World Listening Day

This month we celebrate the annual World Listening Day with Acoustic Ecologists and other curious people all over the globe. The theme this year is “Sounds: lost & found”. Below is information about the two free events we are curating on

Soundwalks & Poetry Creation

1-3pm at Mountain Fold Books
facilitated by Mary Jane Sullivan & Jane Rigler
121 E. Costilla St, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
(719) 375-3378
http://www.mountainfoldbooks.org

Concert & Environmental Sound Exploration
6pm-8pm Heller Center for the Arts & Humanities
with Mark Harris (sax), Bob Marsh (cellos & other sounding objects), Jane Rigler (flutes), Ben Wright (contrabass)
$10 donation for the musicians are warmly accepted
1250 North Campus Heights, Colorado Springs, CO 80918
http://www.uccs.edu/~heller/

World Listening Day is a global event simultaneously taking place in hundreds of cities, including ours at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. On July 17th we contemplate our landscape and city which contains secrets waiting to be listened to and imagined by all of us who call Colorado Springs home.

World Listening Day in Colorado Springs will be a joyful and contemplative discovery for our community. We will join in these global activities through collaborative soundwalks, creative writing and an evening concert that invites us to collectively align the body, mind and our senses to open dialogues about sounds lost and found. Each one of us thus becomes a chord of sound, an echo of peacefulness that reverberates world-wide in how we relate to each other.

For more information: jrigler@uccs.edu
For more information about World Listening Day: http://www.worldlisteningproject.org