World Voice Day👄

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World Voice Day around the world in 2025
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About World Voice Day

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Dates of World Voice Day
2026 InternationalApr 16
International Thu, Apr 16Observances Holiday
2025 InternationalApr 16
International Wed, Apr 16Observances Holiday
2024 InternationalApr 16
International Tue, Apr 16Observances Holiday
2023 InternationalApr 16
International Sun, Apr 16Observances Holiday
2022 InternationalApr 16
International Sat, Apr 16Observances Holiday
Summary
The voice is a crucial tool not only in education but also in the daily work for about 30% of the entire working population.

World Voice Day is a worldwide annual event that takes place on April 16 devoted to the celebration of the phenomenon of voice. The aim is to demonstrate the enormous importance of the voice in the daily lives of all people.

This celebration started in Brazil in 1999 as the Brazilian National Voice Day. It was the result of a mixed initiative of physicians, speech-language pathologists and singing teachers that belonged to the former association ‘Sociedade Brasileira de Laringologia e Voz – SBLV’ (Brazilian Society of Laryngology and Voice), under the presidency of Dr. Nedio Steffen. This Brazilian initiative was followed by other countries, such as Argentina and Portugal, and the Brazilian National Voice Day became the International Voice Day. In the United States, the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery officially recognized this celebration in 2002 and in that year the event obtained the name ‘World Voice Day’ (Svec, Behlau, 2007; AAORL-HNS, 2012)

Mission

The mission of the group is to share the excitement of voice science, pedagogy and the vocal arts as an application of all the above mentioned areas with the public and with funding bodies by organizing a global celebration of the World Voice Day on April 16 each year, joining forces with existing groups that have the same goal. More specifically, the group will

  • organise a global choral concert, internationally broadcasted in real time, going from country to country, starting in the far East and ending in the far West.
  • arrange a global series of talks, internationally broadcasted in real time, as well as videotaped for internet distribution, about the many different facets of the voice.
  • identify and ask one person, a “pivot”, in as many countries as possible, who assumes the responsibility to initiate and coordinate various events in that country, on the World Voice Day
  • create a web page where all events are listed and that also contains information about voice and voice science, and interactive voice analysis programs.
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