[Commlist] Walking Festival of Sound 2021 / April 5-25

Jacek Smolicki and Tim Shaw are delighted to extend this invitation to 
the Walking Festival of Sound 2021.

The event kicks off on Monday, *April 5*, 5pm and will go on until 
Sunday, *April 25*. The link to the opening event follows below.

*Walking Festival of Sound* is a transdisciplinary event and a meeting 
point for the 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. In 
2019 the festival took place in two cities, Stockholm, Sweden and 
Newcastle upon Tyne, the UK. In April 2021, the festival is moving to 
Kraków and Edinburgh, places historically bound by a twin town partnership.

This year's theme revolves around the notion of solidarity. Thus, we 
hope to explore how attentive listening and walking can be practiced as 
forms of solidarity between generations, cultures, and species. Among 
numerous conceptual, historical, and spatial avenues, during WFoS 2021 
we will walk through the history of slavery in Edinburgh, traverse 
soundscapes of borders, give hearing to ecotones outside a zoological 
garden, travel though the vanishing soundscapes of the Arctic, let 
tinnitus rewire our perception, and challenge our humanly routines 
through active, ecological, and unanticipated listening assignments.

Due to the pandemic, most of the events will take place online.The full 
program and links to free registration can be found on *www.wfos.net 
<http://www.wfos.net/>*.


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