Fall 2023 Heart Songs Dates: biweekly resumes Sept 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 Fall 2023:  

• September 11, 25
• October 9, 23
• November 6, 20
• December 4, 18

Where: Online: https://zoom.us/j/431161455 (see call-in options below)

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, 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.

Aug 25: Songs for Tending Our Hearts

 

Date: Friday, August 25, 2023
Time: 7:30-9 pm
Location: Yess Yoga, 105 E 26th St, Minneapolis (map)
Sliding Scale: $5-$20
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When it feels like the world is falling apart, 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 weary world. Come sing through the small and large griefs in your life and give them space to breathe and heal.

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 optional
• 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!*

Future dates: Friday, November 17, 2023.

Setlist for Jul 28 Songs In Your Body, On This Land

Here are the songs we sang at the Songs in Your Body, On this Land Community Sing hosted by 7400 Woodlawn Center for Community, Arts, and Spirituality at Greenlake Park on Thursday night, July 27, 2023:

1. Forget Your Perfect Offering (words: Leonard Cohen/music: unknown)
2. May This Body Be a Bridge (Te Martin)
3. I did not come here alone (The Peace Poets)
4. Stop outsourcing your self-worth* (Liz Digitale Anderson, based on a quote by Logan Ury on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast)
5. I will believe the truth about myself (Macrina Wiederkehr/Velma Frye)
6. Trees Grow Slow (Laurence Cole)
7. We Are Weaving Our Lives (Alexis Sunshine Rose) - led by Annie & Linnea, Mpls
8. The Future is Calling (Sarina Partridge) - led by Patti Powell, from Vancouver, BC
9. Gopala** (words & music: traditional/movements: Qibla Veda Rama)
10. Cultivate Courage* (words: Casper ter Kuile; music: Liz Digitale Anderson)
11. Healing is Possible (Orion Johnstone)
12. We get there together (Or never get there at all) (Josh Blaine)

* Liz doesn't have these songs online yet. We'll let you know when they are!

** We haven't found an online recording of this song.  If you have found one, please let us know!

Thank you to the group who came to sing with us! You came from near and far, planned and unplanned.  Joy and sensitivity, conviction and healing were shared and we hope strands of connections were braided together.  

I know a few of you took pictures.  We would love to see them if you're ok with that!  If you're ok with public sharing, please post them to the facebook event.  If not, send them to listening@pointsoflightmusic.net instead.

So much gratitude to Cara and Harriet from 7400 Woodlawn, Center for Community, Arts, and Spirituality for inviting and hosting us so beautifully!

Setlist for Jul 3 Song Circle for Change

Here are the songs we sang at the Song Circle for Change: Healing & Liberation at CTUL on Monday night, July 3, 2023:

1. I did not come here alone (The Peace Poets)
2. Ready (Alexandra "Ahlay" Blakely)
3. It's Over Now (Kirk Franklin) - led by SooJin
4. Carrying Water (Samara Jade)
5. improvisation* based on andrienne maree brown's IG post on "despite devastation, creativity"
6. Stop outsourcing your self-worth** (Liz Digitale Anderson, based on a quote by Logan Ury on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast)
7. The journey to the center of my soul (Samara Jade)
8. We were made for these times (Clarissa Pinkola Estes/Linda Noonan)
9. Oh, I’m free, free, free (Melanie DeMore) 

* This was not recorded.

** Liz and Sarah don't have these songs online yet. We'll let you know when they are!

Here are bonus links to other things we talked about:

• Abigail Bengson, of the musical songwriting & theater making duo The Bengsons, with andrienne maree brown on the podcast, How to Survive the End of the World talking about the "flowsongs" that come through them.  
• Other Bengsons songs we would recommend:  
• The (abbreviated) Keep Going Song with hand dance by Sarah Goeke & Travis Staton-Marrero (Conie's first introduction), 
• the full length The Keep Going Song, 
• Hope Comes
• Highly recommend following The Bengsons on IG@thebengsons or supporting their Patreon if cash is not an issue.  

Thank you to the crew who sang with us!