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Walking Art and Resistance at the 61st Venice Biennale: from Pussy Riot to the Holy See
Venice in May. Green water, muted light, the racketing of tourists’ wheeling luggage across damp stone. Now the Biennale has opened there are new sounds, sometimes protest chants, sometimes the footsteps of marchers. Or perhaps they are old sounds. Venice: a stage for spectacle and protest since the upheavals of 1968. The clamour of a
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Migrating VOICES: walks across distances
Migrating VOICES is an emerging artistic creation supported by Creative Europe over a four-year period, developed in collaboration with five European countries within the project Walking Arts & Local Communities – W.A.L.C. It unfolds simultaneously at both local and international levels. The project is a participatory artistic exploration of contemporary mobilities, unfolding through walks connected
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Slave Rebellion Reenactment
Slave Rebellion Reenactment (2019) by Dread Scott reenacted the 1811 German Coast Uprising, with hundreds of Black participants marching 26 miles in period dress. The performance and film honored enslaved rebels’ fight for freedom and reimagined history.
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Danzar o Morir on the Sierra Tarahumara paths
The long-distance running and ritual dance among the Ralámuli of Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara is a practice that holds the power to heal and sustain the world. Author Sylvie Marchand has lived among them for years and reflects on this ritual through a dialogue of perspectives: that of Erasmo Palma, Ralámuli poet and cultural guide, and
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Women’s History Walk in Central Park « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
Celebrate spring and Women’s History Month in Central Park with a mile long self guided tour: This self-guided walk highlights some of the women who created, inspired, and placed monuments an… Source: Women’s History Walk in Central Park « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
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Scrambling for maps
March 2026 we are holding 3 online Map Scrambles, in which artists will be discussing when and why they use maps or mapping to document their walking art. Map Scramble 1 (Monday 23 7pm GMT) Map Scramble 2 (Wednesday 25 7pm GMT) Map Scramble 3 (Thursday 26 7pm GMT) Each events part of the
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Take a 2-Hour Walking Tour Through New York City: Architects Reveal the Secrets Behind Its Most Iconic Buildings | Open Culture
New York isn’t the oldest city in the United States of America, and it certainly isn’t the newest. But it is, quite possibly, the American city where more layers of history coexist than any other, a quality that manifests most vividly in its built environment. Source: Take a 2-Hour Walking Tour Through New York City:
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Buckthorn Ink 2-Part Workshop
Join me! Free, all levels welcome (recommended ages 10+), no experience required. Meet at the bench on the southeastern shore of Grass Lake Wetland, Minneapolis. Session 1: Buckthorn Berry Collection & Ink-Making Instruction Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 3-4pm Session 2: Buckthorn Inkscapes Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 10-11am Free to join for one or […]
Meaningful Gestures: Book Read and Performance at City Reliquary Museum, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Meaningful Gestures: Book Read and Performance at City Reliquary Museum, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Saturday, November 1st, at 2pm FREE admission https://withfriends.events/event/9mVUi0qn/book-launch-learning-dance-through-meaningful-gestures/ Anabella Lenzu will be reading passages from her NEW book Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures, show short dance videos from the ALDD repertory, and have a Q&A session. Teaching and Learning Dance Through […]
Book Launch and Reading: Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures by Anabella Lenzu
Book Launch and Reading:Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gesturesby Anabella Lenzu Sunday, February 23rd at 2pm at Peridance Center, #nycFREE Admission, RSVP required: info@anabellalenzu.comhttps://www.anabellalenzu.com/meaningful-gestures From her NEW book Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures, Anabella will be reading passages and showing short dance videos from the ALDD repertory.A Q&A session will follow. Teaching […]
Events
Keep Walking Intently
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to welcome art critic and historian Lori Waxman who will be talking with Babak Fakhamzadeh about her book Keep Walking Intently, a seminal history of walking art in the Twentieth century. Lead art critic
• Walking America, with Neil King Jr and Tom Zoellner
Join two American authors as they trade tips and share insights about writing and walking at walk · listen · create’s Walking America. For our inaugural conversation on November 29, we are delighted to welcome authors Neil King Jr. and Tom Zoellner, to discuss their epic walks through America’s divided political landscapes in search of common ground.
• Transeuntis Mundi – A nomadic creative practice
Artists Cândida Borges (Brazil/US) and Gabriel Mario Vélez (Colombia) discusses how walkscapes informed their transmedia work Derive 01, by exploring the theme of transculturalism through 4 continents in virtual reality and 360 technologies for sound and audio.
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