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Sound walk SWS26
2025

Ascents and Descents

Reduce to the MAX! How much of an audio walk is possible when production time and technology are radically limited? The colaborative experiment took place on several audio art related festivals.

Sound walk
2021

Audio Writing and Walking Workshop

Linda Cracknell leads an audio walking and writing workshop for Lyth Arts Centre, Caithness.

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Sound-Image Festival: Greenwich Sounds

Museum of Walking
2020-11-14 18:00
Online

A 14-day challenge for residents and workshop participants to record sound walks and curate soundscapes of the Royal Borough of Greenwich area, launched through an online Zoom workshop on Saturday 14 November. Members of the public and University community are invited to create unique sonic portraits of their own Greenwich. A “How to make a sound walk” workshop

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Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course

WALC
7 Mar - 27 Jun, 2026
Online

The Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course invites you from March 2026 on into the artistic practice of walking arts. Designed for artists, creators, educators, cultural workers, and innovators, the course explores walking not simply as a theme, but as a method of learning, creating, and relating. This is not about learning about walking. It is about walking as learning.

WALC
post SWS21 05 Aug, 2021

We’re hosting a two-day information-design course, so sign up now

You can get your hands 'dirty' in a workshop spread over two Saturday mornings in September, where you will learn how to design your own wayfinding system.

Open Call Closed

Ground Works open call: How do we react to our changing environment?

Ground Works is a creative response to the land, habitat and environment, bringing together leading international artists, poets, and writers in exhibitions, walks, talks and workshops. They're asking for submissions by March 8.

Curated news 19 Dec, 2023

Call for Proposals – In the Field 2 – CRiSAP

We invite proposals for papers, workshops, performances, and fixed media works for In The Field 2 – taking place July 5 and 6 2024. Deadline February 6 2024 Source: Call for Proposals – In the Field 2 – CRiSAP

Walking piece
2010

Walking Alone and Together

Walking Alone and Together made use of sounds (including vocalizations and various languages) and collaborative guided walking to traverse an unfamiliar outdoor terrain, Working in pairs, small groups and then one large group, participants worked creatively to make their way across the hilly meadow outside Gabrovo.

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Create your own Neighbourhood Walking Tour, with Saira Niazi

Whitechapel Gallery
2026-08-05 15:00
Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel High Street, London, UK

Share stories of the people, places and projects that make up your neighbourhood in this engaging and interactive exploratory workshop. Led by renegade guide and founder of Living London, Saira Niazi, the workshop will guide you towards the creation of your own walking tour. You’ll learn how to choose stops, connect them up, and enable

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Freedom that walks : I promise…

WALC - Walking Arts & Local Communities
23 - 27 Mar, 2026
Av. Dom Afonso Henriques 258, 4810-520 Guimarães, Portugal

There is a starting point: a blank sheet of paper and a gesture. In this ongoing workshop, each participant is invited to write, draw, or inscribe a promise—personal or collective, fragile or ambitious.

The Walking Body 7
WALC
Sound walk SWS24
2023

Touching Sound

Sound-activated mixed media sculptures based on recordings and sensory activities while walking in nature.

Walking piece Marŝarto23
2022

Misleading

Four participants were guided for two hours by a person who is visually impaired and uses a wheelchair. The GPS track was recorded using the Komoot app.

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Walking pieces

Sound walk SWS24
2024

Sensing the Sea

Bring your body, your senses and your memories to the sea for this short meditative sound walk, that weaves together recordings of underwater environments in Malmö with reflections from participants in open workshops with Land Art in Skåne.

Sound walk SWS24
2023

Walking the Line

Participants were invited to start to walk as if to their homes, following as straight a line as possible. Prompts were given that predetermined stopping and reflective points based on Fibonacci sequences. As artists came from Australia, the USA, Greece and the UK, their routes led off in very different directions.

Sound walk SWS23
2023

Sound of Southside

Originally produced for a 4.1 sound installation premiered at the Festival of Migration, Edinburgh. The Sound of Southside project worked with Chinese and Hong Kong migrants living in the Edinburgh area.

Sound walk
2020

Soundmap: People and Place

Six guided sound walks around five communities in North Aberdeenshire.

Articles elsewhere

post 85

1 topic + 1 location + 1 day + 16 audio creators = 1 audio walk

On 27 February 2026, 16 sound enthusiasts roamed the city centre of Bern with microphones and explored the world of ascents and descents – biographically, geographically, sociologically… and, in any case, artistically through sound. Accompanied by the two SOUNDMARKERS Florian Hohnhorst and Ruben Kurschat, a collective audio walk was created – and performed at the …

Ruben Kurschat
soundmarker
post 85

Walking off the map in Yogjakarta

Together with Jalan Gembira and Kunci Study Forum & Collective, we're hosting a Dérive app walkshop in Yogjakarta, on November 29, with an introductory online session on November 22.

Babak Fakhamzadeh•
Dérive app
post 70

More Workshops at Test Plot MN

Mark your calendars! More workshops connected to “A Line That Grows” at Test Plot MN have been scheduled! All offered free of charge – bring a friend. Test Plot MN is at the intersection of Pierce Butler Rte and Lexington Pkwy N in St. Paul – look for the sign and tiny wooden wattle fence […]

Ellen Mueller
Ellen Mueller
post 95

Let’s Take a Walk #65 took place as part of EnTransito

Dear Friends,Let's Take a Walk #65, a worldwide participatory walking performance, was part of EnTransito 2025 in San Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza. I invited people, in person and worldwide, to participate in a multi-phases p...

Marie Christine Katz
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Events

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By The River

Plant Wimborne Green festival
2024-10-13 09:30
River Allen, Wimborne

A creative workshop on the riverbank, where the river Allen will be a place for deep river-listening and inspirationfor writing, individually and collaboratively. Suitable for people with no previous experience of writing, as well as experienced writersThe session will be led by writers, Gill Horitz and Tony Horitz, with ecologist/sound artist, Adrian Newton Book early

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ArtMoves Fife – creative walks with artists

ArtsMove Fife
20 Apr, 2024 · All day
The Larick Centre, Shanwell Road, Tayport, UK

Join ArtMovesFife's artists in a creative exploration of beach and forest environments. All art materials provided

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Theatre Walks

2024-03-21 14:00
Garagem Avenida EAAD, Avenida Dom Afonso Henriques, Guimaraes, Portugal

Theatre doors are no longer sealed nowadays and performance often ventures outside. It embraces walking as a “theatrical scenario” and goes in quest of new, mobile, non-material or outdoor spatialities to replace or amplify the conventional stage. Site-specific and site-generic theatre events, walking performances, audio-guided drama, mobile theatre(s) and performance interventions, all flesh a theatre

The Walking Body 5
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walkingevent SWS23  

Walking Abstractions: A walking drawing workshop and exhibition in Lapland

27 - 28 Sep, 2023
Rovaniemi, Finland

This workshop explores the extraordinary possibilities of walking bodies for the creation of drawings, through a unique process of blind drawing without being blindfolded, and by experimenting with speed, time, surfaces, and walking styles.

Links

Vancouver New Music Vancouver New Music

Vancouver New Music is dedicated to exploring and contextualizing new music and sonic art, through concert presentations, festival, community, and workshop events.
Organisations

Gaby Hutjes stiltecoaching

Stiltecoaching.nl is a Dutch website dedicated to silent coaching and mindfulness practices. The site offers information about the philosophy and methods behind silence-based personal development, emphasizing the importance of quiet and stillness as tools for mental clarity and emotional balance. It presents various coaching programs and workshops aimed at fostering deeper self-awareness and stress reduction through silence, meditation, and contemplative exercises. The website also provides insights into the founder's background and approach, integrating elements of nature, subtle observation, and presence into the coaching process. Additionally, it includes testimonials, schedules for upcoming sessions, and resources for individuals interested in exploring silence as a means for personal growth. The content is primarily in Dutch, reflecting a focus on local clients and cultural context.
Organisations

Ruben Kurschat Ruben Kurschat

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To walk: I’ll hae ta geng noo afore hit’s owre late.

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