Looking back now, we can safely say that we've come a long way! And the journey that has brought us here, has been full of adventure and discovery. Throughout these 4 years different people around the globe, strangers to each other, have created spaces that welcome stories. And even more, people have boldly trodden into these spaces to fill them with their souls.
Throughout these 4 years, the echoes of these souls that meet in time zones all around the world have always been with us. So this year we invite again all guides, listeners, storytellers, people who have crossed LH paths, and those who are curious to synchronize our souls in the 4th annual LH festival.
The theme of our festival is Synchronizing Souls: From Morning Brews to Midnight Conversations. We wish to create a space for all the different storyholders and storytellers to celebrate, meet, connect, share, and exchange adventures and discoveries.
The structure of this year’s festival will be trying to synchronize souls, stories, and needs for connection and growth. We are planning a program full of Listening Hour Sessions which will be offered by you, as well as workshops and panels. This year for the first time we will offer events that are targeted especially for the community and events that will be open to people outside the community who wish to attend the festival.
This is a moment the LH comes together from all over the World. Beginning on May 17th with an Opening Ceremony, we will close on May 19th with a Closing Ceremony. We welcome you to come as much as you are able. As before, the Listening Hour Festival is free of charge.
Beginning and going throughout the festival (outside the times for Opening and closing ceremonies, workshops, and panels) we will have Listening Hours ending at 9 pm EDT on Sunday evening.
Festival Program
Friday, May 17
12:00 – 01:00 PM EDT
(18:00 - 19:00 PM CET)
Opening Ceremony
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82959585076?pwd=YVRESExkRmh6bWtyQzhVWkJ0WU9pdz09
Meeting ID: 829 5958 5076
Passcode: 418299
01:30 – 02:30 PM EDT
Ethical Guidelines for the Listening Hour
(19:30 - 20:30 PM CET)
Jonathan Fox, speaker
Why is ethics important? In this session, Jonathan will talk about the inflection points for ethical practice in the Listening Hour and provide space for group questions and discussion.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88122127499?pwd=Rk4rL1A3aEdaMndjSlAvR3VSUFdBdz09
Meeting ID: 881 2212 7499
Passcode: 634495
Available spot. To propose an activity, please contact communityculturecommittee@gmail.com.
Saturday, May 18
09:00 – 10:30 AM EDT
Listening hour for the Vulnerable
(15:00 – 16:30 PM CET)
Para Paranthaman, panel Moderator
Panelists:
Mandisi Sindo,
Art Practitioner |
LH Guide | Artivist
Radhika Jain,
Artistic Director | Expressive Arts therapy practitioner
Şeniz Turan,
LH Trainer | Artivist
Playback Theatre Trainer
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87507421673?pwd=R1F2NXNOdEZ1SWNNSlE2OHVWTkZnQT09
Meeting ID: 875 0742 1673
Passcode: LH4F2K24PD
Available spot. To propose an activity, please contact communityculturecommittee@gmail.com.
12:00 – 13:30 PM EDT
ISINGQI SESANDI, Using Music To Tell Stories
(18:00 – 19:30 PM CET)
This is a session where participants are taken through a process of using music to tell inclusive and diverse stories during the Listening Hour Session. Stories of wisdom, recovery, discovery, past, present, and the future. This session is not only for musically knowledgeable individuals but EVERYONE.
The session is conducted by theatre maker Mandisi Sindo and his wife Liso The Musician, the ancestral jazz innovator.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82439282262?pwd=QzJ0Z0t0ckdZcnZHN3Q2NGllRmxNQT09
Meeting ID: 824 3928 2262
Passcode: LH4F2K24WS
Mandisi Sindo,
Art Practitioner |
LH Guide | Artivist
Liso The Musician,
Composer | Musician | Facilitator
14:00 – 15:00 PM EDT
Coffee break
(20:00 – 21:00 PM CET)
Dilan Müller, moderator
Take a break and unwind in our cozy coffee corner, where you can relax, chat, and recharge in a laid-back atmosphere.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86590979186?pwd=OUVoM3p5ZWN2eE1OdzRYejNseSttZz09
Meeting ID: 865 9097 9186
Passcode: 448597
Available spot. To propose an activity, please contact communityculturecommittee@gmail.com.
Sunday, May 19
10:00 – 11:30 AM EDT
(16:00 – 17:30 PM CET)
“Listening Hour - embedded in art project” - Voices of refugee women. Project presentation.
Josefine Krumm, Authorized Listening Hour Trainer
There are thousands of stories. Please listen, in these stories are some moments of silence, you can hear the loudness in the silence and listen to the voices of refugee women.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83296611767?pwd=UlNQNGJXc016cWxqMkxRMHorR3hUdz09
Meeting-ID: 832 9661 1767
Kenncode: 281404
Tahmina Taghiyeva,
Project manager for "Voices of refugee women“
Available spot. To propose an activity, please contact communityculturecommittee@gmail.com.
01:30 – 2:30 PM EDT
(19:30 – 20:30 PM CET)
Closing Ceremony
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89279769727?pwd=VUpvQ1grR0t5a3dLUEh3SkZhSUVOUT09
Meeting ID: 892 7976 9727
Passcode: 145579
Instructional video on how to use Zoom-translated captions
Program Committee
Xenia Malathraki
Para Paranthaman
Dilan
Müller
Polina Novikova
Volunteers
Mina Zivkovic
Serbia
Elsa Maurício Childs
Portugal
We are very grateful to Devrim Nicolo Turletti and Andrea Sandoval for preparing the instructional video on how to use Zoom-translated captions.