WFoS Walk / Travelling Rhythms / Lisa Williams

Walking Festival of Soundis a transdisciplinary, nomadic event exploring the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. It combines a number of free events including walking performances, walking seminars, listening sessions, and artist talks which take place in diverse offline and online spaces. Walking Festival of Sound facilitates a meeting point for an international network of practitioners and researchers interested in sound and walking in an expanded context. Through diverse events we explore how walking and listening practices can augment and challenge the way we perceive, mediate, navigate through, and care for our shared environments. In 2019 the festival takes place in two cities, Stockholm and Newcastle. In 2021, the festival moved to Krakow and Edinburgh. In 2022, the event takes place in Seoul and Vancouver.Walking Festival of Sound was founded by Jacek Smolicki and Tim Shaw.

Walking Festival of Sound

Lisa Williams' walk through the history of a formerly enslaved woman from the Caribbean whose grave can be found in Central Edinburgh.

Focusing on a grave of a formerly enslaved woman from the Caribbean in Central Edinburgh, Lisa Williams will explore the importance of sound in conserving the memory and location of ancestral roots across continents and centuries of dislocation. Lisa Williams is the founder of the Edinburgh Caribbean Association and curates arts events and walking tours to promote the shared heritage between Scotland and the Caribbean. Lisa has a BA in African and Asian Studies, and an MA in Arts, Festival and Cultural Management. She is a Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and an Honorary Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. The walk, streamed as a video, will be followed by a q&amp;a session with Lisa.Walking Festival of Sound is a transdisciplinary event exploring the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. It combines a number of free and public events including walking performances and walking seminars. Walking Festival of Sound facilitates a meeting point for an international network of practitioners and researchers interested in sound and walking. Through diverse events we explore how walking and listening practices can augment and challenge the way we perceive, navigate through, and care for our shared environments.The Walking Festival of Sound 2021 is kindly funded by the European Cultural Foundation&#x27;s Culture of Solidarity Fund.The program of events is organised and curated by Jacek Smolicki and Tim Shaw.http://wfos.net/The event will take place on Zoom, a Zoom link will be sent to participants shortly before the beginning of the event.

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