worldwide walks
in new york city
The Walk Exchange organizes free public walks in New York City and beyond. In collaboration with walkers around the world, we use the local practice of walking to create global communities. Designed by artists, activists and academics, each walk provides unique insights into the places and people around us.
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Join our next walk: 5 May in NYC.
Manchester and NYC: A Walk in two Quays
This Sunday, The Walk Exchange will join the Loiterer’s Resistance Movement (LRM), England’s longest running group dedicated to psychogeography, for a simultaneous wander in New York City and Manchester, UK. Since 2006, The LRM has been gathering the first Sunday of every month for “some kind of communal wander, public dérive, or drift”; in May we will join them. Starting at two different quays, Salford Quays and Quay Tower in Brooklyn Heights, the walks will explore the different riverfronts, while looking to “uncover hidden histories and discover the extraordinary in the mundane” and engage with pertinent questions about urban development, rights of access and ways of changing our engagement with the urban landscape. Connected through a shared WhatsApp Group, the walk will consider the things that connect us at a distance while also digging in to the particularities of our local walking experience.
The walk is free and open to all. We will be deciding the route together and will work as a collective to make the walk accessible to everyone who joins.
Date: 5 May
Starting Location NYC: Quay Tower, Brooklyn Heights, New York City (50 Bridge Park Dr, Brooklyn, NY 11201)
Time: 10 AM, EDT
Length: 90-120 minutes.
Cost: Free!
For More Information: blakemwalks@gmail.com
2023/24 PARTNER ARTISTS
Walking Across the Pond
The Walk Exchange’s 2023/24 season features of a series of exchanges with walkers “across the pond”. Through collaborations with artists in London (the demolition project), Birmingham (Walkspace) and Manchester (The Loiterer’s Resistance Movement), we will create links between New York City and creative walking practices happening in England.
Check out our upcoming walks to see how you can join us.
WSTC 5 in London
WALK STUDY TRAINING COURSE
six weeks of reading about walking and walking about reading.
WALK STUDY TRAINING COURSE 7 – Spring 2024
More details coming soon!