Sep
16
6:30 PM18:30

Stir the Pot: Autumnal Equinox

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Stir the Pot is an invitation to tend a community cauldron in the spirit of holding space for the ancestral and learned wisdom and/or knowledge we have gained through our embodiment on Earth. Dates align with astronomical seasonal pivots as expressed by European/Celtic ancient Earth-based planetary holy days recovered from and connected to pre-Christian land rhythms of the northern hemisphere. We share a group weather report that includes an astrological, lunar, and seasonal outlook; write down questions, blessings and/or wishes and put them in the pot. Priestess Bling will offer a focused one-card group reading. We pull questions out of the pot to offer to the collective group wisdom. We integrate questions with a grounding, and send wishes and blessings to close the night. Stir the Pot offers our community a home for all we experience that we cannot name in our human relationship to the earth herself: a bridge to the everyday mysteries of being alive.

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May
16
7:00 PM19:00

Concert: Radix Vocal Ensemble

Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow

Presented by the Radix Vocal Ensemble

Amy Stuart Hunn, director

featuring Laura Zaerr, harp

Saturday, May 16, at 7:00pm
Leaven Community Center
5431 NE 20th Ave., Portland

Tickets $5-$25

TICKETS

In the spring of 2026, Radix has a very special project planned: the Oregon premiere of Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow by British composer Imogen Holst (1907-1984). This multi-movement work for treble choir and harp was commissioned for the 1950 Aldeburgh Festival by Benjamin Britten, who described the set as “six little treasures.” Long overshadowed by her famous father, Imogen Holst is just now beginning to receive more attention from performers and audiences for her significant talents. Radix is proud to present this beautiful work as the centerpiece of our spring 2026 concert, a program devoted to the interplay of opposites: joy and sorrow, night and day, life and death, mourning and celebration. In addition to the Holst set, the program will include “Dirge and Hymeneal, H.124” by Gustav Holst (which hilariously describes a meeting of funeral and wedding processions at a church door) and Shruthi Rajasekar’s “Ushās - Goddess of Dawn,” as well as music by Ēriks Ešenvalds, George Gershwin, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, the Wailin’ Jennys, Ysaye Barnwell, George Snow, and the Indigo Girls. Visit www.radixvocalensemble.org for more information and to purchase tickets.

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