Max Ribner + Resilient Beings: Bend Community Song Experience

"We are resilient beings, more powerful than we think"

Max Ribner is a soulful, Portland-based musician, international touring artist and powerful songcrafter + community weaver.

His upcoming community-inspired album and project 'Resilient Beings' is a collection of heartful modern-day mantras, torch-bearing songs and transformational musical experiences to support us in coming home to ourselves and leaning into the feeling of family.

The evening will be an intimate, collectively-woven sound and vibrational journey of singing, shaking, dancing, connecting, and healing together in heart, circle, joy + community.

- Community Songleader Kira Seto

- Artists + Musicians: Fitzy, Flow Zeda, David Watts, Gabriel Shonerd

- Container + Community Weaver: Amy Shinnar Williams

With Community Support From:

- Open Hub Singing of Central Oregon

- Jill Hodgson & Joel Serino

Holding a deep desire to include ALL generations in these potent, intention-seeding circles

👦🧒🏽Children and families are very welcome! 👶🏼👶🏾

Littles encouraged to participate and sing + a kid-zone available

$25-$75 + no one turned away from lack of funds

Littles under 12 free

Cash or Venmo @ the door

For volunteer exchange, please contact Amy - [email protected]

All donation proceeds and artist participation from this evening go directly to support the Resilient Beings Community Album fundraiser

Please visit the GoFundme above to contribute more directly + generously 🙏

Heritage Hall @ First Presbyterian Church

230 NE 9th St, Bend, OR 97701

Heritage Hall is NOT the main chapel building, but the annex building + chapel to the left of the entrance to the parking lot.

Look for signs from main parking.

Arrival: 6:00p

Opening Circle + Music: 6:30p

Closing Circle + Completion: 8:30p-9ish

Community Clean Up + Doors closed: by 9:30p

- Your voice + open heart!

- A cushion or blanket to get cozy

- Snacks if you need them (no kitchen access!)

- Substance-free zone on premises

- Joyfully yet reverently honor + respect the container/devotion of the space (it's a church!)

- Vacate parking lot by 9:30p to support church's relationship with neighbors

- Minimally and mindfully engage in phone/recording usage + energetic insertion. The invitation is collective attunement and group resonance. The vibe is prayerful.

- 💞Spirit of community stewardship + reciprocity💞 Grab a broom after, help stack some chairs, tend the children, carry some loads, support a neighbor and consider the invitation of how to energetically offer more than receiving 🙏

We welcome you all to Resilient Beings - an immersive sound journey creatively directed by Max Ribner in collaboration with local Bend musicians + artists.

The music creates a collective experience where the audience becomes the orchestra. Max & the accompanying artists bridge the gap between the stage and the audience by offering themselves as an anchor and providing simple melodies to sing along with.

The musicians are committed to being with what’s present in the moment and thrive off of audience participation - ‘you feed us and we feed you’.

The journey is co-collaborative and infused with creative improvised instrumentals.

It is our birthright to sing, to move and all be a part of music.

When we sing together we can tap into a sense of belonging and interconnectedness.

We can become a lighthouse to finding ourselves and seeing each other.

Every part of ourselves is welcomed to be held and witnessed as part of this shared space.

When we can open our palms to be with both the joyful and challenging aspects of life, we can open ourselves up to deeper freedom, harmony, and co-creativity.

*There's a possibility for pieces of the experience to be audio recorded and captured for community album use. We assume that your participation in the event is in consent with this.

*Please contact Amy - [email protected] for any concerns or special needs*

Max's Website

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What are the common threads that bridge jazz, soul, and classical music with spiritual connection and community service?

This is the question that drives international touring artist Max Ribner.

The sound that answers is rich, reverent, and intimate, connecting us through the lineage of music, to the stories of our ancestors.

In the past, Max's unique and fusion-inspired approach to Flugelhorn and trumpet has led him to perform with artists such as Esperanza Spalding, Nahko And Medicine For The People, Trevor Hall, The Polish Ambassador, Liv Warfield and many more.

The result of years of collaboration with such a broad musical community is powerfully illustrated on Max's debut solo album, 1st Language. The 11-song debut album brings 50+ artists together in a cross-continental collaboration for the ages.

Featured artists include: Bobby Sparks II (Roy Hargrove, Snarky Puppy,) Mark Lettieri (Snarky Puppy,) Saeeda Wright (Prince,) Sharay Reed (Chaka Kahn,) to name a few.In addition, the album was mixed by Grammy award winning mix engineer, Ben Kane (D'Angelo PJ Morton and Emily King). Completed in late 2020, 1st Language is a sonic calling together of our collective humanity.

In 2024, Max has been bringing his collaborative Resilient Beings project to festivals and communities across the PNW and Canada including Conscious Growth Convergence and Peace Village in Ashland, while maintaining deep connection to musical family in Appalachia and supporting the region's recovery from Hurricane Helene.

Host or Publisher Amy Shinnar Williams