Singing Ourselves Free! a community song experience with Shireen Amini

Come gather in circle for an evening of soulful, liberatory song. Guided by singer-songwriter and song-carrier Shireen Amini, we’ll raise our voices together in a participatory experience of original medicine music - crafted to meet this moment with compassion, fierceness, and joy.

This experience will be part group singing, part rhythmic play, and part embodied ritual. Through call-and-echo and layered harmonies, we’ll sing ourselves through grief, into healing, and toward collective freedom. Let’s remember the power of song to reconnect us to ourselves, to each other, and to the world we dream is possible.

In this container:

We believe singing is a birthright and welcome all levels of experience.

No matter your race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, size, neurodivergence, abilities, or housing status, you are not only welcome and wanted here, you belong here. 

Evening flow:

Arrive and settle in: 5:30-6pm

Song container: 6-7:30pm

Cost:

Regular Ticket: $15-55 sliding scale

Pay what you can / No one turned away Ticket: $0-$14 >> enter Access Code: CARETICKET

Kids 12 and under are free

BIPOC Scholarship available. Contact host.

DROP-INS WELCOME!

Land and people acknowledgment:

This event is taking place on the unceded territory of the Ute, Paiute, Hopi, Zuni and Southern Ute. 

Accessibility: 

This venue is ADA accessible.

Please let us know if there are any other ways we can support your access to this offering.  

Parking: 

Limited parking available in parking lot. Biking or parking on 100 and walking in is encouraged.

Community care:

Please come free of contagious symptoms. You are most welcome to mask and distance to your own comfort level.

What will be provided:

Water

Some chairs, couches, and cushions

Restroom facilities

What to bring:

A water bottle

Any cushions, blankets, and layers to help your body feel comfortable

Ways to keep yourself cool (venue is cooled with evaporative cooling rather than conventional central A/C)

Bio:

Shireen “Riyo” Amini (they/them) is a queer, trans masculine, Puerto Rican-Iranian American, earth-loving song creator, rhythm maker, and community facilitator based in Portland, Oregon. As a human, they carry a deep commitment to their own liberation path and vision of a more just world. As an artist, they believe strongly in music’s power to propel cultural revolution. Shireen blends pop, rock, hip hop, latin, and roots sensibilities with socially-conscious themes as a singer-songwriter and creates modern medicine music for community singing. In song circles, they hold transformational space, leading joyful, groove-based songs, evoking tenderness, and often engaging participants in the rhythm and ceremony of it all. Stay tuned for Shireen’s first community song album in-the-works, tentatively titled “Gather Your Resilience: Medicine Songs for Liberation."