Fish Creek Provincial Park Soundwalks with Chad Eastman

This season we’re introducing a two-year soundwalk residency program in partnership with the Friends of Fish Creek Provincial Park Society.  Our first selected artist for this residency program is artist-educator Chad Eastman, who will be in-residence at Fish Creek Park for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 New Works Calgary seasons.  We were impressed with Chad’s 2024-2025 seasonal soundwalk series at Fish Creek Park, wherein he explored the changing characteristics of acoustic seasonality amidst climate change.  We’re thrilled to support Chad’s ongoing research into acoustic ecology and place-based education. We’re excited to partner with the Friends of Fish Creek Park to offer Chad a research-creation residency, as well as a supported 8-walk series!

Chad Eastman (He/Him) is an artist, outdoor educator, and wilderness guide located in Moh'kinsstis. He is interested in aesthetic approaches to environmental education and employs soundwalking as a research methodology. Chad is passionate about thinking and moving with land to explore the boundaries of mind and body.

For this series, I will be leading 8 soundwalks which guide participants through embodied experiences of soundwalking as transformative for self, society, and spirit. Themes include soundwalking as: emotional regulation and mindfulness practice, acts of political resistance, and religious or spiritual experience. For each theme we will investigate what role listening and walking play separately and together, as the two collaborating elements of soundwalking. The Anthropocene impacts already present in Fish Creek form the context for the themes of this series: How does listening help us regulate the climate? Where does soundwalking fall in the history and present of walking as resistance? What role does spirituality have in (acoustic) conservation? For those more interested in listening than talking, there will be two soundwalks in which participants will be invited to fully immerse themselves in the listening/walking experience, resisting the temptation to fill the soundscape with conversation, for the entire duration of the walk. Think of it as a mini silent/moving meditation. I hope you will join me for a walk in the coming months. - Chad Eastman

Guided soundwalks will take place November 2025 through June 2026, on the third Sunday of each month.  The locations within Fish Creek Park will change, but each walk will be in the park.  Unlike previous seasons, the time of each walk may vary through this series.  We're looking forward to some special offerings from Chad at different times of day!  We’ll update times and locations as we confirm them.

Our scheduled walk dates so far are:   

November 16th 2025 - Bebo Grove 2PM: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BDuZBt5FK3kwUHmw5?g_st=ipc

December 21st 2025 - Bebo Grove 2PM: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BDuZBt5FK3kwUHmw5?g_st=ipc

January 18th 2026 - Votier's Flats 2PM: https://maps.app.goo.gl/pPnYadpua2q9kKVV8  

February 15th 2026 - Visitor Centre 2PM: https://maps.app.goo.gl/VBwCFgRCzK7XcMW67

March 22nd 2026 (scheduled for the 4th Sunday of the month due to March 15th concert) - Hull's Wood (meet in parking lot): https://maps.app.goo.gl/hE3DNJV9mHbbwoXy6 

April 19th 2026 - Shannon Terrace 2PM:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/LPtpZsPBw8qsgiuv8

May 17th 2026

June 21st 2026