Women Walking the City at Night – a collective drift under the Full Moon.
This annual, world-wide walk is the creation of Eleonore Ozanne and 2024 was the third year that she hosted it. Ours was the first such in Edinburgh and we walked together on Wednesday 18 September 2024 from Haymarket Station to the Meadows, Edinburgh with the moon in the lead.
Women walking the city at night, Edinburgh 2024
The 2025 walk will take place on 6 October in Utrecht, the Netherlands (Ienke Kastelein), Sydney, Australia (Molly Wagner), London, England (Clare Qualman), Camallera, Cataluña (Clare Garí), Edinburgh, Scotland (Clunie Phipps and Dawn Oei), and Stroud (Tamsin Grainger).
This is a performative action that takes the form of a collective walk among women*. It takes place simultaneously in various cities around the world under the light of the Harvest Moon — the brightest full moon of the year.
With the desire to go for a real walk, we meet at a designated spot and walk following the moon’s trajectory. Since 2021, we have held this walk each year. The total duration of all the walks combined spans approximately 24 hours, following the time zones from Australia to Mexico. It is an aesthetic, relational and political experience that allows us to walk together, at night, in the same direction — despite the distance.
After the Women walking the city at night Edinburgh walk 2024
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* This project does not seek to reinforce a binary view of gender. We understand “woman” as anyone whose body, story or experience resonates with this proposal.