Join us for a WALCafé with artists from Europe and the U.S. to explore walking arts as a form of care, community, and ecological transformation. Engage in a casual roundtable discussion, share ideas, and spark creative connections.

Hosted by Ali Pretty, walking artist, community activist and founding artistic director of the 2025 Beach of Dreams coastal art festival that will bring a festival of banner art, sculpture, performance and storytelling to the coastline of Britain. She invites you to discover the works of three textile artists who will be contributing to the Beach of Dreams.

Hosted by Ali Pretty, walking artist, community activist and founding artistic director of the 2025 Beach of Dreams coastal art festival that will bring a festival of banner art, sculpture, performance and storytelling to the coastline of Britain. She asks “when does craft become art?“, and to this café has invited Taiwan Thousand Mile Trail

Walking Home / Walking in Transition sets the theme for the next International Walking Arts Encounters in Prespa (WAC 25).  This WALC Café offers a closer look at what you can expect in July 2025 and zooms in on its themes, context, place, the call criteria and what is offered to interested participants. The Prespa

What might be your reasons for taking a long walk? Might it be a celebration of a step-change in your life, to challenge yourself both mentally and physically, are you walking for love or loss, for better health, or to escape the hum-drum of everyday life, or merely to re-connect with nature? In 2023, Musician

Παρακάτω ακολουθεί το κείμενο στα Ελληνικά. In the Café, architect Stavros Sofianopoulos will present “Building the Chiapas Teachers Center” an initiative by the Greek Solidarity Team of support for the Zapatistas’ campaign “A School for Chiapas” [Centro de Capacitación  de Promotores Culturales Compañero Manuel (Chiapas, Mexico)]. The initiative will be presented in the context of Community based-art.

Launching a new international series ‘Anna and the Verwandelingen’, a sequel to the successful editions of ‘Anna and the Field Reports’, Anna Luyten will be chatting with historian, painter, performer, writer, pianist, doctor of arts, collector and walker Koen Broucke.  His walks lead him to unexpected encounters with history and art. For Broucke, walking is

A lively discussion with the shortlisters of the Marŝarto Award for walking art to mark the start of Walktober!

“a hypnotic, sensual tapestry”  Elizabeth Mahoney writing about Diane’s Lonely Nights radio feature in The Guardian “a superbly crafted evocation of a way of life lost – but not entirely forgotten” the Radio Times on Diane’s experimental audio documentary feature Ghost Town (for Between the Ears, BBC Radio 3) “She is a phenomenon and you should absolutely work with

How can artistic interventions that engage communities through walking create and foster an emotional connection to coastal landscapes? Join Ali Pretty , Walking Artist and the Director of Beach of Dreams, for an insightful session exploring the role walking artists can play in advancing the conversation on climate change and mobilising communities to celebrate and protect

Women walking, The city, At night, is a performance series in the form of collective walks between women. It was began by Eléonore Ozanne in Seville, Spain in September 2022 on the night of the ‘Harvest Moon’, and has subsequently taken place in 11 cities across Spain. They aim to investigate and think from the

As we start a month of celebrating sound walks, we invite you to join an online café with last year’s winner and runner up, exploring their approach to making winning sound walks and where next might sound walk composition take us all. The winner of the SWS23 Awards was Headford Lace Trail, by Ed Coulson,

Igor Binsbergen, soundwalker, and Laroche Aka Luce Choules, an itinerant artist founder and coordinator of the international artists’ network the Temporal School of Experimental Geography to inspire us at the dawn of the Walking Art and Relational Geographies Conference in Girona and Banyoles

Round table discussion live from the The Walking Body in Portugal discussing Walking arts today – a response to the deep environmental  global crisis we are facing today.  Walking is one of the keys to contextualize and deepen our understanding and relation with the living planet we live on and that we share with other species.

We are delighted to have William Sharpe join us as our Café guest. This time last year, his book on The Art of Walking: a history in 100 images was published to wide acclaim. So how did he come to choose which images best represented the art of walking, and what did he choose to leave out, and why?

Following the announcement of “WALC – a new future of walking arts – the largest cultural investment putting walking arts on the map” we are delighted to have as Café guests representatives from each of the consortium partners who put together the successful EU funding application for the Walking Arts and Local Communities project. With