in person workshop with Batya Levine
Arrival 6:45 pm, Workshop 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Temple Beth Zion, Brookline, MA
$10-36 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)
This is a mask required event, the leader will be unmasked while leading.

Drawing on the tradition of aliyot - being called up to bless and be blessed by the chanting of the Torah - we will interweave song with ritual in a co-created group space to call our prayers into the song, and call the song into our prayers. We will explore the concept of blessings, learn melodies, and have space to give and receive the blessing of song together.

Accessibility: This is a mask required event. The leader will be unmasked while leading. TBZ is an ADA accessible building. The workshop will be in the community room, which is on the basement level floor. The accessible entrance is to the left of the big stairs (basement level), and the community room is right inside. Washrooms on all floors are accessible.

This event is co-sponsored by TBZ (Temple Beth Zion) and Kavod Boston.

Please feel free to reach out to info@letmypeoplesing.org with any questions. 

Bring Arab-Jewish music into the soundscape of your high holiday experience! In this workshop, musician Yoni Avi Battat will share traditional melodies and piyyutim (liturgical poems) for Selichot, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur. Drawing from a number of different Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) traditions Yoni will teach these approachable and beautiful songs, and about the musical traditions they come from. Participants will walk away empowered to bring these melodies to their own communities and incorporate them into their high holiday musical prayer experience.

Join us for our first ever Virtual Sing Back, where participants of this summer's retreat will share songs they learned or taught at the retreat.  If you were at the retreat - help us share the songs we learned, and practice teaching them! If you weren't at the retreat - come learn the songs shared!  We look forward to gathering in song and expanding our collective repertoire together.

This event is virtual and free.

This event is sold out. Join us for a celebratory Friday night Shabbat Service marking the conclusion of our Ashir Shirah series, organized by the Egalitarian Sefardi Mizrahi Kehilla and Let My People Sing! We’ll gather in person for a Kabbalat Shabbat service in Moroccan Nusach co-led by Laura Elkeslassy and students from the Ashir Shirah Class. Service will be followed by a festive shabbat dinner. All are welcome.

LMPS is proud to be co-sponsoring this event!

Join Boston Workers Circle, Let My People Sing!, and Kavod Boston for a festival celebrating Sefardi and Mizrahi culture! The evening will feature performances from Lily Henley, Yoni Battat, and Anat Halevy Hochberg, and tabling from Sefardi and Mizrahi artisans. Light refreshments to be served. RSVP to secure your spot — space is limited!

LMPS is proud to be co-sponsoring this event hosted by Dayenu. Free and open to all.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT

"The times are urgent, let's slow down." - Bayo Akomolafe

As we continue the work of building the world we want, join us to rest, recharge, and get inspired through Jewish song and wisdom. All are welcome at this next “Gathering for Song & Solidarity,” featuring music from Rachel Chang, Marni Loffman, and Aly Halpert.

For event info about March 1 tisch’s in Chicago and Providence, check out our community populated map!

Minneapolis, in collaboration with Ilu Finu
Doors at 5:45, event 6-7:30pm, New City Center, 3104 16th Ave S
Access info: ADA accessible building. This event is mask required, with the option to unmask while leading. Extra masks will be available on site. For other specific access request, let us know in the RSVP form below, or email access@letmypeoplesing,org.

Philly, in collaboration with Kol Tzedek
5:30-7pm, Kol Tzedek, in the Multi-Purpose Room (KT #2, 5300 Whitby Ave).
Access info: This event is mask required, with the option to unmask while leading. Extra masks and tests will be available on site. For full access notes, please click here.  For other specific access requests or questions, please email accessibility@kol-tzedek.org.

Description: The word "tisch" is Yiddish for "table," and is an opportunity to gather together in immersive song. Throughout even the most difficult moments in history, Jews have been gathering around Shabbat tables to eat, bless, and sing with friends and family. Join Let My People Sing!, Ilu Finu and Kol Tzedek as we dive into communal singing with Zemirot for Shabbat and melodies in honor of Rosh Chodesh Adar (new moon of Adar)! This tisch is happening as part of the culmination of a 3-part virtual series offered by LMPS on Ashkenazi melodies for Zemirot, and we’ll be singing some of the melodies learned there. (Class participation not required to attend these tischs.)

Are you interested in organizing a tisch in your community on March 1st? Add details including time, location, access info and a sentence or two about yourself or the community that will be hosting to this community populated map! Or email info@letmypeoplesing.org. Zemirot class participation recommended.

These events are free, and donations are welcome.

Oseh Shalom: singing into shlemut (wholeness) and fragmentation
with Batya Levine

Wednesday, February 19th
Doors at 6:45, event 7-8:30
Studio 105W, Center for Performing Arts
3754 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis
Suggested donation $10-$72
In collaboration with Ilu Finu

We are living in a time of profound rupture and fragmentation on the individual, communal, and societal levels. This can make it difficult to access or even imagine of a sense of wholeness and integration in the world. How can we move towards shlemut when we cannot access it in ourselves? In this workshop we will utilize the practice of singing to explore fragmentation and shlemut (wholeness/ integration) and the wisdom they can weave together. We will be using song, reflection, and sharing about our experience as pathways into these themes.

Access info: ADA accessible building, mask required, leader will unmask.

Kedmah excavates the power and beauty of Mizrahi Jewish expression through ancient poetry and song. Their debut album, Simu Lev, was  released in April 2024 on Rising Song Records. Led by past LMPS Lead teachers, Yoni Battat & Rabbi Yosef Goldman, Kedmah invites listeners to experience the spiritual and emotional depth of Middle Eastern piyyut (liturgical poetry) and the traditional Arab melodies that adorn them. We will close out Shabbat Shirah, the shabbat of song, with Kedmah in concert at Kol Tzedek. Co-sponsored by Let My People Sing!, Tribe12, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Tickets are sliding scale $36-72.
This event will take place in-person at Kol Tzedek Synagogue - 5300 Whitby Ave, Philadelphia. This event is mask optional.

Facilitated by Arielle Rivera Korman & Batya Levine
Tuesday, January 7th on Zoom
7-8:15pm EST | 6-7:15pm CST | 4-5:15pm PST
This offering is free and open to all.

With fascism on the rise, and inauguration drawing closer, we know that we need to be resourced to resist and to make it through the months and years ahead. This Let My People Sing! style community sing is an opportunity to gather in community and share songs for protest, for prayer, and for channeling our joy, heartbreak, and rage.  The space will be facilitated by song leaders Arielle Rivera Korman and Batya Levine, and also co-created by all of us, meaning that all who want to are invited to share a song.  We hope to sing with you then!

Automated captioning will be provided.

Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

Featuring 2024 Teachers and LMPS Team Members:
Yoni Avi Battat | (DJ) Rabbi Shir Meira Feit | Dodie Whitaker | Laura Elkeslassy | April Centrone | Anat Halevy Hochberg | Aly Halpert | Batya Levine | Marques Hollie & Margot Seigle

Sliding Scale: $72 - $1800
Ticket includes light appetizers and an alcoholic or non alcoholic drink of your choosing.

FREE

5:30-7pm
Sunroom at the Center for Performing Arts.
3754 Pleasant Avenue Minneapolis, MN.

Weeks like this one can be flooding to our nervous systems, discouraging for our hearts and spirits. We’ll gather again on the other side of the election, and sing songs to help soothe our cells, support grief to move, and touch back in with our sense of collective agency and power.  

Chairs provided, BYO floor cushion or blanket if you wish to sit on the floor. Limited space available, we’ll do our best to fit everyone who joins!

We’re going to try out streaming the song circle via instagram so that the song we create together can ripple out beyond the room. We’ll designate a “no photo” section if you wish to not be visible on the livestream.

Access info: masks required except when leading a song. ADA accessible (ADA compliant main entrance off of 38th St.). All ages welcome. Find transportation and more accessibility info here.

Questions? Email info@letmypeoplesing.org.

FREE

PHILLY

10-11am Avodat Lev with Batya Levine and Aly Halpert
5020 Cedar Ave. (backyard), Philadelphia, PA 

Join us to start election day with an Avodat Lev* service. We’ll move through a simple structure of songful morning prayers with space for prayer and reflection in order to ground us in spirit, breath, community and connection as we move into the rest of the day and beyond.
*This model of songful prayer was started in the Adamah Fellowship at Isabella Freedman Retreat Center.

Access info: This gathering will be outside, and mask optional. There will be some chairs set up, please bring your own if it's easy to. There are 2 steps up to get to the yard, and the pavement in the yard has some chunks missing. There’s a restroom on the first floor of the house which is 5 steps from the back yard or 7 steps from the front sidewalk.

MINNEAPOLIS

5:30-7pm: Song Circle with Margot Seigle and Friends
Sunroom at the Center for Performing Arts.
3754 Pleasant Avenue Minneapolis, MN.

We'll sing songs for courage and resilience to help settle our nervous systems and give us the strength to turn and face whatever is to come. 

Chairs provided, BYO floor cushion or blanket if you wish to sit on the floor. Limited space available, we’ll do our best to fit everyone who joins!

Access info: masks required except when leading a song. ADA accessible (ADA compliant main entrance off of 38th St.). All ages welcome. Find transportation and more accessibility info here.

Questions? Email info@letmypeoplesing.org.

Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia St - Brooklyn

Join The Neighborhood and Lab/Shul and other community partners to lift your voice in a collective and contemplative musical journey led by Eliana Light (beloved LMPS teacher), alongside musicians Carla Friend, Coleen Dieker, Drew Cohen, Jesse Chevan, and Shira Kline. (Let My People Sing! is proud to be co-sponsoring this event!)

The Hebrew month of Elul leads up to the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Many Jewish traditions observe the month of Elul as a sacred time in which we can open our hearts, souls, and voices to prepare for the days of awe ahead. This month calls us to connect and reflect; to yearn and return; to open ourselves to the possibility of transformation. What better way to undertake this journey than through a communal gathering centered around sacred song?

Eliana Light envisions a joyful, vibrant, heart-centered Judaism that speaks to the soul and moves the spirit, reminding us that we all are One. Her fourth album of playful & soulful original melodies, ORAH HI, was released in fall of 2023. Eliana is also the founder of the Light Lab and host of the Light Lab Podcast. Based in Durham, NC, Eliana visits communities around the country as an artist-in-residence, making Jewish liturgy and prayer practice accessible and meaningful through leading, teaching, and song.

Sing with us for our day-long program featuring LMPS teachers and a community sing in NC (Durham area)

with Nomy Lamm & Sol Weiss

This will be a three part series over three months, where we focus on one mother letter in each class. Sefer Yetzirah teaches that שׁ (shin), מ (mem) and א (alef) are the “mothers” of all other letters, and symbolic figures for the elements that are the foundation for all of creation. Each letter is connected with an element and a body part that we will explore through song and practice in each of our three sessions. As sick & disabled people, finding relationship between our bodyminds and song, earth, fire, water, and air supports us in breaking isolation and grounding in connection with the world.

Sundays on Zoom
May 19*, June 30, July 28
7-8:30pm EST | 6-7:30pm CST | 4-5:30pm PST
*May 19th session starting at 7:30pm EST to allow folks to attend who may be attending MPLS Sings!

Cost: Sliding scale from $36 - $360.
This is a NOTAFLOF event (no one turned away for lack of funds), and folks who aren’t able to pay at this time are invited to email info@letmypeoplesing.org for a discount code.

ASL & Live Captioning available upon request.

Nomy Lamm is a musician, illustrator, kohenet, and the Creative Director of Sins Invalid, a disability justice based performance project. Nomy creates ritual tools for embodied queer Jewish feminist practice, including the Dreaming the World to Come planner and the Omer Oracle deck. They are dedicated to anti-colonial, anti-racist practices, and to witnessing a Free Palestine in their lifetime. They live on occupied Squaxin land in Olympia, WA, with their partner Lisa and their animal companions Dandelion, Momma, Romance, and Chanukah. www.nomyteaches.com, @nomyteaches

Sol Weiss is a white Ashkenazi artist, ritualist, educator and cultural organizer on Nipmuc Pocumtuk lands in Northampton MA. When they’re not in the print shop, the kitchen or the garden, Sol currently serves as Director of Communications and Resource Sharing at Tzedek Lab, a national network of visionaries and changemakers moving the Jewish community to end antisemitism, racism and white supremacy. Sol's work explores how land connection, art, kinship and tradition can support us to overcome oppression, heal from colonization and build new worlds. 

Join us for an afternoon of Jewish communal song in a beautiful setting overlooking the Mississippi River (30 minutes from the Twin Cities). This pilot offering is aimed at providing more opportunities for more people to receive the healing and transformative power of Let My People Sing!.

1:00 - 2:30p EST | 12:00 - 1:30p CST | 10:00 - 11:30a PST

A virtual class with Marques Hollie.

When we sing,  our bodies themselves become our instruments. Join Marques Hollie for this session on learning about how to care for our voices.  Vocal care helps us sustain singing without burning out or hurting ourselves, and it can support us to sing with more of our self and voice. Topics will include: vocal anatomy, warming up, the importance of breath/breathing, and common myths and misconceptions about singing.