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Wandering as a way of attaining knowledge beyond the material world
That maybe a Sufi quote about dervishes, the whirling kind, of which I read about in To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova: “A precept of dervishism is renouncing possessions, surrendering to the Road.” The subtitle of her book is “A Journey of War and Peace” and, as she writes of her travels along the shores
• Swap Paphos for Preston! City features in new book exploring places off the tourist trail – Blog Preston
We invited Lancashire author and travel journalist Chris Moss to explain why he wants us to explore the UK’s bypassed towns Source: Swap Paphos for Preston! City features in new book exploring places off the tourist trail – Blog Preston
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White Pages
A 5.5-hour walk along Prespa's receding shoreline, tracing a route that would have avoided post-civil war surveillance checkpoints. White stones became "White Pages"—transforming resistance into reflection.
7 + 7 PLACES #3 (towards WAC 27)
The Third Online Meeting for the 7 + 7 Places project will take place on Wednesday, February 11th2026, 20:00 EET (19:00 CET). During the two previous meetings we touched upon various approaches to the Place of Prespes and discussed six different walkshops that unfolded in Prespes as part of the International Encounters 2025 (WAC). In
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Water, Earth, and Peace: Coming home to where we come from
Walking in transitional, interstitial spaces where Water and Earth meet is special. From walking-with and sensing the presence of rock and water bodies, on the banks of Lake Prespa (Greece) or the River Maas (Holland), it emerges to feel Water as home and relational peace quality, which inspires humans to create. To co-create and find forms for joint walking, artistic work, and ecosomatic practice, as ways of storytelling with Earth & Water.
• Babylon Revisited
Participants, each speaking only their mother tongue, engaged in a walk and discussion without a shared language or set topic, creating a dynamic, horizontal process of interaction. The experience emphasized expression over comprehension, producing a multilingual soundscape. Some other themes explored included communication beyond understanding, identity, isolation, reflection and connection, disorientation, and the power of being present and included.
Conjuring the Threshold
A 10-minute ritual of repair responding to a denied pedestrian crossing at the Greek-Turkish border. The performance transforms an administrative wound into a poetic threshold through a physical "suture" and a bilingual GPS soundscape.
I AM A HUMAN SEISMOGRAPH
Presented at WAC 25, I AM A HUMAN SEISMOGRAPH encouraged Walkshop participants to develop their own codes and systems to generate walking drawings that document and celebrate sensorial attentiveness and presence in the world.
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A Metre of Blue: Mnemosyne and the Art of Distilling a Walk
It was around five in the morning on the shores of Lake Prespa in Northern Greece when I first encountered Ridha Dhib: a figure moving slowly along the water’s edge, a walking stick in hand, conversing with a strange, synthetic voice coming from a small red speaker clipped to his hip. The lake was still,
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Between Clay, Farmland and History
During the first two editions of Made Of Walking by The Milena principle (2015 and 2016, Delphi, Greece), we had the opportunity to meet two remarkable walking artists: the Dutch artist Ienke Kastelein and the Greek artist Katerina Drakopoulou. Through numerous international projects, their artistic practices have become widely recognized within the field of walking
Walking images into place: WAC encounters and the anima of Prespa
In summer 2025, for one entire week, walking became the defining activity in Prespa, a mountainous transboundary landscape where two ancient freshwater lakes traverse Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia. Through acts of healing, experiencing, resisting and becoming, WAC 25 explored walking as a multifaceted practice as part of the wider, four-year Creative Europe project “Walking
Walking, Mapping, and the Plurality of Place
Christopher Kaczmarek hosted a walkshop at WAC25 called Drawing Cartographies of Perception, exploring the personal and subjective nature of navigation and cartography and the diverse ways people perceive and move through space.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he reflects on the piece. A map is never a place. It is a translation, an abstraction,
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31. Emma Jane Kirby, The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience
I picked up Emma Jane Kirby’s The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience in Otis and Clementine’s, the used bookstore/café/cat rescue I visited in Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia. I thought it might be a book at least tangentially related to walking–or perhaps walking-adjacent–because the refugees fleeing Afghanistan, Iraq, and … Continue reading 31. Emma Jane Kirby, The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience →
• Walking Home
‘Homewards’ is a Walking Home / Walking in Transition walkshop proposal for the International Walking Arts Encounters in Psarades, Prespa, Greece in July 2025 This walkshop asks where and what is home. It acknowledges that we may have to walk a long way before we find somewhere to settle, and that although the building may … Continue reading Walking Home
• Tinos and Kionia
May 2023 In this blog T1A walk to Kionia, Poseidon Sanctuary, walk from Kionia to Chora (Tinos town). T1A trail – flora, Ktikados, chapel, and geology There are a wide range of walks around the Greek island of Tinos. On the whole they are quite well signposted and the ones I made travelled through varied … Continue reading Tinos and Kionia
• Tinos and Chora town
May 2023 Introduction I thought I might take a break after teaching Shiatsu and giving supervision in Athens, so I looked up islands which were easy to get to from the capital and typed the word ‘pilgrimage’ into the search engine as a starting point. Tinos came up immediately. It’s not only a vital place … Continue reading Tinos and Chora town
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Audio Walking: An Introduction to Recording, Producing and Editing skills
Three fascinating workshops shifting from an introduction to audio field recording for audio-walks and soundscapes, through to actual field recording and then editing. We will make a work in prgress and communicate with a group of artists working on a similar workshop series in Sweden with Andrew Stuck. We will hope to produce a work in progress to share!
WALC Confluence 11 – Inspiring the next generation of walking artists
Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire host this special Confluence to announce the launch of an online course on walking art and an interactive map to strengthen engagement with walking artists and collectives across the WALC ecosystem. There follows a presentation at 20h CET by Yannis Ziogas regarding the Encounter to take place in Prespa in
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