2025 Season
The EcoVoice Project
Season 2025
Another year with The EcoVoice Project means another year brimming with opportunities to stand up and speak out, to come together as artists, activists, and people. We invite you to join us for our 2025 season, inspire each other and our communities to engage in meaningful climate action.
Missa Laudato Si’
Spring | Saturday, March 15th, 2025, 7:30PM
JoAnn Rooney Hall | Mundelein Center for Fine and Performing Arts
This performance is in conjunction with Loyola University Chicago’s annual Climate Change Conference. In the form of a Mass, Missa Laudato Si’ contemplates climate change and caring for the earth by intertwining the Latin Mass text with prayers, poems, and texts about contaminated soil and water, and all the threatened creatures living under the climate and plastic crises, including “the tragic effects of environmental degradation on the lives of the world’s poorest.”
Chicago Sounds of Summer
Summer | June - August 2025
Check out our social media this summer, as we share our series titled “Chicago Sounds of Summer.” These posts will celebrate the sounds of nature around us, through new eco-works, curated playlists, and young artist soundscape compositions.
We will also be organizing group Summer Song Gatherings and a larger Summer Solstice Celebration, so stay tuned for more details!
Check out our Summer Solstice Soundscape!
Summer Eco-Playlist
Celebrate America Playlist
Cry of the Earth
Sunday, October 12th, 3:00 PM
Palm Court, Loyola University Chicago
1020 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Following an international call for scores, The EcoVoice Project excitedly announced the ten winning scores of our Cry of the Earth initiative. These new works, inspired by Laudato Si, received their premieres by the New Earth Ensemble, The EcoVP’s professional vocal ensemble. As a follow up to the world premiere of Dongryul Lee’s Missa Laudato Si, these new works honor Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, which calls on humanity to urgently address the climate crisis.
The program included opening remarks by Dr. Nancy Tuchman, Founding Dean of Loyola’s School for Environmental Sustainability. Professor Mark Mackey also shared applied resources for engaging in eco-spiritual practices that foster a deeper relationship to integral ecology.
Check out the playlist of the pieces from the premiere:
Winter Solstice Celebration
Winter | Sunday, December 21st, 2025
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Evanston
The EcoVoice Project rounds out its 2025 season with a celebration of the winter solstice. Our celebration will be centered around winter solstice traditions around the globe, across space and time. With candlelight, wassail, and solstice crafts, this collaboration with Climate Action Evanston, Interfaith Action of Evanston (Climate Change and Justice Working Group), Evanston Public Library (Blueberry Awards), The Musical Offering, 350 Chicago, and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will include music, stories, and reflections on our connection with nature.
This year we are excited to premiere two new EcoVoice Community Songs, composed by Leah Shoshanah and Kaitlin Foley, who will also lead guest ensemble, the Evanston Folk Choir. In addition to community singing, musical offerings will include flutist Emma Hospelhorn, pianist Rick Ferguson, and vocalist Kirsten Hedegaard, who will perform peaceful winter interludes, and Indigenous storyteller Vincent Romero will share winter solstice stories.