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Sound walk SWS26
2025

Hidden in the Landscape: Stories of Cromwell Bottom

A self-guided audio trail around Cromwell Bottom Nature Reserve in Brighouse, one of the most important wildlife sites in Calderdale.

Sound walk SWS21
2021

Witness Waters Story Trail at Home

The Witness Waters Story Trail, created during the Etruria Boat Festival 2021, features poems and stories about water written and recorded by festival participants. These recordings were originally presented along a towpath trail between Etruria Industrial Museum and Hanley Park and are now available to experience online.

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El Grand Tour 2024

13 - 31 Aug, 2024
Catalonia, Spain

El Grand Tour project curated by Clara Gari of Nau Côclea in Camallera, Spain which this year celebrates its 10th edition, is a 250+ km, three-week walk that participants undertake with artists who come from many disciplines. Every day the walk is about 15km in duration, with participants joining artists that have different proposals to

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Out Lines – walk | listen | journal

2024-01-05 10:00
Online

Walk the new year in with a difference! Does January feel endless and stodgy?  Want to kickstart fun into January? Walk this way! Step into fresh thinking this January.  Harness the vitality of walking with the power of journaling.

video 2021  

Landscape and place – the act of touching and listening through walking

The walking practice can be acknowledged as an act of touching and listening to the diverse shapes and stories of a territory.

Walking as a Question
Curated news 26 Sep, 2023

Story Fest 2023: Story Walk & Craft Your Own Art Bench – Little Day Out

This October, look forward to Story Fest 2023 happening on 6 and 7 October, in time for the Children’s Day weekend. Source: Story Fest 2023: Story Walk & Craft Your Own Art Bench – Little Day Out

Curated news 02 Sep, 2023

StoryFest 2023 invites Singaporeans to walk and talk in the Civic District

If you love stories and walking, you’ll find a lot of both at StoryFest 2023. The annual festival is back with a new format that lets you explore the Civic District through an outdoor storytelling experience called Story Walk. Source: StoryFest 2023 invites Singaporeans to walk and talk in the Civic District

Sound walk
2017

Armidale Catholic Precinct Soundtrail

The Catholic Precinct Soundtrail is a geo-locative audio walk and meditation exploring Armidale’s historic Catholic sites through the perspectives of young Aboriginal participants from across the diocese. Featuring interviews, music, and stories, the walk traces 160 years of history and highlights the ongoing relationship between the Armidale Catholic diocese, local Aboriginal families, and the wider community.

Sound walk SWS23
2023

Extraordinary Streets: Stockwood

Community-created sound walk celebrating the south Bristol ward of Stockwood (UK).

Walking piece
2017

Beckenham Place Park Soundwalk

SoundLab has created a free app to take you on an immersive soundwalk around Beckenham Place Park. It is based on stories gathered and shared by locals.

Happened
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Reclaiming the Narrative: a Rewriting of the Census through Quipus

POW Thanet
4 - 6 Mar, 2022
Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate, Kent, UK

Re-writing the Census is an invitation to think through craft. To acknowledge the omissions of present census categories and to include all those who feel ‘othered’ or omitted.

Happened
walkingevent SWS21  

Writing Words of Wonder – Shoreline Stories

2021-09-10 12:00
Online

A workshop is to help you become a better nature writer. Over the course of 90-120 minutes we’ll use two complementary forms - haiku and flash fiction - and draw inspiration from the shoreline (sea, lake, pond, river or stream) and other parts of the natural world.

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Walking pieces

Sound walk SWS22
2021

Sunday For Seven Days (all over London)

This post details a collection of sound walks and stories written by NG Bristow, featuring 30-minute two-person sound walks available in the chapbook *A Week to Walk a Fortnight* from the Museum of Walking. Each story is linked to specific What3words locations and is read by different narrators, connecting with the broader *A Week to Walk a Fortnight* project.

Sound walk SWS21 Honourable mention
2021

Collision & Conflict

Collision & Conflict is a geolocated sound walk along Hadrian’s Wall national trail featuring nine artistic commissions in song, music, sound, story, spoken word, and prose. Commissioned by Green Croft arts in December 2020, the works explore historical, archaeological, and environmental conflicts linked to the diverse communities that built and lived along Hadrian’s Wall.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 20 Oct, 2022

Walk With Me returns to Comox Valley Art Gallery – Comox Valley Record

The Comox Valley Art Gallery will host three “story walks” this fall as part of its ongoing Walk With Me project, an arts-based response to the toxic drug crisis. Source: Walk With Me returns to Comox Valley Art Gallery – Comox Valley Record

Curated news 10 Jun, 2021

A City + A Garden: Stories and soundtracks combine for walks in Cork and Dublin

Source: A City + A Garden: Stories and soundtracks combine for walks in Cork and Dublin

Curated news 26 Jan, 2020

Darren Waterston is the artist creating paintings you can physically walk into | British GQ

“My installation represents the emotional underbelly of this fabled room and story of art.” Source: Darren Waterston is the artist creating paintings you can physically walk into | British GQ

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May 2025: A First Sunday Special

Crab and Bee (Helen Billinghurst and Phil Smith) are joining us as part of their book tour celebrating the launch of Crab and Bee’s Matter of Britain Here’s the plan: Join us 2pm Sunday May 4th outside The Ascension Church, Stretford Road, Hulme.  Cra...

THE LRM
THE LRM
post 85

Walk 136

Gathering WalkCollecting materials, images, ideas, perceptions...sitting in the bowl-shaped valley over the first hill beyond the hot water swamp where the spring first emerges from the ground, trying to connect to the ground, the hills, forest, grasses, sky, water, the creatures and stories that live here.Location: Boulder, MontanaLength: 5 kmCompanions: NoneDate: 30 September, 2023 [...]

Pedestrian Blog
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Eaux dites

« Bassins Versants, l’oreille fluante », je fais actuellement une focale sur les milieux bouillonnants, aquatiques, les eaux courantes, dormantes, … Plus

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS
post 35

Changes on the Menu

I miss Alf, of course. But Alf’s Cafe still serves the best food around. You can ask anyone, Tommo has done his dad proud. I park outside Alf’s Cafe and get the usual stab of grief in my throat. When I get inside, Tommo is too busy fiddling with his new coffee machine to serve…

Stephen Leatherdale
Estuary Tales

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Sarah Farley The Writer's Walk

The Writer's Walk explores the places where walking and writing meet through stories, tips on how to use your walks to observe the world and take inspiration from it, and simple writing prompts to help you bring your ideas to life.
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Annemarie Lopez• Walk with me

Annemarie is an Italian-Australian writer, editor, and storyteller currently based in London. She co-directs walk · listen · create, creates digital walking games, and collects stories wherever they can be found.
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V.O.N.A.R.

Vocal Orientation And Navigation Through development and practice of Driftsinging.

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