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Collective Memory Walking (WALC Online course Session 7)

“Collective Memory Walking” with Katerina Pistola, Stefania Veldemiri, Nikos Theodoropoulos and Kórinna Latélis

Fourth and last session of the block "Walking as shared World Making" as part of the online course "Walking Arts and Local Communities" in the frame of the Creative Europe Cooperation project WALC
Course coordinators: Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire.

Supported by

Locative Media Supercluster

Locative Media Supercluster links art, ecology & education with CGeomap and Earth Art Revolution, mapping human & more-than-human stories.
Geert VermeireFred Adam

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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