You’re invited to join Chicago Artists for Action for our bimonthly listening party! Our musicians will guide you through a selection of songs chosen in response to the current moment in our city, our country, and our world. We’ll listen together, reflect on our connections to the music, and imagine how our connections inspire us to action for justice.

In a busy world, “self-care” has become one more thing to add to our to do list. But how can we be practitioners for change when our own cups are empty? Join guest presenter Coty Raven Morris for an evening of music, story telling, and enrichment as we lift each other up. Let’s celebrate being human together.

Chicago Artists for Action invites you to join us for our bimonthly virtual sing! These events will be low-lift introductions to virtual singing which will include chances to sing familiar justice songs, learn new justice songs, and connect with like-minded justice-seekers.

You’re invited to join Chicago Artists for Action for our bimonthly listening party! Our musicians will guide you through a selection of songs chosen in response to the current moment in our city, our country, and our world. We’ll listen together, reflect on our connections to the music, and imagine how our connections inspire us to action for justice.

This event will be led by guest presenter LaRob K. Payton. A native of Temple Hills, Maryland, Bass-Baritone, LaRob K. Payton developed a love for singing at an early age. He found a spirit in the Gospel songs he sang, passion in the R&B he heard, and nuance in the Classical music he studied. A graduate of DePaul University where he received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance, LaRob has studied with world-renowned teachers, directors, and coaches and has had musical opportunities that include traveling to study language, culture, and music. LaRob continues to sing around the Chicago-area (William Ferris Chorale/North Shore Baptist Church) and is the Founder and Artistic Director of Hearing in Color, an organization dedicated to uplifting those whose contributions and stories have been historically excluded from classical spaces.  LaRob aims to use his voice to connect people from different communities as a newly appointed host of Chicago's Classical music station, WFMT (98.7 FM), and hopes to continue changing the predominantly white, European, male centered classical canon.

Chicago Artists for Action invites you to join us for our bimonthly virtual sing! These events will be low-lift introductions to virtual singing which will include chances to sing familiar justice songs, learn new justice songs, and connect with like-minded justice-seekers.

You’re invited to join Chicago Artists for Action for our bimonthly listening party! Our musicians will guide you through a selection of songs chosen in response to the current moment in our city, our country, and our world. We’ll listen together, reflect on our connections to the music, and imagine how our connections inspire us to action for justice.

This month, we welcome Amy Lewis, Assistant Professor of Music Education at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Amy’s research is focused on Critical Race Theory in music education. Previously she pursued her doctoral work at Michigan State University in music education with a research focus on Critical Race Theory, antiracism education, and activism in music education. She received the 2019 Black Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Association Emerging Leader Award and was also named the 2015 Illinois Education Association Teacher of the Year. She is an active clinician and guest lecturer on topics pertaining to equity in music education. She earned her B.M.E. degree from DePaul University and an M.A. from Concordia University. As a public music teacher, she taught K-1; 6-8 general music, beginning band, middle school choir, and jazz band in Des Plaines, IL.

Chicago Artists for Action invites you to join us for our bimonthly virtual sing! These events will be low-lift introductions to virtual singing which will include chances to sing familiar justice songs, learn new justice songs, and connect with like-minded justice-seekers.

You’re invited to join Chicago Artists for Action for our bimonthly listening party! Our musicians will guide you through a selection of songs chosen in response to the current moment in our city, our country, and our world. We’ll listen together, reflect on our connections to the music, and imagine how our connections inspire us to action for justice.

We’re pleased to announce that our partner for the September listening party will be Jordyn Davis, artistic director and founder of Composetheway. Jordyn will guide us through some of her own compositions that speak to current realities in the US. Please join us in this exciting and important conversation!

Chicago Artists for Action invites you to join us for our bimonthly virtual sing! These events will be low-lift introductions to virtual singing which will include chances to sing familiar justice songs, learn new justice songs, and connect with like-minded justice-seekers.