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A crazy 10 days for walking art…

13 Oct, 2024

Some of you may already know that I have been lucky enough to have been on holiday in Corsica for 3 weeks - our last few days here, we are staying in Chisa, a remote hamlet in the mountains on the eastern side of the island. If you are a climber or mountaineer, you may have heard of Chisa - there's one in the foothills of the Himalayas and one here in Corsica, and both offer the opportunity of scaling sheer cliffs and using wire bridges and zip wires to cross precipitous chasms and gorges. Neither Mel nor I had any inkling that Chisa offered these delights, and to be honest, we haven't taken advantage of them, as yet....

We return this Sunday 13 October, the first day in a crazy 10 days for walking art. Why do I make that claim?

On Sunday, too late for this newsletter, Roelant Meijer is inviting you to Utrecht in the Netherlands, to walk with artists in an exhibition aptly called "Artist who Walk". Later that evening, there is a live streamed event from Athens, where Yannis Ziogas and my colleague Geert Vermeire will be speaking at a conference that apparently attracts over a thousand art educators from all over Greece. They are talking about the part-EU funded project, Walking Arts and Local Communities (WALC), the vision for which is to create an international centre for walking arts, on the shores of the Great Prespa lake in Western Macedonia. The conceptual foundations of which have been the brainchild of Yannis, who for more than a decade has been championing walking arts in that region.

On Tuesday 15 October, we are delighted to welcome silk painter and walking artist, Ali Pretty as a guest for a walk · listen · café in which she will be talking about "Beach of Dreams", a huge and complex project that will run throughout May 2025, around much of the coast of the UK, connecting up scores of local communities through walking art.

On Thursday 17 October, my colleague Babak Fakhamzadeh is leading a walkshop in Lisbon, called "Play the City", as part of the Walk21 Conference taking place there this year. Later that evening, the WALC project is inviting you - yes, you - to help them shape the four year project, with a WALC LAB event, to share knowledge and experience of joining up walking artists with local communities.

Two events in one day, and you will probably be exhausted, so luckily you get time to nap, until the evening of Sunday 20 October, when we whisk you virtually to a WALC café in Gaasbeek in Belgium, to join a conversation between Anna Luyten and Koen Broucke called "Metamorphoses on the walking paths."

We welcome back walking anthologist Duncan Minshull, as he takes us Globetrotting on foot, at our October Walking Writers' Salon on Tuesday 22 October - and that then leaves me a couple of days to edit the video recording, before I set off by train to Brussels, to meet up with my WALC colleagues for a long weekend of meetings about..you guessed it..walking art.

As it happens, there are some other great events going on before and over that weekend, so it is always best to check our event pages, and if you have an event of your own coming up, make sure you submit it in good time, so we are able to promote it in these weekly newsletters.

An after thought, should you be having doubts about walking as art, have a view to our most recent café video, in which ten proponents tell us what they think of walking art and where it stands (sic) in the mainstream Art world.

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Drawing practices using GPS devices. Previously a planned route is studied. Although the drawing is done in the physical space, the creation must be seen through the applications that show those records. Also called GPS Art.

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