An Invitation to Surrender
This first-of-it’s-kind musical experience reimagines the traditional choir performance and dissolves the division between performer and audience.
Join Soft Power at our first creative collaboration at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles on October 26, 2024, as our virtual choir performs live for the first time alongside both professional and community choristers.
It’s more than a choir show— its a community journey that weaves familiar and original music, guided meditations, and sound bowl frequencies to co-create a space of curiosity and belonging.
All voices welcome. Register today and join our virtual choir rehearsals to learn the songs and raise our voices together.
Surrender is for all people who desire a world that values all voices.
Whether you’re a trained musician, community chorister, or hairbrush popstar — we invite you to Surrender with us.
Choose Your Journey
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The Surrender Experience
General admission to this 90 minute musical journey accompanied by a professional choir, instrumentalists, sound bowl healer, and meditation guide.
Suggested Donation: $30
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The Artist Experience
Join our community choir!
Access the choral scores and practice tracks, Soft Power Choir virtual calls, and an in-person rehearsal, warm up, and performance with the Surrender team.
Suggested Donation: $50
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The VIP Experience
Everything in the Artist Experience
PLUS a private, 1:1 virtual coaching session with one of our event creators.Suggested Donation: $100
The Guiding Artists
The creative collaborators behind Surrender are colleagues turned friends, bringing combined decades of experience in professional and academic music organizations. Together we’re exploring how the choir world can evolve to meet the spiritual needs of the collective.
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John-Micah Braswell (he/him) is the Principal Coach for the Opera Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also directs, coaches, and plays keyboard instruments for a wide variety of churches, choirs, and opera companies throughout the greater Los Angeles area. For this project he pulls on many years of experience coordinating a wide range of benefit concerts for nonprofit organizations mostly in his hometown of Fort Collins, Colorado.
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n4than (he/they) is a multi-instrumentalist, conductor, teacher, facilitator, and guide for creative expression currently residing on the ancestral land and unceded territory of the Tongva and Kizh Nation - Gabrieleño people and their neighbors, also known as Los Angeles. With music as the primary medium through which he aligns and passionately shares his joy, n4than centers the ways he can guide others to tap into and unlock their inherent creative expression, helping them share their unique inner voice in the ways that resonate to them. n4than moves with the knowing that when one creates through love, joy, and excitement they deepen and come into more powerful alignment and embodiment, enriching their lives and those who take in their offerings.
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Dr. Kiernan "Kiki" Steiner (she/they), founder of The Voice Doula, is a singer/songwriter, vocal liberation creativity coach, and choral conductor of Filipinx, Celtic, and Swiss ancestry. By reclaiming her culture and ancestral practices, as well as healing wounds from adoption/family separation, she became an open channel for ancestral wisdom providing Dr. Kiki visions of activating another “Singing Revolution.” Her calling is to generate collective creative power for healing, imagining, and co-regulation through nervous system-informed vocal and creativity coaching, songwriting, performing, and conducting expansive community singing experiences.
Resource the Vision
All tickets are donation based and we are seeking additional community contributions as we aim to transcend beyond Western choir traditions and return to singing as a communal ritual rather than performance.
We believe singing is powerful, accessible medicine, especially when shared.
Your donation will help us fully realize our vision and cover production costs, artist compensation, and help us establish Surrender as an annual event.
FAQs
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This is an indoor venue with some ventilation. Masks are encouraged but not enforced. Extra masks and hand sanitizer will be provided.
Please do not attend if you are experiencing flu-like symptoms. We cannot guarantee immunity, but we can all do our best to minimize exposure and spread.
If virus exposure is not something you can risk, we'd love to have you join Soft Power Choir, our virtual singing space.
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The church has limited parking in a garage underground. The entrance is to the left of the church when facing it (east of the building). Look out for the sign that says “Church Parking” and a ramp leading down into the garage.
Street parking will also be available. -
We are working on getting an ASL interpreter for the event. The event registration form will be updated once that's confirmed.
The event space will be held at the First Unitarian Universalist Church's Channing Hall and is wheelchair accessible. -
Sign up for the Artist or VIP experience via the registration form here.
This event was created in collaboration with
A spiritual, scientific, and political ethic and Frequency of changemaking attuned to the power of connection, creativity and collective care.
Can’t make it to Surrender but still want to sing with us?
Join Soft Power Choir, our decolonial and trauma-informed virtual singing community that meets twice a month in our membership offering, Village in the Sky.
An audio/visual invitation from our Soft Power Choir founders:
