Songbird Events June 2025
- Katrina Zezza
- Jun 6
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 10
Dear Songbird Community,
In our current conditions, folks are coming together to love each other harder than ever. This kind of love is powerful and deeply subversive to harmful forces. It reflects both how much trouble we are facing, and how strongly the great spirit is stirring to set things right, give life, resist death-dealing systems and realize the world we need: a world where everyone has a right to live and all people are free, not just to survive but to thrive.
Songbird Studio is a maker-space centered in creativity and community care as spiritual practice, located in the basement of the First Presbyterian Church of Beacon. Its mission is to be a space for multi-cultural communal art projects, critical conversations, performances and music; bringing together grassroots organizers, artists and spiritual seekers who want to take care of their neighbors and build a better world. It's a place for people to make art together, but also to do community organizing and mutual aid. When we create the conditions for meaningful connection, a natural calling arises to care for each other and the world. We'd love to have you involved. Read more below to see some of the ways we can connect, and if you have an idea for collaboration, email katrina@songbirdstudio.org.
Forward Together!
Katrina Ross Zezza MDiv
Saturday June 7th 3-5 pm - Reparative Works: Fixing and Mending Broken Toys. Led by art psychotherapist, Dr. Linda Siegel, this workshop is offered as an outcry for repairing and transforming our sadness and grief through the healing process of making art together as community. In this workshop we will be repairing broken toys and transforming them into something new.
Sunday June 8th 7pm - To Repair to Return: An Evening of Art and Poetry with Annabel Daou and Jennifer Mackenzie. MacKenzie and Daou’s works tell stories of life in ruined and ruining empire – set in Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, New York and other devastated, blossoming human landscapes. The wound will not be put in the past. Its persistence opens the possibility of layering on the residues of new meaning: what lies beneath and between, eruptions of joy, revelations of the queering body, the resonance of a momentary exchange.
Sunday June 22nd 4:30 pm The Dreaming Place: A Vibraphone Sound Journey with Chris Dingman. Chris Dingman is a vibraphonist and composer known for his distinctive approach: sonically rich and conceptually expansive, bringing listeners on a journey to a beautiful, transcendent place. Hailed by the New York Times as a “dazzling” soloist and composer with a “fondness for airtight logic and burnished lyricism." Participants are invited to sit or lay down. Bring floor cushions, pillows, blankets if you wish.
Sunday June 29th 7:30 pm Nutritious Beat Ambient Funk Songbird Studio welcomes back Nutritious Beat for a night of ambient funk music to elevate our collective spirit and build community. We'll also be working on a community mural and there will be art supplies available to be creative on your own, or with a friend.
Weekly Happenings
No Mud No Lotus Meditation Circle, in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Led by Greta Byrum. Every week, we share the simple and powerful practice of sitting, breathing, and being together. BYO floor cushion. Mondays 6:45-8pm
Sunday Deep Talks, a sacred text study, with broadly defined sacred texts. From 2-3:30pm on most Sundays we light a candle, reflect on a poem and see what thoughts come to our minds. It's a time to think creatively, and to intentionally make space for meaning-making in the week. Led by Katrina Ross Zezza
Fareground Welcome Table every Friday 5:30-7:30pm No one should have to eat alone or go without a warm meal. Fareground Welcome Table is a free community dinner held every Friday in Beacon. These dinners are about more than food; they create a welcoming space where people can connect, share a meal, and experience dignity and inclusion. Fareground Welcome Table is a collaboration between First Presbyterian Church of Beacon, Songbird Studio, and Fareground Food + Community.
Songbird Kids Art Collective, a group of kids 9+ developing multi-cultural, nature-based and socially conscious art together, Tuesdays 3:30-5pm. If your child is interested in joining the collective in the fall please contact Katrina at katrina@songbirdstudio.org
*No registration or RSVP is required for any special events or weekly happenings, drop ins are welcome. All events at Songbird are sober friendly and open to the public, donations for the artists are greatly appreciated!
Songbird Studio
50 Liberty St
Beacon, NY 12508
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