Keagan Wheat & Aliah Lavonne Jahan-Tigh Creative Writing Workshop | June 13 & 20 | 821 Haywood Rd.

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Are you a visual artist looking to write poetry or a writer wanting to bring visual art into your writing? This two-part workshop answers this desire!

Workshop 1: June 13 from 2-4pm 

Lamplight AVL 821 Haywood Rd Asheville NC 28806

Led by Keagan Wheat and Aliah Lavonne Jahan-Tigh, this generative creative writing workshop take the group through a writing prompt, and each participant will leave with a draft from each exercise. These drafts will be used in our following workshop to create an original chaplet.

Workshop 2: June 20 from 2-5pm 

Lamplight AVL 821 Haywood Rd Asheville NC 28806

Keagan Wheat will lead a group of community participants through the process of making a chaplet out of a poem. We ask our participants to bring a short piece of their own writing (around 200 words or less, or work from our previous meeting is perfect) to create the chaplet. We’ll take time to illustrate our individual pieces using provided colored pencils, markers, crayons, and collage. Our last step will be binding the chaplet, so you’ll end up with a bound original chaplet.

Housecat AVL Mending Potluck | June 13, 11AM-2PM | 2 Westwood Pl.

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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without!

Bring something off your mending pile and, if you’re up for it, some kind of dish to share for a lunchtime stitchfest. Some guidance and supplies will be provided, including 2 sewing machines, an iron & ironing board, needles & thread, fusible webbing, and a communal scrap basket. Refresh your wardrobe and your spirits with this community-building creative time.

Suggested donation of $5+ to cover supplies and the space,
but everyone is welcome regardless of ability to pay or bring a dish! Everyone eats!

Saturday, June 13th
11AM-2PM
Lamplight Studios at 2 Westwood Place

Dawn Roe Closing Event | Saturday June 6 1-7pm | 821 Haywood Rd.

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Join artist in residence Dawn Roe for a closing event:

Saturday, June 6th | 1-7PM
Closing Event
at Lamplight’s Residency at 821 Haywood Road

This event will bring together families, friends, and neighbors to celebrate, think, and share together while viewing, reading, and listening to our watery selves and fellow more-than-human beings. This community programing continues conversations inspired by environmental humanities researcher Dr. Astrida Neimanis and hydrofeminism’s call to ask: if we are all bodies of water, what does this connect us to? What can we give, and what do we owe?

Participants who take Dawn’s Workshop on May 19th may pick up their washed and dried prints during this closing event. Copies of all prints will contribute to a collective archive of our “hydrocommons” — the space where embodied human-water relations occur.

A library, screening environment, print sharing corner, and conversation hub will be available to gather within throughout the event: held at Lamplight’s Residency at 821 Haywood Road in West Asheville.

 

Conrad Freiburg: Listening Club 033 | Saturday June 6 3-6pm | 2 Westwood Place

Listening Club
with Conrad Freiburg
at Lamplight Studios at 2 Westwood Place

Saturday, June 6th, 3-6 PM

$5 or pay what you can
Listening Club interweaves authentic relating, music appreciation, and discursive engagement in a setting that nurtures belonging, accesses authenticity, hones listening skills, and build social connections.

Zaquia Luisa Salinas: A Call to Prayer: 1-1’s May 4-9, Closing Event May 10

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A Call to Prayer is an immersive, participatory performance project that brings together embodied ritual and collaborative installation.

Join our current artist-in-residence at Lamplight’s Residency at 821 Haywood, Zaquia Salinas, alongside collaborator Guillermo Castro at Lamplight to contribute an offering to the altar and experience a “1-to-1” performance.

30-minute individual time slots are available from
2-8pm on May 4 & 5
and
12-6pm on May 6, 8 & 9

 

+ Join Zaquia on Sunday, May 10, from 6-9 PM for the culminating event for A Call to Prayer. This is time to gather in the space and explore the installation, what the community has contributed to the altar, and engage in a guided embodied meditation accessible for all.

For 1-1 Appointments:

SIGN UP HERE

How to Participate

1) Sign up for a time slot
Reserve a 30-minute window for yourself or your group (we can accommodate up to 4 people in the space should you like to experience this with your people).

2) Arrive at Lamplight
Please arrive 5 minutes before your scheduled time to help us keep things on schedule.

3) Bring an offering (optional but encouraged)
You are invited to bring a small object, material, artifact, or gesture as an offering to the altar. This can be something personal, symbolic, found, or made; an expression of memory, intention, grief, devotion, or transformation. We will have some materials available for you to contribute a written prayer, spell or incantation to the altar on site.

4) Enter the experience
Your offering to the altar will be translated into a moving meditation, shared with you directly during our time together. Come with an open heartmind, ready for connection, attention, and exchange.

Additional Notes

  • No prior performance experience is needed (we’ll do the dancing).
  • The space will be held with care; you are welcome to engage at your own pace and comfort level.
  • Late arrivals may result in a shortened experience out of respect for others’ time.

Dawn Roe Community Workshop | Friday May 29 1-4pm | Rhododendron Creek WAVL Park

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Join artist in residence Dawn Roe for a community workshop:

Friday, May 29th | 1-4PM
Marking Time With(in) the Water workshop
Rhododendron Creek in West Asheville Park

The public programs associated with the artist’s residency will engage these questions through a site-responsive community workshop held along the waters flowing through Rhododendron Creek in West Asheville Park scheduled for May 29th from 1 to 4 p.m. Part of an ongoing series of Marking Time With(in) the Water workshops, this action will offer space for neighbors to come into relation with their freshwater spaces, combining careful observation with a collective artmaking process recording imprints of land, water, and human interactions over prolonged moments in time. Participants will meet in the reserved picnic shelter in the park.

Deeply informed by the sharing communities generated through the ongoing work of environmental humanities researcher, Dr. Astrida Neimanis, projects and events will engage with Astrida’s description of hydrofeminism as “an action concept” that begins with “[u]nderstanding our own human bodies as bodies of water, [inviting] us into a different kind of relation to other bodies of water, and a feminism of relation. Hydrofeminism asks: if we are all bodies of water, what does this connect us to? What can we give, and what do we owe?”

Copies of each print will become part of a collective archive of our “hydrocommons” – a term used by Astrida Neimanis to describe the space where embodied human-water relations occur. Workshops participants can pick up washed and dried prints at the closing event on June 6th at Lamplight between 1 and 7 p.m.

Nate Northrup | Open Studio April 24-25 5-9pm | 821 Haywood Rd.

Our current resident, Nate Northrup, will host open studio hours for the community to view the site-specific installation he is creating during his time at the Lamplight Residency at 821 Haywood Road. This body of work will include interactive sculptural installations, a projection loop, sound, and temporary renderings.

Nate Northrup Open Studio hours 
Friday, April 24th from 5-9PM
Saturday, April 25th from 5-9PM
the Lamplight Residency at 821 Haywood Road

 

Artist Statement:
“We Are Were” is a glitch where the present fails to overwrite the past and instead runs alongside it. Objects appear not as stable forms but as residues, as if they’ve already happened and are still happening, evidence of events that won’t resolve, identity loops back on itself instead of progressing forward becoming a kind of temporal artifact, still forming, but only out of what it has already been.

Sanctity of Transness Art Show | March 31-April 2 | 821 Haywood Rd.

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We are honored to host this event at Lamplight, we hope to see you!

“While the administration demonizes trans people, we choose to celebrate our strength, beauty, and resilience. With the Sanctity of Transness, we aim to celebrate our wholeness, all we have to offer the world, and our inherent sanctity as part of the cosmos.”

 

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday 3/31 from 3pm – 7pm

Wednesday 4/1 from 3pm – 7pm

Closing Reception: 

Thurs. 4/2 from 5:30-8:30 pm

BOUND By ALLYSON SEIFERT | Saturday, Mar 28, 7-11:30 | 821 Haywood Rd.

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BOUND: AN IMMERSIVE FLORAL ART INSTALLATION & AN EVENING EXPERIENCE OF THE SENSES
from Current Resident Allyson Seifert

BOUND IS A POP UP ART EXHIBITION, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, SATURDAY MARCH 28 FROM 7PM UNTIL LATE. BOUND WILL IMMERSE YOU INTO NEW SENSES. TASTE, TOUCH, SMELL, LISTEN. FEATURED ARTIST AND OWNER OF LOCAL CAFE AND FLORAL DESIGN STUDIO, ALLYSON SEIFERT, TAKES YOU INTO A NEW PLACE EXPLORING THE DICHOTOMY OF INDUSTRIAL METALS AND FABRICS BOUND TO FLORALS AND FOLIAGE.

BITES BY CHARIS GODDARD

WINE BY ETHAN RISINGER

MUSIC SET BY DJ BLOOD CHAMBER

PAY WHAT YOU WISH $15 – $30 SUGGESTED DONATION

PLEASE RSVP AHEAD OF TIME

Emma Ensley Reading | Thursday, March 19 at 7PM

Our current resident Emma Ensley will be hosting a reading on Thursday, 3/19, where she and eight other readers will share work related to Dante’s 9 circles of hell 🔥 Come out at 7pm and hear what Emma has been working on + much more 😊 Emma will read from her novel in progress, and other readers will  pull from a variety of sources and genres. We hope to see you!

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