walk · listen · café
walk · listen · create hosts walk · listen · café, a bi-monthly (once every two months) online meeting for creatives in the fields of walking, writing and sound art.
A ‘café’ lasts between 1 and 2 hours, is headed by an expert introducing a particular topic, and followed by an open discussion on the topic at hand.
Online meetings are hosted through Zoom, Jitsi or similar. Participants will be sent the conference link and password shortly before the event kicks off. To cover expenses and provide a small gift for the expert, participation typically costs less than 10 euros.
From January 2024 through to December 2027, some of our cafés will be funded through the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program in the framework of the European project WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community).
Highlights
Topogestures: Reflections on walking performance, poetry and technology
This presentation reflects on the concept of topogesture which is a methodological distillation emerging from the author’s artistic practice over the last decade, within the remedial convergences of walking performance, poetry, and technology. Etymologically viewed, such a neologism is created as an oscillation between place (topos) and gesture (cheironomia), aiming to underscore how the artistic act invests meaning into and derives meaning from
• 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
• Islands as stepping stones
Taking place as a key component of the WAP nomadic artistic residency, join us for a cafe discussion with artists live from the Stockholm archipelago. WAP (Walking as Practice) is an annual Walking Artist Residency bringing together international walking artists. This year it will be nomadic, as artists will be walking across the Stockholm Archipelago.
Sounding Art Trail – sharing soundscapes
The Sounding Art Trail project is funded through a grant from the British Council’s Connections through Culture fund and is set to raise awareness of climate change, by sharing soundscape recordings along long distance trails. The project included site-specific productions, sound-focused research and participatory processes with local communities. Described as a “collaborative, trans local journey”
• Thinking in Motion
This talk introduces WALKING, a symposium exploring practices of walking as modes of perception, spatial inquiry, and collective reflection. Situated in relation to Lucius Burckhardt’s Spaziergangswissenschaft, WALKING brings together positions from landscape architecture, art, research, and curatorial practice to examine how environments are read, constructed, and contested through movement.
• Walk Notations: A Book as a Trace
Walk Notations - that brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025, meet the curatorial collaboration between initiatives ReRouting and Cruising Curators for nGbK, Berlin.
+1 Walking Arts and Health: Episode 2 – Walking Arts across changing bodies
Through our new WALCAfé series, WALC invites you to explore how Walking Arts plays a vital role in well-being, both individually and collectively, physically and mentally. Our first conversation focused on Walking Arts and Mental Health.For our second conversation, we will explore how walking is something learned again and again — negotiated through changing bodies,
+2 Everybody out and about – creative ways to make that happen
Too easy to make the assumption that everyone can walk – surely it is the most human thing we humans can do? However, not everyone has the privilege of the sensorial able-bodied. Often overlooked in event planning or in creative compositions, yet frequently made to feel as if in the spotlight, an unintended public performer,
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• Walking Arts & Health: Episode 1 – Walking Arts & Mental Health
Through our new WALCAfé series, WALC invites you to explore how Walking Arts plays a vital role in well-being, both individually and collectively, physically and mentally. Our first conversation will focus on Walking Arts and Mental Health. We are delighted to have with us four speakers who bring diverse insights from research, therapeutic practice, community
+2 WALC Confluence 10: Walking with a cello and other stories
Do you want to know how our 2025 adventure went? How we set off from Badalona and crossed beaches, mountains, and rivers on our way to the Pyrenees — and climbed the Taga with a cello? Do you want to hear about our shared library, lovingly cared for by an artist? Would you like to
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Events
Harvest Moon Reflections
Women Walking, the City, at Night is an international performance in the form of collective night walks, initiated and curated by artist Eléonore Ozanne. The project began in Seville, Spain, in September 2021 during the night of the Harvest Moon. Since then, it has grown into a global action, with women walking together in different cities
Slow and Steady
The Marŝarto Awards complement our Sound Walk September Awards providing a cash prize incentive to artists to submit their compositions for the only award for walking art. Entering its third year, we want to celebrate the winner and honourable mention from the previous year, and are delighted that Tamsin Grainger (winner) and Marie-Anne Lerjen (honourable
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• • When a walking artist is a Renegade Guide
Towards the end of 2024, during a highly contentious election season, writer, guide and founder of Living London, Saira Niazi, spent two months in the US (New York and San Francisco) developing a research project on tour guiding. Attending various walking tours and community events, exploring hidden gems and local neighbourhoods and interviewing renegade guides,
• • WALC Café – Slowness, encounter, and transformation
Hosted by Clara Gari of Nau Côclea. Join us for the online presentation of the upcoming Grand Tour 2025!This year’s route will take us from the Maresme to the Pyrenees, through the Montseny, Les Guilleries, and Osona, weaving a collective journey of artistic creation and shared walking, with more artists than ever. As always, the
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