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Listening Pasts – Listening Futures: World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Conference
March 23 - March 26

The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and Atlantic Center for the Arts present a week of environmental sound events featuring the 30th WFAE conference: Listening Pasts – Listening Futures, its first hybrid virtual and in-person international conference since 2011 and the first conference of its kind in the United States of America. Acoustic ecology, also called soundscape studies, is a discipline that studies the relationship, mediated through sound, between human beings and their environment.
This partnership supports the work of ACA in sound art, bringing global attention to its current programs, including the 5th Soundscape Field Station artist residency at Canaveral National Seashore in February, the Young Sound Seekers program that is supported by the National Park Service in partnership with Stetson University and teens from the Conklin Davis Center for the Visually Impaired and Blind, and the long-standing Soundwalk series.
Listening Pasts – Listening Futures features keynote presentations by author of Sounds Wild and Broken, David George Haskell (UK/USA); radio host and former advisor to the Canada Council for the Arts, Claude Schryer (Canada); and sound artist/professor Amanda Gutiérrez (Mexico/Canada) of Concordia University. We know acoustic ecology and soundscape studies have much to offer the world with a pivotal environmental awakening and invite you to join us to learn more about this important work.
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- Community workshops by Atlantic Center for the Arts, open to everyone (FREE)
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– March 19: Soundwalk with Lady Eve at Doris Leeper Spruce Creek Preserve (Martin Dairy Rd. entrance)
– March 20: The Lucky Trikes children’s storytime at New Smyrna Beach Regional Public Library
– March 21: Sound & Story with Perri Lynch Howard at ACA Harris House
– March 22: Sound Art Installation & Soundwalk with Jacek Smolicki at ACA Main Campus - World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Conference at ACA Main Campus, 1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, FL
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– March 23-26: Conference Day Pass REGISTRATION via the WFAE website, open to everyone, Day Pass $125 general admission / $50 students
– March 22: Keynote Panel Discussion at Stetson University, open to everyone (FREE)
– March 25: Final Concert Performance at ACA Main Campus, open to everyone (FREE)
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