UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday May 29, 2024, 8-9pm EST:
Info Session for Volunteering in NYC Jails
Join us here online to learn more about volunteering to co-lead nigun circles in NYC jails. We will provide an overview, answer questions (or collect questions to pass on to the amazing chaplains), and provide opportunities for potential volunteers to connect.
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Sunday June 2, 2024, 8-9pm EST:
A Queer Nigun Project Iyyar Circle
Led by Rakhel Silverman-Gitin and Sy Silverman-Gitin
Join us online for A Queer Nigun Project's Iyyar Circle on Sunday June 2 from 8-9pm EST, moving through the introspective Omer period and through the healing month of Iyyar in sweet melody and in community.
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PREVIOUS EVENTS
March 17, 2024, 8-9:30pm EST:
Queer BIJOCSM Circle: “(Re-)Building”
led by Has Bhatti (they/them)
In this meditative exploration of internal and external building, Has will guide us in listening to our own voices and receiving others’ across the circle, creating a ‘(re-)building’ of our voices together in community.
*This is an affinity space for Queer BIJOCSM (Black, Indigenous, Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrahi) community.*
March 3, 2024, 8-9pm EST:
A Queer Nigun Project Adar Circle
led by Marni Loffman and Rachel Chang
Join us in songful exploration of the joy and power that come from potent chaos, from the turning of everything we know, from imagining what is possible when everything is turned upside-down.
February 11, 2024, 8-9pm EST:
Queer BIJOCSM Circle
led by Rachel Chang
For this Zoom circle, we invite queer BIJOCSM (Black, Indigenous, Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrahi) community to gather. Rooting ourselves in our songs and our stories, we will find each other as we co-create a potent space of exploration and belonging.
January 21, 2024, 8-9pm EST:
A Queer Nigun Project Shevat Circle
led by Simi Toledano
In this circle, we will immerse ourselves in the magical liturgical song Nishmat Kol Hai, The Soul of All Life, chanted in the joyful Sephardi Moroccan melody that Simi inherited from her ancestors.
December 10, 2023, 8-9pm EST:
A Queer Nigun Project Kislev Circle
Chanukah 5784
led by Is Perlman and Rachel Chang
Join on Zoom for Chanukah candle lighting and for melodies of light and dark, of hope, of magic, of resistance… In this devastating time, we’ll gather and sing for our sustenance.
November 5, 2023, 8-9pm EST:
A Queer Nigun Project Cheshvan Circle:
Tending to Our Heartbreak
led by Rachel Chang and Kohenet Avra Shapiro
In devastating times like these, we pour whatever is inside us into the music, and are held, again and again, by the Great Expanse. Whatever you might be holding right now, be it grief, rage, despair, exhaustion, love, this space will be here as a nest for our broken hearts.