One night a month · nothing missing
The Shelayma
Project
Single-night music gatherings — a fire in a clearing, a basement full of candles, a loft that sings until the sky changes. Whole songs, whole rooms, whole nights.
The Nights
Three kinds of night.
Pick your door.
Every Shelayma night is its own room with its own rules — the only constants are the songs, the small size, and the basket your phone sleeps in. Step through a door below; each one keeps its own weather.
Motzaei Shabbos Aug 8
The Melave Malka Sessions
A candlelit listening room under a Crown Heights shul. Havdalah at the door, forty chairs, soup at midnight.
Take a chair →Thursday Aug 20
The Fire Circle
A kumzitz around one fire in a Catskills clearing. Forty log seats, bus from Brooklyn, nigunim until the wood runs out.
Enter the clearing →Motzaei Shabbos Aug 22
Ad Alos עַד עֲלוֹת
Music from nightfall to alos hashachar in a Greenpoint loft — three watches of the night, and the last niggun ends when the sky does.
Enter the night →
What It Is
Whole, like in
ani maamin
Shelayma is the word from b’emunah shleimah — whole, complete. That’s the entire idea and the entire pitch: one night a month where nothing is missing and nothing is extra. Real instruments, real voices, rooms small enough that yours matters.
No stage in the usual sense, no openers, no merch table. You come off a broken week, you sing until it isn’t, you go home. The details change by night; the shape never does.
- PhonesInto the basket at the door — every night, no exceptions
- SizeForty to a hundred twenty, never more
- FareChai math: $36 or $54, everything included
- WordOne email a month. If a night fills first, we just don’t write.
The List
Most chairs go to the list
before we post anything
On the first of the month we write to the list, in order, until the month’s nights are spoken for. Most months that’s the whole marketing department.
One email a month. Nothing else, ever.