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Wednesday After Work Walks: Tracing The Tyburn
Tom Bolton, author of soon to be published “The Lost Rivers of London: A Walker’s Guide” entertained more than a dozen participants in Rethinking Cities’ latest Wednesday After Work Walk along the route of the Tyburn river describing its history and how it has influenced the street pattern and development of London’s West End. Rising at Shepherd’s Well
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Recording the Unseen; recreating a lost city through audio narratives
John Beauchamp's soundwalk Unseen is set in Warsaw, and recalls hidden stories and lost sounds from places wiped off the map. John's piece is available on Josh Kopeček's Echoes, and received a honourable mention at Sound Walk September 2019. Here, John talks about his work.
Unseen Soundwalks: Warsaw Rising ’44
Unseen Soundwalks: Warsaw Rising '44, developed with the Warsaw Rising Museum, commemorates key events of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation, focusing on battles near landmarks like the PAST telephone exchange and Prudential buildings. The series also addresses significant incidents including the assassination of Nazi official Franz Kutschera and the Wola Massacre, highlighting both acts of resistance and the brutal reprisals that followed.
Dockers – voices from the hidden history of the Thames
This memoryscape explores the hidden history of London’s docks, once the busiest docks in the world. The picture postcard, tourist views of Greenwich are quickly left behind to explore the strange quaysides and deserted industrial landscape of the Greenwich peninsula. The walk is narrated by the people who used to work in the docks and
Hidden Traces – London
Produced by Gabriele Reuter & Mattef Kuhlmey Hidden Traces is a sound journey discovering the streets around The Place. A self-guided tour for all ages tracing the many identities of the ever-changing neighborhood between Euston, St. Pancras and Kings Cross Station in London.Choreographer and Urban Historian Gabriele Reuter and composer Mattef Kuhlmey have been gathering memories
Diamond Street app
“Lichtenstein has brought alive something of London… how one street can be a kind of Tardis, a portal to another world of parallel commerce, codes, rituals, history.” The Times The jewellery quarter of Hatton Garden is one of London’s most mysterious areas – home to diamond workshops, underground vaults, monastic dynasties, subterranean rivers and forgotten
Unseen Soundwalks: Warsaw Rising ’44 Bike Tour
Commemorating this year’s anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, Culture.pl and the Warsaw Rising Museum are releasing a series of 10 immersive audiowalks in both English and Polish, covering this period’s most significant events. On 25 July 2020, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Warsaw Rising Museum will take you on a Nextbike Polska bike tour
Walking pieces
Hidden Waves
Sound artist Gemma’s installation "Hidden Sounds" leads audiences through Utrecht to experience the city's canal soundscapes via hydrophone recordings. The route includes three underwater listening points where participants hear sounds transmitted through water, highlighting differences in soundwave speed between air and water.
Articles on WLC
The joy of steps: 20 ways to give purpose to your daily walk | Life and style | The Guardian
Has the novelty of a prescribed stroll long since worn off? From tracking animals to uncovering hidden history, here’s how to discover a new world in your neighbourhood Source: The joy of steps: 20 ways to give purpose to your daily walk | Life and style | The Guardian
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Gloucestershire Black History Map
Copies available from Black Ark Media or me. Two walks, with full detail and historical information, from each of the county’s nine railway stations. Eighteen walks in all. The leaflet has been very well received. Hidden history revealed and bec...
Six Lockdown Walks with Alys and John
There's much to enjoy in this correspondence between writer Alys Fowler (who you may know from her memoir Hidden Nature kayaking Birmingham's canals) and artist John Newling (whose exhibition Dear Nature was on at Ikon before lockdown). It takes the form of six letters with photographs over April and May. You can read them on […]
Events
Walking Detectives meet up
Can you help us grow the walk · listen · create archive, with details of walking pieces, and works about walking, that may have lain dormant for many years? We are also keen to reach out beyond the traditional territories, to make connections with walking creatives across the globe.
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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
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