Making Kin in the shell of Historic St. Mark
2025-03-07 18:30 - 20:00 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
Thursday, March 6 at 6:30PM, just before sunset
Friday, March 7 at 6:30PM, just before sunset
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.
No reservations required.

People Moves: weekly movement shops for every body.
2025-03-08 10:30 - 12:00
People Moves
feel together by moving together
glo
People Moves are a space of experimentation for all people to explore movement as a shapeshifting energetic practice with the aim of feeling together by moving together. You don’t have to be a dancer or athlete to enjoy the experience. The workshops are emphatically noncompetitive and designed for all ages and abilities. Glo hopes each participant will develop lifelong pleasure in dancing any time, anywhere available to them, whether professionally or in their kitchen, or on the sidewalk.
Saturdays at 10:30 AM
Goodson
Goat Farm Arts Center
The exercises employ deep listening to your bodily sensations, opening your inner ears so to speak – to your sense of touch, pressure, and temperature; your movement’s direction, timing and quality; the sense of length, width, size, and shape of your limbs, your sense of effort, pulsing, liveliness, spaciousness, and more. Over and over, you are guided to sense the specific, and then brought back to feel yourself, newly, as a whole. How do we stay in the spaciousness of our permeability and possibility? How is the act of becoming a kind of ongoing choreography that is constantly loosening our perceptions, and time? People Moves is a place for a human to live and be in, exploring autonomously as a community, flush with living textures like curiosity, observations, emotions, questions, inner dialogues, eruptions, pleasures, and all the lovely, messy stuff we bring into our full embodied presence. People Moves are centered around the idea of being together to move in the moment and learn about yourself while exploring the most fundamental way you have of being in the world – through your actions.
These workshops are a sharing of research connected to the practice of glo founder social practice choreographer lauri stallings amidst offerings of reimagination. stallings tends to focus on warmth as a material for creative and spiritual energy that art can prompt in society.
Most of the workshops will be held inside Goodson that is surrounded by various sculptures and trees, allowing for different qualities of light to filter into the environment as the workshop progresses. Workshops will be informed often by light, noting the ways in which it interplays with the textures and atmospheres of the space.
The workshops are pay what you can. Workshops are free to Goat Farm residents.
Questions? info@gloatl.org

People Moves - weekly movement shops for every body.
2025-03-15 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-03-22 10:30 - 12:00
People Moves
feel together by moving together
glo
People Moves are a space of experimentation for all people to explore movement as a shapeshifting energetic practice with the aim of feeling together by moving together. You don’t have to be a dancer or athlete to enjoy the experience. The workshops are emphatically noncompetitive and designed for all ages and abilities. Glo hopes each participant will develop lifelong pleasure in dancing any time, anywhere available to them, whether professionally or in their kitchen, or on the sidewalk.
*Saturdays at 10:30 AM – noon
Goodson
Goat Farm Arts Center
The exercises employ deep listening to your bodily sensations, opening your inner ears so to speak – to your sense of touch, pressure, and temperature; your movement’s direction, timing and quality; the sense of length, width, size, and shape of your limbs, your sense of effort, pulsing, liveliness, spaciousness, and more. Over and over, you are guided to sense the specific, and then brought back to feel yourself, newly, as a whole. How do we stay in the spaciousness of our permeability and possibility? How is the act of becoming a kind of ongoing choreography that is constantly loosening our perceptions, and time? People Moves is a place for a human to live and be in, exploring autonomously as a community, flush with living textures like curiosity, observations, emotions, questions, inner dialogues, eruptions, pleasures, and all the lovely, messy stuff we bring into our full embodied presence. People Moves are centered around the idea of being together to move in the moment and learn about yourself while exploring the most fundamental way you have of being in the world – through your actions.
These workshops are a sharing of research connected to the practice of glo founder social practice choreographer lauri stallings amidst offerings of reimagination. stallings tends to focus on warmth as a material for creative and spiritual energy that art can prompt in society.
Most of the workshops will be held inside Goodson that is surrounded by various sculptures and trees, allowing for different qualities of light to filter into the environment as the workshop progresses. Workshops will be informed often by light, noting the ways in which it interplays with the textures and atmospheres of the space.
The workshops are pay what you can. Workshops are free to Goat Farm residents.
Questions? info@gloatl.org

Community Sowing: The Blooming City
2025-03-30 14:00 - 17:00
Join us for our first Community Sowing of 2025 in Historic Downtown Palmetto.
Sunday, March 30
2pm
Meet up at Palmetto Food Pantry.

Community Sowing: The Blooming City
2025-04-06 14:00 - 17:00
Join us for Community Sowing in Historic Downtown Palmetto. We’re sowing wildflower prairies as part of the second cycle of The Blooming City!
Sunday, April 6, 2025
2pm
Meet up at Palmetto Food Pantry.

i came to explore the sun, of something more permanent, the moves are maps: Interventions, Choirs, and Community Feast
2025-05-02 - 2025-05-04
i came to explore the sun, of something more permanent, the moves are maps
The project combines contemporary artist interventions and social interactions with ecological traditional values.
May 2-4, 2025
Marais de Bonnefont Marsh Reserve, Old Tool Conservatory, and Wash House
Mayrinhac- Lentour, France
Thank you Sandrine Lacoste and Marie-Alberte Bergognoux, Heritage & Cultural Association. Thank you Sonia Recoppe’ and Anne-France Poillion, Marais de Bonnefont. Thank you Gaetan Le Divelec, Vice President of Artistic Planning, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Thank you Richard Carvlin, glo General Manager.

Choreography Drafting: Siddhartha, She
2025-05-09 - 2025-05-17
Choreography Drafting: Siddhartha, She
May 9 – 17, 2025
10:15 – 3 pm ( no Wednesdays)
Goodson
Goat Farm Arts Center
1200 Foster Street
Atlanta 30318
This process will culminate into a nighttime read | move through with Siddhartha artists, Atlanta collaborators, and community
read | move through
Saturday, May 17 at 7 pm
Goodson Yard
Goat Farm Arts Center
Free and public.
Register here.

Processions: Siddhartha, She community engaging event
2025-05-15 19:00 - 21:00
Processions
Thursday, May 15 at 7pm
Atlanta Shambhala Center
Processions is a community engaging event that introduces unexpected and unexplored relations between sacred language, contemporary art and culture, and movement, chant, and social interactions. Using the resonant acoustics of the Shambhala’s campus, Processions builds from a series of projects reflecting on the concept of interbeing for a deeply moving evening of meditation movement, and reflection.
The evening draws from Siddhartha, She, a new ritual drama in seven tableaux loosely based on the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, that addresses the spiritual journey of self – discovery. Composed by Christopher Theofanidis with a libretto by Alabama poet Melissa Studdard, the creative team is led by Robert Spano, music director laureate of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, with choreographies by Georgia social practice choreographer lauri stallings. stallings and Shambhala Center’s Sue Giman have known one another for a long time, and the two are inspired to co-collaborate at the Center to offer opportunities to explore the space where movement and sound unify and illuminate the human experience.
Siddhartha, She is a co-production of Aspen Music Festival, and Yale School of Theology, and will have its world premiere August 2, 2025 outdoors and under the Michael Klein Music Tent set alongside the Rocky Mountains of Aspen, Colorado.
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glo is an artist-led platform that choreographs environments to bring people together, and make the world better.
Atlanta Shambhala Center offers a path of meditation practice and contemplative arts oriented towards modern life.
lauri stallings’ choreography works as an expression of the becoming self, and embodied structures that map emotional movements. Whether inhabiting a forest of 80 acres, or confined to the surface of a beam of light, the origin of stallings’ art extends outwards from the primary projections of the feet and hands.
Free and public to all.

Read | Move Through: Siddhartha, She
2025-05-17 19:00 - 21:00
Read | Move through: Siddhartha, She
Saturday, May 17
7 – 9 PM
Goodson
Goat Farm Arts Center
1200 Foster Street Atlanta 30318
RSVP Here
glo is delighted to introduce Siddhartha, She, a multi-layered experimental production that expands the definition of opera by composer Christopher Theofanidis and Alabama poet Melissa Studdard, and a creative team led by Maestro Robert Spano, with Brooklyn – based artist Anne Patterson, and choreographies by glo founder, social practice choreographer lauri stallings. Loosely based on the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, She addresses the spiritual journey of self – discovery through the point of view of women.
Join us this year as we come together and bring Siddhartha, She to the physical realm, to share the exploration of existence in a galaxy across a full journey of live music, movement choirs, sculpture, parlors, and other activities. Siddhartha, She will open in Aspen August 2, 2025 at the Aspen Music Festival.

Global Underscore Practice
2025-06-21 10:00 - 14:00
Saturday, June 21, 2025 we’re meeting people all over the world to simultaneously do the Underscore Practice, a long-form movement structure developed by Nancy Stark Smith, and Steve Paxton’s Stand | Small Dance. This year, glo is hosting in Atlanta in Goodson at the Goat Farm. We invite those who love to move and those who wish to love to move to join us for Global Underscore happening this Saturday between 10am – 2pm. This is glo’s first time hosting Underscore Practice, celebrating it’s 25th Anniversary. Come and go as you’d like, there’s plenty of time to meet old and new friends, we’ll have fresh strawberries, tangerines, and cool kombucha. Registration at site Saturday morning, for more details go to gloplatform.org and sign up for our newsletter.
-FULL UNDERSCORE SCHEDULE-
Saturday, June 21
Talk-Through 10am EST
Community gathering| Soft arriving 11am EST
Global Underscore practice noon – 2pm EST
Goodson
Goat Farm Arts Center
1200 Foster Street
Atlanta GA 30318
Always, always free and public to all.
For more information about GUS: https://nancystarksmith.com/underscore/

Making Kin: cycle two
2025-06-26 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-06-27 19:30 - 21:00
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
