Masterclass: Writing for Immersive Media, with Adrienne Mackey

Shinrin-Yoku – Forest Bathing Night Walk

Localjinni

3 - 4 Nov, 2023

Canberra ACT, Australia

Come and explore Canberra’s heritage listed, 100-year-old Cork Forest. Join a cohort of Localjinni’s as we throw light on this enchanted wood, make walking drawings, and meditate on the nature of trees.

Shinrin-Yoku – Forest Bathing Night Walk

Localjinni

National Arboretum Canberra

Tree worship is universal, as is our symbiotic relationship to trees. Come and explore Canberra’s heritage listed, 100-year-old Cork Forest. Join a cohort of Localjinni’s as we throw light on this enchanted wood, make walking drawings, and meditate on the nature of trees. Wander with the moon and share the magic of night in collective safety.

Sentinel Species

WAC

Agios Achillios, Greece

People have long observed animals for signs of threatening hazards or evidence of impending environmental threats. These species, called sentinel species, are of great importance not only in “perceiving and bringing” the first signs and symptoms of the “climate crisis”, but also in “anticipating” it as sentinels. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Sentinel Species Walking Encounter reverses the sentinel roles of humans and birds. Humans will enact the role of sentinels for the endangered bird species living in the area. Choosing Prespa as a location for the proposed Performance/Installation is no coincidence as Prespa is an environmentally protected area.

Walking the Line

Psarades, Greece

Participants were invited to start to walk as if to their homes, following as straight a line as possible. Prompts were given that predetermined stopping and reflective points based on Fibonacci sequences. As artists came from Australia, the USA, Greece and the UK, their routes led off in very different directions.

Soundwalkscape November

My rule for this project is to take a walk on the first Monday of each month in 2023, wherever I happen to be. This month I walked to and through MOMA- the Museum of Modern Art in New York. https://soundcloud.com/ivorringham/soundwalkscape-november

The Chain Coral Chorus

Dudley DY1, UK

The Chain Coral Chorus is a Geopoetic research project that explores the connections and clashes between walking, geology and place-identity, creating poems, essays and field notes inspired by and set in the UNESCO Black Country Geopark.

Walking the questions

A 40 day performative walk through northern Spain, wearing a business suit embroidered with other peoples’ question in order to live (into) them, listening to human and none-human beings, making connections, finding and creating new stories.

Orasaigh soundwalk (soft launch)

Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North Uist

2023-11-05 13:00

Boisdale, Isle of South Uist, UK

This 40-minute soundwalk combines readings of Ely’s poem Orasaigh with original compositions and soundscapes captured in surround sound that is mapped to a coastal walk around Boisdale and Orasaigh.

Walking with Toddlers

‘Walking with Toddlers’ is a comic audio play about the joys and frustrations of going for a walk with a young child, co-written and co-produced by Angie Belcher (writer, director, comedian, and facilitator) and Eleanor Rycroft (Senior Lecturer in Theatre and gender historian). It uses the juxtaposition of an idealised walk imagined via ‘Minarra’s Mindful Mummies Podcast’ and the reality of walking with a toddler, to consider how care-giving can create both obstructions and opportunities when trying to get from A to B.

Crossing the Limits Prespa / Grammos / Mytilene / Thermi / Sikinos / Marousi / Athens The 138 kilometers of Limits

Ijburg Print (see description), IJburglaan, Άμστερνταμ, Ολλανδία

For over four months I walked 138 kilometers in five different sites in Greece in an effort to discover the Greek Landscape in its totality and redefine it.

A Place to Return to

Arts Council of England

A 365 day walk around the whole of Britain, which connected with walking artists along the way.

Guided Walks in The Boreal Poetry Garden for School Children

Guided walks for school children in a patch of old-growth boreal forest in Newfoundland, Canada, with readings of site-specific poetry, followed by the children drawing memory maps of their walk.