Following an intense period of collecting people’s smiles in London at Hide and Seek and last weekend in Manchester at Hazard Festival, we are in the process of compiling all of our documentation which we will be adding to this site soon. We will also be working on developing this project over the rest of the summer.

We will be up in Manchester on 17th July 2010 running Walking Smiles at Hazard – a biennial festival of intervention and sited performance offering strange occurrences in unexpected places.

Stationed in the Manchester Arndale Centre – we will send out a ‘army’ of smilers who have one hour to go out into the city to see if they can raise the temperature by trying to solicit smiles from strangers. These smiles then get mapped in real time, creating a handmade visualization of the intervention.

Walking Smiles is part of the Larkin’ About programme – a mircofestival within a festival!