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Drinking with Jean-Paul Sartre in Le Havre. Following Colette across southern beaches. Wandering through Breton forests, Alpine foothills and the banlieues of Paris, Peter Fiennes has done it all. Peter is a guest on our Writers’ Salon later this month to talk about En Route - his literary journey around France, in the company of some of its greatest writers and artists. Part travel memoir, part cultural history, part wandering conversation about place. Join us en route... 🇫🇷 19 May Details: https://wlc.zone/ab0

Walking Art and Resistance at the 61st Venice Biennale: from Pussy Riot to the Holy See LINK https://wlc.zone/au7

In association with the Urban Tree Festival, we’re delighted to welcome award-winning photographer and long-time walk · listen · create supporter Marlene Creates to our next café conversation. Broadcasting from her six-acre old-growth boreal forest home in Newfoundland, Marlene will reflect on 24 years of working with this landscape, including her long-term series photographing native trees over nearly two decades. A conversation on walking, attention, ecology, and what it means to truly know a place. Also broadcast at the Urban Tree Festival hub at New Cross Gallery, south London. Date: 11 May, 19:00UK Details: https://wlc.zone/93t Image details: Pair of excerpts from the series Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland 2007–2026, 11 years between photographs of my hand on the same tree. Credit: Marlene Creates

Worn out? Wear in. Wearing away. When we walk, we leave things behind, and we wear things away. Join my and my eroded soles at a writing workshop with @walklistencreate on 8th June and get into your own groove.

I’m in Spain for another Walking Art Conference! The @walking.assembly begins in Girona on 9 May. I’m thrilled to be part of this again. And excited to reunite with friends. I made a stopover in Madrid where I went on a fabulous and informative walking tour of the old city. Then spent the rainy afternoon wandering the many, many rooms of the Prado. Today I make my way to Girona by train. Whose life is this that I’m living? 👣🎨🇪🇸

We’re looking for speakers 🌿 After Episode 1 on mental health and Episode 2 on physical health, we’re continuing our Walking & Health series with a focus on emotional health. In a time that feels increasingly uncertain, we want to open space for emotions that are often labeled as “negative.” Even within these, some are more socially accepted than others. Walking with grief, for example, is deeply embedded in many cultures — think of collective mourning and funeral processions. But what about walking with anger? Is protest the only form it takes? What other ways can we walk with anger, alone or together? And what might emerge from it? If this resonates with your practice, we’d love to hear from you. DM us to tell us about your work and you may be invited to join our panel. Each session brings together 4 speakers, with equal time to share, followed by an open discussion. Photo by Fred Adams @fredadam during our second meeting in Gaasbeek, Belgium.

Over 65 walks have taken place worldwide since 3 April – answering a shared invitation to walk in solidarity with communities along the Lebanon Mountain Trail. Thank you for walking, sharing, and carrying stories from Lebanon communities forward. Pictured walks: 🇫🇷 In Die, France, 30 people across four generations walked side by side – reflecting on migratory birds connecting Lebanon and France, and the freedom of movement they represent – organised by Azul Thomé 🇱🇧 In Lebanon, hikers from France, Belgium and Lebanon explored the Jaj Nature Reserve – part of the @lebanontrail network 🇪🇸 In Madrid’s Sierra de Guadarrama, Javi Gras led a walk asking: What is sacred? Where are we going? 🇮🇹 In Verona, Annalise Mercuri walked along the River Adige, creating cyanotypes along the way 🇨🇦 In Toronto, 59 Canadian Friends of the Lebanon Mountain Trail walked the Yellow Creek Trail, organised by Wafaa El-Osta 🇹🇷 In Turkey, over five days, artists, walkers and storytellers walked the Lycian Way, tracing ancient paths → Walk with Lebanon: Mountains of Hope 3 April – 3 May 2026 Wherever you are, you’re invited to walk alongside us. 🔗 Sign up via the link in bio #MountainsOfHope #WalkWithLebanon #LebanonMountainTrail #GlobalSolidarity #WalkingTogether Kinetika LMTA WorldTrailsNetwork

Taking the right PATH

WALC Course Session 6: Walking and Community-Based Practices Join us on April 25 at 09:30am CEST for a WALC course session dedicated to walking and community-based practices. We will be joined by Claudia Zeiske @claudiazeiske (artist/curator), Anna Viola Hallberg @a_n_n_a__v_i_o_l_a (artist/curator), and Janice Jensen @janicejensen_ (artist), who will share insights into their practices. The session will include a collective walking exercise designed to deepen our connection with our own communities. Annemarie Lopez from @walklistencreate will close the session. Webinar link: https://supercluster.eu/webinar/

Eleven days until I return to Spain and Catalonia for another fabulous gathering of walking artists. This year is a combined Walking Confluence/Assembly in Salt and along the Muga River. I’m excited to walk with friends, many I know and new friends. Fingers crossed flights are still happening! Walking to Girona from Sydney would take months 😅

Pilgrimage is no longer defined by faith alone or even fixed routes - new paths are being shaped by artists, communities and those responding to urgent social and environmental questions. In this third event in our Pilgrimage series with the World Trails Network, we explore faith-based, radical and community-led paths - where walking becomes a way of drawing attention to contested sites, reimagining tradition, and creating meaning in the present. Hosted by @loraaziz_ and Annemarie Lopez (walk · listen · create), the panel brings together trail leaders, thinkers and artists including Conchita Espino @elcaminodecostarica (Camino de Costa Rica), Matthew R. Anderson @mramontreal (The Good Walk), and Jane Sharkey @jsharkeyo2 (Lundy Pilgrimage Trail). May 5: Online Times & details: https://wlc.zone/a42 Image: Courtesy of Camino de Costa Rica /discover/nature/

Today I went for a BIG walk in the Land bounded by a perimeter I create with my regular walks and runs. Today’s walk was to map, in various ways, as many of the streets and footpaths I could walk. I used Strava, a printed map of my Perimeter and occasionally Google maps to orient myself. These maps will be part of what I exhibit in ‘Walking Art Now,’ @auswalkingartists upcoming exhibition at the Gympie Regional Gallery in July. This is part of my year long project, ‘Close Encounters of a Pedestrian Kind’ that I’m doing with several artists of the @walking_theland collective. I walked 27.73 kms in 6 hours and 14 minutes. It was a long urban walk and a most satisfying way to spend the day.