Sound Travels host two World Listening Day Events
Sound Travels, the project that led ReSounding Success to celebrate NSF’s 75th Anniversary, is hosting a two events to celebrate World Listening Day.
World Listening Day Tune Up, July 10 at 3pm ET
The World Listening Day Tune Up is for educators, exhibit designers, and community leaders with an interest in increasing listening among our various audiences. Listening well seems in short supply. World Listening Day is an opportunity to re-set, renew our efforts to curate sound experiences, and celebrate the beauty of soundscapes within our reach and of our own and others’ making.
Martha Merson and special guests will host this session on zoom with resources, inspiration, and a preview screening of “When I Think About Sound,” a documentary film in process featuring musicians, artists, and educators who appreciate and shape sound for public audiences. Amanda McCluskey, a 2025 SIM graduate will facilitate a panel of special guests including artist and designer of ListentoWaves, Victor Minces, and Anchorage Museum senior educator, Erin Marbarger, as well as Mass Art recent graduate, Isabella Febbroriello, sound sculptor and instrument maker.
World Listening Day Soundwalk, July 17 at 7:30pm ET
Ice cream truck bells? The hum of a mosquito? Fireworks? What are the sounds of summer for you?
Join us for a soundwalk on Thursday evening, July 17. Local educators and artists will lead the walk, as we tune in to natural and community-made sounds to mark World Listening Day (officially celebrated on July 18). Listening deeply feels rare and risky. World Listening Day is an opportunity to re-set, to celebrate the beauty of soundscapes within our reach.
We’ll discuss some of the sounds that make us nostalgic for past summers and what we hope our neighborhood sounds like in the coming years and how we can move toward a soundscape that feels vibrant and yet soothing.
Details
- Place: Jamaica Plain, MA
- Walk Distance: 1.5-2 miles on paved surfaces
- All ages welcome with children 10 and younger accompanied by a parent or teen