Earlier in the year, on our sister walk · listen · create website, we ran a writing competition in which we asked people to submit poetry and prose of 250 words or under the theme of the “Walking Home” – the theme was chosen by our writers-in-residence Lydia Kennaway and Claudia Zeiske and we had […]
Back in autumn 2016 we collaborated with NG Bristow and Ian Thompson to create a monthly Sound Salon inviting anyone interested in composing sound walks and outdoor sound pieces: one month we met at the Mitre in Greenwich, the second month we tried to do some field recording, and the third month we would join […]
This week the winners and honourable mentions in the Sound Walk September 2021 Awards were announced. Chosen by a jury made up of Advisory Board members, from the shortlist of 13 pieces they whittled it down to two winners and two honourable mentions. The winners of the 2021 Sound Walk September Awards are both based […]
We don’t usually publish a review of the year but 2020 was somewhat exceptional for everybody including the Museum of Walking. We began the year with great hopes and a desire to broaden our offer over each season. We are not usually out and about in the winter months because the weather is inclement and […]
Next month sees the launch of Shorelines, a collaborative project, focussed on the dividing line between land and water, hosted on our sister site Walk Listen Create. We invite new writing to be submitted, and in turn, for these works to be read aloud and recorded. This is our tentative first step towards encouraging writing and […]
Back in February when we began planning Sound Walk Sunday, (Sunday 1 September) little did we envisage how it would grow in popularity, although we did consider defining the Festival period as a few days either side of Sunday 1 September. By June, with an invitation from the British Library to run an event on […]
