WORLD VOICE DAY 2021

World Voice Day 2021

Join Me, Join Us at 7:00 PM EDT!! Translation English – Spanish.  WORLD VOICE DAY Symposium with TVF Mexico Chapter on Friday, April 16th. With translation into Spanish.
FREE FOR ALL. 7-10:30PM EDT. Registration: HERE

Hola invitamos a todos los cantantes, actores, locutores, maestros de canto, médicos foniatras, laringólogos, otorrinolaringólogos, terapeutas de lenguaje, fonoaudiólogos, logopedas y público interesado en la voz a participar en el 1er. Simposium de Voice Foundation Capítulo México celebrando el “Día Mundial de la Voz”.
Viernes 16 de Abril de las 18 horas a las 2130 horas CDMX
18 a 21:30 horas (México, Colombia, Perú, Ecuador)
19 a 22:30 horas (Paraguay, Venezuela, Cuba, Chile)
20 a 23:30 horas (Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay)
Evento gratuito
Traducción: Inglés-Español

Link de inscripción: HERE

7:00p Dr. Eric Hunter
7:40p Dra.Thais Vaiano
8:20p  Maria Russo -“A Month in the Life of an Elite Opera Singer: How Much, How Hard? The Reality”
9:00p Dr. Vincente Villagomez,
9:40p Spencer Welch

World Voice Day 2020
Highlighting the Unique Importance of the Human Voice

Norman D. Hogikyan, MD, FACS
University of Michigan Vocal Health Center

The theme for World Voice Day on April 16 is Focus on Your Voice in 2020, a creative play on words bringing to mind perfect 20/20 visual acuity. When this theme was chosen in September 2019 coronavirus and COVID-19 were not in our collective vocabulary, and yet in retrospect this choice of theme does indeed seem visionary.

On World Voice Day this year we find ourselves united in a global fight against a formidable enemy where one of our most powerful weapons is the avoidance of direct human contact. Social distancing, another term unknown to most of us last autumn, is now the norm. Countless events worldwide celebrating World Voice Day have been canceled in order to embrace sound public health principles and to hopefully “flatten the curve”. It made me sad to think of so many silenced concert halls, voices going unheard, and songs going unsung.

Upon further reflection though, I was heartened by the realization that this year perhaps more than ever we are in fact focused on the human voice. Just think about how vital your voice has been in recent weeks as we all struggled to maintain some semblance of our normal professional and personal lives. Simply hearing the voices of friends, colleagues, or family has taken on a significance that we could not have imagined prior to this tumultuous and fearful time. Voice has also become in many cases the primary medium through which we provide comfort and guidance to our patients whose appointments with us are necessarily deferred or converted to remote encounters. At a time when even gathering to mourn a loss is forbidden, voice has been the means through which we express condolences and support.

Yes, World Voice Day this year will be different, and yet each day that we navigate this global pandemic serves to further highlight the unique importance of the human voice.

We are in this fight together. I hear your voices and they are focused.

Dr. Norman Hogikyan is a nationally recognized authority in the diagnosis and treatment of voice disorders. He has published dozens of manuscripts and book chapters in this field, has served on the Speech, Voice and Swallowing Disorders Committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and on the editorial review board of major otolaryngology and voice-related journals. He has been the director of the University of Michigan Vocal Health Center since its establishment in 1996.

View a variety of 2020 World Voice Day videos on our WVD page!

TVF and Chapter Events | History and Mission | world-voice-day.org
The Voice Foundation is an official sponsor of the World Voice Day website.