Baltic Circle Festival: Women Walk at Midnight
Schedule
Sat, 22 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 pm to Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 01:00 am
UTC+02:00Location
Harjun Ruumishuone | Helsinki, ES
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Women Walk at Midnight is a global practice of women walking, together, at night on the streets of their cities. The practice was initiated in New Delhi in 2016 and has since travelled to many parts of the world. On November 22nd, as part of the Baltic Circle 2025 program, Mallika Taneja, along with partners from Helsinki, invites women from the city to join on the first walk of this practice in Helsinki.An hour before the walk begins, we will gather at the Harju Morgue for a brief prelude of tea, snacks, and conversation. This open-to-all gathering is a chance to warm our minds and bodies before setting out into the night. Please note that the walk itself is intended primarily for women, trans, and nonbinary participants.
Since 2016, the practice of Women Walk at Midnight has evolved, grown, learnt, fallen on its face and picked itself up again. It has insisted on presenting itself on the streets of different cities – sometimes failing but often succeeding. Over the years, a loose community of walkers and hosts has emerged, often convening around a midnight walk to think, feel, and breathe together.
The politics of walking and the need for it, especially at night, was inspired and informed deeply by the active conversation around women’s safety and lack of by Maya Krishna Rao’s theatre piece Walk, created in the wake of the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder of 2012. In her words: “in the day, at midnight or at 3 in the morning, I [we] will walk.”
Fill out the registration form below to join and stay updated: forms.gle/f8D47tk29PqXhBLMA
Read more: www.balticcircle.fi/en/ohjelmisto/women-walk-at-midnight-eng
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Where is it happening?
Harjun Ruumishuone, Helsinki, FinlandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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