events
2024
July 18, 2024
World Listening Day
Global
Stay tuned for more information on opportunities for participating in Ocean World of Sound virtual and in-person events for this year’s world listening day! Heather has been participating in World Listening Day (including serving as Ambassador in 2022) since it started in 2010!
Fall-Winter 2023
September 26, 2023
8pm
Concert
DAR Constitution Hall, Washington DC
Opening for Lily Henley with a solo cello tribute to Flory Jagoda.
Previous events
Summer 2023
June 3/4 2023: Heather performs with the Fez Tones at Glen Echo “Washington Folk Festival“
June 13 2023: Special announcement from Studio.com!
2022
Ocean World of Sound 30 Day Challenge Launch!
July 18: Heather is the ambassador for World Listening Day 2022!
2021
May 28: Craft In America Virtual Concert
April 9: Ocean Memory Virtual Concert
February 3-4: Ocean Decade: U.S. Launch Meeting
Presenting as part of two teams:
Ocean Memory Project – Nexus Exhibit Booth & Ocean Shot (Exhibit Hall Table 9, ePoster Hall Floor 6 room 10)
Ocean Sound and Marine Life Interagency Working Group – Ocean Shot (ePoster Hall Floor 6 room 11)
February: The Listener Project maintenance
2020
May 19-21: International Conference on Ocean Energy (Washington DC) ***postponed to 2021***
Summer TBD: Workshop and concert for National Academies Keck Futures Initiative project (with Mark Ballora) ***postponed to 2021***
“Layers of meaning: how the ocean’s natural acoustics and the music of its datasets can reveal hidden connections”
We lost a dear friend and colleague: Mark Ballora Obituary
Nov 12 2020 3pm: virtual LASER talk “Music from Other Worlds“
2019
I created a human!
2018
March 4-10: Ocean Memory Workshop at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, CA
March 18-21: Ocean Memory Workshop at Woods Hole, MA
April 6-7: Special guest at NC Renewable Ocean Energy Symposium (Wanchese, NC)
June 3: 5pm Washington Folk Festival, performing cello with the Fez Tones (Washington, DC)
July 8: Noon at Smithsonian Hirshhorn “Sound Scene” outdoor stage, premier of “Reef Recall” for live cello and soundscape composition
July: Viola da Gamba Conclave
2017
March 16th 5:30pm, National Academy of Sciences HQ and online livestreamed: DASER program on Sound and the Deep Blue Sea, guest curated and moderated by Heather Spence.
March 23rd 7pm, Greenbelt MD @ New Deal Cafe: Roumana world music ensemble opens for percussionist Raquy Danziger (View the facebook event here)
May 17, Cancun Mexico: MUSA underwater museum conference featuring new ArtSci piece based on The Listener Project
May 17-22, Cancun Mexico: Dolphin dreams research program
2015
February: Prioritizing Sustainability Through the Arts and Sciences Conference
Stay tuned for online posting of the proceedings!
March 6 (Friday) 5pm: World Music performance by ROUMANA at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD celebrating Women’s History Month Celebration
Tickets, which include access to the aquarium, are only $12 and you can get them on the National Aquarium events website
May 30 : Performance with Saltanah Ensemble at the Washington Folk Festival in Glen Echo Park
June 5-9: Featured Presenter at the International Association for the Study of Dreams Conference, in Virginia Beach, VA
July 21st @ 1pm, CUNY Graduate Center in NYC = my public talk for my thesis defense “The importance of bioacoustics for dolphin welfare”
2014
March 20, 2014 – Premier of the movie Angel Azul, about the work of underwater sculpture artist Jason deCaires Taylor, including our collaborative science/art project The Listener. At the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington DC.
New microdocumentary “World of Sound” about my work, created by The Stills, will be shown at the Beneath The Waves Film Festival in Florida
March 20, 2014 – Jacksonville, Florida (USA) with Benthic Ecology Meeting @ the University of North Florida (closed to the Benthic Ecology Meeting).
March 21, 2014 – Jacksonville, Florida (USA) at Jacksonville University in the Gooding Auditorium – 7pm. Open to public!
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Sunday, February 2 2:30 pm |
Hudson View Gardens Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street New York, NY |
2013
March 21 2013 at National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC I presented at the DASER series arts and sciences panel. Check it out on the NAS events website. The program can be viewed on the CPNAS youtube channel.
March 22 World Water Day
March 23 Earth Hour
March 24-25 Ana Masry Band performance in Boston, Massachusetts
April 16, 6pm – Presentation at Ethology Investigates – Invasive Species E-Conference
April 19, 8pm – Ana Masry Band performance at Artisphere (Washington DC)
July 18 – World Listening Day
August 25 6:30pm –Ana Masry Band performance at Busboys and Poets (Washington DC)
September 21 @8pm – Laz Tiyas performance at Celebration concert – Flory Jagoda, Library of Congress (Washington DC) [Free, but tickets required]
October 9 – World Habitat Day
November concert series in DC
2012
February 2 – World Wetlands Day
March 9-11 – International Congress of Jugglers (at the University of Maryland)
March 22 – World Water Day
March 31 8:30pm local time – Earth Hour
April 22 – Earth Day!!!! and in DC, Folger Shakespeare Library open house with stage combat demos 1-4pm
May 6 – @7pm Ana Masry Band performance at Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC
May 20 – @4pm Early music concert with Maryland Cantabile and Capitol Consort of Viols at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in College Park, MD
May 12 – International Migratory Bird Day
May 17 – Whale Shark Tourism Season opens
May 22 – International Day for Biological Diversity
June 5 – World Environment Day – I celebrated with high school students in Isla Mujeres, Mexico – stay tuned for video of the awesome songs they wrote!
June 8 – World Oceans Day
July tba – 4th Annual International Whale Shark Festival
September/October – Crab migration in Cancun
September 9 – Houston, TX Tribute Concert to Dominik Zuchowicz
September 15 – International Coastal Cleanup Day
2011
March 26 2011 – Earth Hour
April 22 2011 – Earth Day!
May 20-23 – Blue Vision Summit (Washington, DC)
July 16 – Whale Shark Conference, Isla Mujeres
July 18 – World Listening Day
September/October – Diana Reiss “Dolphin in the Mirror” Book Tour
September/October – Crab migration (Cancun, Mexico)
November – Semana Nacional por la Conservacion (Mexico)
November – Deployment of “Listening” EAR project with Jason deCaires Taylor
December – “Ana Masry” performance at Busboys and Poets is SOLD OUT – stay tuned for upcoming repeat performances!
2010
March 22, 2010 – World Water Day
March 27, 2010 from 8:30-9:30 p.m. local time – EARTH HOUR turn off your lights!
April 22 – EARTH DAY!!!
April 22-May 2 – Cancun schools, Earth Day programs and contests
April 25 – Cancun, Sculpture Contest
April 29-30 – Cancun Dance celebration, cello flamenco bird puppets, evenings at Casa de la Cultura
June 19, 2010 – Stay tuned for more info on World Juggling Day
July 17, 2010 ~ Third Whale Shark Festival, Isla Mujeres
July 18, 2010 ~ World Listening Day with events worldwide, including Isla Mujeres
November 29 – December 10 ~ COP 16 & CMP 6 (UNFCCC), Cancun
2009
January:
20th – World Conservation Day
26th – Environmental Education Day
31st – Cancun Orchestra Concert
February:
2nd – International Wetlands Day
Friday, February 20, Cancun Mexico, Sustainability Presentation at Unicaribe
Saturday, February 21, Cancun Mexico, Flamenco Performance
Saturday, February 28, Cancun Mexico, Reciclaton Recycling Event
Friday, March 6, Cancun Mexico, another Sustainability Presentation at Unicaribe
March:
Workshop: Boarding Actions CANCUN: Pirates in the Caribbean
Conference: World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Mexico City
July 15-17, Isla Mujeres, Mexico – Whale Shark Festival
Oct 4, Washington DC – Sylvia Earle at National Cathedral
Nov 14, Cancun, Mexico – Flamenco Show with Puppets, Cello, and more