the angle where the earth and roots and each moment all meet
2022-02-13 - 2022-02-15 | Goat Farm Arts Center
“…ideas of ancestral connections akin to gathering roots as a process of holding up a mirror between earth and our minds. At a certain angle, the routes all meet and we find our way back home. Goat Farm roots have always mapped glo’s way back home from the crucial spaces we are in the labyrinth of our journeys.”
– glo on “quality without a name, Tao, Thay”
We are so very pleased to invite you to the angle where the earth and roots and each moment all meet, our new compilation of research/experiment. The project traces the development of our social movement platform which is in the process of temporarily vacating our Westside Atlanta Corner Studio during a major rebuild phase at the Goat Farm Arts Center. This project invites the public into this moment in its generative state while tracing our lived experience of collaboration through an alive center of a complex body of ideas, actions, and images, which are composed of notes, sound, viscera, maps, gods, journals, various plumb lines, and ancestors. Together, these entwined pieces create both living, breathing art and archive.
the angle where the earth and roots and each moment all meet
Feb 13-15, 2022
Corner Studio, Goat Farm Arts Center
Here for schedule of actions and to sign up for indoor seating, and last People Parade

The projects title is from the quality without a name, an architectural term expressing theories and most fundamental qualities considered by some the Tao of Architecture. As well, Thich Nhat Hanh, and his ideas of ancestral connections akin to gathering roots as a process of holding up a mirror between earth and our minds. At a certain angle, the routes all meet and we find our way back home. Goat Farm roots have always mapped glo’s way back home from the crucial spaces we are in the labyrinth of our journeys– from small living spaces in the rural South, to rivers, schools, and huge gallery exhibitions.
The process of separating the important strands that inform our work–alchemy, southern tradition, epistemology, ancestry, and emergence–reveals the extraordinary breadth of the thinking that underlay the methods of this art created on the Goat Farm for a decade. All of the choreography MAPPING share this feeling—an open-ended meditation on the humanism inherent in our bodies in motion. As stated in the glo manifesto 2021, “of every experience we highlight the life that is lived between them.” the angle where the earth and roots and each moment all meet confronts public with the issues of memory and mourning.
Schedule of actions: Feb. 13-15, 2022
Tree choir: a short film piece
Feb 13
1:30-3pm
virtual
A new short movement choir for film, starring moving artists Vernisa Allen, Vinisha Browne, Mary Jane Pennington, and Mechelle Tunstall.
and, in us . . .under us
February 14
6-9pm
A live art of actions, and the final choreography MAPPING on the original farm, entitled and, in us…under us after Joseph Beuys 1964 performance of actions. Moving artist and LAB lead Mary Jane Pennington, and moving artist and transcriber Mechelle Tunstall remember as a tool for reorganizing, for discovering anew their senses amidst 14 existing live art works between 2014-2020. The prolific moving artists will work autonomously. Two of the works, cloth/field, and public choreographer #231, will happen in tandem. Social practice choreographer and our founder lauri stallings retired from performing with Hubbard St. Dance Chicago 15 years ago. stallings will return for this one and only action; as a narrator of communion.
The Warmth-Time capsule (machine) + People Parade
Feb 15
5pm
glo is burying a bundle of small relics, notes, seeds, and sculpture for composing of Warmth-Time capsule (machine) on the grounds of the Goat Farm. Join us for the last People Parade to the site.

Your health and comfort are crucial to us! glo is committed to the safety of our artists and community.
We are closely monitoring recent pandemic developments and the impact of the new variant. In response, all live in-person gatherings, 12 years of age or older, will be required to provide proof of COVID-19 full vaccination prior to entry. glo also requires all visitors to wear either N95 or KN95 masks while on the premises.

Accepted proofs of vaccination are Excelsior Pass, ATL COVID Safe App, or valid vaccine card. “Fully vaccinated” means the event date must be at least 14 days after the second dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, or at least 14 days after a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine.
Hands free sanitizing station is installed at Corner Studio.

People Movement SHOPS: Gallery 992 residency
2022-02-26 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | gallery 992
Feb. 26-April 16
Saturdays 12pm-1pm
glo is in residence at Gallery 992 in Historic West End Atlanta. We’re thrilled to offer a series of actions to beloved community. People Movement SHOPS are those who love to move, and those who wish to love to move. All ages, gender, size, athletic training and performance experience levels welcome.
Saturdays beginning Feb. 26
Gallery 992
992 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, ATL 30310
free and public.
Warm tea and local Kombucha will be served.
Questions? info@gloatl.org

Garden of Love: Gallery 992 Residency
2022-03-01 10:00 - 14:00 | gallery 992
Tuesday-Friday, March 1-4
10am-2pm
glo is in residence at Gallery 992 in Historic West End Atlanta. We are thrilled to offer a series of actions to our resident community. “Garden of Love” is a new large-scale land art work in the 900 block of Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. Seeds flowers+ edibles climbing, draping storefront life for on the block chain conversations of beloved community. Seeds in really beautiful packets created by glo available for spreading. Each morning we’ll begin with a group pat down, and sips of local Kombucha.
Gallery 992
992 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, ATL 30310
Questions? info@gloatl.org

People Movement SHOPS: Gallery 992 residency
2022-03-05 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-26 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-04-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-04-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-04-16 12:00 - 13:00 | gallery 992
Feb. 26-April 16
Saturdays 12pm-1pm
glo is in residence at Gallery 992 in Historic West End Atlanta. We’re thrilled to offer a series of actions to beloved community. People Movement SHOPS are those who love to move, and those who wish to love to move. All ages, gender, size, athletic training and performance experience levels welcome.
Saturdays beginning Feb. 26
Gallery 992
992 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, ATL 30310
People Movement SHOPS are free and public.
Warm tea and local Kombucha will be served.
Questions? info@gloatl.org

Garden of Love: Gallery 992 residency
2022-03-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-03-22 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-03-29 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-04-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-04-12 13:00 - 14:00
Tuesdays, 1-2pm

glo is in residence at Gallery 992 in Historic West End Atlanta. We are thrilled to offer a series of actions to our resident community. “Garden of Love” is a new large-scale land art work in the 900 block of Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. Seeds flowers+ edibles climbing, draping storefront life for on the block chain conversations of beloved community. Seeds in really beautiful packets created by glo available for spreading. Each morning we’ll begin with a group pat down, and sips of local Kombucha.
Gallery 992
992 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, ATL 30310
Questions? info@gloatl.org

Meditation MAPPING: Gallery 992 residency
2022-03-27 22:00 - 23:30
Research of improvisational structures through new movement and mixed jazz sounds. One piece of a larger Gallery 992 residency.
Sunday, March 27
10pm
992 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, ATL 30310

flooding soma perceptions as higher nature frequencies for love: Ragsdale Old Building, SC
2022-04-22 08:00 - 2022-04-30 17:00 | Lake City, SC
A new world living installation on themes of entanglement, created with rescued and repurposed nature pieces for more-than-human Southern women moving artists, and community. Bare trees adorned with care spheres and feathered ornament shared time and space with female bodies adorned in velvets, velours and ancestral fabrics hand stitched by stallings’ momma. The combination of elements encourages folk to sit amongst, contemplate, question, and otherwise take active roles in a transformative process.
flooding soma perceptions as higher nature frequencies for love
April 22-30, 2022
Ragsdale Old Building
245 Church St., Lake City, SC
A Hambidge Center for Arts & Sciences commission (2020) in celebration of American artist Lonnie Holley.

Residency: Gallery 992
2022-05-03 - 2022-06-02
glo is in residence at Gallery 992 in Historic West End Atlanta from May 3-July 2, 2022.

Community Sowing: lost loose and loved: a land-art work
2022-05-15 - 2022-05-16 | midtown
glo is pleased to reactivate “lost loose and loved” our 2020 land art work. The 2.5 acre micro-prairie utilizes native Southern wildflowers to revitalize a yet-to-be developed, sloping Midtown property. The site-specific micro-prairie is an open invitation to join with community and feed our consciousness through the art of choreographing and enacting social duties related to place, the body, and environment.

Please join us for the first Community Sowing, on May 15-16, 2022. ( Flower Moon)
glo work is always free and public.

lost loose and loved is made possible by Jaimie Dewberry with major support of the Dewberry Foundation.

reactivation of lost loose and loved
2022-05-15 - 2022-12-15

in-school youth workshops: lost loose and loved
2022-05-23 - 2022-05-25
glo engages the children of Westwood Elementary School for the creation of original seed packets.
Workshops are one part of glo’s reactivation of “lost loose and loved,” our 2020 land art work. The 2.5 acre micro-prairie utilizes native Southern wildflowers to revitalize a yet-to-be developed, sloping Midtown property. The site-specific micro-prairie is an open invitation to join with community and feed our consciousness through the art of choreographing and enacting social duties related to place, the body, and environment. Seed packets created by Westwood Elementary students will be mailed across the world, for free and public, beginning May. 29.
#lostlooseandloved

Gallery 992 residency
2022-06-02 - 2022-07-02

What the flowers of the field tell me, What love tells me: large-scale installation
2022-06-13 15:00 - 17:00
We float. In honor of 22 years of M U S I C and vibes, glo platform is honored to share “What the flowers of the field tell me, What love tells me,” a large-scale installation of 900 floating/scaffolding flowers, and spectrums of color accompanying Mahler’s Symphony no. 3 voyage on the proscenium space stage of Atlanta Symphony Hall in ceremony of Maestro Robert Spano.
3-5pm
Sunday, June 13
Atlanta Symphony Hall
Maestro Spano, ālayavijñāna. Maestro Spano.
There are no words that can sum up everything you have taught us. But we think this is the highest honor we can pay to you, as your impact is beyond measure. It has been incredible to think about building our knowledge of how to keep such delicate things strong and durable, and challenge the longevity of fragile things.
Since 2010, glo platform and Maestro Robert Spano have collaborated in our community to develop immersive, transdisciplinary projects with Atlanta youth, people, and through the ASO’s archives, at both the Goat Farm Arts Center and Symphony Hall. In work after work—-Mother/JUMP (2019), Orpheo (2017), cloth}field (2016), cloth (2014), and Maa’(2010)—-Maestro conducted barefoot. As a disciple of the “Barefoots” of Robeson County, NC, the mindfulness in each of these separate journeys stopped the noise inside, strengthening our bodies, our souls, for this movement right now.
lauri stallings + Glo Platform:, 2022. Copper wire, fresh flowers, dried flowers and herbs, 17 feet x 13 feet @lauristallings @gloatl

Community Sowing: lost loose and loved 17th Street Prairie
2022-06-14 17:00 - 20:00 | midtown
Please join us for the second Community Sowing.
June 14 ( Strawberry Moon)
5pm-8pm
17th & Peachtree Street
Atlanta
glo is pleased to reactivate “lost loose and loved” our 2020 land art work. The 2.5 acre micro-prairie utilizes native Southern wildflowers to revitalize a yet-to-be developed, sloping Midtown property. The site-specific micro-prairie is an open invitation to join with community and feed our consciousness through the art of choreographing and enacting social duties related to place, the body, and environment.
glo work is always free and public.

lost loose and loved is made possible by Jaimie Dewberry with major support of the Dewberry Foundation.

Questions? info@gloatl.org

glo-Collision Project workshop
2022-06-30 10:30 - 14:30
glo, Pearl Cleage, Patrick McColery and the Alliance Theatre Collision Project research/development process.
10:30am-2:30pm
Thursday, June 30
Woodruff Arts Center

LAB studies Summer 2022: people Movement SHOPS & Pedagogy of Hope
2022-07-05 - 2022-07-16
TUESDAY-SATURDAY | 10am-4pm
JULY 5-16, 2022
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta
LAB studies education program is glo’s longest running program, composed of two initiatives in equal parts: Pedagogy of Hope and People Movement SHOPS.
REGISTER HERE

PEOPLE MOVEMENT SHOPS with lauri
10:15am-noon
People Movement SHOPS are for those who love to move and for those who wish to love to move. glo People Movement SHOPS open up the teachings of movement to any human being no matter their age, gender, size, athletic or performance experience level.
PEDAGOGY OF HOPE with Mary Jane
Tuesday-Friday
1-4pm
Pedagogy of Hope is our ongoing in-school and twice yearly two-week training offered for free to resource-limited youth populations, and our community.
1-1:15pm Come together, pat down
1:15-2:15pm Move, pat down
2:15-2:30pm Snack
2:30-3pm Sounding
3-4pm Artmaking
glo is using culture as a strategy aimed at advancing holistic learning in Atlanta and looks at artmaking as a care system, as we assess integrating art education programs while making connections through cross-disciplinary socially engaged art.
Questions? Write maryjane@gloatl.org

Community Sowing- lost loose and loved
2022-07-10 17:00 - 20:00
glo is pleased to reactivate “lost loose and loved” our 2020 land art work. The 2.5 acre micro-prairie utilizes native Southern wildflowers to revitalize a yet-to-be developed, sloping Midtown property. The site-specific micro-prairie is an open invitation to join with community and feed our consciousness through the art of choreographing and enacting social duties related to place, the body, and environment.

Please join us for our second Community Sowing on July 10, 2022 from 5pm-8pm.
17th & Peachtree St
Atlanta
glo work is always free and public.

lost loose and loved is made possible by Jaimie Dewberry with major support of the Dewberry Foundation.

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Live art activation: lost loose and loved
2022-07-24 19:30 - 23:30
We are delighted to have you with us for the first of a series of live art activations at our 17th Street Prairie.
Dusk
Sunday, July 24
West Peachtree St. & 17th Street, Midtown
Atlanta
glo installations and gatherings are free and public.
Questions? info@gloatl.org

People Movement SHOPS
2022-08-06 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-08-20 10:00 - 12:00
People Movement SHOPS
Saturdays, August 6, 20, 27 ( 3 weeks)
10:15am-noon
stage door, #1 Arts Center Way at 15th Street, rehearsal hall, Atlanta Symphony
pay what you want
Featuring coming together and experiencing dance and choreographic thinking through our everyday activities, and other streams of consciousness. For human beings no matter their age, gender, size, athletic or performance experience level. Kombucha will be served.
