Song has been a part of weaving human community since time immemorial. It is a form of communication that transcends the mundane and allows us to connect differently than we do through speech. An unexpected gift of living at Dancing Rabbit can be acquiring a knowledge bank of wisdom songs—songs for grieving, songs of wonder, songs of protest, songs of hope and peace, songs of endings and death. These are songs to live a life by. To pull out of a back pocket when we’re having a hard day, or a loved one is crying, or a sunrise is simply too pristine for words. Many of these songs come from the community singing movement; an oral tradition based, non-performative subculture that invites all voices, not just those with certain training or credentials, to sit in a circle and share song together.

This Labor Day weekend, we are hosting a community singing camp called Singing Rabbit. It is an opportunity for people to gather and learn songs from song leaders and each other. This year, the themes of resilience, liberation, and grief run strong through our collective consciousness. Singing Rabbit is an opportunity to ground into our humanity and connect to the land through camping, swimming, walking barefoot, and sitting by the campfire under the stars. This event will take place during a new moon when the Missouri hills are starting to turn towards fall—an excellent time to celebrate fruition and letting go. It is for anyone who wants to sing in a group. No prior experience is necessary to enjoy the simple delight of making sounds with your fellow humans.

If this sounds like an event that will fill your soul, you are heartily invited to sign up and join us in celebrating resilience, co-creation, and connection to the beloved land we live on. The event will begin August 30; registration closes the week before.

Event Dates: Friday August 30th 4:00 pm - Monday September 2nd 3:00 pm
*Day passes available for Saturday August 31st and Sunday September 1

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To learn more details about the event, you can do so here.

If Singing Rabbit won’t work for you, but you are still interested in experiencing Dancing Rabbit this year, we have two remaining visitor sessions with 3-day, 1-week, and 2-week options. For information on our September and October Sustainable Living Visitor Programs follow this link.

Singing Rabbit 2024 Song Leaders

Josh H. Blaine
Joshua H. Blaine (he/him) is a community songleader, Jewish ritualist & storyteller, and resonant healing facilitator & coach. His work as a songleader began as an inquiry into the state of protest songs after the 2016 election, which sent him out on the road to interview dozens of musicians and song leaders for a project called “Finding Our Voice.” Since then, he’s been a humble servant of song, singing in capitol rotundas, at meetings & marches and around dinner tables across the country. Whether as a songleader, organizer, or resonant healing facilitator, he draws upon the rich tradition of both his recent and ancient Jewish ancestors of seeding resistance and resilience through song, story, and dance. He’s an organizing member of Jewish Voice for Peace and on the path of the Shomeret Shalom (“Practitioner of the Torah of Nonviolence”), as laid out by Master Storyteller, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb. Photo: Aliko Weste

Liz Digitale Anderson
Liz Digitale Anderson (she/they) is a queer, mixed-race artist, musician, activist, and parent, using community songleading as an organizing vehicle for liberation. They have led community singing for picket lines and protests, Education for Liberation workshops, grief and healing spaces, Transgender Day of Remembrance, and anti-racist somatic praxis. After seasons living in California, Chicago, and London, Liz and her family landed in colonized Dakota land (aka Minneapolis) right before COVID hit, followed by the murder of George Floyd and the Uprising. The wave of mutual aid, radical community support, and abolitionist organizing that followed was incredibly formative and sparked a lot of new songs. Liz is the founder of The Sunday Morning Heretic Sing, an ongoing circle for queer and ex-religious folx to show up and sing with their whole selves. Currently she's writing music to sing together that supports systemic change, ending white supremacy, and movements for abolition.

You can hear their songs and learn more about what they’re up to in Minneapolis and their vision for movement singing here: https://linktr.ee/lizdances

Prairie Johnson
Prairie Johnson has been singing in song circles since she was 14 and writing songs since age 11. She has led songs for community singing at Village Fire and Singing Rabbit, parties, events, workshops, and the other myriad cracks in Earth's corners that only songs can fill. She attended Dancing Rabbit's weekly song circle from 2017-2023, where she got her first taste of song leading in community. Prairie is a spoken-word poet, writer, pianist, avid reader, lover of food, bare feet on the Terra, biking, cooking, and the enlivening love-mess-nest of authentic connection with humans.

Emma Koeppel
Emma is a joyfully devoted community leader, creative, and lover of loving. Her journey into song leading began in January of 2023 when she stumbled across her first community song circle. Through singing with others, her body remembered what it felt like to belong deeply in community. She longs for community spaces that invite us to dwell on the edges of aliveness together, feeling and imagining what might be possible when we lean into spaces of not knowing. She lives through listening deeply to mystery, to heart, and to kin. When she's not leading song circles, Emma loves playing in her garden, improvising on the piano, taking naps, singing to the earth, and writing poems.

Emma Stout
Emma Stout is a community weaver and lover of singing based in Minneapolis. She was first introduced to community singing in 2016 and co-founded a Jewish song circle in Minneapolis in 2018. She believes deeply in the power of song to open doors in our hearts that words alone cannot. Song is an ancient tool for transformation, healing and connection, and one of Emma's deepest pleasures is sharing song with others. When she's not singing, Emma can be found watching the local birds, playing music at a jam, or joyfully dancing in community.

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