Art Nights At Linden Place Featuring Haus of Glitter
Art Night Bristol Warren and Linden Place Welcome The Haus of Glitter to Bristol for July Art Night and More
The Providence-based Haus of Glitter is bringing their historical intervention to Linden Place and all are invited to share in a community discussion and disruption lawn party in July!
Art Night Bristol Warren and Linden Place Mansion are excited to welcome internationally acclaimed dance company, performance lab and preservation society, The Haus of Glitter, to downtown Bristol as the featured event of July Art Night.
Since early 2022, Bristol artists and organizations, including Art Night Bristol Warren, Arts in Common, Bristol Historical and Preservation Society, the East Bay BIPOC Research Project and Linden Place have worked together to consider how to strengthen and support the local arts community. This led to the development of a three-year Art Night program to enlighten and challenge visitors to understand the complicated history of the town and Linden Place through the visual arts, music, story and performance.
How can art and creative process contribute to our collective liberation? On Monday, July 24 at 6pm, The Haus of Glitter will host an artist talk and community conversation in the Linden Place Ballroom.
Come learn about The Haus of Glitter’s creative justice work and their most recent creative occupation and historical intervention at the former home of Esek Hopkins, commander of the slavery ship “Sally.” What if all our personal, relational, and institutional systems were centered around care, creativity, and well-being? How can we imagine ourselves into a more just and care-centered world?
Later that week, the community conversation is followed by a Disruption Lawn Party and Performance with The Haus of Glitter on Art Night, Thursday, July 27 from 5-9pm. Dance with us! Heal with us! Disrupt with us!
Join in a lawn party that centers joy, community and Queer BIPOC music and dance to disrupt Linden Place’s connection to the DeWolf family, one of the most prolific families engaged in the Transatlantic Human Trade.
Estimates are that between 1649 and 1819 at least 953 voyages to Africa were conducted by ships registered in Rhode Island, enslaving over 113,279 individuals. Bristol ships with multiple owners were responsible for 166 voyages, with the DeWolf family business transporting 12,000 Africans on 88 different voyages to the Caribbean and British North America.
How can we gather as a community to remember and honor the tragedy that this represents? What does it mean for us to celebrate Queer and Afro-Latinx music and dance as a protest to shift the energy of a space with a racist history?
The Haus of Glitter will be performing and DJ-ing beats for Queer Ancestral liberation on the Linden Place front lawn.
“We believe there are missing puzzle pieces to the systems and symptoms of oppression that we are still feeling and reinforcing. Our care-centered practice aims to invite deep feeling, healing, and liberation.
We don’t just want to exist. We want to live. Change isn’t about forgetting. It’s about remembering” says Haus of Glitter member, Garza.
The Haus of Glitter works to shift the energetic center of the universe towards care, healing, justice and freedom. In the work they share, preserve and co-create with communities, they strive to embody ancestral liberation, healing and love in every step and every breath of their creative praxis.
The Haus of Glitter Dance Company connects the individual human body to the collective human body. They works to preserve the histories, cultures and pedagogies of West African and Latin Diasporic Dance.
Their Performance Lab is a multidisciplinary collaborative space where we create and produce original music performances, and art for their performance season, their record label, and other creative projects. The Haus of Glitter Preservation Society is an initiative that supports local, national, and international preservation, conservation and interpretive projects.
Their mission is to preserve underrepresented lineages of dance, music, culture and other histories.
Both events are free and open to the public. Tours of Linden Place Mansion will also be offered to attendees.
Because of limited space, reservations are requested for the Monday, July 24 program.
Reservations can be made through
This program series is sponsored by Roger Williams University, the Town of Bristol, BankNewport, Linden Place, Art Night Bristol Warren and by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.