glo

Conversation series / Future Frequencies: cycle
2021-10-19 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | virtual
Tuesday, Oct. 19
7pm
virtual
A three-part conversation series engaging Fulton County residents in glo’s ongoing choreography counter MAPPING research of the Proctor Creek Watershed as a container for biodiversity. glo’s collaborative practice will open up digital space as a site for rejuvenation, with and in partnership with local activists and artists. Conversations will center the idea that spending significant time in specific natural spaces, those areas become part of our microbiome; but also biodiversity, and the history of how diverse groups have continually been creative problem-solvers within a society that refuses to center our needs.

A cycle of Future Frequencies project.

flooding soma perceptions as higher nature frequencies for love
2021-10-23 18:30 - 22:30
October 23
lauri stallings + glo create a new world living installation in the hambidge gala, for ceremony, celebration, and community of lonnie holley.

Tanz Farm: Morgan Bobrow-Williams: THE RUNNING PROJECT
2021-10-25 - 2021-10-31 | West End
Tanz Farm: a contemporary is delighted to showcase the second and final iteration of Augusta-born, African-American artist Morgan Bobrow-Williams’ THE RUNNING PROJECT.
October 25-31
public spaces in West End, Atlanta
free and public
glo’s longest project is Tanz Farm: a contemporary Anthology; anchored in the agency of risk-taking, to expand boundaries and support for new live art ideas, structures, and languages showcased in Atlanta. Each year, the anthology circulates a distinguished group of artists to present workshops, performance installations, and conversations on subjects of their choosing. Since 2012, Tanz Farm has showcased seminal works of 23 artists from Atlanta, and cities throughout the world, including Eiko Otake, Niv & Oren, Malcolm Low, Fabien Prioville, Sidra Bell, Ballet Hispanico, George Staib, Erik Thurmand, Amanda Miller, Malcolm Low, and Shamel Pitts.

March on Variations!
2021-10-29 13:00 - 16:00, 2021-11-12 13:00 - 16:00, 2021-11-19 10:00 - 13:00, 2021-11-26 13:00 - 16:00, 2021-12-03 13:00 - 16:00, 2021-12-10 13:00 - 16:00, 2021-12-17 10:00 - 13:00, 2021-12-24 13:00 - 16:00 and 1 more date
March on Variations!
Palmetto, GA South Fulton County.
Fridays, 1pm-4pm (3rd Friday 10am-1pm)
May 14- ongoing
This iterative project is at the intersection of social service, movement, and care. Come create, and journey with us. So deeply grateful for the many hands, contributors, collaborators who are being brought together for this iterative project. Join the GUILD on Fridays: info@gloatl.org
We’re sowing a large micro prairie, illuminating Downtown with Neon Study No. 9, distributing 4,000 super abundant, super creative, super beautiful Play Kits to children and families, and teaching virtual Movement SHOPs to elementary school children. As of today, we’re just under 31 weeks of serving rural Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Alabama through March on Variations! This project is entirely free and public.
For the rest of 2021, glo is the recipient of a Fulton County Community Development Fund to support this iterative project.
Land Acknowledgment:
All land is sacred.
I live and be
on Creek and Cherokee Land
who are and have been
the caretakers of this area.
For that glo is grateful.
(Atlanta, GA)
Write us for more information and ways to GUILD: info@gloatl.org

Conversation series / Future Frequencies: cycle
2021-12-07 19:00 - 20:00 | virtual
Tuesday, Dec. 7

7pm
virtual
A three-part conversation series engaging Fulton County residents in glo’s ongoing choreography counter MAPPING research of the Proctor Creek Watershed as a container for biodiversity. glo’s collaborative practice will open up digital space as a site for rejuvenation, with and in partnership with local activists and artists. Conversations will center the idea that spending significant time in specific natural spaces, those areas become part of our microbiome; but also biodiversity, and the history of how diverse groups have continually been creative problem-solvers within a society that refuses to center our needs.
A cycle of Future Frequencies project. glo civic actions, projects, and programs are entirely free and public.

Who is here with us? group action
2021-12-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
Who is here with us?
group action
Thursday, December 9, 12pm EST
Zoom registration here
On December 9 we invite you to some poetic clarity with the inaugural all women cohort of the first of its kind in the world Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA created and led by artist, freedom fighter, and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors at Prescott College. The conversation will trace the development of research / experiments by Cindy Bonaparte, Janelle Dunlap, Ilasiea Gray, Katherine Martin, Martine McDonald, Zakiyyah Modeste, Nico Paz, Shaina Simmons, and social practice choreographer and glo founder lauri stallings. Composed of notes, poetry, fragments of essays, video, archives of earlier work, and photos, together, these entwined materials create a new socio-poetic form. Who is here with us? invites a moment to sit with you and our art, field ideas, individual social practices, and story fragments, to reflect on the measures of presumed proximity with our interventions, activation sites and research subjects, and open up space for the particular intimacies and fragilities that never get written up in more conventional academic writing. Who is here with us will be guided by glo praxis + writing lead curator, Candice Thompson. glo projects and initiatives are entirely free and public.

immersive film installation: Future Frequencies
2021-12-11 19:00 - 23:30
Saturday, Dec. 11

7-11:59 pm
on site along Proctor Creek and live-stream
A large-scale immersive film installation engaging Fulton County residents in glo’s ongoing choreography counter MAPPING research of the Proctor Creek Watershed as a container for biodiversity. glo’s collaborative practice will open up immersive space as a site for rejuvenation, with and in partnership with local activists and artists.
A cycle of Future Frequencies project. glo civic actions, projects, and programs are entirely free and public.

l e t i n t h e l i g h t ! ! ! : neon studies no. 9
2021-12-31 16:30 | Palmetto Georgia
letinthelight!!!
neon studies no. 9
Friday, December 31, sunset at 4:51 pm EST
502 Toombs Street
Palmetto, GA 30268We’re delighted to have you with us for the opening of Neon studies no. 9. letinthelight!!! encapsulates the language, energy, and emotionality of rural South as the place in our artwork as well as the service work we are doing as an outgrowth of the love glo has for our home. Neon studies is the 4th initiative of March on Variations!, our iterative project that since October 2020, operated in the rural South at the intersection of social service, movement, and care.
glo wants to especially share heartfelt gratitude with the community of Palmetto, Georgia for providing us a meaningful space for our newest artwork. In the left storefront window is Vyvyan Hughes original , like a gesture, gentle wave, in lavender neon. In the right storefront window is letinthelight!!!, our founder lauri stallings handwritten piece bent by Blaze at The Neon Co., and composed of eight neon colors, in this order: pink, hot orange, orange, clear gold, aqua, turquoise, horizon blue, and lavender.
glo creates work that requires action, fearlessness, and a boundless capacity for connection. glo practice is deeply rooted in, and reflective of, her Southern identity and culture. It is an affirmation that beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by the acceptance of each of us claiming who we are and how we move in the world. Drawing from the humanity of living, and landscape, our choreography manifests as a dance of curved lines that echo the environments surrounding us. In glo‘s choreography mapping, dance implies modes of embodiment and engagement, where domains of animal, land, and human overlap with each other. Our work makes it possible for us to imagine the South in ways that invoke a more explicit and sensory experience. Always, always, glo projects and initiatives are entirely free and public.
March on Variations! is made possible with major support from Fulton County Community Services Fund.

LAB studies: winter 2022
2022-01-10 - 2022-01-15 | virtual
winter LAB studies
Monday, January 10- Saturday, January 15, 2022 | 10 am-5 pm
virtual
Join us for a week of LAB studies, a movement-sound curriculum for youth and adults responding to several frameworks for culturally sustaining pedagogy. Participants will also be immersed in aspects of our MAPPING practice.
people Movement SHOPS
10am-12pm EST
virtual
Pedagogy of Hope
2:30pm-5pm EST
virtual

i came to explore the sun, of something more permanent, the moves are maps: Chattahoochee River
2022-01-23 17:30 - 23:30
i came to explore the sun, of something more permanent, the moves are maps
small gathering + immersive film installation
Sunday, January 23
sunset 6:02 pm EST
2388 Paul Avenue Atlanta 30318

i came to explore the sun, of something more permanent, the moves are maps is an ongoing site-based research piece offering choreography as a tool box for alongside ethnographies to meditate and reflect wider at urban-nature interstices. glo is honored to collaborate with Groundwork Atlanta for this newest iteration. Learn more about our friends here, and we’ll see you January 23!

This initiative is made possible with support from Fulton County Arts Council.

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 | 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 | 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
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
