SONG*LINES PROJECT

weaving Village by singing together in places we love  

Spring 2025, Iowa City 

in partnership with Grant Wood Artist Colony + University of Iowa School of Music 

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“Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.” — Louise Erdrich

“We belong to the land and it belongs to us. We sing to the land, sing about the land. We are that land. It sings to us.”   ~ Songspirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country Through Songlines, Gay'wu Group of Women

SUNDAYS,  2-4pm 

FEB 2: RSFIC

FEB 16: sacred collective

MAR 2:   TBD

MAR 16:  TBD

MAR 30: Stanley Museum

APRIL 13:  Poor Farm    

APRIL 27: Bike Library

>> MAY 4 : “BIG SING” @ OLD BRICK, 2-5pm

I’m inspired by the Aboriginal practice of songlines or “dreaming tracks” that guide pathways of intimacy between land and people.  New to this community, I’m feeling for the whisper of wind and song of river, the chorus of those already working for justice, fueling resilience, and insisting on beauty….steady thrum of the One Song in between and beneath the noise of modern discord.

How do we feel for and lift up the soul of a place?  How do we intentionally weave together those who are stoking it, in rest + play + dreaming?  How does the ancient, simple act of singing together remind us what our bones already know?  How does this humble, collective music-making feed Life and the land that gives us home? 

For me, part of sensing a new place is feeling for resonance with those already laboring in love and joining them in vision.  Songs are a vital nutrient that catalyzes and refreshes work we will never see finished. 

My hope for this project is to nourish the thriving of local community-building organizations and cross-pollinate new connections by weaving them together with a series of song circles that culminates in a Big Sing. 

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