Steps, next steps, awards
The application window for the SWS Awards 2023 just closed, and already the first submission for SWS24 is in. Our online jury now has until the end of October to come up with a shortlist, which might not be overly easy, as, pleasantly, I’ve noticed that, across the board, the quality of submissions is high.
You know we work together with a range of partners, including several platforms which you can use to construct your own sound walks. From early on, we partnered with Soundtrails and Echoes, and the number of SWS23 submissions that were created with Echoes is impressive.
This year, we also welcome four submissions for SWS23 that were made with Storydive. “Get off the couch and into the story!”
Storydive is based in Germany. This Wednesday, October 4, they’re hosting an online Barcamp, Next Steps, around the creation of sound walks. Participation is free, but you have to sign up by tomorrow..
If you decide to participate, you can join a session I’ll be hosting, on which I’ll share thoughts, ideas, and, hopefully, some insights on facilitating audience engagement in connection with creating and marketing sound walks.
Thankfully, they start in the early afternoon (CEST), meaning I can still get up at a normal time (here in Brazil).
Meanwhile, the submission deadline for the Marŝarto Awards 2023 is approaching. You have until the end of this month to submit your walking art (that is not a sound walk). Remember, as this is the first time we’re hosting this award, work that was created in 2022 and 2023 is eligible.
In other news, I just learned that March 21 was declared World Poetry Day by UNESCO in 1999, five years after the UK declared National Poetry Day on the first Thursday of October, which is this week, on October 5, on the theme 'refuge'.
A good thing, as Brits certainly need a bit more poetry in their lives, the UK now one of the poorest countries in Western Europe.
You recall that we just finished a writing competition, where Shani Cadwallender won with her poem stump speech, “…inspired by my research for my creative-critical PhD project […], which is about the representative strategies used by marginal women poets of the nineteenth century to depict trees.”, which made her our poet in residence for the coming year.
And, did you participate in the World Wide Wander last Friday? I certainly had fun, hosting one walk, based in São Paulo, while hundreds (thousands?) participated all over the world. If you missed it, or need some inspiration from the streets, join one of Street Wisdom’s upcoming walkshops.
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New walking pieces
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A GPS triggered audio quest for families on The Isle of Dogs inspired by open world video games. Families will find clues, get letters & solve this playful whodunnit, encountering some very interesting suspects before tucking into pie & mash. Keep reading
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A song cycle audio walk: a sonic discovery of songs and soundscape responses to the Emily Dickinson poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers. Composer Laura Reid has recorded songs and sound-scapes in site responsive locations in London and Dorset. Keep reading
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With humour, candour and a gentle heart, Jordie tells the story of his youth and his not-so-typical journey to higher education; he being the first in his family to attend university. Keep reading
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Carey’s walk explores The Arboretum and makes connections with the Ward neighbourhood in Guelph where she lives. Keep reading
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This piece is one of 4 participatory works created with and produced by Audio Artist Dawn Matheson as part of her How To Draw A Tree (“to draw” here meaning “to attract”) multimedia soundwalk project. Keep reading
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A sound walk and related art installation in the Ferry Road tunnel of the Edinburgh cycle path network. The pedestrian can use a QR code to listen on a mobile phone. Inspired by graffiti - found text and images from the local area. Keep reading
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Upcoming events
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01 Oct · Sun · 09:00 (UTC)
· Forest of Dean District, UK
The concept is to find inspiration in nature during a friendly artist led woodland walk with like minded others and then to develop ideas into a finished piece of a... Keep reading
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01 Oct · Sun · 15:30 (UTC)
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“Dreamy Walking” is the performance/evening walk/adventure/sound walk.
Dreaming walking to where there was an ancient sea in the hidden part of Prague`s landscape.... Keep reading
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04 Oct · Wed · 12:00 (UTC)
· Online
Next Steps is a free online barcamp for audio walk artists and invites you to exchange ideas. Keep reading
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From our network
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A map of sound walks in Edinburgh EH5 This is a new map showing the locations of three soundwalks in Edinburgh EH5: ‘The Wall’ and ‘No Birds Land’ were both shortli... Keep reading
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“Commissioned by the Museum of London, Graeme Miller’s ongoing Linked project opened in July 2003 as a massive semi-permanent sound work and off-site exhibition of ... Keep reading
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“Walking forward, looking back is a practice-based project utilizing a journey through the landscape. Artist Carol Maurer walks from her ancestral home on the Easte... Keep reading
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Kristina Borg “In 2016, the methodology and practice outlined in the previous section (Alternative DIY Walks) resulted in the project The Cities Within. This walk w... Keep reading
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I am delighted to be showing videos and drawing works from What It Takes in the forthcoming group exhibition Anomalies co-curated by LA.DY.LIKE and Juleana Enright!... Keep reading
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Gathering WalkCollecting materials, images, ideas, perceptions...sitting in the bowl-shaped valley over the first hill beyond the hot water swamp where the spring f... Keep reading
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Stuff we found
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In Colombia’s capital city Bogotá, pedestrians need to watch out for loose slabs of pavement they can trip over, or wobbly tiles that get their feet wet or splash d... Keep reading
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A Polish rural housewives’ club in the village of Romaszki took the initiative to pave all the sidewalks and footpaths with stone bricks even though they initially ... Keep reading
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This October, look forward to Story Fest 2023 happening on 6 and 7 October, in time for the Children’s Day weekend. Source: Story Fest 2023: Story Walk & Craft Your... Keep reading
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The Newspaper for Oklahoma Trendsetters Source: New Walk in the Park app to be celebrated in Nichols Hills Keep reading
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