Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme. Initiated in January 2024, WALC is set to run for four years. Between 2026 and 2027, Anima Loci will showcase the highlights of WALC’s physical activities.

Find out more about WALC on the official website: www.walctogether.eu
And on Instagram: @walctogether

Walking Art, of all contemporary art practices, has taken a pioneering role in recent years. It is an innovative process-based art form initiated by the most substantial need of human and non-human beings: to move, to migrate, to transfer themselves to another place.

With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia, and sets a new model for artists and organisations in community-based practices benefitting the rural and natural areas of all partners. WALC builds on the previous work of hundreds of artists and researchers in a shared network practicing Walking Arts as a collaborative medium, involving local inhabitants, engaging with local activists and nature workers, young artists, and curators, open for an international public.

Project Partners:
Visual March to Prespes, University of Western Macedonia (Leader, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Μακεδονίας, UOWM, Greece); walk · listen · create (WLC, Belgium); WalkLab2.PT at the University of Minho (UMINHO, Universidade do Minho, Portugal); Contemporary Art Center Nau Côclea (Centre de Creació Contemporània Nau Côclea, Catalonia, Spain); Association Temps Reel (Gigacircus, France); Action Synergy SA (AS, Greece); Stichting Van Biesen-Mestdagh (the Milena principle, Belgium – from 2026 onwards).

Associated Partners:
Creative Media for Social Change (Amsterdam UAS, Netherlands); ReRouting (Berlin, Germany); Björkö Konstnod (BKN, Sweden); Collettivo Amigdala (Modena, Italy); Australian Walking Artists (affiliate); Anima Loci (media partner).