World Voice Day is April 16th.
Established in Brazil in 1999 as the Brazilian National Voice Day by a group of physicians, speech-language pathologists and singing teachers, today it is celebrated as World Voice Day.
This year’s theme is Lift Your Voice. As COVID has clearly revealed, many voices are not being heard, or if they are, they are being dismissed. Thinking over this concept, I began to formulate in my mind the image of many, many voices filling the space with sound, sending vibrations through the air, creating an echo chamber, creating a “voice” difficult to suppress.
We live in a global trapestry that is being stretched to the breaking point, rent in places, leaving many vulnerable. For those of us living in a tighter woven segment, it is essential that we gather to help mend these tears before they radiate throughout, weakening the whole.
So let us all lift our voices together to strengthen those that have been made inaudible. Let us fill the the oppressed silence with deafening sound that will resound around the world.