Annemarie Lopez visits her local supermarket and reflects on unheroic everyday walking. Early in Robert Altman’s film The Long Goodbye, Elliott Gould’s detective Marlowe goes to the supermarket at three in the morning to buy food for his cat. Under humming fluorescent light, he saunters, squinting at shelves stacked with tins, trying to find his

I’ve been practicing mindfulness in a small way since the beginning of January, mostly by practicing guided walking meditation, and I realize I’m at the very beginning of understanding it. I’ve learned from those guided meditations, and from podcasts, but I haven’t read much about it, and since reading is the primary way I take … Continue reading 50. Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step →

Dear Friend, Reaching out to you… I am writing to extend my immense gratitude for your support of Anabella Lenzu/ DanceDrama over these last 19 years! 2026 will mark the 20th Anniversary of ALDD, and we need your help to keep going for the next 20 years!!! 2025 was full of amazing accomplishments and challenges: […]

Why walking mattersby Jenni Wiggle BEM, Vice-President of Living Streets AotearoaLike others in the walking world, I often find myself in conversation with people who have recently come to realise the role of walking in our everyday lives. For many, th...

Karen Solie’s Wellwater arrived last week, before it won the Governor-General’s Award, and its ascension (not the first accolade Solie’s writing has received) prompted me to bring it along to read on the train. It’s astonishing, so much so that I don’t know what to say about it. My first reading, against the sound of … Continue reading 49. Karen Solie, Wellwater →

Stroudwater 1825 and Gloucester 2025 The spring and summer two hundred years ago Saw a sustained strike by the Stroudwater weavers To protect their standard of living In the face of wage cuts and price rises. Two hundred years later, in Gloucester, Phl...

Tamsin Grainger speaking and showing new work as part of the Winter Lecture series of the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust on November 12th 2025 at Ruddles Court, Edinburgh, 6pm. ...

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Please join us for a community walk along the coast from Wardie Bay to Granton / Royston (the ‘Brick’) Beach to search for flat oyster shells on Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Date: 30 November 2025. Time: 2-3.30pm (14.00 – 15.30). Meet: Wardie Bay, Granton, Edinburgh. Ending: walk to Granton (Brick) Beach and The Pitt. … Continue reading Remembrance Day for Lost Species 2025

Together with Jalan Gembira and Kunci Study Forum & Collective, we're hosting a Dérive app walkshop in Yogjakarta, on November 29, with an introductory online session on November 22.

In Los Pasos de Mama Killa Amanda Gutiérrez explores the collective meaning of agency at night, presenting the nighttime as a communal and relational space grounded in mutual care. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Amanda discusses her work. Los Pasos de Mama Killa (The Steps of Mama Killa) was

Radhika Subramaniam is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School in New York City where she was also the first Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center from 2009 to 2017. With an interdisciplinary practice as curator and writer, she explore

Source: A Canvas That Walks: Pietas Coalition Turns Art into Armor for South Carolina’s Children

As a creative, there’s nothing quite like finding your tribe. ’Tribe’ is that over-used term for a group of like-minds, whose values and interests align with yours — a community of interest. For me, finding that community took years. I was probably try...

I missed the launch of my friend Kim Fahner’s new book, The Pollination Field, this past week, so I slid a copy into my carry-on bag to read on the flight to Ontario. It’s a book about bees, although other insects, including wasps, monarch butterflies, and especially dragonflies, also make appearances. Sometimes the bees are … Continue reading 48. Kim Fahner, The Pollination Field →

Holloway has been on my shelf for years. Like Simon Armitage’s Blossomise, it’s a chapbook, more or less, published by Faber and Faber, with illustrations by Stanley Donwood. Its brevity, and the thought that it would fit into my carry-on bag on this trip to Ontario, prompted me to bring it with me. A holloway … Continue reading 47. Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards, Holloway →

I started reading Victoria Hetherington’s The Friend Machine: On the Trail of AI Companionship, the day I heard about the chatbot Grok, installed in an Ontario woman’s Tesla, asking a child to send it nudes. Since the public debut of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative AI has been the bane of my teaching; so many … Continue reading 46. Victoria Hetherington, The Friend Machine: On the Trail of AI Companionship →

Walking matters: we need to create and support walkable communities 7 November, 2025 Participants at the 2025 Living Streets Aotearoa Walking Summit, held on Thursday 6 November, have called for action to create and support walkable communities. In wal...

From 28 July to 5 August 2025, Project AfDevLives organized Sound–Place–Storytelling, a training workshop on sound-based approaches to qualitative research.

We are delighted to announce the Long listed entries in our annual Write About Walking writing competition that this year, had a theme of “Walking In The Dark” in support of the global action “Women walking, the City, at Night“. This is the fifth year in which we have run a Write About Walking poetry

Radhika Subramaniam is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School in New York City where she was also the first Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center from 2009 to 2017. With an interdisciplinary practice as curator and writer, she explore

Excited to produce this zine of buckthorn ink research. It’s an 8-pager color laser printed on U.S. legal sized paper, with a full interior illustration when unfolded. It’s a free digital download (so you can print a ton and hand out to all your friends or stick them in free little libraries). If you want […]