with Shireen Amini, Tonya Abernathy, and Ahlay Blakely

Wednesday, September 21, 5:30-8pm
*5:30-6pm arrival time, we will sing from 6-8pm

All ages welcome

This is a no-alcohol event

LOCATION:
Wilshire Park
(4116 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, OR 97212)
*We will meet by the shelter

PAYMENT:
$10-40 suggested donation, NO ONE turned away for lack of funds

*Please feel free to receive the medicine first and decide what reciprocity feels right within your means. If you are unable to offer financial exchange, consider offering support through spreading the word or some other creative way...let's talk!

Your contribution sustains our songleaders, covers travel expenses, and allows us to give back to the local indigenous community.

Venmo: @Shireen-Amini
Paypal: paypal.me/shireenamini
or Cash at the event

DESCRIPTION:
We invite you to this Queer and POC-led community singing gathering to experience the power of song as medicine, as a tool for liberation, and to simply fill your well of joy and connection. We believe singing is a birthright and welcome all levels of experience. Our incredible group of songleaders will teach songs on-the-spot, usually through call and echo, that are sourced from the community singing movement or have come through the songleaders themselves.

We will sing some songs in Spanish!
¡Vamos a cantar algunas canciones en español!

We aim to create an integrated space rooted in understandings of our historical context and current social realities. No matter your race, gender, sexual orientation, abilities, or housing status, you are not only welcome here, you belong here. It is one of our core values to utilize song to resist societal oppression and support liberation from the inside out.

We are not perfect, but it is our intention to respect and uplift all beings, human and non-human, seen and unseen. If there is a way we can better care for you, your values, and your experience in this space, please let us know.

We hope you will bring the wholeness of who you are to this embodied experience of singing with full permission to be in movement, grief, and laughter.

This particular sing will also be an opportunity to ground out our summer season and step forward into fall. To draw more power and meaning from our gathering, come with a state reflection and soul-felt intention.

For more info, visit the “Songleading” page at shireenaminimusicmedicine.com