river city sing: a community song circle - songs for the threshold

🍂At the midpoint of autumn, leaves are at their peak and begin to fall, we sense the deeper shift into cooler weather, and the nights become longer. In many cultures in the Northern Hemisphere, this time is marked by holidays like Día de los Muertos, All Saints’, and Samhain (where we get Halloween). It is said that these are liminal days where “the veil is thin": between seasons, between ancestors & the living, and in our own being as we notice what we need as we move towards the winter.

🍁So we will gather to sing threshold songs for this time - welcoming the cooler days, noticing the energy of nature around us, and honoring the changes we sense shifting within.

🌀River City Sing is a new community song circle at Living Water Community Center, hosted by Kelley Doyle. Surrounded by a bee sanctuary filled with native plants and a produce garden, we gather to connect to our voices, our breath, and with one another! This isn't a choir or chorus but a circle of folks singing together - no musical experience is necessary.
~ Above all, community singing is for all. ~
Your voice is welcomed, needed, and cherished.

Kelley will share songs by beginning with their lyrics, then teaching the songs a capella (without instruments) through call-and-echo, gradually building as we go. We repeat them several times to let the words & sound sink in. They focus on themes of love, kinship with the Earth, and self-compassion — little pocket songs we carry to encourage & comfort ourselves and one another.

We'll begin in circle, find grounding through breath and easeful movement, sing, and close. Bring a mug if you'd like some tea!

This event is donation-based and free spots are available.

Kelley is a song-carrier and community weaver in RVA. She also teaches gentle/restorative yoga at Living Water and guides a monthly sound meditation. Kelley loves sitting on the rocks at the 42nd Street entrance, cooking new recipes, and visiting local bookstores. She's on instagram @shape_and_sound

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