Join us for a special radio broadcast of The Sounds of the Winter Solstice, by interdisciplinary sound artist and nature field recordist Zaneta.

This hour-long program features nature soundscapes recorded at WLC’s Israel Wittman Sanctuary in the Zena Highwoods on Winter Solstice 2024 and Summer Solstice 2025. Inspired by the artist’s Filipinx ancestral practices of singing to land, this project began by establishing a relationship with land through listening and singing to the forest, and the field recordings emerged out of this reciprocal exchange. Listening to both the winter and summer solstice, listeners will get to hear the full breadth of expression and biodiversity in this forest.

In this broadcast you’ll hear ice forming in a winter stream, eaglets and owls singing out into the dawn, robins, frogs, crickets, vireos, and sparrows, thunderstorms and a summer evening in the pond. Interwoven with these forest soundscapes are stories of land from residents who have lived decades in this forest. This hour-long broadcast invites listeners to slow down, attune to seasonal rhythms, and experience the living dialogue between community and landscape.