Too often, dying and grieving are lonely experiences.

Confront the silence and isolation that often accompany loss, and experience healing through music and connection, during this powerful community event from We Met in Miami and Miami Sound Space. 

Join us on Monday, Nov. 17, at 6 p.m., for Grief in Community, an evening of sound healing and facilitated conversations on death, grief, and the transformative power of community.

This unique evening blends:

• Sound Healing Performances: Featuring the gentle voices of the Miami Sound Space Threshold Singers, who bring comfort and peace to individuals on the threshold of life's end during hospice care and other end-of-life services.

• Panel Discussion: Insights from local practitioners specializing in end of life care, death, grief and healing.

• Facilitated small-group conversations: Build meaningful connections and community with others who have experienced death and grief.

Your donations are appreciated. This event is a collaboration of two nonprofit organizations, and both are in the midst of a vital fundraising campaign for Give Miami Day. Early giving begins on Nov. 15. Show your support for our efforts to heal and strengthen our communities by making a donation. 

Bookmark our Give Miami Day pages: 

We Met Community Connection Inc.

Miami Sound Space

Hear from our speakers:

Moderator: Jessica Bakeman is founder and executive director of We Met Community Connection, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting loneliness, facilitating connection and building community. We Met in Miami, the organization’s inaugural chapter, launched in 2024. 

Jessica is an award-winning journalist of more than 15 years who reported extensively on community trauma and mental health recovery in the aftermath of the Parkland school shooting and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Panelists:

Laurah Merisier is founder and executive artistic director of Miami Sound Space, a nonprofit community choir collective. Laurah founded Threshold Singers, the Miami chapter of the international Threshold Choir organization, in 2023. 

Singing at patients' bedsides during end-of-life services, this small ensemble brings solace, strength, and serenity to people who are dying, their families and health care workers through the healing power of music. 

Gina Margillo is an end of life coach/death doula, providing non-medical, holistic support and guidance to people at all stages of life who want to address, plan for, normalize, and transform how they approach death and dying. With the goal of embracing what's ahead, her comprehensive, creative approach delves into the emotional and philosophical.

Maya Davis is a professional psychic/medium, reiki master and women’s coach specializing in subconscious and somatic healing. In readings, she assists clients in connecting to deceased loved ones, bringing comfort, solace and guidance to times of grief.

Are you seeking deeper, more meaningful connections?

At We Met in Miami events, our wristbands show others what we’re looking for. Choose one, two or all three:

💚 green for love

💙 blue for friendship

🌈 rainbow for members of the LGBTQIA+ community

About the venue:

Ampersand Studios, Miami’s premier creative coworking space, is located north of downtown Miami. 

PayByPhone street parking is available in the surrounding area. 

Agenda:

6 p.m. Arrival. Check in, choose your wristbands and make a name tag.

6:30 p.m. Opening. We’ll introduce ourselves, review our Community Code of Conduct, and break the ice with a paired conversation prompt.

6:45 p.m. Sound healing. Experience the comfort and peace of Miami Sound Space Threshold Singers.

7 p.m. Panel discussion. Local leaders offer insights on grief in community.

7:45 p.m. Conversations. We’ll break into small groups for facilitated conversations and end by sharing our reflections.

9:20 p.m. Closing. Threshold Singers will close the evening with another short performance, followed by a group photo.

9:30 p.m. Event end time. Support us for Give Miami Day: Donate to We Met Community Connection Inc. and Miami Sound Space.

The In Harmony Concert Performance is the culminating event of the Choirs of America In Harmony: Enhanced Residency and Concert experience that brings together choirs from across the country, including Miami Sound Choir, to present both massed and individual repertoire. This is Miami Sound Choir’s first performance outside the state of Florida and it will be founder and artistic director’s Laurah Merisier Carnegie Hall conducting debut. 

Come Dance with us at Miami Sound Choir's end of season concert and Carnegie Hall Fundraiser.

You’re invited! Join us for our final celebration of Miami Sound Space’s 5th Birthday. This special event will feature offerings from all three of our choirs:

• Miami Sound Choir – Our inclusive, adult community choir dedicated to music-making for all voices.

• The Bluebirds – Our men's choir, composed of singers incarcerated at Everglades Correctional Institution, a Level-5 security prison.

• Threshold Singers – our choir whose compassionate voices offer comfort and peace to individuals on the threshold of life’s end.

We look forward to celebrating with you!