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Making Kin: cycle two
2025-06-27 19:30 - 21:00 UTC
Making Kin is made from an alchemy of bodies, voices, plants, and live sound to conjure worlds that are, like ourselves, alive and forever becoming. The public art work is an invitation to raise questions about the complexities and opportunities of an earthly site-specificity using sculptural performance and the live moment to map our social and bodily reality as a radical unfolding world.
Live Art activations
7:30 PM
Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27
Historic St. Mark
491 Cameron Madison Alexander
Atlanta, GA 30318
Free and public to all.
Named for Donna Haraway’s 2016 book Making Kin in the Chthulucene, earth (chthulu) new kind (cene) is the act of not being able to think of ourselves as disconnected from the rest of life on earth. Also referred to as staying with the trouble (as used by civil rights leader John Lewis), this theory envelops the age that’s defined by a future world based on othering and belonging. Making Kin is led by East Point vocalist Monique Osorio, Palmetto – based social practice choreographer lauri stallings, and West End – based musician Kebbi Williams.
Register on site.

Siddhartha, She: generative process
2025-07-13 10:00 - 2025-07-20 21:00
glo is at our Goat Farm Arts Center in the studio creating and making preparations leading up to our departure for Aspen Music Festival on July 20. We hope you are well, and have a beautiful day. For questions, or if you wish to connect: info@gloatl.org

Siddhartha She: Work in Process #2
2025-07-19 12:00 - 15:00
On Saturday, July 19, from noon – 3 pm, we’re excited to welcome you into Siddhartha, She, a new immersive opera, and celebrate the project, as we offer the final work in process of a vocabulary of movement generated during our time engaged with the creative team. Please join us as we show love to Atlanta, and celebrate what will be an extraordinary opening in the Klein Music Tent at Aspen Music Festival on August 2. Complimentary kombucha by the glass, and this year’s hibiscus tea will be flowing. There is no RSVP, sign in at door.
Siddhartha, She work in process #2
Saturday, July 19
noon – 3 pm
Goodson
Goat Farm Arts Center
1200 Foster St. Atlanta Ga 30318
Channeling Siddhartha, a 1922 novel by Herman Hesse, is a new experimental opera by American composer Christopher Theoganidis, and Alabama poet | librettist Melissa Studdard, with direction by visual artist Anne Patterson, video projection by artist and longtime glo collaborator Adam Larsen. We deeply grateful to Maestro Robert Spano, music conductor laureate of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, for the invitation to join the team. Positioning shape shifting as the choreographic language’s central point, social practice choreographer lauri stallings creates movement that charts the slow ascent of glo moving artists Noëlle Dave’, Mary Jane Pennington, and Laila Rosen, and a large choir of singers, feeling, and enduring, from the forest and the soil to the river. Enacting a sustaining loop of breath, sculptural forms, and flocking pattern of birds that thwart perspective and seem to tilt our sense of the line between tint and sky, stage and audience.
All are welcome! Come by, be part of the soft structures as lauri and glo moving artists
We look forward to moving with you in Goodson!
Always, always, free and public.

On-site process: Siddhartha, She
2025-07-23 10:00 - 2025-08-01 22:00
Please join us as we arrive in the Klein Music Tent at Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado, to continue our research and process into the world of Siddhartha, She, a new experimental opera by American composer Christoper Theofanidis and Alabama poet and librettist Melissa Studdard, with a creative team led by Maestro Robert Spano.

OPENING: Siddhartha, She
2025-08-02 20:00 - 22:30
Join us as we deep dive through the Colorado Rocky Mountains into the multi-sensory world of Siddhartha, She, a new experimental opera by composer Christopher Theofanidis, Alabama poet Melissa Studdard, and a creative team led by Maestro Robert Spano.
World Premiere
Saturday, August 2, 2025
8 pm PST
Big Tent
Aspen Music Festival
Aspen, Co

Object Stories: Gathering of the American Craft Council
2025-09-06 18:00 - 20:00
Artists from American Craft’s “The Scene: Craft in Atlanta” and other luminaries share handmade stories in a night of craft + connection. glo founder lauri stallings will be sharing.
Saturday, September 6
6 PM – 8 PM
Goat Farm Arts Center

The Blooming City: Art | Flea + Farm
2025-09-20 10:00 - 18:00
Please join us for the launch of Art | Flea | Farm, the inaugural market in Historic Downtown Palmetto. The newest initiative of glo’s The Blooming City project in Palmetto, Georgia.
Saturday, August 20, 2025
10am – 6pm
More details coming soon!

Work in Process: the word for world is forest
2025-09-25 12:00 - 14:00
On Thursday, September 25, from noon – 2 pm, we’re pleased to welcome you into a Work in Process on our Goat Farm home campus for the word for world is forest, a new performative action for Black Mountain College Museum’s ReVIEWING 15 international conference on September 26 – 28 in Asheville, with a thematic Focus: Points in Space, Performance at Black Mountain College.
Meet under glo’s “beautiful stranger thank you for coming,” neon sculpture, comfortable shoes recommended. Complimentary kombucha by the glass, and Master Lu’s hibiscus tea will be flowing. There is no RSVP, sign in on site.
the word for world is forest, a new performative action by choreographer lauri stallings reflecting on the historical and contemporary relevance of performance through the notable connection of American artist Ursula K LeGuin and Black Mountain College artist Anni Albers, where the spirits of Black Mountain College, and LeGuin and Albers might be recovered and awakened. You can experience the word for world is forest, enacted by glo moving artist Zee Covington and artistic associate Mary Jane Pennington within the common spaces during all ReVIEWING 15 public times at the Reuter Center, UNC Asheville, and Black Mountain College’s Lake Eden campus.
We are grateful to the Goat Farm Arts Center for their “lifer”support of our experimental projects. Thank you to Alice Sebrell, director of Preservation, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, for your guidance and sensitivity to durational art. Thank you Dave Peifer, Curt Cloninger, and Cherry Saenger for the invitation to present the word for world is forest. We are grateful to Black Mountain College + Museum innovators for fostering groundbreaking time – based experiments that inspired the seedlings of glo.

the word for world is forest: ReVIEWING 15 International Conference
2025-09-26 13:00 - 2025-09-28 17:00
the word for world is forest is a new performative action that reflects on the historical and contemporary relevance of performance through the notable connection of American artist Ursula K LeGuin and Black Mountain College artist Anni Albers, and their shared influence on creative practice and storytelling as a form of gathering, holding, and carrying forward knowledge and experiences.

ReVIEWING 15 Black Mountain College International Conference
September 26 – 28, 2025
Thematic Focus: Performance at Black Mountain College
Friday, 1 PM – 5: 45 PM
Sat. 9 AM – 5:15 PM
Reuter Center, UNC Asheville, NC
Sunday 10:30 AM
Black Mountain College’s Lake Eden campus

SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS: Public Art Futures Lab Residency
2025-11-07 - 2026-02-13
SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS
ATL DTN Residency: Dr. Boyana Ginn + Lauri Stallings + glo
November 7 – February 13, 2025
Public Art Futures Lab space, Downtown Atlanta

Singing Sun
2025-12-04 12:00 - 2025-12-06 17:00
Singing Sun is a new performative action for artists and community that moves between the existing and new spaces of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, emphasizing an endless natural cycle, moving throughout the day, inside and outside, bearing witness. Surrendering to Phil Freelon’s architecture – designs rooted firmly in place and time, explorations of the multiple functions of skin, and light and movement.
Creative team: choreographer lauri Stallings, moving artists Zandia Covington, Noëlle Dave’, Ashley Ianna Daye, and Mary Jane Pennington, harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson, flutist Kebbi Williams, fashion courtesy of glo archives.
Singing Sun
December 4 – 6, 2025
noon-5pm daily
National Center for Civil and Human Rights
100 Ivan Allen Boulevard
Atlanta, Ga
Community engaging events include a parlor conversation on social sculpture, and morning People Movement Shops for Center staff and workers.

People Movement Shops: The Blooming City, Palmetto
2025-12-13 10:30 - 12:00
Please join us for People Movement Shops in rural Palmetto, Georgia on Saturday, December 13 & 20. Beginning at 10:30 AM at Historic Train Depot, as always there is no cover for these beautiful happenings. as part of our second year of The Blooming City.
People Movement Shops: The Blooming City
Historic Train Depot
549 Main Street
Palmetto, GA 30268

People Movement Shops: The Blooming City Palmetto
2025-12-20 10:30 - 12:00

the life from inside: Art in the Village gallery closing
2026-01-25 18:00 - 19:30
the life from inside is a choreographed live art work curated by Hope Cohn in response to American artist Frank Stella’s Scarlatti K sculpture series. This newest piece by choreographer lauri stallings explores the intersection of stillness, connection, and longing as four individuals collaborate and interact closely, while inhabiting the space of Stella’s K.3 relief sculpture, bound by the act of weightlessness.
the life from inside
Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 7PM * Art in the Village space * 3035 Peachtree Road, Unit B – 200, Atlanta, GA 30305
*Gallery doors open at 6:30PM
The gallery live piece is adapted from a roaming work, Singing Sun from December 2025, with a team of glo moving artists Mary Jane Pennington, Noëlle Dave’, and Ashley Ianna Daye. Atlanta pianist Choo Choo Hu accompanies on harpsichord, performing amidst Stella’s massive sculpture.
How do we create the sensation of real space within and outside of the action of the sculpture,’ said stallings. A lot of conversations came up between curator Hope Cohn about being “in” K.3, and all the action that must happen for the body to be immersed. And that is the stuff we love the most, the process of time, total feeling, and total experience. This connection is so important. Shifting elements that feel as if they could lift us in the air at any second.
The life from inside will occur as a live art work in the gallery’s main floor on Sunday, Jan 25 at 7PM – 8:30PM. Doors open at 6:30PM.
Limited seating available.
All proceeds from this live art work will benefit glo’s programming and our work at the forthcoming project in Atlanta and New York, letting | We are the Warp. Spirits will be available.
Following the live art piece, there will be an artists’ talk with curator Hope Conn, and choreographer lauri stallings.

Community Sowing launch: Blooming City 2027
2026-04-04 11:00 - 15:00
We are delighted to have you with us for the launch of Blooming City for a third year in Palmetto, Georgia.
We will be sowing the first wildflower seeds Saturday, April 4, 11 am – 3 pm in four lots along Historic Toombs St. Make plans to join us, or stop in. Fresh juices and tangerines are served.

City Waltz, Holy Waltz: Work in Process #1
2026-04-11 12:00 - 14:00
Next Week | Choreographer lauri stallings and the moving artists of glo return to the Goat Farm for an intimate look into the creation of City Waltz, Holy Waltz.
Saturday, April 11, 12 PM /// City Waltz, Holy Waltz ( Work in Process #1) at the Goat Farm, Fig Tree studio space, Westside #Atlanta.
Free and public to all. Kombucha and tangerines will be served.
We are grateful to all the folks co – presenting this new work with us at Flux Projects. We are grateful to all the folks providing us studio and generative process space to create this new work at the Goat Farm.

Community Sowing: The Blooming City
2026-04-19 11:00 - 14:00
We’re delighted to have you with us this Sunday, 11 am – 2pm, for Community Sowing activities in Historic Downtown Palmetto. We meet at 503 Toombs Street, and all wildflower plots are within a short walking distance. We look forward to seeing you very soon!
Questions? info@gloatl.org

ATL DTN: Futures Lab billboard project
2026-04-24 - 2026-05-31
Please join us for poetic glimpses of lauri stallings’ Futures Lab residency with Dr. Bojana Ginn. A series of short films starring moving artists Ashley Ianna Daye, and Mary Jane Pennington will animate Downtown Atlanta billboards from April 24 – May 31, 2026. When you can, take a moment to slow down, look up, and feel your body as it transitions through our urban community.
Billboard locations:
75 MLK
Andrew Young & Ted Turner Drive
Marietta Garage

Work in process: City Waltz, Holy Waltz
2026-06-09 12:00 - 14:00
Tuesday, June 9 at noon
Historic Goat Farm, in-situ Fig Tree studio

Creation process
2026-06-11 10:00 - 2026-06-18 15:00
City Waltz, Holy Waltz creation process #2.

City Waltz, Holy Waltz
2026-06-19 - 2026-06-26
city waltz, holy waltz is a magical experience rooted in the here and now that transforms public sidewalks into a stage and uses choreographed movements that have a poetic, romantic quality for creating a space where the public might feel the absence of others, turning the art into a reflective, emotional experience. Choreographer lauri stallings believes a dance can be a place without limits. This is the fertile ground from which city waltz / holy waltz has grown, a 120 – minute choreographed migration that uses waltz as a tool to explore global themes, and metamorphosis. Where six glo moving artists: Beatriz Cortez, Zandia Covington, Noëlle Dave’, Ashley Ianna Daye, Marcelle Gressier, and Mary Jane Pennington – in long floral gowns commit to traverse, linger, and interact across ​our city to explore the “gravitational pull” of human interaction, and how people move through transitions and celebration, creating a sense of being suspended in a time somewhere in-between hope and despair.
OPENING Friday June 19 through Friday, June 26, daily at 6 PM – 8 PM | We’re pleased to invite you to join us at 6 landmark locations for a magical experience. “True desire as a radical, expansive urge for the “outside.” We look forward to being with you soon, and glo is deeply grateful to all of our hosts and creative partners, and their teams, and special folk, who are making this project possible.
city waltz, holy waltz: a new migratory public art work
PUBLIC PROCESSIONS
Friday, June 19 at 6 PM
89 Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW at REVERB
Saturday, June 20 at 6 PM
Peachtree St at 16th Street MODA, loop to 14th Street
Sunday, June 21 at 6 PM
1083 Austin Ave to Little 5 Points Findley Plaza
Tuesday, June 23 at 6 PM
374 M.L.K. Jr Dr SE into Oakland Cemetery
Wednesday, June 24 at 6 PM
501 Toombs St to Palmetto Historic Train Depot
Friday, June 24 at 6 PM
950 Edgewood Ave to Whitespace Gallery

Always, always free and public
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Free and public to all.
Questions? info@gloatl.org

Movement Workshops with glo hosted by XCel
2026-06-22 10:00 - 12:00
We’re excited to welcome moving artists and performers into a new edition of the glo // lauri stallings workshops, hosted for the first time by XCel. This two – day immersive contemporary experience offers a deep encounter with lauri stallings’ choreographies and creative processes, guided by stallings and long-time glo moving artists.
Workshops begin with physical warm-up and embodied mapping, followed by working on repertory where participants learn and break down excerpts from lauri stallings choreographies, and to try them out for oneself, including this Summer’s city waltz, holy waltz (2026), a processional public art work.
Each session will unfold in its own way, offering space to research, discover, and enjoy the work. Discussions, and the serving of kombucha will complement the workshop.
Who should attend: pre-professional and professional dancers, and also for people with no experience in dance who wish to move – aged 16 and above.
Movement workshops with glo
Monday, June 22 & Wednesday June 24
10 AM – 12 PM
XCel
2093 Faulkner Rd NE
Atlanta GA 30324
Registration link coming May 28.
Questions? Write glo at info@gloatl.org

Movement Workshop with glo
2026-06-24 10:00 - 12:00

Open Rehearsal: Making Kin
2026-07-18 15:00 - 17:00
As summer settles in, join us in Goodson at the Goat Farm on Saturday, July 18 at 3 PM for attunement scores and collectives.

Making Kin is a commissioned series of public art works opening this August through October, inviting us to observe how we resemble, influence, and attune to one-another. Named for Donna Haraway’s 2016 book Making Kin in the Chthulucene, earth (chthulu) and new kind (cene) is the act of not being able to think of ourselves as disconnected from the rest of life on earth. It’s also referred to as “staying with the trouble,” as used by Georgia warrior John Lewis.
Saturday, July 18 at 3 PM at the Goat Farm we’re pleased to to invite you to an open rehearsal in collaboration with our creative partners Monique Osorio and Kebbi Williams, each offering distinct instincts and research as sites to extend from the past to create a portal to new embodied perspectives.

Save the dates, more details coming soon. We look forward to being present together.

PROJECT LAUNCH: Amor de Lonh
2026-09-11 - 2026-09-20
Please join us this Fall beginning Friday, September 11 through Sunday, September 20, 2026 for the project launch of Amor De Lonh in the Dordogne Valley, southern France.
Amor De Lonh (“love from afar”) is a two-year commissioned live art work by Association Patrimoine et Culture de Mayrinhac Lentour and Marais de Bonnefont Marsh Reserve created in – situ for various historic culture sites in Southwest France’s Dordogne Valley.
American choreographer lauri stallings and the Accroc’coeur choir led by Lola Calvet, alongside a team of international dancers and musicians, poets and visual artists will interact with minimalist site-specific installations developed in collaboration with Artzimu*t association Association, Preservation of Taillefer Castle, and the Friends of William Merwin Association. Conceived as an evolving, episodic residency, Amor de Lonh follows insights of the 12th – century French troubadour Bernart de Ventadour, his dansa, or balada (“dance songs”), and Ventadour’s profound influence over American poet W.S. Merwin on the central importance of themes of distance: the distance between the present and the past, the lover and the beloved, and one place and another. Themes of distance deeply resonated with Merwin and can also be felt in stallings’ choreographic work, where distance is a metaphor for a lost past, environmental degradation, and the challenge of connecting across time and space through our bodies.
TIMELINE September 14, 2026 – October 30, 2027
