Museum of Walking (Andrew Stuck & Marcin Barski) host an online workshop “How to make a (geo-located) sound walk and record sounds using a smartphone”. Participants will learn how to record and map the sounds of Greenwich borough, creating their very own listening experience & sharing the diverse soundscapes of the community. An online workshop

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WALC Residence 2 at the Gigacircus Collective Lab – an interactive audiovisual “Bivouac” metaspace beyond borders.

This interactive, one-hour workshop offers fascinating facts about women authors who loved walking, along with real live writing prompts based on our chosen walking women's lives and works.

A video documentary combining exhibition footage of the Situationist International exhibitions with film footage of the 1968 Paris student uprising, and graffiti and slogans based on the ideas of Guy Debord.

Considering making a submission to Sound Walk September 2021 but unsure what is eligible or how to complete the submission process? We have created an Open Call page and FAQs, but are also offering this free advisory event to help you over any perceived hurdles.

A brief introduction to walk · listen · create, the home of walking artists and artist walkers.

FOOTNOTES is an immersive multi-media puppetry performance created, designed and directed by Theodora Skipitares with Music and Lyrics by Sxip Shirey.

20min documentary made about the pilgrimage told by the organisers and pilgrims who participated.

"an/other time" is an audio/visual experiential work explored on the streets using a custom-made iOS app, an Apple mobile device, headphones and a map.

Ami Skånberg walks with cows.

O Pátio (1959) is an experimental short film set on a chess‑tiled terrace in Bahia, following two characters in everyday gestures. Influenced by concretism, it features meticulous framing and an avant‑garde score by Henry and Schaeffer.

Quad I + II by Samuel Beckett features four hooded figures who walk fixed paths around a square, endlessly avoiding its center, creating a ritual of rhythm and repetition.

In And from then on we lived on blueberries for about a week (2013), Lisa Myers transforms her grandfather’s story of fleeing residential school into a stop-motion reflection on endurance, land and memory, rooted in Indigenous experience and survival.

Elastic City engages the public in participatory walks, workshops, and performances that transform cities into sites of discovery. Artists use sensory techniques and rituals to explore community, identity, and the politics of urban life.

Taking a Line for a Walk documents Susan Stockwell mapping the historic boundary of Stockwell, South London, by walking its 2.7-mile perimeter with a line-drawing machine, creating a temporary public drawing that transformed mapping into a lived, performative act.

Rape (1969) by Yoko Ono and John Lennon is a 77-minute conceptual film exploring voyeurism, privacy, and the male gaze. Shot with a hand-held camera, it follows a woman through the streets of London, symbolizing the violation and helplessness tied to celebrity surveillance.

Film No. 4 (Bottoms) by Yoko Ono is a feature-length experimental film with no background. It features intellectuals baring their bottoms, symbolizing a collective protest. The film explores vulnerability, societal ills, and the power of unity in expression.

Going Nowhere 2 features a figure walking through a surreal underwater landscape at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea. Dressed in jeans and a white shirt, he moves purposefully through fish and rocks, following an unclear path into the murky distance.

Local voices, custodianship and care Every road a pilgrim travels along links them to a community, but what of those communities, how have they evolved, is sacredness bestowed upon them or are they already sacred places? In this sixth episode of the On Pilgrimage series we are exploring how pilgrims and pilgrimage may have created

Walking writing, sound, photography and archives Video recording of the fifth in our series of conversations On Pilgrimage. Every road a pilgrim travels is pre-loaded with stories, and each pilgrim’s journey is a story in itself. In this episode of the On Pilgrimage series we are investigating stories, and the media through which they are

A video recording of a Showcase celebrating the first anniversary of the Walking Writers of Prespa. A collective of walking artists and writers who first gathered at a long table under the linden trees of Psarades during the 2025  Walking Arts Encounter. Ann de Forest, a longtime writer and relative newcomer to walking art, initiated the gathering, envisioning

Mert Hocaoglu and Serra Özhan of sound artists Dystopic Symptoms and Hu Eryurt and Ilgin Tufan of the Cultural Routes Society in Turkey to share their learning from the Sounding Art Trail project. The Sounding Art Trail project is funded through a grant from the British Council’s Connections through Culturefund and is set to raise awareness of climate change, by sharing soundscape recordings along long distance

This presentation by Bill Psarras reflects on the concept of topogesture which is a methodological distillation emerging from the author’s artistic practice over the last decade, within the remedial convergences of walking performance, poetry, and technology. Etymologically viewed, such a neologism is created as an oscillation between place (topos) and gesture (cheironomia), aiming to underscore how the artistic act invests meaning into and

Artists working along routes and in landscapes Art has been entwined with pilgrimage from the outset, in iconography and relics, object attribution and travel souvenirs, music and folklore, and more recently in walking performances. Does a pilgrimage route become an open-air studio exhibiting the pilgrim experience? Presenters included: Professor Kathryn Barush author of Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied

Video recording of a talk that introduces WALKING, a symposium exploring practices of walking as modes of perception, spatial inquiry, and collective reflection. Situated in relation to Lucius Burckhardt’s Spaziergangswissenschaft, WALKING brings together positions from landscape architecture, art, research, and curatorial practice to examine how environments are read, constructed, and contested through movement. The presentation

In association with the Urban Tree Festival, we welcomed Marlene Creates award-winning photographer and long time supporter of walk · listen · create, as our café guest. Marlene discussed some of the work she has done over the past 24 years in her outdoor studio, which is a six-acre (2.4 hectares) patch of old-growth boreal forest where she

Video record of the third On Pilgrimage event in the series focussing on Faith-based, radical and community-led pathsand we are delighted to have Conchita Espino, Director of Mar a Mar, the organisation behind the Camino de Costa Rica,  Matthew R Anderson Gatto Chair of Christian Studies, at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada and author of The Good Walk:

Walk Notations is a new publication (February, 2026) that brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025, a curatorial collaboration between initiatives ReRouting and Cruising Curators for nGbK, Berlin. Moving between artistic practices, curatorial conversations, and reflections, the book approaches walking as a method for being together in

Working alongside the World Trails Network (WTN), a community of trail management and tourism providers, that include many traditional pilgrimage routes and trails that now accommodate secular pilgrims, we are running a series of online events to discuss the roles walking art plays in pilgrimage and vice versa. This second event in the series focusses on Contemporary pilgrimage,

Walking artist presenters in this video: Tamsin Grainger, Hannah Stageman, Fiona Hooton, Bill Psarras and Petra Johnson The third of an initial series of three Map Scrambles in which walking artists share how each of them documents walking art, specifically be adapting, modifying or creating their own maps. Early last year, Clara Gari of Nau

Award-winning naturalist and author Stephen Rutt was our Walking Writers Salon guest in June, discussing his latest book The Waterlands.  Too long have we taken water for granted – it is a crucial element that keeps our world alive, without it there is no life. Following the path of a raindrop to the sea, from the boggy

Ken Wilson’s singular experience of walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, all while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. In conversation with Andrew Stuck, they discuss his new book Walking the Bypass – notes on place from the side of the road.

Why are we drawn to a place where the land meets the sea? And what deeper truths emerge when these instincts come together in a journey around England’s shoreline?  The Coast is Our Compass is a pilgrimage in search of meaning — an exploration of art, culture, community and the enduring power of nature along the world’s

Morag Rose, author of the widely acclaimed The Feminist Art of Walking will be joined in conversation with author and poet  Polly Atkin for our first Walking Writers Salon on 2026.  For over 20 years Morag Rose has been seeking company, undertaking a wide range of explorative wanders on foot through her home city of Manchester and elsewhere, as she

Video recording of a conversation between Julian Hoffman, author of Lifelines – searching for home in the mountains of Greece, and Annemarie Lopez. When Julian first arrived in Greece’s remote Prespa region, his Greek was “almost non-existent.” Walking became a form of literacy for him—a way to learn the language of the land by tracing the

Video recording of a Walking Writers Salon with Adam Weymouth, author of Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe. Conservation policies across Europe have been encouraging ‘re-wilding’ of landscapes, including the re-introduction for animals that once roamed more freely. Scientists have been tracking such re-introductions, and back in 2011, a wolf left its family pack

A Walking Writers Salon with Radhika Subramaniam Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School in New York City where she was also the first Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center from 2009 to 2017. With an interdisciplinary practice as curator and writer, she explores crises and surprises as they emerge in urban

Five years in the making, A Certain Logic of Expectations is a surprising, intriguing photo narrative of a well-known university-dominated city, created by Mexican photographer Arturo Soto. Soto studied at Oxford as a doctoral student, traversing the city incognito, capturing the quirkiness of British suburbia, a counter-narrative to the tourism blurbs that often quote Victorian

How do we bridge the experiential gap between that of humans and other animals with writing that feels intelligible to us, while reaching for the differences in how other animals sense, think, and act? Chantal Lyons author of Groundbreakers: the return of Britain’s Wild Boar and our story writer-in-residence as she hosts Emma Geen, author

A Walking Writers Salon with  Krista Carson (writer, poet, educator, and PhD student), offers insights from her practice-based doctoral work where she is exploring the relationship between walking and creativity. Her book-in-progress weaves together prose and poetry framed by walks she has taken (often literal, sometimes figurative). She ponders uncertainty, transformation, and becoming as she moves

Video recording of the sixth instalment in Walking America for a conversation about dogs and the humans who walk with them – and write about them. Does walking with a dog enhance the experience of walking? If so, in what way? For poet Susan M. Schultz and walking artist and writer Ernesto Pujol, walking with

Wayfarer is part memoir, part travel narrative, part nature book, which begins while Phoebe Smith was sent on assignment to walk the most famous pilgrimage in the world – the Camino de Santiago, in northern Spain – and somehow lost her way. Where most people ended with a sense of joy an achievement, Phoebe was left empty and

Video recording of the sixth instalment in Walking America for a conversation about dogs and the humans who walk with them – and write about them. Does walking with a dog enhance the experience of walking? If so, in what way? For poet Susan M. Schultz and walking artist and writer Ernesto Pujol, walking with

Video recording of a Walking America event. There are two basic plots in literature, the late John Gardner once suggested – somebody goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. In two new novels, authors Sharon White and Janice Deal subvert that formula; the recently arrived stranger ends up journeying – on foot – in

Walking America Turtle Island* welcomes two poets, Cole Swensen and Lisa Robertson, who embrace walking as fundamental to their creative practices, and often as subject matter too. Cole Swensen’s On Walking On (Nightboat Books, 2017) interweaves short poetic chronicles of particular walks with poetic commentary on other walking writers’ work, from Chaucer to Lisa Robertson. Both Robertson’s essay collection, Occasional Work and Seven

The loss of walking as an individual and a community act has the potential to destroy our deepest spiritual connections, our democratic society, our neighborhoods, and our freedom, says author Antonia Malchik, introducing her book A Walking Life: Reclaiming our Health and Freedom, One Step at a Time. For author and activist, Jonathon Stalls, walking is a radical necessity, a

Ann de Forest hosts Walking America – writers in conversation. Practitioners and teachers of writings on walking, the guests include, Christine Hume, co-editor of Traversals: A Folio on Walking for The Hopkins Review, and two contributing writers, Nabil Kashyap and Will Zhang.

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.