Summer 2025: Heart Songs (*June 9* July 7, August 11)

 

What: Heart Songs: Lament, Longing, & Love (an online community space for you to bring your heart and your voice)

When: 6:30-8p CDT (05-UTC until Daylight Savings Time ends)

Dates for Summer 2025:

• June 9
• July 7
• August 11

Where: Online: https://zoom.us/j/431161455 (see call-in options on Heart Songs' main page)

Gather for an informal singing time to re-center our hearts in community. Simple songs will be led paperlessly/taught by ear by Conie Borchardt, Nancy W, Sarah M, other song leaders, and you, if you have a song to share.

Join us. Bring friends. (Signup for the email reminder here; select Heart Songs)

Songs will be about the human experience and in that way, spiritual in nature, but not specifically religious.

This is a space intended for self-care, however that shifts for you in every moment. Bring water. Come and go. Sit in a chair, lie on the floor, or stand as you need to.

Jul 4-6: Redefining Independence + Reweaving Belonging: a retreat for multicultural folks from rural spaces

What:  Redefining Independence + Reweaving Belonging: a retreat for multicultural folks with rural experiences

When:  Friday, July 4-Sunday, July 6, 2025 

Where:  Episcopal House of Prayer, Collegeville, MN

As multi-cultural* folks from rural settings on Turtle Island, we are immersed in a narrative of independence that isolates and weakens instead of making us strong. Out of necessity, many of us understood belonging as fitting in with low amounts of safety, comfort, and autonomy.

In this retreat, we take a step in redefining independence and reweaving belonging by sharing our stories, singing together, and dreaming our way towards a different way of being. We’ll practice belonging to self, while supporting each other’s growth as we practice becoming an interdependent community.

May 20: PoLiMu recommends Grief + Gratitude Community Ritual

Grief + Gratitude: A Ritual Evening for These Here Times
With songs by Liz Digitale Anderson

Tuesday May 20th
Arrival + settling in 6 pm
Singing 6:30-8:30 pm

IN-PERSON**:  

New City Center for Healing Justice

3104 16th Ave S, Minneapolis

LIVESTREAM OPTION:  

*Friends in other places, the event link will livestreamed on Zoom - it's not going to be a true interactive hybrid, but more a way for folx elsewhere to sing along with us and add to their toolkit of grounding and resilience in these times. It's a bit of a trial run for some equipment we're testing out and we'd love your feedback on how this goes!

Register in advance for this event & reminders:

https://us02web.zoom.us/.../register/xEuBLonlRLO9e3As55nSbw

Free and open to all; suggested donation $0-$25

**Masks up for singing indoors please, thank you <3**

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"What are we gonna do with all this grief?"-- Prentis Hemphill
"We're gonna sing our way, sing our way through."-- Liz

How can singing meet this moment to usher in personal, cultural, and structural change?
How can singing serve our collective liberation?
How can our community bring this vision to life?

These are the questions I’ve been asking over the past few years, and the songs I've been catching and writing to sing together to try and answer them. I'd love you to join me for an evening of teaching some old and new songs and weaving them together in ritual. We'll use the space, somatics, and song to help us process these here times we're living in together.

More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1213267597158685/

May 30: Songs for Tending Our Hearts

When it feels like the world is falling apart, when everything is literally on fire, singing in community together heals and centers us—we’re not alone.

Our culture desperately needs spaces where it is safe to feel your sorrow and the weight of the world. Come sing through the small and large griefs in your life and give them space to breathe.

When: May 30, 7:30-9p
Where: Yess Yoga
105 E 26th St, Mpls

Song leaders Conie Borchardt and Liz Digitale Anderson (aka GOOD TROUBLE) hold care-filled circles for you to find freedom in your voice, de-stress your nervous system, and move your body.

Every voice is welcome! We teach all the songs call and response- just open your mouth and echo back. We’ll sing songs to ground you, heal you, and help you breathe in the days to come.

Pre-register + pay what you can here: https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/
$5-$20 sliding scale (No one turned away for lack of funds; we want you there!) You can also pay on the door.


**Notes**

- Masks May Be Required when Covid is surging. Masks will be available.
- Parking can be kind of tight around this block - leave yourself some extra time to find a spot!
- As we're in a yoga studio, we ask people to leave their shoes at the entrance to keep the studio clean. If you want to bring a clean pair of indoor shoes to support your feet that's fine. Thank you!