The recent protests in Serbia and Greece in part started as the expression of collected grief over railway disasters. The resulting marches not only represented deep discontent with the actions of the respective governments, they were also expressions of solidarity and resistance.
This online café explores the intersection of walking arts and political marches, a collective listening and conversation featuring influential walking artists whose work delves into social justice, environmental grief, and embodied storytelling.
Nohad ElHajj is an independent researcher whose work bridges art, politics, and social change. With a background spanning Lebanon, South Africa, Scotland, and Kuwait, she harnesses walking and participatory processes as platforms for dialogue, human rights narratives, and community partnership building.
Marta Moreno Muñoz, fresh from returning from the Global March to Gaza, and creator of the trans-European performance-walk 2020: The Walk, brings her practice of walking as climate activism, having led long-distance mobile testimonies for Extinction Rebellion. Marta channels collective responsibility through embodied route-making and accountability in public space.
Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman is a multidisciplinary artist‑walker whose projects mobilize urban geographies to hold memories of violence, displacement, and social rupture. His walking interventions act as living archives, mapping intergenerational grief across architecture and history.
Tom Jeffreys is a writer and editor predominantly covering contemporary art and culture, with a particular interest in work that engages with ecological concerns. His books include Signal Failure and Walking, and he recently co-organised The Edinburgh Walk for Gaza.
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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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On August 26, Babak Fakhamzadeh of walk · listen · create and Mary Marinopoulou of Action Synergy, as part of the 4-year project Walking Arts and Local Communities, hosted the online event Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity and Resistance, bringing together four artists and activists; Nohad ElHajj, Marta Moreno Muñoz, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, and Tom Jeffreys. What followed was a profound dialogue on walking as a political and embodied act in the face of violence, injustice, and systemic disconnection.
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