shorter day, just 20 kilometres to Limerick. Sunday is supposed to be cooler, so I might try to finish the […]
Reverie
"I have never believed that man´s freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do, and that is the freedom I have always laid claim to, often preserved, and most scandalized by my contemporaries about...
Day 2. The shadow of a black dog. Nuria-Err
The mountains are gorgeous. I already mentioned them yesterday, determining our movements, our state of being. They wore us out on the first day already but at six in the morning the will to walk, the eagerness to move on, to see more, to get tired aga...
Cut Flowers
Cut Flowers at the Beaumont Gallery, Mere currently features work from the Forced Walks: Honouring Esther collection. Cut Flowers runs until Sunday April 23. In addition to work from Lorna’s practice exploring inherited trauma, the exhibition includes the Honouring Esther … Continue reading →
Events
Belonging & Letting Go: Freedom Morning Running Club
Free Steps between Walls and Hills is a 22 km walk from Guimarães to Citânia de Briteiros, proposed by AVE and The Walking Body. Through collective walking, participants explore the territory as a relational landscape of body, memory, and environment
• Bordered Miles
To mark International Refugee Day, a walk from Glasgow City Centre to the Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre in Lanarkshire. Arranged by Claudia Zeiske and artist Iman Tajik this 22 mile meditative path exploress the notion of borders as liminal spaces where freedom of movement conflicts with geopolitical boundaries.
• walking in(out)doors
A walking action for Walking as a Question by the HUB Switzerland, Zürich. Open for global participation. The physical world has defining properties. We cannot walk through walls. That’s why a door must exist, writes the Swiss sociologist Lucius Burckhardt in his text “On the Design of Everyday Life” (1979). But he adds: Hidden doors
