Fall 2026: MMC in MSP (10/16-17) + Denver (11/20-21) + Virtual

Just a short post pointing folks to some of the work MMC is doing locally and everywhere with internet...

In Minneapolis-St. Paul

Songs for Tending Our Hearts: A Community Sing!

Friday, October 16, 7-8:30 p.m. 

St. Anne's Episcopal Church, St. Paul

More details.

1-Day Community Singing Workshop

Saturday, October 17

9 a.m.-4 p.m.

St. Anne's Episcopal Church

St. Paul

More details and let us know you're coming!

In Denver, Colorado!
Singing Resistance at the AAR - Pub Sing

Friday, November 20, 6 p.m.

The Celtic on Market, 1400 Market St., Denver, CO

More details

1-Day Community Singing Workshop

Saturday, November 21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Wheat Ridge, CO

More details coming soon. Watch the https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/workshops page for updates! 

Virtually

See everything (Advent resources, Songleader 101 for Intergenerational Spaces, an intergenerational conference) at this link: https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/online_events

Oct 8, Nov 12, Dec 10: The Journey Home: Contemplative Practices for a Chaotic World

What: The Journey Home: Contemplative Practices for a Chaotic World
When: 2nd Thursdays

• October 8
• November 12
• December 10

Where: Macalester Plymouth United Church, 1658 Lincoln Ave., St. Paul
RSVP:  https://www.macalester-plymouth.org/journey 

Looking for ways to pause, reflect and deepen your awareness of what is true and sacred? Open to all, this monthly exploration of spiritual practices will fill your toolkit for keeping sane in times like these. Come learn and experiment in community - you won't know what will resonate until you try. Signup for any or all sessions.

Oct 3: SONGTANEOUS SING-ALONG - 20th Anniversary Celebration!

What: SONGTANEOUS SING-ALONG - 20th Anniversary Celebration!

When: Saturday October 3rd, 2026, 12-6* PM
Where: Four Seasons Dance Studio, 1637 Hennepin Avenue, Mpls.
RSVP: Eventbrite

We will celebrate 20 years of Songtanous Sings with a day-long community singing event.

Join Sarah M. Greer and a host of Twin Cities songleaders* who will lead all kinds of singing, from circlesongs and spontaneous inventions to protest and resilience songs, and songs in other languages.

SING A LITTLE OR A LOT

This event is open to singers of all skills and abilities. You can come sing for an hour or two or for the whole afternoon. We'll also have a listening lounge so you can take vocal breaks as you need to.

We'll start and end the day with an hour of continuous singing and stop for a "cake break" (it's is party after all 🥳) mid-day.

Click the Eventbrite link to see the list of SONGLEADERS, view the full day's SCHEDULE, RSVP (optional, but appreciated) and/or DONATE to support this event.

* Good Trouble will be on 4-4:45 p.m.!

ABOUT SONGTANEOUS

Songtaneous sings are community singing events based in vocal improvisation. Sarah M. Greer has been hosting Songtaneous sessions in the Twin Cities since 2006. One Saturday a month, creative people of all ages gather to share their voices and their selves while making beautiful, in-the-moment music.

Aimed at music lovers who want a low-key and fun way to sing without joining a choir or committing to a lot of rehearsals, these sessions are fun, inventive and easy way to sing with others.

Songtaneous provides opportunities to explore singing with others and playing with the voice in a supportive circle of singers. Not a rehearsal or a performance, Songatneous is about being present and in community through song.

Join us as we make music of the moment.

Sept 20: People's Peace Picnic, Northfield

 

What:  People's Peace Picnic on the UN's International Day of Peace

When:  Sunday, September 20, 12n-2p

Where:  Bridge Square, Northfield, MN

Hosts:  Cannon Valley Friends Meeting

Bring your picnic, chair, friends, and family.  

Join us in 

• Song with Singing Resistance Northfield
• Dance with Dances of Universal Peace
• Art with all of us chalking our visions of peace

More details on Facebook. 

Sept 4: DUP at the Meditation Center, NE Mpls

 

What:  Dances of Universal Peace

Where:  The Meditation Center, 631 University Ave NE, Mpls

When:  Friday, September 4, 2026, 7-8:30 p.m.

More details on Meetup.com.

Offerings for Individuals

Greetings,

I am opening my calendar to more paid 1:1 clients/mentees in these realms:

• spiritual direction/companioning
• full voice coaching
• song leading mentoring
• dances of universal peace leader mentoring

If you would like to explore the elements of your voice or take time to check in with your inner world or strengthen your leadership skills as a song and/or dance leader, I would be honored to walk with you. Send me an email at pointsoflightmusic@pm.me.

My ideal clients are folks doing movement work, folks interested in healing wounds, and the intersections therein.

Aug 28: Songs for Tending Our Hearts

When:  Fri, Aug 28, 7:30-9p
Location: Yess Yoga, near 26th + Nicollet, Mpls.
With Good Trouble.
Register: https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/

Aug 25: Retrain Your Lizard Brain

 

When:  Mon, Aug 25, 6:30-8:30p
Location: New City Center, near 31st + Bloomington, Mpls.
With Good Trouble.
😷 (Masks up pls!)

Aug 11: PoLiMu recommends Karly Loveling

Stoking the Inner Spark with Karly Loveling

Visiting song catcher/carrier Karly from Eugene, OR will be leading an evening of community singing before heading to WisconSing next weekend.  After you vote in the primary, come and sing with Karly! 

When:  Tuesday, August 11, Arrive after 6p; Singing, 6:30-8:30p

Where:  Was New City Center >> San Pablo Lutheran Church, S. Mpls

Register here:  https://storage.corsizio.com/uploads/65ed4b2ea32a3da9cbf0c766/events/6a4827406879da6e4b0cbb1d/photo-_3-vzsJk3rER.webp

Closing Chapters: Heart Songs

The pandemic experiment that was Heart Songs is now complete as of the summer of 2026.  

To everything there is a season ... turn, turn, turn.

We're so grateful for everyone's loving and graceful presence as we have lamented and longed on zoom together over the last six plus years.  We remember many of the faces and voices who have dropped by in the past.  We believe you are in the right place wherever you are. 

If you're interested in continuing to sing with others online/on Zoom, please check out the following!

• Fellow regular Heart Songs attendee Nancy is willing to organize some future Heart Songs like gatherings.  Please email her at nancyjw@aol.com.
• Monday Morning Grounding - Music that Makes Community's weekly community song and poetry space.  10a Eastern/7a Pacific
• This Google doc of online song circle spaces shows us you could sing every day of the week!  Last updated in 2024

If you'd like to relive songs through past songlists, you can see a short archive of follow up emails here or by following this tag on the PLM blog.  

If Heart Songs has been a benefit to you, you are invited to make a donation to Music that Makes Community.  

Aug 17: Singing from the Sacred Lands Playlist online

Want to learn more songs from the Songs for Sacred Lands playlist?  We're going to start a new monthly series to help singers and song leaders learn these songs!  

Our first will be Monday, August 17, 2026, from 6:30-8 p.m. Central Time.  The featured song and song catcher/leader will be Calling by Doe Hoyer, the Organizing Director for the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.  

Register for the Zoom link here.  

We imagine this will happen monthly, though we're in the process of figuring out if they will be the same time of the month or vary from month to month. Stay tuned!  

Sum-Fall 2026: Dances of Universal Peace in Twin Cities (1st Fridays!)

What: Dances of Universal Peace

(also known as Sufi Dancing)

When:  1st Sundays, 6:30-8:45 p.m.

• July 5
• August 2
• September 6
• October 4
• November 1
• December 6

Where:   Friends Meetinghouse, 1725 Grand Ave, St. Paul

More details at http://www.meetup.com/The-Minnesota-Dances-of-Universal-Peace/

Jun 22-29: Song Smorgasbord!

Here's a buffet of song possibilities this week.  Join us for one or all!   

• Mon, Jun 22 - Retrain Your Lizard Brain
• Wed, Jun 24 - Protecting Sacred Lands
• Thu, Jun 25 - Online* Song Leader Training 101: For Social Action
• Fri, Jun 26 - Songs for Tending Our Hearts
• Mon, Jun 29 - Singing for Liberation

More details about each under each image.  

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Retrain Your Lizard Brain:  Somatic Singing for Trauma Awareness + Resilience

Mon, Jun 22, 6:30-8:30p (not Jun 25 🤦)
Location: New City Center, near 31st + Bloomington, Mpls.
With Good Trouble.  

😷

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Protecting Sacred Lands:  Song Circle + Meeting

Wed, Jun 24, 6:30-8:30p 

Location: Creekside UCC, I-35W + Diamond Lake Rd, Mpls.

With The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, Music That Makes Community, Center for Sustainable Justice, and Singing Resistance TC. 

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Online Songleader Training 101: for Social Action

Thu, Jun 25, 6-8p CT 

Location:  Online

with Music That Makes Community. 

Register: https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/virtual_101_20260625

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Songs for Tending Our Hearts: a song circle for grief and the weight of the weary world

Fri, Jun 26, 7:30-9p 

Location: Yess Yoga, near 26th + Nicollet, Mpls. 

With Good Trouble. 

Register: https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/

 

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Bonus!!!

Singing for Liberation: Monthly Songleader Incubator Circle

Mon, Jun 29, 6:30-8:30p 

Location: CTUL, near George Floyd Square, Mpls. 

Open to new/experienced songleaders, drummers, and all singers!

With Good Trouble. 

 

Summer 2026 Heart Songs (Jun 15, Jul 6, Aug 3)

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 15
• July 6
• August 3

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 C. Onyx Li, 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.