sound walks
Walking Memories: Satsymph
Easy to use sound walk, downloadable App for mobile phones

As you arrive at a series of familiar and surprising locations you will hear voices and sounds conjuring impressions and stories of life and work in Frome.  This compelling sound walk is based on the oral histories collected by Home in Frome over the last 10 years.  

Paper map available from 
Discover Frome, Frome Town Council and The Round Tower Black Swan Arts ​
FREE
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The Emma Sheppard Walk: Poetry in Motion
An easy paced, 3 mile guided walk by Frome collective Poetry in Motion
​'Small deeds of kindness' : Poverty and welfare in Victorian Frome
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Starting at Fromefield House, ending at Emma's Sheppard’s newly restored grave at Trinity Churchyard. With stops and refreshments along the way. 
Illustrated with talks by John Payne about the 1834 Poor Law Reform act, Liz Corfield on the Workhouse, Crysse Morrison and Nick Hersey on Emma Sheppard. With a feast of stories including extracts from Emma's incredibly important Victorian bestseller book ‘Sunshine in the workhouse‘ 
Children welcome; also dogs if kept on a lead.
Saturday 31 August
Start ​10am
​FREE 
Limited numbers
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​Booking essential
Sound Walk Sunday 
An international project bringing together sound walks and sound walkers from across the globe.  Sound Walk Sunday 2019 will be hosted in Frome by LISTEN. Andrew Stuck from SWS and Geert Vermeire from Made of Walking will join us for the day to walk, talk and listen.
Underneath the Arches: Nick Sorenson
A soundwalk along the Kennett and Avon canal from The Holburne Museum, Bath to Avoncliff Aqueduct by saxophonist Nick Sorensen.
He will perform an improvisation underneath the arches of the bridges, tunnels and aqueducts along the route, responding to the specific acoustics of each of the sites.
The walk will commence at 10am on 1 September 2019 at the front of the Holburne Museum.
Utopia a drift for dancers and silent walkers: Geert Vermeire 
A silent walking and movement performance directed by Geert Vermeire.  Utopia is a  performative silent walk, adapted to each place and shaped by the participating dancers/walkers, and organized since 2016 in Braga (Portugal), Brasilia, New York, Queens, Brussels, Ypres, Athens and Nicosia.
The walk is accompanied by a Utopia soundscape, ‘Hythlodaeus 2015’. 
This will be available in the Listening Hub, Black Swan Arts, Round Tower Gallery,  10am - 3pm on Sound Walks Sunday 1 September 2019.
Sound walking today: Listening in between lines of past and future.
Mini Symposium.
Looking back over LISTEN , a summer season of sound, on its final day, and looking forward with Sound Walk Sunday on its first day in September 2019, Sound Walk Sunday co-producers Andrew Stuck (Museum of Walking), Geert Vermeire (Made of Walking) and LISTEN-curator Helen Ottaway lead a round table discussion about contemporary topics related to sound walking today.  If you would like to participate in the mini symposium, please email listenblackswan@gmail.com with a sentence each on who you are and why you want to participate.
Sunday 1 September 
​FREE 
10am - 12noon
2-3pm
3.15 - 5.15pm