Prespes
Walking Writers of Prespa Showcase
A video recording of a Showcase celebrating the first anniversary of the Walking Writers of Prespa. A collective of walking artists and writers who first gathered at a long table under the linden trees of Psarades during the 2025 Walking Arts Encounter. Ann de Forest, a longtime writer and relative newcomer to walking art, initiated the gathering, envisioning
7+7 Places to Walk (3-2)- Prespa Arts Encounters
In the meetings of the “7 plus 7 Places to Walk” – A 2 year laboratory of Ideas – all artists who participated or were present in WAC Encounters 2025 will have the chance to further discuss everything that took place in Prespa these 7 days, from June 30th to July 6th, 2025, and ruminate
7+7 Places to Walk (3-1)- Prespa Arts Encounters
In the meetings of the “7 plus 7 Places to Walk” – A 2 year laboratory of Ideas – all artists who participated or were present in WAC Encounters 2025 will have the chance to further discuss everything that took place in Prespa these 7 days, from June 30th to July 6th, 2025, and ruminate
7 plus 7 Place to Walk (2)- Prespa Arts Encounters
In the meetings of the “7 plus 7 Places to Walk” – A 2 year laboratory of Ideas – all artists who participated or were present in WAC Encounters 2025 will have the chance to further discuss everything that took place in Prespa these 7 days, from June 30th to July 6th, 2025, and ruminate
7 plus 7 Places to Walk (1) – Prespa Arts Encounters
In the meetings of the “7 plus 7 Places to Walk” – A 2 year laboratory of Ideas – all artists who participated or were present in WAC Encounters 2025 will have the chance to further discuss everything that took place in Prespa these 7 days, from June 30th to July 6th, 2025, and ruminate
WALC Café: Walking towards a home in Greece – a Walking Writers Salon with Julian Hoffman
Video recording of a conversation between Julian Hoffman, author of Lifelines – searching for home in the mountains of Greece, and Annemarie Lopez. When Julian first arrived in Greece’s remote Prespa region, his Greek was “almost non-existent.” Walking became a form of literacy for him—a way to learn the language of the land by tracing the
After walking; about the various ways to document creative walking
In a practical and reflective approach, Geert Vermeire, Yannis Ziogas, Christos Ioannidis, and Annie Tsevdomaria will engage with you in a sharing of practices and methodologies around the documenting, registering and archiving of walking as an art, starting from its most fundamental question: “Does Walking Art need to be preserved, or if the Walking itself is the Art, does it make sense at all to register it.”
