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.

Zaquia Luisa Salinas | April 29-May 13, 2026

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We are excited to welcome Zaquia Luisa Salinas to Lamplight’s Residency at 821 this spring! Throughout her time at the residency she will be working on A Call to Prayer: an immersive, participatory performance project that blends embodied ritual with collaborative installation.

Zaquia will develop installation elements – integrating objects, projections, and spatial design – while inviting community members to participate directly. Visitors are encouraged to contribute offerings to the space and engage in intimate, one-to-one (or small group) performance appointments with the artist.

Artist Statement:

Zaquia Salinas is a dance artist invested in movement-art as an act of reclamation and world-building. She is committed to creating work that forges meaningful connection through personal and collective storytelling. Conceptually rooted in biomythography, her work (re)builds narratives that braid the personal with the communal, expanding how story can be held, alchemized, and shared. Her interdisciplinary constellations operate as portals for communion with body, earth, ancestor, and spirit. At the heart of her work is the desire to create rituals and spaces that help us understand ourselves and each other more deeply.