Songs for Dark Times Like These. With Simeen Anjum.
Portland, OR. 2024 - ongoing
In collaboration with Simeen Anjum, Songs for Dark Times Like These is an ongoing song circle in unexpected places. Building off of Simeen’s project that began in the fall of 2023, we hosted two singing circles in the fall of 2024. These informal yet structured spaces believe in the power of song to connect us to each other and to those who have sung before us to better face incoming facism and climate collapse. By singing songs of resistance found in Simeen’s home of Delhi as well as in protest cultures of the United States and around the world, we respond to Bertolt Brecht’s question: “In the dark times, will there also be singing?” with an enthusiastic yes.