Benefit Concert! Passing It Forward: Songs of Hearts and Hands
You are invited to a night of joyful music and community! We will gather together, remotely via Zoom, and be serenaded by beautiful music from two of Colorado’s best musicians, Carla Sciaky and Hal Aqua.
Carla will dazzle us with a sampling of originals, other contemporary songwriters, and songs from Oaxaca. Hal will delight us with social action, contemporary and worldbeat songs in English and Hebrew.
This is a benefit concert and all donations to Casa de Paz will be sent directly to immigrants locked in ICE detention centers.
Concert Details
Sunday, April 25
7pm - 8pm MT
Our Purpose
Our purpose for this evening is to raise money to be sent directly to detained immigrants. We will send every immigrant we know in detention a $25 money order so they can purchase calling cards to communicate with their families, soap and other toiletries so they can stay clean during the pandemic, and snacks to supplement the meager (and often frozen, rotten, old) meals they are fed.
Our Message
Our message is for the people locked inside ICE detention centers. We see you. We love you. You are not alone.
Your Support
Your support matters so much. Here are a few words directly immigrants impacted by ICE detention for you:
“All of you outside do a lot, when I have no hope you give me strength to continue fighting for a better future for my family.”
“Thank you for your kindness, help, compassion, and especially, for the love that is in your hearts.”
“If the world were as all of you, it would be a perfect world.”
Make a Donation Today
All donations are tax-deductible and can be made here.
The Musicians
Carla Sciaky
Carla’s musical career spans five decades, beginning in the folk world with touring and recording, winning awards as a songwriter, and most recently being inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. She has recorded solo albums on her own Propinquity Records as well as the Green Linnet and Alacazam labels and is on numerous group collections. Concurrently, she has been a performer of early music, with a critically acclaimed Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1980, and eventually leading to her present position as a baroque violinist with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado and baroque quartet Sémplice. Most recently, Carla has expanded in new directions, working with clients through her energy practice, Doorway to Healing, and as a DreamBuilder Life Coach. She is presently working on two books and selected essays have been chosen for publication in 2021. Learn more about Carla on her website.
Hal Aqua
Hal is an eclectic Denver musician who serves as Cantorial Ritual Director at B'nai Havurah, a Jewish Reconstructionist congregation, and as a song leader at Temple Micah, a Reform Synagogue. His current band is Hal Aqua and The Lost Tribe, a klezmer fusion ensemble. Hal has played in a variety of bands over many years, from traditional folk to roots rock and reggae, and he teaches classes and workshops in Jewish world music. Hal believes strongly in the power of music to connect, inspire and empower us.
Our Sponsors
B’nai Havurah
B’nai Havurah is affiliated with Reconstructing Judaism, which is committed to the renewal of American Jewish life. Our movement defines Judaism as an evolving religious civilization that encompasses history, literature, art, music, land, and language. We achieve this through study, worship and joyous practice, social justice, acts of kindness, and connection with the Jewish people. We are an egalitarian and participatory community, open to a variety of perspectives and forms of religious expression.
Highlands Church
Highlands Church was founded upon the belief that when God created the world, and human beings in particular, God said, “This is good.” Our origin story is one of goodness. We believe this goodness applies to all of humanity, regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, abled or differently-abled bodies. As Father Richard Rohr says, “We cannot create our union with God. It is objectively already given. There’s nothing we can do or not do to increase or decrease God’s love for us.”