The Singing Insects Monitoring Program is a community 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 documenting the many species within these four types across 22 …

Tune In, Take Turns is an all-ages soundwalk that starts with “ear cleaning” and grounding exercises, followed by a soundwalk/treasure hunt in one of Jens Jensen’s iconic Chicago parks. Participants will engage in yawning and vocal exercises, make joyful noises with choral call-and-response singing, and …

Join Sara Zalek & Norman Long for a soundwalk along Big Marsh’s expansive and recovering landscape/soundscape. The artists write, “As a silent mass, diverse and in solidarity, we listen out for and to the layers of sounds most often tuned out or discounted, points of …