HEART OF THE GREAT WEAVING
TOGETHER, WE WEAVE A NEW WORLD
A COLLECTIVE INNER JOURNEY LED BY ELISA FAIRES
A COLLECTIVE INNER JOURNEY LED BY ELISA FAIRES
LOCATION: REVOLVE AVL
DATE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19TH
TIME: 3:00 – 6:00 PM
Cost: Sliding Scale $20–$40 | Pay-what-you-can
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
DATE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19TH
TIME: 3:00 – 6:00 PM
Cost: Sliding Scale $20–$40 | Pay-what-you-can
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Join us in a ceremonial workshop that empowers you to weave a new reality for yourself and the world. We will come together to clear negativity from old stories of the past and activate our creativity for personal and collective transformation. Using guided journeys, we will harness the power of sound, movement, writing, and visual art to spin our vision of a new world.
This workshop is part of a larger collaborative art installation at Revolve. If you choose, your creations from the workshop will become part of this ever-evolving installation, expressing our shared journey into transformation.
No prior experience is needed. Show up exactly as you are. Participate in the ways that feel right for you. Feel free to bring your favorite creative art materials, comfortable seating, water, and an open heart.
Throughout October, visit the Revolve gallery during open hours to participate in collaborative prompts and witness our creation in action.
COMMUNITY EVENT SCHEDULE
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 • 7:00 PM
Elisa Faires community artist meetup and film shorts evening.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 • 5:00 PM
Drone Choir Beaucatcher Tunnel Performance
The drone choir will walk through the Beaucatcher Tunnel, creating a sound bath for Beaucatcher Mountain, Asheville, and the surrounding areas of Western North Carolina. The sounds will radiate outward, fostering a sense of calm and peace for the mountain, our community, and the world.
For more information on the performance and how to participate, please email Elisa at Laomeow@yahoo.com.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 • 3:00 – 6:00 PM
Community Workshop
Heart of the Great Weaving: Together We Weave A New World
See description above.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 • 7:00 PM
Closing Show
With performances by the Drone Choir, Elisa Faires, Lynn Fister of Farewell Phoenix, Kimathi Moore, and others TBA.
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Across cultures, the spider’s creativity is legendary. Born with an innate knowledge of weaving, the Golden Orb-Weaver Spider creates a sticky web. It also forms a non-sticky section of the web where all the threads converge. This central heart, or hub of the web, is where the spider rests and continues its magnificent creation.
In this installation, the Golden Spider represents our innate, visionary, creative selves. I invite all members of our community to freely and expressively co-create an installation from the center of ourselves. Together, we will craft a vision of who we were, who we are, and who we hope to become.
In my personal practice, I will weave mystical animistic elements and visioning into multimedia, visual, musical, and choral components that interweaves the work of the community’s creation.
ARTIST BIO
Elisa Faires has been singing and working with choirs since she was eight years old. Her early beginnings were rooted in choral singing, and during high school, she started experimenting with electronic music for school projects and recording creative music with friends.
In college, she studied opera and classical music alongside electronic music. One of her teachers was the renowned Dr. Robert Moog. After graduating, she spent four years intensely focused on opera—studying, singing, and beginning to pursue a career. In response to the intensity of classical training and repertoire, especially while preparing auditions for the Metropolitan Opera, she started turning toward improvisation and creative music—both solo and with others—and returned to recording and performing her own work.
Elisa has over 30 years of experience in voice, piano, composition, and electronic music, leading workshops in vocal training, creative music, and sound exploration. In 2023, she completed an artist residency at NES in Iceland, practicing singing and movement on cliffs overlooking the Greenland Sea, combined with field recording. She also led a full moon ceremony with artists on the cliffs, using singing, toning, movement, and ritual.
She has been learning from shamans and mentors for over 20 years, sharpening her healing and mediumship skills under the guidance of her mother, mentors, and teachers. She continues to assist others with practices such as mentorship, clearing, activations, sound, creativity, medicine, alchemy, and remembering. Over time, she has integrated these elements into her music, field recordings, projections, video work, and installations.
In December 2024, she founded the Drone Choir, which debuted that winter at Drone in the Garden at Revolve — a healing sound bath of Elisa Faires’ Amaryllis offered to Ramp Studios and the community after Hurricane Helene. The Drone Choir features sustained sound, movement, animistic practice, and improvisation — drawing from fire, water, air, earth, and nature — and performed a collaborative piece at Revolve in July with Sarah Louise, blending vocal cicada sounds with voice and instruments.
ABOUT THE POSTER ART
Heather McCabe-Jones is a professional graphic artist whose use of Photoshop as a medium for fine art began when the software was in its early days. Her daily use of Photoshop in a professional capacity made its tools more familiar than paint and canvas. Without the financial limitations and time constraints of traditional media, a new level of experimentation was opened up through Photoshop, and her creative evolution excelled. She now has an extensive catalog of other-world creations in her own signature style.
Although Photoshop has evolved with powerful tools to quickly create imagery, HEATHER CHOOSES NOT TO USE THE ASSISTANCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HER FINE ART PIECES, instead relying on her own unique technique, refined over many years, of compositing images..
"The imagery for The Heart of the Great Weaving was inspired by a series of synchronicities between Elisa's encounters with spiders, both real and as archetypes, and my reading of Kenneth Grant's Typhonian Trilogy, in which he discusses the occult significance of the spider. Both Elisa and Grant see the spider as a powerful meditation tool. Elisa's request for imagery of a golden spider whose web can manipulate reality immediately reminded me of Grant's description of the spider's legs connecting to different points in time and space. I chose to depict the web as a wireframe of soundwaves, with each of the spider's legs creating its own ripple in reality. To bring it all home, I have a great interdimensional spider hovering over and interacting with our beautiful city in the mountains." ~ HMJ