Alphabet of the City

Introducing Marŝarto, the walking art award

6 Feb, 2023

We are happy and excited to announce the creation of the Marŝarto Awards, recognising walking art from all over the world.

Walking Visions : Prespa walking arts encounters, 3 – 9 July 2023

26 Dec, 2022

Open call for WAC - Walking Arts Encounters/Conference Prespa (Greece), 3-10 July 2023. In the third walking arts encounter in Prespa we explore the various dimensions of “Walking Visions” with an encounter for sharing of artistic walks and walkshops, along with a conference about the topic. We invite artists, writers and other creative practitioners, critics and researchers to Prespa this summer and to take up the provocation of the encounters/conference theme.

Water connections Prespa

2022-09-20 17:30

Online

We invite you to explore Prespa, a national park and lake at the border of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia, and a venue of art practice for almost two decades. Art and science, biology and ecology meet in an evening with two panels about Prespa, water and arts, in a dialogue with artists, researchers, scientists and ecologists, a confluence of the Prespa lake with Oika in the US, the El Hondo Wetland in Spain, the wet meadows of Somerset Levels and the waters of Yarun (Bribie Island) in Australia.

Announcing the winners of the SWS Awards 2022

16 Jan, 2023

We're happy and proud to announce the winner and runners-up of the Sound Walk September 2022 Awards.

Grateful Walking on Earth Day 2021

22 Apr, 2021

Share your gratitude with the Earth during a walk in pandemic times. Share with us a moment of gratitude for a place, for the earth, by sending your audio story and your location, together with a picture, a drawing, a small text, to our collaborative Gratitude locative media map and webapp for walking.

It’s the SWS23 Awards shortlist

6 Nov, 2023

The SWS Awards 2023 saw 60 entries reviewed by a dedicated online jury. The shortlist includes three pieces from Australian artists and one previous winner. Following deliberations by the SWS Grand Jury, winners will be announced in January 2024, marking the first time cash prizes will be awarded.

Reflecting on locative media art – with Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire

19 Apr, 2021

Extensive duo-interview with Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire by Mike Dunnan and Cris Kimi, coordinators of the Earthlings Locative Media Summer School at King's College London. All about walking, with or without media, but above all walking as connecting with our Earth and of places and people.

Open call for sound walk art residency in Catalonia

10 May, 2022

Contemporary Art Center Nau Côclea is opening a call for an art residency in Camallera (Catalonia), in the frame of Sound Walk September 2022, in collaboration with walk · listen · create. We invite artists, writers and researchers to apply for a residency of 2 weeks, from September 26th to October 9th 2022.

The SWS Awards 2022 shortlist

9 Nov, 2022

We're pleased to announce the outstanding pieces that make up the shortlist of the Sound Walk September Awards 2022.

Reading Water – Open call for emerging artists and young creatives in UK and Egypt

15 Oct, 2022

when walking meets running

28 May, 2022

Chinatown’s hidden stories

28 May, 2022