We frequently walk with the sole purpose of getting from one place to another.
But where are we in between?
With each step we feel the miracle of walking on Mother Earth
With each step there is the potential to be present
“We can arrive in the present moment with every step”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Join me as we walk together, experience and connect to the present moment.
walk · listen · create hosts walk · listen · café, at least once a month online meeting for creatives in the fields of walking and sound art. Every ‘café’ lasts between 1 and 2 hours, is headed by an expert introducing a particular topic, and followed by an open discussion on the topic at hand.
Online meetings are hosted through BlueJeans or similar. Participants will be sent the meeting URL shortly before the event kicks off.
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Creative thinking, meditative walking and mindfulness through movement
Walking brings many benefits including helping people to ‘clear their heads’ and take time to think, contemplate and meditate. Andrew Stuck at the Museum of Walking has been bringing together the skills of experts in creativity, meditation, mindfulness and yoga practice, and applying these to our own walking practice. Working with Mel Sutton, homeopath, yoga teacher,
• Libraries as Gardens – sound walk in Athens
The National Garden of Athens hosts an interactive audio project featuring global participants sharing stories and readings about their favorite public gardens during the pandemic, accessible via a mobile webapp or desktop map. This evolving sound walk includes lockdown silence recordings and aims to create a geolocated audio archive of personal and public garden experiences before, during, and after COVID-19.
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‘Don’t walk to your tune, walk carefully’
Indian city dweller Samprati Pani draws on her walking practices as an anthropologist interested in the making of public places in the city. Through an ethnography of walking practices performed in the bazaars of Delhi, the talk will illustrate how walking in the bazaar, even for a solitary walker, is a social activity because its rhythm and pace is continuously modulated in relation to others and the materiality of the place.
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