pilgrimage
Highlights
The WHIMs
The WHIMS are weekly mystery walks released Fridays between 17 April and 25 September 2026, designed for participants to walk prompted routes focused on curiosity and enchantment throughout British Summer Time. Walkers can complete any number of prompts at their own pace and are invited to a final gathering to reveal the WHIMS mystery.
Rediscovering Britain with Quintin Lake
Join Quintin Lake for an illustrated discussion of his solo pilgrimage around the coast of Britain. We are delighted to welcome Quintin Lake here to Hatchards this evening for an illustrated talk on his experience of walking and photographing Britain for his book The Perimeter. On Friday 17 April 2015, photographer Quintin Lake set off
The Art of Being on Location
Recently, we integrated the OVERHEAR API into our Museum of Walking, making it easy for creators using OVERHEAR to include their work into our archives. Kibriya Mehrban talked about her experience as part of the app’s core team. Now, Tom, founder of the app, follows up on Kibriya’s article. My name is Tom. I’m the founder and co-director of
Alien Staff
Alien Staff (1992–93) by Krzysztof Wodiczko is an electronic staff with a monitor, speaker, and display of personal documents, carried like a biblical shepherd’s staff or a 17th-century bourgeois walking stick. It allows immigrants to share their stories publicly, fostering dialogue, empathy, and challenging cultural prejudices.
Books
Walking pieces
Transatlantic Walk
Transatlantic Walk was a performative project in which François Morelli carried a hollow fiberglass sculpture shaped like a charred human torso while walking through cities in Europe and the U.S., periodically blowing air into it or filling it with water. The project was documented through photographs, sketches, journals, slides, and video.
Watershed Line
In 2019–2021, Kate Green walked the Watershed Line of the Elan and Claerwen rivers in Mid-Wales, photographing each concrete post along the 72 sq. mile catchment that supplies Birmingham’s water, creating songs and works inspired by the landscape and aqueduct.
It Takes a Year to Walk Around the Sun
It Takes a Year to Walk Around the Sun is a looped moving-image installation using a floor-projected, rhythmic, disorienting video to evoke physical and psychological immersion. It developed from a year-long performative Instagram project.
Articles on WLC
The good in the bad: 1000 euros for the winner of the SWS Awards 2026
For years now, the news cycle has been saturated with images of war. The current assault on Iran by Israel and the United States brings with it the familiar rhetoric of inevitability, escalation, and abstraction. But though we might be in position to close our eyes to the literal horrors of war, violent conflict is never abstract. Just this
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Poetry on Pilgrimage
We have been on the ‘look-out’ for a poetry competition or prize that is exclusively focused on walking and to date we haven’t found one (apart from our own). The poetry universe is huge, there are prizes awarded for hundreds of themes, and many of the more general ones have chosen walking as a theme
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The Buddhist monks – and their dog – captivating Americans while walking across the country for peace | The Independent
The monks have been surprised to see their message transcend ideologies Source: The Buddhist monks – and their dog – captivating Americans while walking across the country for peace | The Independent
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Pilgrimage of Song Constable Country
A group of 50 singers walked a route of around six miles through the heart of Constable Country, taking in Stratford St Mary, East Bergholt, Dedham, Flatford and Lawford. We sang a short service at each church along the way, and ended with a hot meal at St Mary’s Church, Lawford. Source: Pilgrimage of
• Articles elsewhere
34. Matthew Anderson, Someone Else’s Saint: How a Scottish Pilgrimage Led to Nova Scotia
I’ve written about Matthew Anderson’s Someone Else’s Saint: How a Scottish Pilgrimage Led to Nova Scotia here before (about a year ago, in fact), and as preparation for the pilgrimage conference I mentioned in my last post, I reread it last week. I have more things to say about it (rereading typically reveals something new … Continue reading 34. Matthew Anderson, Someone Else’s Saint: How a Scottish Pilgrimage Led to Nova Scotia →
• 33. Robert Twigger, Walking the Great North Line: From Stonehenge to Lindisfarne to (kind of) Discover the Mysteries of Our Ancient Past
I wish I could remember who recommended Robert Twigger’s Walking the Great North Line to me. I’d like to thank whoever it was publicly, for two reasons: I hadn’t heard of it until that person told me about it, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Twigger, the author of a dozen books, realized one day that … Continue reading 33. Robert Twigger, Walking the Great North Line: From Stonehenge to Lindisfarne to (kind of) Discover the Mysteries of Our Ancient Past →
• July 7th, Online panel discussion on pilgrimage
I’ll be part of a panel discussion on “Stories from the Pilgrim’s Road” that will take place on July 7th.https://walklistencreate.org/walkingevent/stories-from-the-pilgrims-road/This is an online event, so anyone can join. You do need to sign-up ...
Walking Secular Pilgrimage
In October 2016, aged 53, and needing a change, I stepped out of my front door in Edinburgh for an adventure. First visiting relatives by train in the New Forest, England then it was a boat from Portsmouth across the Bay of Biscay to Santander where I started walking. I exchanged Shiatsu for hospitality, as … Continue reading Walking Secular Pilgrimage
• Events
Of Walking on Thin Ice (Camino to COP26)
Talented Artist/Filmmaker Ben Wigley’s film ‘Of Walking On Thin Ice’ (Camino to Cop26) tells the story of a group of climate activists who walked 500 miles last year, from London & Bristol to Glasgow to Cop26. It is the story of a people’s walk, carrying a message of love, hope, grief & fear & our
• Women and Walking
Women walk. Kerri Andrews discusses her book, ‘Wanderers’, about ten women who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves. Sonia Overall takes the path of the lone woman walker, seeking out ‘thin places’ where past and present collide, and where new ways of living might begin. Wanderers: A History of Women WalkingKerri Andrews
