Setlist from "Exercising Our Voices & Bodies Toward Liberation" from Let's Get Free (7/1/23)

Greetings!

If you're reading this you might have attended the "Exercising Our Voices & Bodies Toward Liberation: Call & Response Community Singing & Theater of the Oppressed" workshop at the Saturday, July 1, Let's Get Free Together series of Education for Liberation MN in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Here is a list of songs we sang with links to online recordings and related resources.

Songs

• I did not come here alone (The Peace Poets)
• Welcome to the chaos (clb) - the link is to the original.  We substituted "chaos" for 'table' and "be free" for 'to the feast'.
• Which Side Are you On/We're on the Freedom Side (Florence Reece, 1931) - be sure to watch the whole 8 minute video to hear both the original version and the BLM update with "We're on the freedom side" response (c. 5:00). More videos of Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco.
• Healing is Possible (Orion Johnstone)
• Our Liberation (Peace Poets) - studio version featuring Carami Hilaire

Resources

• Theater of the Oppressed (Augusto Boal) - read a succinct summary on Center for Applied Theater's website
• We Rise: A Movement Songbook, compiled by the Poor People's Campaign.  
• Full Voice: Five Elements of the Voice - the opening vocal exploration with the shruti box (shrutibox.com) is based on this work.  

Please be in touch if you would like to have Good Trouble lead a workshop like this for your community or if you have questions or comments from our time together!

Jul 6 & 7: Ahlay Blakely in Mpls

We are so delighted that song and grief tender Ahlay Blakely will be visiting Minneapolis next week!  You may recognize their name from songs we have shared.  Their One Body song ("I don't know if we're meant to carry ...") is definitely the top song we learned and shared last year. 

So if you're in the Minnesota/Twin Cities metro area, come on out!  If you're elsewhere, check out their website and sign up for their newsletter to see if they're coming to a locale near you.

What:  Song Circle with song + grief tender Alexandra "ahlay" Blakely

When:  Thursday, July 6 & Friday, July 7, 6-8:30 p.m.

Where:  Anam Cara House backyard, 3612 Bloomington Ave, Minneapolis

Sliding Scale:  $22-66, no one turned away

Register here for Thursday, 7/6 and for Friday, 7/7

Facebook event here:  https://fb.me/e/etG6rskzH

More about Ahlay:  https://www.healingattheroots.com/

p.s. As you look at Ahlay's website, you'll notice information about the Wails: Songs for Grief Project, a community singing recording project in Washington state at the end of July.  Good Trouble, Liz and Conie, will be there!  We are looking forward to the experience and bringing it back and sharing it with others.

MN RUX, Year 2

There's too much to say and not enough time to say it, so sharing other folks' posts will have to do for now ... 

Awarded: MRAC Arts Impact for Individuals: DUP in Greater MN

 

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