exploring the role of sound and listening in natural and cultural environments
Northerly Island on Sept 6 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. The Singing Insects Monitoring Program is a citizen science effort to familiarize people with common sounds of singing insects in the Chicago region, including grasshoppers, cicadas, katydids, and crickets. Building on Dr. Carl Strang’s work …
Join blind artist, Andy Slater, in a sonic exploration of the North Park Village Nature Path. We will combine our own established listening skills with those intuitive to blind listeners. The soundwalk is at North Village Nature Center at 5801 N Pulaski Rd. on August …
Join us on Friday August 19th from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for a soundwalk with teaching artist Paige Alice Naylor. Participants will learn how to expand their ways of listening, focusing on dualities such as nature vs. city, microscopic vs. cosmic, personal vs. social, and often many at once.
Paige’s soundwalk will begin at the entrance of the West Ridge Nature Preserve at the intersection of N Western Ave and W Ardmore Ave.
Rain dates are August 20 from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and Sept 17 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.