BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:349@worldlisteningday.org DTSTART:20260718T170000Z DTEND:20260718T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260707T192236Z URL:https://worldlisteningday.org/events/sounds-of-summer-childhood-presen t-and-past-deirdre-harrison-and-katie-mazzini-with-special-guest-avreeayl- ra/ SUMMARY:Sounds of Summer Childhood\, Present and Past – Deirdre Harrison and Katie Mazzini with special guest Avreeayl Ra DESCRIPTION:The eastern and southern perimeters of Jackson Park\, which inc ludes the 63rd Street Beach\, the marina\, Lake Shore Drive\, LaRabida Chi ldren’s Hospital\, and the 67th Street playlot tucked into a narrow stri p outside the fenced in golf course\, vibrate with sound and memory of chi ldren who live nearby or are visiting one of these spaces for healing or p leasure. Soundwalkers will gather at the 63rd Street Pavilion\, share what they know or have heard about the history of the circular route we will t ake and their relationship to the area. We will experience soundscapes tha t children and the adults who care for them may hear\, and imagine those t hey may have heard in the past\, along the route\, as well as note the pro ximity and pathways or barriers to access all Jackson Park has to offer if you are a child or family living in a community adjacent to the park.\nJa ckson Park is located at 6401 S. Stony Island Ave. Meet at 67th Street Bea ch parking lot on the east side of LSD. Please note the rain date for this event is July 26\, 2026 11:00 AM → 12:00 PM. RSVP here: https://docs.go ogle.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYLXSOcMpG4ABmuJ6wKY8lI-KmlJwCwVc7Zft0aBrChfJby Q/viewform\nAbout Deirdre Harrison\n\n\n\nDeirdre Harrison grew up in Puer to Rico\, Canada\, and across the USA. She received her BA from Yale Unive rsity and was the only American in her class at the Royal Academy of Drama tic Art\, in the first cohort to earn its three year acting certificate. S he earned an Executive Education Scholar Certificate from Kellogg Center f or Nonprofit Management. In her acting days\, she workshopped and premiere d many new plays and European premieres of new American works and is the v oice of Athena on Pete Townsend’s Psychoderelict. She is a dual national of USA/Eire\, speaks Italian\, and has been a proud member of the British Equity and Actors Equity Association unions for 30+ years.\nAfter years a s a performing artist and director based in London\, Rome and NYC\, Deirdr e settled in Chicago where she has served as a lead administrator and cons ultant in the nonprofit arts\, education\, and healing sectors for over tw o decades including: Gateway to Learning\, NAMI Chicago\, Gateway Foundati on\, Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute\, Snow City Arts\, Eighth Blackbird and the first iteration of the Blackbird Creative Lab\, Creative Partners\ , Civitas Ensemble\, Rush Hour Concerts/Make Music Chicago\, Music Institu te of Chicago\, and Baker Demonstration School. She currently serves as th e Executive Director of Sit Stay Read!\, a Chicago literacy nonprofit that leverages the power of the human-canine bond by bringing Certified Readin g Assistance Dog teams into its early and family literacy programs.\nIn 20 14\, with percussionist Kyle Gregory Price\, she co-founded The Lucky Trik es (https://www.theluckytrikes.com/)\, a literacy chamber band that perfor ms in unexpected public spaces with Chicago’s top free jazz and new musi c artists. She has served on and assisted in the development of the nonpro fit boards for the World Listening Project\, Actors’ Gymnasium\, MOCREP ensemble\, and New Music Chicago and in 2023 co-produced the 30th Annivers ary Conference of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology at The Atlantic Cen ter for the Arts.\nAbout Katie Mazzini\n\n\n\nKatie Mazzini was born on Lo ng Island. She graduated in 2012 with a B.F.A in Musical Theater from Ball State University in Muncie\, Indiana. Shortly after\, she moved to Chicag o where she began working professionally in Tracy Letts’ adaptation of T hree Sisters (Steppenwolf Theater Company). Her early credits include Sing in’ in the Rain (Drury Lane)\, and Erica Mott’s devised opera\, 3 Sing ers\, where she first met master vocal pedagogue and formative mentor\, Fi des Krucker. In 2013\, she joined Chicago’s Walkabout Theater Company an d spent 8 years co-devising original pieces across the United States\, Ind ia\, and Poland. In 2021\, Katie spent a year as a member of the Focused R esearch Team in Art as Vehicle at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Th omas Richards in Pontedera\, Italy. As part of the Workcenter\, she perfor med in The Underground and Songs of Tradition throughout Italy\, Colombia\ , Chile\, and Argentina. She is currently a teacher in training with Kruck er and developing projects with collaborators around the world. Katie is f at. She’s a passionate researcher\, a dedicated TV viewer\, and a builde r of unconventional bridges across creative fields and forms.\n \;\nAb out Avreeayl Ra\n\n\n\nDrummer/percussionist Avreeayl Ra grew up in Chic ago in a house full of music: his father\, Arthur “Swinglee” O’Neil\ , was a tenor saxophonist who mentored many young Chicago musicians\, incl uding John Gilmore. He studied drums with Kelan Philip Cohran\, one of the cofounders of the AACM and has since remained a member of that organizati on. Ra has performed and/or recorded with Fred Anderson\, Amiri Baraka\, F ontella Bass\, Lester Bowie\, Ari Brown\, Oscar Brown\, Jr.\, Charles Gayl e\, Henry Grimes\, Billy Harper\, Joseph Jarman\, Edward “Kidd” Jordan \, Nicole Mitchell\, Sun Ra\, Pharoah Sanders\, Malachi Thompson\, and man y others.\nAccording to the Chicago Tribune he is “an indispensable Chi cago innovator\, Avreeayl Ra shapes the music-making swirling around him w ith remarkable precision and poise… extraordinarily sensitive percussion .” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://worldlisteningday.org/wp-content/uploads /2026/07/Sounds-of-Summer-Childhood.jpg LOCATION:67th Street Beach Parking Lot\, 6300 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60637\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=6300 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60637\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=67th Street Beach Parking Lot:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR