Manifest your world:

                     Practice Tools for Tender Action

Calling Georgia students and people Movers interested in creatively engaging with movement and sounds and their potential to shape the new world! This summer, glo will summon  (or convene) our LAB studies in person and virtually for 2 weeks from July 6-17 for students and people across Georgia. LAB studies is our platform’s longest running program, until the pandemic paused it.

LAB studies program consists of two initiatives in equal parts:

Pedagogy of Hope students will work in person and virtually alongside glo Founder, PLAY Lead, moving artists, artist-educators, and interdisciplinary collaborators, engaging in hands-on processes that focus on the intersection of social services, movement, and care. This year’s Movement-Music Curriculum responds to several frameworks for culturally sustaining pedagogy, including respecting youth as holistic human beings as well as developing critical consciousness and addressing intersectionality, dynamics of power, and solidarity with artists. We will be bending into POH a number of exciting new choreography tools, and will encourage youth-led collaborative sessions and youth-organized discussions for young artists to practice. Not only is Pedagogy of Hope entirely free for selected students, all meals and supplies will be provided over the two week program.

People Movement SHOPS are for folk who love to move, and folk who wish to love to move. SHOPS are open to any person no matter their age, gender, size, or athletic or performance experience. Prompts include physical and poetic assignments that you can engage at your own pace. There is also space to share insights and celebrate the insights of other folk on the journey.

Along with building a daily dance and music vocabulary, all LAB participants will be immersed in aspects of glo’s MAPPING practice, for the creation and distribution of original Pocket Maps of Hope.