Video recording of a Confluence introduced by Geert Vermeire, one of WALC’s co-artistic coordinators. The event came live from Guimarães in northern Portugal, where Babak Fakhamzadeh has been setting up a photographic exhibition called ‘in loving memory‘. Part psychogeographic, part interventionist, our urban explorer and Derive app-creator colleague, has been leaving his mark through cities

Hosted by Ali Pretty, walking artist, community activist and founding artistic director of the 2025 Beach of Dreams coastal art festival that will bring a festival of banner art, sculpture, performance and storytelling to the coastline of Britain. She invites you to discover the works of three textile artists who will be contributing to the Beach of Dreams.

Video recording of a Café hosted by Ali Pretty, walking artist, community activist and founding artistic director of the 2025 Beach of Dreams coastal art festival that will bring a festival of banner art, sculpture, performance and storytelling to the coastline of Britain. She asks “when does craft become art?“, and to this café has

Video recording of Walking Home / Walking in Transition the theme set for the next International Walking Arts Encounters in Prespa (WAC 25).  This WALC Café offers a closer look at what you can expect in July 2025 and zooms in on its themes, context, place, the call criteria and what is offered to interested participants. The Prespa International

What might be your reasons for taking a long walk? Might it be a celebration of a step-change in your life, to challenge yourself both mentally and physically, are you walking for love or loss, for better health, or to escape the hum-drum of everyday life, or merely to re-connect with nature? In 2023, Musician

How do you document Walking art? Asks your host, Clara Gari from Nau Côclea. For some artists documenting their work is a process of making a further an artwork in itself, for others the walk is the document. What resources and strategies best capture the experience and creation of the artist: travel journals, photographs, drawings, sound recordings,

Video recording of a Walking Arts & Local Communities Café, in which architect Stavros Sofianopoulos presents “Building the Chiapas Teachers Center” an initiative by the Greek Solidarity Team of support for the Zapatistas’ campaign “A School for Chiapas” [Centro de Capacitación  de Promotores Culturales Compañero Manuel (Chiapas, Mexico)]. The initiative is presented in the context of Community

Launching a new international series ‘Anna and the Verwandelingen’, a sequel to the successful editions of ‘Anna and the Field Reports’, before a live audience at the School of Gaasbeek in Belgium,  Anna Luyten chatted with historian, painter, performer, writer, pianist, doctor of arts, collector and walker Koen Broucke.  Koen walks lead him to unexpected encounters

How can artistic interventions that engage communities through walking create and foster an emotional connection to coastal landscapes? Join Ali Pretty , Walking Artist and the Director of Beach of Dreams, for an insightful session exploring the role walking artists can play in advancing the conversation on climate change and mobilising communities to celebrate and protect their coastlines.

2023 marked the inaugural Marŝarto Award for outstanding walking art, for which we had an overwhelming response, with submissions from 5 continents. Meet the shortlisted artists, and discover the nuts and bolts of making walking art, in this roundtable discussion hosted by Geert Vermeire. Ten walking artists who had had pieces shortlisted in the Award, joined the discussion, and

A video recording of a Sound Walk September Café in which Diane Hope shares her enthusiasms and expertise on location recording. The recording includes a lively discussion among audio producers and sound walk composers on a range of topics from recording in a sauna to what binaural microphone is best on a windy day…

At the start of Sound Walk September 2024, meet Ed Coulson, make of Headford Lace Trail and Dawn matheson producer of Semi-Colon (How to Draw a Tree), the Sound Walk September Award winners from 2023, in conversation about everything sound walks.

Video recording of a WALC Café hosted by Clare Qualmann with guest Eléonore Ozanne discussing Women walking, The city, At night. A performance series in the form of collective walks between women. It was began by Eléonore Ozanne in Seville, Spain in September 2022 on the night of the ‘Harvest Moon’, and has subsequently taken

Video recording: We have invited Igor Binsbergen, soundwalker who believes that “Listening” (compared to “Seeing”) is a neglected child in our culture but strangely more powerful in many ways, and Laroche (aka Luce Choules), an itinerant artist founder and coordinator of the international artists’ network the Temporal School of Experimental Geography whose practice involves moving over and through places, to inspire us

William Sharpe joined us as our Café guest. His book on The Art of Walking: a history in 100 images was published to wide acclaim. So how did he come to choose which images best represented the art of walking, and what did he choose to leave out, and why?

Video recording of an on-the-ground and online café from The Walking Body 5. The Walking Body 5 brings 9 international artists together, with the collaboration and involvement of EAAD and schools in Greece (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Spain (University of Murcia). Each artist has their own connection with walking in a more than human

A video recording of the first walk · listen · cafe in 2024, exploring a cultural history of the Black Country (in the West Midlands of the UK) through the lens of walking artist and photographer Tom Hicks. Black Country Type is his ongoing photographic project.  A series of images distributed via Instagram, in which he applies his unique

Video recording of inaugural online event for Walking Arts & Local Communities co-funded by the EU. Includes presentations by  Yannis Ziogas, Geert Vermeire, Clara Gari, Anna Luyten, Sylvie Marchand, Miguel Bandeira Duarte and Kostas Diamantis Balaskas.

We are delighted to welcome back Claudia Zeiske, our former writer-in-residence and Marŝarto Award Grand Juror to tell us about what she encountered on her latest project Slow Coast 500.

We are excited to have Ellen Mueller as our guest for this Cafe. For the last few years, she has been compiling a comprehensive resource on walking art and sharing it through her blog and through her own teaching resources.

This cafe conversation centers on academic research and artistic practices that investigate the act of walking as shaped by pandemic conditions.

The artists and scholars on this panel explore both the possibilities and the presumptions of walking as a technique of the body.

Walking, next to a creative process and an artistic form can be a base for pedagogy.

Join a conversation with four prominent digital artists and researchers who have raised the above questions and made them the focus of their work, in pieces like Transeuntis Mundi , Supercluster, and the Cartography of Hospitality.