This page of events are coordinated by Music that Makes Community and are planned collaboratively with hosts around the United States and Canada.
If you don't see any workshops in your area and are interested in hosting one, please review our Host a Workshop page and then contact [email protected].
Upcoming Events
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Tuesday, June 23, 2026 at 04:00 PM through June 27, 2026
University of Denver / Denver, CO in Denver, CO
Get a introductory taste of Music that Makes Community at the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network (LuMin) and the Gather Network's conference, "Beyond the Summit," on June 23-26, 2026 at the University of Denver in Denver, CO.
LuMin Board members and Music that Makes Community enthusiasts, Rev. Lori Ruge-Jones of Eau Claire, Wisconsin and Rev. Christina Nesslage of Raleigh, NC, will be sharing their love of MMC songs and leadership practices.
For more details about the conference, click: https://luminelca.org/staff-conference/.
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If you'd like to share your love of Music that Makes Community songs and practices, please reach out! We'd love to support you in spreading the seeds of MMC and welcome your hands and voices in tending this vast mycelial ecosystem of singing individuals and communities.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 06:30 PM
Creekside United Church of Christ / Minneapolis, MN in Minneapolis, MN
Join us for a night of SINGING and political education, in solidarity with Indigenous land and water protectors, on Wednesday, June 24 from 6:30-8:30 pm at Creekside United Church of Christ (UCC). We will gather to make sense of the larger legal structures that legitimate extractive industry, and to connect our work to protect the Boundary Waters with the Indigenous-led fight to protect Pipestone. Together we will sing songs for sacred lands and draft public comments to the Public Utilities Commission, asking them to reject the Magellan Pipeline permit, support the NO BUILD alternative, and honor sacred sites and religious freedom for all. Preview Songs for Sacred Lands: https://dismantlediscovery.org/sacred-lands-playlist/
Co-sponsors: Singing Resistance Twin Cities, Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, Music that Makes Community, Sacred Reckonings–
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Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 07:00 PM
Zoom
Music that Makes Community is offering their first Online Songleader Training for Social Action!
Music that Makes Community is offering our first virtual songleader training for Social Action on Thursday, June 25 from 7-9 p.m. ET. This training is intended to be paired with a Virtual Practice Group. See more details below.
Earlier this year Singing Resistance (IG:@singingresistance; #singingresistance) showed us that paperless singing and the related leadership practices are a potent tool in movement work. Music that Makes Community has been sharing these song leading practices without paper for almost 20 years and we are ready to support this transformation in our communities.
Virtual attendees will leave the training with:
- new songs appropriate for many movement action types,
- leadership postures and gestures for songleading
- frameworks of what types of songs to use when
- and more ...REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Suggested Registration Fee: $25-150.
We believe that financial access shouldn't be a barrier to receiving training. To honor our community's diverse financial realities, we use a sliding scale. Please contribute what you can with gratitude for the time and skill of our facilitators and consider supporting others' attendance to help create access to events like these.
To register, click the orange "Register" button at the link below, then select one of the four suggested registration options. You will have two options to donate an additional amount: 1) to cover the processing fees of your registration and 2) to make an additional gift to MMC.
Click here to Register!
Space is limited to 90 participants.
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Additional Virtual Training Opportunities
- Virtual Songleader Training for Intergenerational Contexts on Monday, July 20, 2026, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET. To register, click here.
- Virtual Practice Groups will meet 4 times over two months. Tentatively planned for August-September and November-December 2026.
- More Virtual Songleader Trainings are being planned for September and October 2026.Watch this website calendar for more details to come.
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Monday, July 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM through July 16, 2026
St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN
Music that Makes Community will be attending the Association for Lutheran Church Musicians 40th Anniversary conference, "From Generation to Generation: Now and Forever," July 13-16, 2026 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.
Current and past MMC Board members, Amy Steenson and Liesl Spitz, and a representative from The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery will be presenting a workshop on the Sacred Lands Project partnership, a collection of paperless, aural tradition songs for community singing intended to inspire and compel communities of faith to organize alongside Indigenous communities defending sacred lands from extractive industries and leading rematriation efforts. Read more about the project and download it here.
For more details about the conference, click: https://alcm.org/2026-st-olaf/.
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Monday, July 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Zoom
MMC is offering its first Online Songleader Training for Intergenerational Spaces!
Music that Makes Community is offering our first online songleader training for Intergenerational Spaces on Monday, July 20 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET. This training is intended to be paired with a Virtual Practice Group. See more details below.
There is growing curiosity and energy for making space for ALL generations to raise their voices in song. Music that Makes Community has been sharing these song leading practices without paper for almost 20 years and we are ready to support this transformation in each of our communities.
Virtual participants will come away from this training:
- with skills to lead paperless singing in their contexts,
- new songs appropriate for many intergenerational spaces,
- leadership postures and gestures for songleading
- frameworks of what types of songs to use when
- and more ...REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Suggested Registration Fee: $25-150.
We believe that financial access shouldn't be a barrier to receiving training. To honor our community's diverse financial realities, we use a sliding scale. Please contribute what you can with gratitude for the time and skill of our facilitators and consider supporting others' attendance to help create access to events like these.
To register, click the orange "Register" button at the link below, then select one of the four suggested registration options. You will have two options to donate an additional amount: 1) to cover the processing fees of your registration and 2) to make an additional gift to MMC.
Click here to Register!
Space is limited to 90 participants.
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Additional Virtual Training Opportunities
- Virtual Songleader Training for Social Action on Thursday, Jun 25, 2026, 7-9 p.m. ET. To register, click here.
- Virtual Practice Groups will meet 4 times over two months. Tentatively planned for August-September and November-December 2026.
- More Virtual Songleader Trainings are being planned for September and October 2026.Watch this website calendar for more details to come.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 03:30 PM through August 03, 2026
First Unitarian Society / Milwaukee, WI in Milwaukee, WI
Music that Makes Community will be attending the Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries annual conference, "Lead with Love," July 29-August 2, 2026 at First Unitarian Society in Milwaukee, WI.
MMC's Executive Director, C. Onyx Li, and Doe Hoyer from The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery will be presenting a workshop on the Sacred Lands Project partnership, a collection of paperless, aural tradition songs for community singing intended to inspire and compel communities of faith to organize alongside Indigenous communities defending sacred lands from extractive industries and leading rematriation efforts. Read more about the project and download it here.
For more details about the conference, click: https://auumm.glueup.com/event/auumm-annual-conference-2026-161747/.
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Saturday, November 21, 2026 at 03:30 PM through November 24, 2026
Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO
Music that Makes Community will be at the American Academy of Religion's Annual Meeting November 21-24, 2026 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO.
During the conference, MMC Executive Director C. Onyx Li and Becca Whitla from Toronto will be offering a hands-on, voices engaged workshop of singing and theological reflection on how song can be a powerful part of protest. Before the conference gets underway, Music that Makes Community will co-sponsor a Singing Resistance Pub Sing with The Hymn Society of the U.S. and Canada
near the Denver Convention Center on Friday evening, November 20. This will be open to the public. Details will be posted on MMC's Community Calendar when available. For more details about the conference, click: https://aarweb.org/event/november-annual-meeting/.
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Related Events
More Music that Makes Community events will be held during this time in Denver. Please stay tuned for more details.