Song Circle with Sheniqua Trotman, hosted by Living Room Choir!

If you'd like to volunteer for the event, we'd love to have your help! Email theLivingRoomChoir@gmail.com for inquiries.

Sheniqua is a social justice activist, singer-songwriter, and vocal empowerment coach based in Brooklyn, New York. She has dedicated her life to creating spaces where people can heal, find their voice, and connect with others through music and communal singing. With years of experience facilitating song circles, vocal empowerment workshops, and community healing events, Sheniqua uses her voice and platform to advocate for social justice and personal empowerment.

As a mother and community leader, she understands the importance of creating inclusive, nurturing environments where everyone feels heard and valued. Sheniqua guides others to use their voices as instruments of change in their own lives and in the world. Sheniqua and Kaitie Ty (of Living Room Choir) have co-facilitated at Heather Houston's Sisters in Harmony Summer Retreat, 2025, and the adoration between the two flows abundantly!

Living Room Choir was founded in 2015 and is part of the international Ubuntu Choirs Network. Founded by Kaitie Ty Warren and now co-led by Kaitie Ty Warren and Sara Stutz, LRC meets weekly in El Cerrito and also mixes and mingles with the global singing community. Over the last decade LRC has hosted many wonderful songleaders (see our guest leader archive here). Sara and Kaitie both had the pleasure of singing with Sarina recently at an event in Canada, and we can't wait to have her here in California!

Please join us. All ages welcome. No sight reading necessary.

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This event is hosted by Kaitie Ty Warren and Sara Stutz of Living Room Choir, and with Living Room Choir members from across many years. Here are some things to know about Living Room Choir culture and logistics:

• Kids’ Corner available (crafting for all ages, suggested $5-15 donation)
• all ages welcome; there are changing tables and toddler sized toilets available in the bathrooms
• no musical experience necessary; everything taught by oral tradition
• we are essentially a non-binary choir: folx of all genders are welcome to pick the vocal parts that work for them, rather than being assigned to high/low sections
• please come scent free (some members are highly sensitive)
• snacks always welcome
• please adhere to our Wellness Safety Guidelines for Covid and other illness
• masks available, and optional
• the church is 1 mile from El Cerrito Plaza BART station
• there is plenty of free street (residential) parking. There is no designated handicap parking on the street, but we manually put out two disabled placard signs to save spots near the entrance for those who need it
• the church is wheelchair accessible
• Living Room Choir is part of the international Ubuntu Choirs Network
• Living Room Choir meets and sings on unceded xučyun (Huichin) home territory (what is now known as Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Piedmont, Emeryville and Albany, California). The Chochenyo speaking Lisjan Ohlone people, have lived on this land for thousands of years. Choir leaders pay voluntary Shuumi land tax, and you can too: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/
• We can't wait to sing with you!