LiSTEN: Listening to Social Transformation through Engagement Network

LiSTEN is a research network exploring the complex relationship between listening and social transformation in Canada through research-creation, experiential pedagogies, and scholarship.

Resources

Soundwalk: Listening Critically in the Canadian Capital

What can the soundscapes on Parliament Hill tell us about the nation? Whose music, voices, sounds, and stories are amplified or silenced in spaces of national importance? Listening Critically in the Canadian Capital: Race, Space, and Resistance in Ottawa is a self-guided soundwalk via an app on your phone that takes you through Parliament Hill and surrounding areas to listen and reflect.

• Instructions for downloading the app and accessing the soundwalk (PDF)
• Download app

Toolkit: Community-Engaged Arts Activism

• Introduction
• Listening Bibliography and Resource List
• Arts Institutions in Change: A Collection of Contemporary Canadian Institutional Policies and Strategies for Change
• Introducing Critical Pedagogy: Basics and Transformative Approaches
• Survey of Community and Arts Organizations in Canada for Social Justice

Events

Upcoming LiSTEN events: 

• Healthy Cities: Listening Critically in the City: Music, Sound, Power, and Identity in Ottawa

Past LiSTEN events: 

• Listening Cafes and Forums
• A Year of Deep Listening