Light Up The Night - A 5Rhythms® Benefit Dance with Elisa Hollenberg, Layah Jane, & Rhondda Snary

Fri Nov 14, 2025, 7-9:30pm
Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation
310 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, ON
$20 - $60+ sliding scale

Warm Bellies, Warm Hands, Warm Hearts

As the nights grow colder, we gather to dance, to kindle warmth, and to strengthen the threads of our community. The care we create together does not end at the floor. It ripples outward, nourishing the communities where we live and move.

This year’s benefit supports the Daily Bread Food Bank and a local hats, scarves, socks and mitts initiative through our Baskets of Warmth. Food banks across Ontario are experiencing record-breaking demand in 2025, driven by rising costs of living, stagnant wages, and a lack of affordable housing. In 2024, visits to Daily Bread’s member food banks reached 3.75 million, a historic high compared to pre-pandemic levels. In January 2025, the City of Toronto officially declared a food insecurity emergency.

As we move through two 5Rhythms Waves of music and light the fire of our community hearth, we reach into our generous hearts to extend care beyond ourselves. Right here, we can make a difference, offering food for warm bellies, clothing for warm hands, and love that warms the heart.

Our neighbours and our global community need us so much right now, and we need each other. We are living in a polycrisis, pulled in many directions, and this night is a way of resourcing ourselves and nourishing our local community so that our attention, and our love can be turned generously in ways that ripple far beyond the dance floor.

All are welcome here: all bodies, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and movement experience. NUUC is a wheelchair-accessible venue.

Important Ticket & Registration Info

Choose the tier that feels right for you. If you have the means, we encourage you to give generously. Your ticket not only brings you to the dance floor, but it also provides meals to households in our community for a day, a week, a month, or more, truly making a difference for those struggling with food insecurity.

If you’re not able to be with us on the night of, you can still choose to donate using the donation section below our ticket tier options.

Ticket Tiers

Spark – $20 + HST (entry fee + 6 meals donated)

Flame – $24 + HST (entry fee + 10 meals donated)

Torch – $32 + HST (entry fee + 18 meals donated)

Hearth – $44 + HST ( entry fee + 30 meals donated)

Bonfire – $60 + HST (entry fee + 46 meals donated)

100% of net proceeds will be donated to our beneficiary.

Sales Tax & Service Fees
All ticket purchases are subject to 13% HST. Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity.

Credit Card: Please register directly on Humanitix.

E-transfer: You are welcome to pay via e-transfer. Register on Humanitix using the promo code ETRANSFER to complete checkout with a 100% discount. Then send your e-transfer in the amount of your selected tier plus 13% HST to layahjane@hotmail.com within 24 hours. Your ticket purchase will be complete once payment is received.

Health & Wellness Agreements

Please stay home if you are experiencing cold or flu symptoms.
Capacity is capped at 65 dancers. Masks are welcome but not required.

Meet Your Hosts

Elisa Hollenberg – Elisa is passionate about bringing 5Rhythms® to people who crave and want more movement and self-expression in their everyday lives. She has been dancing since the age of 5, dipping her toes into as many movement practices as she could find (ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary, hula hoop, yoga, ecstatic dance) and the 5Rhythms® practice since 2002. She has facilitated 5Rhythms® since 2018, works as a community mental health researcher, is the founder of Create-Move-Connect, performer and facilitator with Truly Connecting Playback Theatre. “I live and work in a big city context where I try to connect hearts to hearts and bring embodied presence into daily life.” https://www.5rhythms.com/teachers/Elisa+Hollenberg

Layah Jane Singer-Wilson – Layah first fell for 5Rhythms® in her late teens and for the last 20+ years has steeped herself in movement meditation practice. Passionate about offering people sacred space to experience motion as medicine, Layah has facilitated expressive movement since 2003 for all ages in a wide range of settings. Her work is infused with expressive enthusiasm, ritual, improvisation, and a reverent love of creative practice as a transformational act. Layah is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher accredited with the 5Rhythms® Teachers’ Association. www.layahjane.com

Rhondda Snary – Life moves. For Rhondda, this is the essence. As a Certified and Accredited 5Rhythms® teacher, and Certified in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Rhondda creates space for our full life experience to show up and be danced, as is, expressed through movement, trusting our body’s wisdom. Her trauma-informed teaching guides us into grounded somatic embodiment, with deep compassion, care, and full-hearted, lyrical spirit. Founder of Light Up the Night, Rhondda initiated this benefit in 2015 to bring community together in support of others, and gratefully bows to all the dancers and teachers who help keep this light alive, ten years on! https://www.5rhythms.com/teachers/Rhondda+Snary