Women walking, the city, at night 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 full moon.

Organised by Spanish artist Eléonore Ozanne, with local coordination in each participating city, the walk has been held every year since 2021 with it's duration spanning approximately 24 hours across different time zones. This is the first year a group has been created in Aotearoa.

With a desire to go for a real walk, we meet at a designated spot and walk following the moon's trajectory. It's an aesthetic, relational and political experience that allows us to walk together, at night, in the same direction - despite the distance.

This project emerges from a desire to question and transform our relationship with public space a night. We walk through the city after dark to experience - through the body - what it means to inhabit urban space as a woman at that time. We do it poetically and collectively, with the hope that one day night walking will be so normalised that this action will no longer be necessary. Until then, walking becomes an artistic and political practice: we move in order to imagine, to inhabit, and to transform.

Year after year, we weave a network - an intentional community of women* walking together under the same moon, connected across different contexts, respecting each singularity, yet united by a shared desire: to think through the body, to generate presence, and to transform fear into possibility.

*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.
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