Saltspring song circle with ahlay blakely

ahlay teaches songs call & echo. Singing is a birthright and all levels of experience are welcome (including no experience). These songs are sung together collectively as invitations to move stagnated emotions in the body and to be in our bodies as we notice what arises for us as we sing together. Ahlay's song container invokes connection that serves as a catalyst to digest topics in our culture, and movements for collective liberation.
Come sing unreleased songs, old songs and songs from the new album WAILS: Songs for Grief.
No matter your gender, sexual orientation, religion, spirituality, abilities, race, housing status, or other unnamed things, you are welcome here.
Location:

Lions Club, 103 Bonnet Ave

Salt Spring Island, BC

V8K 2K8

Arrive and settle in:
5:30-5:50 pm
Song container:
6:00-8:00 pm
Cost:
$30-70 sliding scale (All sales 100% final)
Thank you for finding the sweet spot that's both generous & affordable for you! Your support covers ahlay’s travel and allows this medicine to keep serving the collective.
(( If this range is not accessible, please reach out -- no one will be turned away for lack of funds. ))
Children are welcome to attend for free (please be mindful of distractions).
Accessibility:
The venue is wheelchair accessible. Bathrooms are located indoors.
Community care:
This event is an indoor event. Please come without symptoms of contagious illness. You are welcome to mask and distance to your own comfort level.
What to bring:
Water bottle
Any cushions, blankets, and layers to help your body feel comfortable
Tea will be served
ABOUT ARTIST:
ahlay (alexandra blakely) is a dreamer of Whale, Tsunami, and Rain, an apprentice to Lightning and Fire, an artist, singer-songwriter, community organizer and soul guide in training. She is a descendent of Ashkenazi, Scandinavian and British folk and a commitment to breaking the cycles of intergenerational trauma both caused and endured by her ancestors. This commitment unfolds through the mediums of authentic relationship, song and storytelling, ritual and spell casting in ways that acknowledge our varied and intricate histories and identities, emphasizing a devotion to remembering our symbiotic relationship within the natural world.
ahlay has been deeply involved in community activism, communal grief tending and community singing. She is a lifelong student of decolonization, anti-racism and her own ancestral deracination preceeding diasporas. She gets curious about how the individual psyche, embodiment, shadow and trauma responses can be applied to collective and cultural bodies. She has trained with generative somatics, Education for Racial Equity, Animas Valley Institute, The Work that Reconnects, Holistic Resistance, Francis Weller and Laurence Cole. Her community singing albums encapsulate songs for the community to transform, ask questions, and seek to lead lives in service to the future ones. Her 2024 community singing album, WAILS: Songs for Grief was just released on 9.24.24 and recorded with a choir of 200 voices.

Host or Publisher Soo River Spirit