The session introduces oral history, storytelling and “walking archives” as decolonial and sensory methods. Participants design and facilitate a Collective Memory Walk, engaging local people and generating material for the WALC toolkit.

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

Our featured guest, Krista Carson (writer, poet, educator, and PhD student), offers insights from her practice-based doctoral work where she is exploring the relationship between walking and creativity. Her book-in-progress weaves together prose and poetry framed by walks she has taken (often literal, sometimes figurative). She ponders uncertainty, transformation, and becoming as she moves toward

A full-day creative workshop led by renowned playwright Anders Lustgarten and wild storyteller Sophie Austin. Set against the striking backdrop of the Dungeness coastline in Kent, the experience invites 15 collaborative artists and creatives to explore storytelling through walking, writing, and performance – responding to the land’s rich history and present-day challenges. How do we tell