Grounded Grief Medicine Song Circle at Kindness Farm

🌱Event Details🌱

• Arrival between 5:00-5:30pm. We will sing from about 5:30-7:30pm.
  

• Please register via eventbrite if you can! This helps us know how many folks to expect and create a better experience for everyone!
  

• Venue: Kindness Farm – 7101 SE 127th Ave, Portland, OR 97236.
  
• Suggested donation: $10 Sliding Scale. No one turned away!

No singing experience is required – we mean it! Communal singing is about sharing song together and all voices are welcome as they are. Songs will be taught call and echo style.

🌱What is a Grounded Gried Medicine Song Circle? 🌱

The purpose of this gathering is to create a safe, nourishing space to feel, process, release, and transform grief on the beautiful, loving land of Kindness Farm. This land holds us and loves us. As we feed our grief to the soil, it is broken down and transformed into beauty, change, and action.

Some of our grief may be individual, while other grief may be collective. Places where we can hold and release grief together, in community, are deeply needed in our times.

Songs will be guided by Lou Lé, call and echo style. We will also engage in communal sharing, meditation, and movement.

🌱Who is Lou Lé?🌱

Lou Lé (they/them) is a siberian & ukrainian queer refugee passionate about connection to land, community, and music. They're a lifelong musician and sharer of medicine songs and write dynamic, enchanting medicine music that reverberates deeply and creates meaningful transformation. They are also the founder of Kindness Farm.

🌱Important Community Agreements🌱

• Our Kindness Farm community is a safe, inclusive, healing space for many different kinds of people. We come from diverse backgrounds and include refugees, immigrants, queer and trans folx, BIPOC, neurodivergent individuals, individuals with disabilities, individuals who currently or in the past have had low incomes, youth, and seniors. By joining the farm community, you agree to honor the differences between us, to show kindness and respect to everyone you meet, and to cherish all of our collective freedom to be exactly as we are.
  

• You do not have to have any signing experience, know how to sing, or think you're a good singer. We welcome all voices to come experience the transformative, healing power of communal song.
  

• We encourage and welcome your autonomy through all parts of this gathering. If any of the practices we engage in aren't right for you in that moment, you can simply opt out of them with absolutely no judgment. You're always welcome to just sit, listen, and care for yourself in whatever ways are needed in the moment.

🌱What to Bring🌱

• A chair, cushion, bolster, and/or blanket - whatever will make you comfortable outdoors on the farm!
• We recommend wearing comoftable clothes that allow you to move freely and comofrtably
• Water and/or tea
• A notebook or journal
• Yourself, exactly as you are

🌱Covid-19🌱

While masks are not required at this event, we encourage you to mask and distance to your comfort level, and support you in doing so. If you're not feeling well, or are showing any symptoms of illness, please support and protect your community by staying home.

Kindness Farm is a immigrant,refugee, and queer led regenerative community farm in SE Portland. We focus on the reclamation of individual and communal power through tending land.

We’re a community-led farm that teaches kids, adults, and seniors how to tend land and grow food sustainably, using regenerative methods that heal the earth, sequester carbon, and create climate resilience. Alongside our educational programming, we grow a large amount of fresh produce which is provided, at no cost, to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity through partner organizations.

In the last 3.5 years we’ve...

• Provided environmental, regenerative education to 3,204 children, adults, and seniors.
• Engaged a large, committed community of volunteers to create a resilient, healing space with 20,192 volunteer hours.
• As a by-product of our educational programming, we’ve grown nutritious, healthy produce for over 63,983 meals, produce-boxes, and free food pantries. Over 50% of our produce goes to Black and Hispanic households, and 1st and 2nd generation immigrants.
  

We work with historically underrepresented communities: immigrants & refugees, LGBTQIIA2S+, families with low-incomes, BIPOC, people with disabilities, children, youth, and seniors.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Kindness Farm, 7101 Southeast 127th Avenue, Portland, United States