Not only have we made it into 2022, we are also very pleased to announce the winners and honourable mentions of the Sound Walk September Awards 2021.

Darrell Grant's Come Sunday is a walk through Portland's inner-northeast neighborhoods, which were once home to over 200 Black churches. It was commissioned by Third Angle New Music, which has a focus on creating a "soundtrack for our time".

Pavel Niakhayeu created Political Soundwalks as an audio-essay to document what Minsk sounded like during the political protests of 2020-2021. His field recordings provide a starting point for a discussion on the multifaceted role of sound in claiming the urban and political space.

Green Croft Arts created a soundwalk set along Hadrian's Wall. Director Amanda Drago discusses the piece's background.

Jez Riley French’s sound walk Breet Velvit Ake (‘Bright Velvet Wander’ in the Yorkshire dialect) evokes Whitefriargate’s history using a range of hidden, overlooked or usually inaudible sounds from the street.

Lore of the Wild invites you to hear stories, songs and sounds from non-human inhabitants of Lesnes, an area of ancient woodland in southeast London.

Where are we when we walk? Are we here, in this place that our feet move through, or are we somewhere else, lost in thoughts and memories of other times and places?

Inspired by Proust’s idea that true recollection can only occur after a period of forgetting, Cliff Andrade returns to his former Bristol home after 20 years, and walks from there to his current home.

With a direction out there – readwalking with thoreau, Emmanuelle Waeckerle a French, London-based, artist, has created a multimedia interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's text Walking.

In Flora and the Baron, the team at Bowerbird Theatre tell the tale of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, eccentric outsider, global scientific powerhouse and the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria’s first director. That's in Melbourne. Or, rather, the baron tells the tale himself.

With their work Monuments, the team at ThickSkin are foregrounding voices from the communities of Ancoats, Clayton, Beswick & Openshaw, all in Manchester, guiding you over cobbles, old and new, asking you not to overlook the buildings and the communities that make the area unique.

Tamsin Grainger tells us that every 2 minutes, 2 pairs of breeding birds disappear from the UK. Her installation piece No Birds Land highlights this, and more.

This year, we had over 150 eligible submissions for the awards, meaning that trimming them down to a manageable shortlist was more difficult than ever.

Join us on September 24 and 25, discussing the use, and abuse, of public space, and collaborative creating your own walking score.

You can get your hands 'dirty' in a workshop spread over two Saturday mornings in September, where you will learn how to design your own wayfinding system.

Together with Cona, we are both proud and pleased to introduce Sound Walk City · prelude, a festival of sound walks, performances and sound works, coinciding with Sound Walk September 2021.

You can now submit your work and events for Sound Walk September 2021. Participate in this huge network of walking artists and artist walkers.