In the meetings of the “7 plus 7 Places to Walk” – A 2 year laboratory of Ideas – all artists who participated or were present in WAC Encounters 2025 will have the chance to further discuss everything that took place in Prespa these 7 days, from June 30th to July 6th, 2025, and ruminate on the vision this process put into practice and the manifestos it created. The meetings take place every three months, the period from July 2025 to September 2026.
In this second meeting of the “7 plus 7 Places to Walk” the artists that presented their walkshops were: Ermina Apostolaki: Walking as a Feast for the Senses: Healing, Memory, and Belonging in Vrontero, Lydia Matthews: Through the Eyes of Foragers: Gift-Gathering, Viv Corringham: How far is home, Christopher Kaczmarek: Drawing Cartographies of Perception, Clementine Butler-Gallie, Clare Qualmann: Walk & Play: Streetside Games from Around the World, Kel Portman: Walking the Line. Residents and participants of previous years that presented places were: Nikos Theodoropoulos: Despotiko (Varnoundas): A Scarred Terrain, Vangelis Strempenis: My place (το μέρος μου).
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe, starting in January 2024 for four years. With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts.
WALC builds on the previous work of hundreds of artists and researchers already practicing Walking Arts as a collaborative medium, and having met at the significant previous walking arts events and encounters in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and during online activities at walk · listen · create.
We acknowledge the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program in the framework of the European project WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community).
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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