Singing Resistance Song Circle

About this event

Forged in grief and rooted in love, the Singing Resistance Songbook was compiled during the federal occupation of Minneapolis in early 2026. Join local songleaders for a 90-minute song circle where we will use these timely texts and beautiful melodies to process, ground, and connect. Singing Resistance is building a mass movement of singers to protect and care for our communities in the face of rising authoritarianism. We are grounded in love, nonviolence, and solidarity. In the context of escalating violence towards our communities and federal invasions of our cities and towns, we sing because song is an antidote to fear, song helps us connect to each other, and through song we can name and protect what we hold sacred. We sing publicly in the streets for the sake of solace, strength, solidarity, to voice our dissent, and to refuse cooperation with oppressive and autocratic forces. We welcome everyone into the movement for collective liberation. We are fighting for a future in which all people – Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, trans, queer, disabled, poor – and the Earth are safe and sovereign. Through song, we can refuse to obey what authoritarianism wants us to do – get small, numb out, and forget. Instead, we will mobilize our communities in public, we will feel, and we will tell the truth of the violence and of the resistance. Through our actions we seek to embody and represent that which we are fighting for: beloved communities of strong ties, coming together in defense of life, where all are loved and cared for. Join local songleaders for a 90-minute song circle where we will use the timely texts and beautiful melodies of the Singing Resistance Songbook to process, ground, and connect. The Singing Resistance Songbook was compiled during the federal occupation of Minneapolis in early 2026. As current events compel us, these songs will be used in social justice protest spaces and acts of solidarity throughout Cedar Rapids. No experience is necessary…