Activities
events history
May 21, 2026
Walking experiment for "la Fête de l'Hospitalité"
“Preparation for the walk in the village of Villefagnan for the Hospitality Festival on May 30, 2026. Performance enhanced by the remote presence of Mexican artist Gustavo Alvarez.”
February 02, 2026
Presentation and performance "En busca del Yo"
WALC Confluence 12 – 1- WALC course program presentation – 2- El laboratorio, a Migrating voices Franco-Chilean-Mexican exploration
October - December 2025
Laboratorio "En busca del Yo" Online creation with the artist and performer Gustavo Alvarez.
The constellation of Gigacircus artists composed by Sylvie Marchand, Lionel Camburet, Claudia Urrutia and Fred Adam are brainstorming and learning performance techniques with the artist performer Gustavo Alvarez. A series of live connections took place between Villefagnan in France and Mexico. The artists are exploring how to reveal and share our inner gifts and discover how we can represent the mind and the body at a distance with live video conferencing. This knowledge and practice will be applied during the upcoming Migrating Voices fusions in 2026.
October 13 2025
Workshop with the artist Sophie Lopez
A group of exiled people from several nationalities gathered together at the Théâtre de la Canopée in Ruffec for a workshop driven by the artist Sophie Lopez. During the different sessions they explored and shared a sense of belonging and expresed the richness we can bring from every culture. This moment of sharing was materialised by a collaborative drawing, a cartography of appreciation for each other and the planet.
October 7 - 12 2025
Residence of Claudia Urrutia, Chilean artist
During the month of October, Claudia Urrutia was in residence at the Gigacircus creative space in Villefagnan. The “Atelier Le Corps Sonore” was a fruitful dialogue with Sylvie Marchand, Lionel Camburet and Qudratullha Hassanzada. Together they explored online and by the walk how to expand Claudia’s performance in the context of the Migrating Voices WALC project. Sylvie and Lionel are preparing an upcoming fusion with Claudia for May 2026 to expand the concept of multicultural metaspace without borders by bringing her art practice.
June 30 - July 6 2025
Opus # 4, Walking for life
First you listen to « migrants » those who, now, today, close by, are fleeing on foot—from war, from famine, from climate collapse. « The volunteers » are walking with them from dawn to dusk, carrying water across deserts, offering care, and keeping hope alive. Then you participate in a circular walking ritual bringing symbolic hope and resilience. In this final sequence, the performer's footsteps punctuate a poet's words. A poem is born from walking.
February 3-10 2025
WALC training residence 03
Adaptation of the Bivouac for the Prespa encounters summer 2025. A polyphonic, immersive and connected setup driven by the walkers
Ocober 16 2024
a borderless inspiration for peace
WALKING WITH MIGRATING BIRDS a presentation from Fred Adam
September 14 2024
Fusion 02 event
PUBLIC WORKSHOP SHOWCASE Performance-projection, Concert, Shared Meal.
September 09 - 16 2024
WALC creation residence 02
"ARTS DE LA MARCHE: At the borders of Europe, on the Balkan Route."
19 May 2024
Fusion 01 event
PUBLIC WORKSHOP SHOWCASE Performance-projection, Concert, Shared Meal.
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Archive
MIGRATING VOICES FRENCH
Download the PDF. A conceptual and artistic view by Sylvie Marchand.
MIGRATING VOICES ENGLISH
Download the PDF. A conceptual and artistic view by Sylvie Marchand.
YUMARI FRENCH
Download the PDF Tarahumara ritual art at the heart of ecological and political issues
visit the partners website walctogether.eu
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe, starting in January 2024 for four years. 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, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts.
WALC – a new future of walking arts
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