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Singing has been a backbone of human culture for millenia. Whether used for storytelling or recreation, the magic of song has been an essential means of expression, connection, and celebration. You can take part in this ancient tradition with us. Bring your voice to help weave together a wondrous community through song.
No matter your talent, age, or skill there is a place for you at Singing Rabbit. Come and explore singing together within a thriving ecovillage. Join a community with a strong song culture and a rich background in using song in song circles, important life events, and everyday life. Spend your Labor Day weekend with us, out in nature, surrounded by laughter and music.
No matter your talent, age, or skill there is a place for you at Singing Rabbit. Come and explore singing together within a thriving ecovillage. Join a community with a strong song culture and a rich background in using song in song circles, important life events, and everyday life. Spend your Labor Day weekend with us, out in nature, surrounded by laughter and music.
Singing Rabbit will be an intimate gathering including many members from our own village. Come experience the heart of community with song, laughter, good food, and connection.
Annie Schlaefer has been collecting songs and facilitating song circles for 12 years in different communities (Northern Minnesota, Maine, Wisconsin) and now has been co-facilitating a weekly local community song circle, “Sing As You Are”, in Minneapolis with Linnea for 2+ years. She learned about this style of singing in 2012 in Decorah, Iowa from a local song-leader, Liz Rog. Annie loves to garden and explore the outdoors with friends.
Linnea Champ co-facilitates a weekly local community song circle, “Sing As You Are”, in Minneapolis, and was introduced to this style of singing in 2015. Linnea works in public health, and enjoys running, biking, and playing the piano.
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 events 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.
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.
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 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 in 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.
Liz Digitale Anderson (she/they) is a queer, mixed-race artist, musician, activist, & 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
As a community choir in New Orleans, we meet once a week, all-year round. As the seasons turn, so does our song palette. Over the years we have learned many songs. We tend toward the curious, the creative, and the compelling; from elegantly simple to cathartically complex. Here we present selected favorites of ours, focusing on songs we, or those we know, have written, aiming to bring to you songs new, exciting, beautiful.
Friday, August 30 – Monday, September 2 (Labor Day Weekend)
Registration: Friday 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
Late-arrival registration: Saturday 7 am- 9 am
Departure: Monday 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Gather by the fire with us at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. You’ll be surrounded by the beauty of nature while enjoying our village life. There will be plenty of time for you to explore and learn about the Dancing Rabbit community.
You’ll have the chance to tour our land and a variety of our green and natural buildings. Come learn how sustainable living isn’t just about respecting the planet, but the connections we make with each other. Raise your voice and create a community of song with us here at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage!
Meals provided from Friday dinner through Monday lunch.
We will work together cooperatively to provide three meals a day, packed with as much nourishing, local food as possible. We can work with a range of dietary needs – let us know your particulars when you fill out the registration form. Please note that we will do our best to accommodate different dietary needs but cannot guarantee that we will be able to, and you may need to bring supplemental food.
Campsites within walking distance of common buildings and events spaces are covered as part of the event fee. You will have access to the common house for use of showers, composting toilets, wifi, water and more. Campers can choose between open, grassy sites, and our wooded campground. Sites will be distributed on a first come first serve basis. Bring your own gear, or rent a tent from us for $20.
Limited indoor accommodations are available to rent during your stay. Also first come first serve.
Adult: $250 – $350
Child (age 6-17): $125 – $175
Children under 5: FREE
Can’t come for the whole weekend? Check out our day rates!
Adult: $75 – $85
Child (age 6-17): $35 – $45
Children under 5: FREE
The all-inclusive fee covers meals, camping space (bring your own gear), showers, bathrooms, WiFi, and community building access. Indoor accommodations are available at an extra cost.
There are limited work trade options available for this event. Please inquire for details.
Friday
1:30pm – 3:30pm – Registration: arrive and get settled
4:00pm – Tour of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
6:00pm – Circle up & Dinner
7:30/8:00pm – Fireside Open Song Circle w/ introduction of song-leaders
Saturday
7:00am – 8:00am – Morning Practice
7:00am – 9:00am – Registration open for any late arrivals
8:00am – 9:00am – Breakfast
9:30am – Morning Gathering
10:15am – 12:00pm – Song Circles
12:15pm – Lunch
1:00pm – Tour of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
2:00pm – 3:00pm – Skill-share/Community Offerings or rest time
3:30pm – 5:30pm – Song Circles
6:15pm – Gather for Dinner
8:00pm – Fireside Open Song Circle
Sunday
7:00am – 8:00am – Morning Practice
8:00am – 9:00am – Breakfast
8:30am – Ultimate Frisbee (optional) – playing field
9:30am – Morning Gathering
10:00am – 12:00pm – Song Circles
12:15pm – Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm – Skill-share/Community Offerings or rest time
4:00pm – 6:00pm – Songs for Building Community (All song leaders head up 2-3 songs)
6:00pm – Gather for Dinner
7:30pm – No-Talent Show
Dusk – Fireside Open Song Circle (10pm quiet hours begin – singing okay, no drumming)
Monday
7:00am – 8:00am – Morning Practice
8:00am – 9:00am – Breakfast
9:30am – Morning Gathering
10:00am – 12:00pm – Song highlights from the weekend with everyone
12:15pm – Lunch
2:00 – Closing Ritual
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