Sing for Peace - Toronto

I'm really looking forward to help launch this new song circle in Etobicoke - if you're free tomorrow evening, please come sing with us at Lakeshore Arts! You'll be glad you came...and IT'S FREE!

📢 Experience the magic of singing with others!

🎶Starting on February 17th, members of Toronto Community Singing will be facilitating a FREE family-friendly weekly Song Circle at Lakeshore Arts on Tuesday evenings.

All voices are welcome, to sing in community, no previous experience required. The songs are heart centered, fun and taught in the oral tradition of call and response. Come sing with us, you’ll love it!

Details:
✨ Community Hub: Song Circle
🗓️Tuesdays - starting February 17th until June 9th
🕐7-8:30PM
📍Lakeshore Arts (2422 Lake Shore Blvd. W.)
🎉FREE - no registration required

🌟About the facilitators:

💫Merita Elmazovski is a community song leader, facilitator, and one of the founding members of the Toronto Community Singing (TCS) Collective. As a core circle holder and song leader, she helps guide regularly scheduled community song circles across the city.

💫Roberta Harris, nickname Robin, started singing at a young age and has always found much joy and upliftment from it. She’s been in Gospel, Jazz, and Classical Choirs. Roberta has written songs since her youth, which marry well with the call and response tradition of singing, a tradition she is in love with.

💫A trilingual rhythmic & sound healer, musician, and founder of Sound Benefits, Rufus Glassco brings years of experience in drum circles, sound healing, forest bathing, and sacred singing. His approach helps people reconnect with their natural rhythm, release tension, and awaken harmony — inside and out.

🔗Read more about Community Hubs: https://lsa2422.short.gy/CH-Winter26

I am delighted to announce that Sing for Peace will be meeting every couple of weeks until Christmas (Wed. Nov. 26th and Dec. 10th), again from 7 - 9.

And I'm SUPER STOKED to share that Sing for Peace will continue regularly on Wednesdays, starting on January 7th, from 6:30 - 8 pm. I love to collaborate with a variety of my song leading colleagues and friends, so if you're tempted to join us, please let me know!

I ask co-facilitators to brings 2 to 3 songs they know well, and also to lead a vocal warmup. Sing for Peace participants enjoy songs that can be accompanied by percussion and sometimes guitar, so it's ideal if we can share song selections ahead of time, so I can support on guitar and percussion, and vice-versa, when possible.

I"m also SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE that we will be drumming every Wednesday from 8:30 - 10:30 pm, and will be rotating through a variety of different drumming workshops each month:
- Recreational Hand Drum Circles (for fun) every 2 weeks, on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays.
- HealthRHYTHMS Hand Drum Circles (or stress reduction) on the second Wednesday of each month, and
- Frame Drum Workshops on the final Wednesday of the Month, rotating through 3 different workshops: Using the frame drum for meditation and divination (Jan. 28); Using the frame drum to capture medicine songs (April 22), and a shamanic drum circle ceremony (May 27),

I hope you can join us to sing and drum often in 2026, and be a part of a growing community of wonderful, like-minded, and open-hearted people!