New York City is the most polyglot city in the world – more than 800 languages are spoken here. With the Transletting Walk, we celebrate this richness and explore what happens when translation leaves the page and enters the street.

The walk begins at 3:30pm at Literary Walk in Central Park (meet by the Shakespeare statue) and moves through Central Park and Riverside Park: readers read aloud in many languages – often at the same time – and participants are invited to join in. Translation can happen across or within languages. You can read along, translate, or simply listen and drift alongside. Feel free to bring your own texts – the walk is porous by design.

At 6:00pm the event continues at Columbia University's Casa Hispánica (612 W. 116th Street, New York, NY 10027) with a mix of short prepared pieces, collective translation prompts, and an open stage where results from the walk (or other texts participants bring) can be shared.