Song Circle
Facilitated By: Raffles
Thursdays
7:00-8:00 PM
April 9, 16, 23, 30
Singing is medicine. All of our ancestors were singers, and so are you. All abilities and disabilities are welcome.
Each week Raffles will offer songs of healing and grief and rising up for what’s good! … songs that affirm our rightful place in the natural world, and call forward a more just and beautiful future.
We’ll learn them and sing them together, without stress about “getting it right”, but with some amount of nerdery mixed in, to keep leveling up our practices of embodied singing, nuanced musicality, and spell-casting.
Schedule:
Series (4 classes):
April 9
April 16
April 23
April 30
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Option to stay overnight at WildHeart before or after – come early or stay late. Reach out to us at [email protected] to confirm your stay.
About Raffles
Raffles (they/them) is a singer, dancer and theatermaker raised back and forth between NYC and the Mohicantuk (Hudson) Valley.
Raffles has performed internationally with the English National Opera in London; Loom Ensemble’s annual performance season in Dubai, and with the Art Monastery Project in Italy, Belgium, Stockholm, and Berlin. New York highlights include Lincoln Center with Urban Research Theatre, New York Philharmonic with Constellation Chor, BAM with Meredith Monk, and La MaMa with Loom Ensemble.
Raffles is particularly proud of their role in devising, producing and performing in “Bootstraps: An American Fable” which toured the US in 2017 and 2018, combining dance-theater and anti-racism workshops; and more recently Loom Ensemble’s “Twenty Twenty / Twenty Twenty-One” and “Tell Me How You Breathe” which included participatory rituals for grieving racist police violence, reconnecting with our ancestors, and guiding audiences to imagine their own role in cocreating a more just future.
“500-hour” certified Yoga Teacher, and dharma student since 2010, Raffles believes in the artist as a whole human, and advocates for integrity in all the little choices of daily life.
www.raphaelsacks.com
Location
This workshop will take place in the Barn. WildHeart has a long driveway. If you drive all the way to the end, you’ll be at the Barn. There are a few parking spaces right in front of the Barn. There are also two parking areas on the right side of the driveway before you reach the Barn.
If you’re coming to WildHeart for the first time, please visit our Directions page for arrival info.
Registration
Program Costs (Sliding Scale)
4 week series: $80
Drop in rate: $10-$30 per class
By offering a sliding scale, and two free BIPOC spots, we hope to make this offering financially accessible. Paying at the higher end of the sliding scale MAKES IT POSSIBLE for us to offer a sliding scale and scholarship spots. Please pay at the highest level that you are able.
Refund policy
No refunds, no transfers
Covid policy
Masking is optional but not required. Please do not attend events if you are feeling sick of any kind, or showing any COVID or flu like symptoms.
BIPOC spots
We are offering 2 free spots for BIPOC folx. Please select BIPOC Spot from the Pricing drop down to use one.
