with Shireen Amini and Lyndsey Scott
Sunday, September 10
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Sliding scale: $22 – $55
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Song kin Shireen Amini and Lyndsey Scott merge their medicines for the first time for an East Coast song circle tour! As students of, as well as leaders in, the community singing movement, they are asking-in-motion about song’s liberatory power. Co-creating a space of authentic, playful, & deep devotion, they will forge a strong container to hold the complexities of each of our identities and histories intersecting. Through heart sharing, somatics, song, and rhythmic expression, they will invite energy to re-whole us in our individual and collective bodies: grounding, attuning, grieving, releasing, connecting, and celebrating. We’ll ask, what’s needed here now? What’s possible when we open our hearts to this aching world and dare the soulful risks it asks? May we be the world we dream, in real time, as song washes over us with grace that overflows into action.
Evening flow:
Arrive and settle in between 5:30pm – 6:00pm
Song container: 6:00 – 8:30p
We teach songs call & echo. We believe singing is a birthright and welcome all levels of experience. Science says our heartbeats sync up when we sing together .
We aim to create an integrated space rooted in understandings of our historical context and current social realities. No matter your 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 hope you will bring the wholeness of who you are to this embodied experience of singing with full permission to be in movement, grief, laughter and more.
Acknowledgment:
This event is taking place on the unceded territory of the Lenape peoples.
Community care:
This event is indoors! Come healthy. No mask or vax status required. You are welcome to mask and distance to your own comfort level. We will hold a culture of respect for the choices everyone makes to take care of themselves.
WHAT WILL BE PROVIDED:
Water
Chairs
Restroom facilities
WHAT TO BRING:
A water bottle
A notebook, if you like to jot down inspiration or song information
A blanket or warm layers, if you want to get cozy
Your voice
Your open heart
Your whole truth
Help spread the word!
We welcome your help sharing these tour dates with your friends, thank you:
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꩜ 9/10 Asheville, NC
More about your hosts:
Shireen Amini
Shireen Amini (non-binary using she/her in English, elle in Spanish) is a queer, second-generation Puerto Rican-Iranian American, Earth-loving singer-songwriter, percussionist, and song leader based on unceded Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, Grande Ronde land aka Portland, Oregon. While holding transformational space, Shireen leads infectious, soulful, and groove-based community songs, often engaging her participants in rhythm, because she believes strongly in music’s power to propel cultural revolution. She also teaches drumming, leads workshops, and facilitates grief ritual as part of her community-based music empowerment project Shireen Amini Music Medicine.
Lyndsey Scott
Travelling from the wide sky and open spaces of east central Illinois, Lyndsey Scott is an artist and ritual-maker devoted to priestesSing the Heartland, (literal and figurative). She catches and weaves sacred music to empower earth-based spiritual consciousness, and gathers soul circles that use Song and sacred listening to decompose oppressive scripts that get in the way of freely living the Love we are.
Thank you for finding the sweet spot that’s both generous & affordable for you! Your support covers our travel and values our time, as well as paying for trainings, taxes, and tithe. Thank you for your support in seeing us thrive.
(( If this range is not accessible, please reach out — no one turned away for lack of funds. ))
* Please note that Studio 34 is up a steep flight of stairs.